JAMES WALSH
105 Third Pl. #3R, Brooklyn, NY 11231
718 907 3296
SOLO SHOWS
2011 the ephemera, Observatory, Brooklyn, NY
John Burroughs at Slabsides, Observatory, Brooklyn, NY
2010 The Arctic Plants of New York City, Observatory, Brooklyn, NY
2009 On Clouds, Observatory, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Reflections on the Study of Nature, Italienska Palatset, Vaxjo, Sweden
2003 When Cave Men Painted, Southworth Planetarium, Portland, ME
2001 Walks, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
1998 Çeşme, Beral Madra Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey
1996 Awnings, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA
1992 Constructions, Donskoj & Company, Kingston, NY
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2020 Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Brooklyn, NY (interrupted)
Poet's House, New York, NY (interrupted)
2019 Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Herzog August Bibliotek Wolfenbuttel, Germany
Central Booking, NY, NY
2016 Butler Library, Columbia University, New York
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2015 The Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
2014 Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2013 St. John’s University, Queens, NY
Marymount Manhattan College, NY, NY
Multiple, Limited, Unique, The Book Club of California, San Francisco, CA
Traveled to Lafayette College (2012), Museum of Printing History (2012),
Minnesota Center for the Book (2012), Savannah College of Art and Design
(2011), and The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY (2011)
2011 Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
The Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2010 The Work Office, NY, NY
The Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Arcade Experimental Art Projects, Nicosia, Cyprus
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Linnaeus Now, Vaxjo, Sweden
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
Go North Gallery, Beacon, NY
Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA. Collaboration with Elizabeth Demaray
Come On Pilgrim, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale, NY
2006 Peekskill Project, Peekskill, NY
2005 Now Playing, Para Site, Beacon, NY
Flow, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY
2004 Jamaica Flux, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2002 The Brewster Project, Brewster, NY. Curator: William Stover
Tugboat Film and Video Series, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
Bronco 89 Video Series, NY, NY
St. Mark's Poetry Project, NY, NY. Collaboration with Joshua Beckman
2000 Le Jardin, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy. Curators: Hans Ulrich Obrist,
Carolyn Christov-Bukargiev, and Laurence Bosse
no.site.specific, Transit, London, England
1999 Faucet, Exit Art, NY, NY. Curator: Pip Day
1998 Istanbul Contemporary Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey. Curator: Vasif Kortun
1996 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburg, PA. Curator: Michael Olijnyk
Museum: Barrytown, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale, NY
1995 Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY. Curator: Robert Storr
Phoenix Gallery, NY, NY. Curator: Thelma Golden
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA. Curator: Richard Flood
1994 Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA. Curator: Ivan Karp
ARTIST'S BOOKS
The Arctic Plants of New York City, Granary Books, NY, edition of 40, 2016
There was Something in the Weather, unlimited edition, 2012
the ephemera, edition of 40, 2011
A Brief Guide to the Wildflowers of the Gowanus, unlimited edition, 2010
Index to Arctic Plants of New York City, edition of 10, 2010
The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, unnumbered edition of 100, 2009
On Clouds, unnumbered edition of 100, 2009
The Ephemera, edition of 30, 2008
Reflections on the Study of Nature, edition of 120, 2007
The Strange Life of an Old Man Clad Entirely in Leather, edition of 50, 2007
Solvitur Ambulando, Left Hand Books, Kingston, NY, 2002
Foundations, Left Hand Books, Barrytown, NY, 1997
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, New York Botanical Garden, Library of Congress, Getty Museum, Yale, Columbia, Iowa, Emory, UC Berkeley, and Stanford universities, and other institutions and private collections
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
Artist-in-Residence, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
apexart, Bangkok, Thailand, 2012
Wave Hill, Winter Workspace, Bronx, NY, 2011
The Center for Book Arts, NY, NY, 2009
Art/Omi, Ghent, NY, 2003
Artist-in-Residence, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, 2003
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, 1999
Fulbright Fellowship, Istanbul, Turkey, 1997/98
Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY, 1995
EDUCATION
B.A. with Honors in English, magna cum laude, Hobart College, Geneva, NY
Junior year at Mansfield College, Oxford University, Oxford, England