JAMES NARES
Artist Bio
JAMES NARES
Born in London 1953. Living in New York since 1974.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 "The Armory Show," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, Pier 94, New York
2009 PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
GALLERIA ARNES Y ROEPKE, Madrid
2008 GALERIE STEFAN ROEPKE, Cologne
SEBASTIAN GUINNESS GALLERY, Dublin
"James Nares: Motion Pictures," ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES, New York
2007 MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, Los Angeles
2005 "New Paintings and Chronophotographs," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
GOSS GALLERY, Dallas, Texas
2004 HAMILTONS GALLERY, London
2003 MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, Los Angeles
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
2002 G FINE ART, Washington, D.C.
HAMILTONS GALLERY. London
2001 PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
1999 PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
GALERIE THOMAS VON LINTEL & NUSSER, Munich
"James Nares: Tetragram," MARSH ART GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
MUSEUM, Richmond, Virginia
GALERIA LEYENDECKER, Tenerife, Canary Islands
1998 GALERIA LEYENDECKER, Tenerife, Canary Islands
1997 PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
GALERIE THOMAS VON LINTEL, Munich.
LEMBERG GALLERY, Michigan
1996 PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
1995 PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
1993 PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, Los Angeles
1988 MICHAEL KLEIN, INC., New York
1987 "1983-1987," FAWBUSH GALLERY, New York
1986 TONY SHAFRAZI GALLERY, New York (October)
TONY SHAFRAZI GALLERY, New York (February)
1985 PATRICK FOX GALLERY, New York
1984 CABLE GALLERY, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 "Looking at Music: Side 2," THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York
2008 "New Durham Press prints" MARTY WALKER GALLERY, Dallas
2007 "The Price of Nothing," EFA GALLERY, New York
2006 WETTERLING GALLERY, Stockholm
"Action Precision," LENNON WEINBERG, New York
2005 "Cross Section," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
"Color," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
"Extreme Abstraction," ALBRIGHT-KNOX GALLERY, Buffalo
"Abstraction," WINSTON WACHTER, Seattle
"Sets, Series, and Suites: Contemporary Prints," MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston
2003 "Grisaille," JG CONTEMPORARY, New York
2002 "Zenroxy", VON LINTEL GALLERY, New York
"Summer 2002," G FINE ART, Washington, D.C.
"Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture," WALL STREET RISING
(various locations), New York
1999 "Gesture and Contemporary Painting," THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
SCHOOL OF ART, Ann Arbor
"The Great Drawing Show 1550 to 1999," KOHN TURNER GALLERY, Los
Angeles
"Summer: 1999," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
"20 Years of Grenfeld Press," PAUL MORRIS GALLERY
"20 Azos Despues..," GALERIA LEYENDECKER, Canary Islands
"Abstract Painting, 1999," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
"One by One," VON LINTEL & NUSSER, Munich.
1998 "Small is Beautiful Part XVI," FLOWER EAST, London
1997 "Essential Gestures," GALLERY OF ART, JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY
COLLEGE, Kansas
"Summer," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
1996 "Young Collectors Exhibition," LEMBERG GALLERY, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
"The New York Scene 1996" GOTLANDS KONST MUSEUM, Gotland, Sweden
1995 "A Day Without Art," curated by Wendy Weitman, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART,
New York
"James Nares & Christopher Wool," KOHN TURNER GALLERY, Los Angeles
"Six from New York," curated by Duncan Hannah. JON OULMAN GALLERY,
Minneapolis
1994 "Seasights: Photographs," curated by Nessia Pope, OFFSHORE GALLERY, East
Hampton
"The Brushstroke & Its Guise," curated by Rosemary Cohane Erpf. NEW YORK
STUDIO SCHOOL, New York
"DiFabio, Nares, Twombly, Zwack," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
1993 "Exquisite Corpse," THE DRAWING CENTER, New York
"Drawing: 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Foundation for Performance Art," LEO
CASTELLI & ALLAN STONE, New York
"Four Centuries of Drawing, 1593-1993," KOHN ABRAMS GALLERY, Los
Angeles
"Das Abstrakte," GALERIE THOMAS REHBEIN, Cologne
1992 SCHMIDT CONTEMPORARY ART, St. Louis
"La Regenta," curated by Reiner Opoku. CASA DE LA CULTURA, Canary Islands,
Spain
MARS GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
"Drawings," STUART REGEN GALLERY, Los Angeles
"Off the Wall," CLEVELAND CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART,
Cleveland, Ohio
"Painting in New York Now," P.S. 1 MUSEUM, Long Island City, New York
LUHRING AUGUSTINE GALLERY, New York
TENERIFE MUSEUM OF ART, Canary Islands, Spain
"James Nares, Peter Schuyff," LEYENDECKER GALLERY, Canary Islands, Spain.
