Howard McCalebb (b. Indianola, Mississippi, May 13, 1947) is an African American abstract sculptor. He received his M.F.A. in Sculpture from Cornell University in 1972, and his B.A. in Sculpture from California State University at Hayward in 1970. In 1971, he participated in the Hobart School of Welding Technology, 5th Annual Sculpture Workshop in Troy, Ohio.
McCalebb has taught fine art at San Jose State University in California; the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Amherst College,; the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey; Hunter College, Cornell University, the Graduate School of Pratt Institute, and the Parsons School of Design, in New York City.
McCalebb’s art has been exhibited internationally in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Poland, and the United Arab Emirates and in numerous galleries and museums in the United States, including the San Francisco Art Museum of Art and the San Jose Museum of Art in California; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, in Ithaca, New York; and The New Museum, Exit Art, Artist Space, Art in General, Socrates Sculpture Park, Sculpture Now, Inc., and The Studio Museum in Harlem in New York City.
In 1993 McCalebb was a featured artist in the film “Manhattan City Scape,” director by Steen Møller Rasmussen, a Plagiet Film, produced in cooperation with the Danish Film Institute Workshop. In 1981, he appeared in the film “Bearden Plays Bearden,” produced by the Philip Morris Corporation.
In 2000, Mr. McCalebb’s sculpture was featured in the historic “Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century” exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York along with Julio González, Pablo Picasso, Anthony Caro, and David Smith.
In May, 2001, he traveled to the People's Republic of China, and lectured at the China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou and the Hangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.
In April, 2003, McCalebb was one of the American artists representing the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, in the United Arab Emirates. He also lectured at the American University of Sharjah School of Architecture and Design.
In the summer of 2005, McCalebb he did a series of public sculpture projects in Balchik, Bulgaria; Borhaug, Norway; and Alytus, Lithuania.
In 2008 Howard McCalebb participated in the “Intrude: Art & Life 366” exhibition organized by Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art.
He currently lives in Oroville near Chico, California and in Berlin, Germany