GARETH JAMES

Artist Bio

Born in 1970, London, UK. Lives and works in New York.

Solo Exhibitions
2011
Human Metal, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York

2009
When a Financial Institution Collapses There is No Spectacular Outpouring of Gold—Glass Transition Temperature, Elizabeth Dee gallery. New York, USA

2008
The Real is That Which Always Comes Back to the Same Place: Broadway between 101st and 102nd Streets, New York, NY 10025, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, Colonia, DE

2006
Dead Unconscious Desire, Franco Soffiantino, Turin, IT
Break Even, collaboration with Nicolás Guagnini, (together with Alejandro Cesarco, Rodney Graham, Jutta Koether, Guillermo Kuitca, Seth Price, Nancy Spero, and Lawrence Weiner), Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
Late Night Legal Formalities, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NY

2005
Blue Movie (one more time. . . this time with feeling), Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York

2004
Get Real Estate, American Fine Arts, Co., New York

2002
LARS VON TRIER, collaboration with Gardar Eide Einarsson, American Fine Arts, Co., New York

2001
RECONSTRUCTION, American Fine Arts, Co., New York

1998
NEW WORK CITY, MWMWM, New York
The Department of Revolutionary Everlasting Material, The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach
Jamen, with Kristine Kemp, Overgaden, Copenhagen

1992
Abbreviation. Abbrev., W139 Gallery, Amsterdam

1991
Post Festum, with Tim Brennan, Hôtel du Ville, Béthunč, FR.


Group Exhibitions
2012
Out-of , organized by Leila Khastoo, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA

2009
Summer Show, Hotel Gallery, London, England
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Musuem of Modern Art, New York, NY
Breaking New Ground Underground, curated by Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, Stonescape, Calistoga, CA

2008
White Columns Annual, selected by Jay Sanders, White Columns, New York, NY
Falling Right into Place: The Fold in Contemporary Art, Museum Haus Lange and Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld

2007

Massiv Analogue Academy, Galerie Christian Nagel, curated by Gareth James and John Kelsey, Cologne

Conditions of Display, The Moore Space & Locust Projects, Miami, FL
For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane Gallery, Paris, FR
Radio Daničle, organized by Christopher Williams and John Kelsey, Galleria d'arte moderna, Bologna, IT

2006
… Ichal Krbbr Prodly Prsnts Gart Jas, Jon Klsy. Josf Stra, Portikus, Frankfurt
Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

2005
In The Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
L’Atro, Lo Stesso, FrancoSoffiantino Artecontemporanea, Torino, IT
Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andre Rosen Gallery, New York
Make It Now: New Sculpture in New York, Sculpture Center, New York

2004
Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

2003
8a Bienal de la Habana, Havana, CU;
Put Out More Flags, Sutton Lane, London, UK
Subscribe: Recent Art in Print, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Animations, Kunst-Werke, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE

2002
Gareth James and Gareth Jones Show, Aleksandra Mir, London, UK

2001
Animations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
This Is My House, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles

2000
A White Radical Is Three Parts Bullshit and One Part Hesitation, RHIZOM, DK
Kool Aid, Greene Naftali, New York
Greater New York, New Art in New York Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
21st Gear, The Top Floor, London, UK
I Said I Love. That Is the Promise., curated with Annette Schindler, installation with Florian Zeyfang, Overgaden,
Copenhagen, DK

1999
Nerve, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Museum Magogo, Glasgow
The Production of Production, Apex Art, New York
Persuasion, UB Art Gallery, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
I Said I Love. That Is the Promise., curated with Annette Schindler, installation with Florian Zeyfang, SI/NY,
New York
Dr Krenslove, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Mu$eum,. American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Office, Staff Gallery, New York
Free Coke, Greene Naftali, New York
Hypervision, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson;

1998
Info Centre, London, UK
The Whitney Program, New York

1997
Shut up you stupid ****, DOG, London, UK

1996
50x50x50x50, Bank, London
Be er Monsta, Smallest Gallery in the World, London, UK

1994
50x50x50x50, Der Verein e.V. at Schipper & Krome, and Nummer magazine, Cologne, DE


Selected Curatorial projects
2008
"Hermann's Grid", Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

2007
“Die massiv analogie akademie” Christian Nagel Gallery, Cologne


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