CURT MARCUS GALLERY, New York
1991 "James Nares, Ian Davenport, Stephen Ellis." PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New
York
COMPASS ROSE GALLERY, Chicago, Illinois
"A Bestiary," PAULA COOPER GALLERY, New York
"Poets-Painters Collaboration," BROOKE ALEXANDER, New York
"Anderson, Dupuis, Nares, Pierson," GALERIE AUREL SCHEIBLER, Cologne,
Germany
"James Nares, Peter Schuyff, Gary Stephan," MARC RICHARDS, Los Angeles
1990 "Drawings and Watercolors," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
"Auction/Exhibition," ACT-UP, New York
"Witnesses," ARTISTS SPACE, New York
"The Circle," QUEENS MUSEUM, New York
VREJ BAGHOOMIAN GALLERY, New York
LUHRING AUGUSTINE GALLERY, New York
1989 MICHAEL KLEIN GALLERY, New York
"Don't Bungle the Jungle," TONY SHAFRAZI GALLERY, New York
"Benefit for the Wooster Group," BROOKE ALEXANDER EDITIONS, New York
"Drawing," FAWBUSH GALLERY, New York
"Projects & Portfolios, The 25th National Print Exhibition," BROOKLYN
MUSEUM, Brooklyn
"Metamodern," THE HARCUS GALLERY, Boston, Massachusetts
1988 "Rainforest," 48 LAIGHT, New York
LUHRING, AUGUSTINE & HODES GALLERY, New York
"Rebop," Curated by Glenn O'Brien, PAULA ALLEN GALLERY, New York
"Paintings," Gerry Morehead, Peter Nadin, James Nares, Robin Winters, MICHAEL
KLEIN INC., New York
1987 "Art Against AIDS Exhibition," New York
"Joan Nelson, James Nares, Cara Perlman, Kiki Smith, Brett DePalma, Michael
Mazur, Martin
Potts," FAWBUSH GALLERY, New York
"Consonance," ISD, INC., New York
SCOTT COOK FINE ARTS, New York
1986 "Emerging Artists '86," CLEVELAND CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART,
Cleveland
ANNIE PLUMB GALLERY, New York
1985 TONY SHAFRAZI GALLERY, New York
"Factura," curated by Steven Harvey. GALLERY SCLESINGER BOISANTE, INC.,
New York
"Mystery Show, " curated by Andrea Belag, JERSEY CITY MUSEUM, New York
"Drawings," BARBARA TOLL GALLERY, New York
"East Village Show," HOLLY SOLOMON GALLERY, New York
GABRIELLE BRYERS GALLERY, New York
CABLE GALLERY, New York
"Ripe Fruit," curated by Lisa Liebmann. P.S. 1 MUSEUM, Long Island City, New
York
1984 "Bomb Show," BLUM HELMAN GALLERY, New York
"Saloon," BILL RICE GALLERY, New York
"Sex Show," CABLE GALLERY, New York
"Ecstasy," curated by Carlo McCormic. MONIQUE KNOWLTON GALLERY, New
York
"Dall 'Olio All 'Aereoplano," STUDIO CARRADO LEVI, Milan, Italy
"The First Show," CABLE GALLERY, New York
1983 "Books & Co." (Installation window for Norman Mailer's book Ancient Lives), New
York
"Hundreds of Drawings," ARTISTS SPACE, New York
"Manhattan Mercury," curated by Edit deAk. GALERIE VENSTER, Rotterdam,
Holland
KAMIKAZE CLUB, curated by Cookie Mueller, New York
1982 MARK TWAIN BANK SHARES, Kansas City, Missouri
HOLLY SOLOMON GALLERY, New York
"Critical Perspectives," (Pat Place, Yoko Ono, Alan Vega) curated by Edit deAk.
P.S. 1 MUSEUM, Long Island City, New York
1978 "Income and Wealth Show," COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS, INC., New York
"Dog Show," COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS, INC., New York
"Manifesto Show," COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS, INC., New York
1977 "The Sun Projected," installation at JAY STREET LOFT, New York
"The Doctors and Dentists, " curated by Colleen Fitzgibbon. COLLABORATIVE
PROJECTS, INC., New York
"Batman Show," curated by Diego Cortez. COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS, INC.,
New York
"Exhibit A, " curated by McClard. 83 GRAND STREET GALLERY, New York
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
1975 HANDNOTES #2 (5 min, video, silent)
ROOF (12 min, 1/2" video)
1976 GAME (3 min, video)
BLOCK (3 min, Super8-to-16mm, silent)
GIOTTO CIRCLE #1 (3 min, Super8-to-16mm, silent)
POLES (2 min, video)
PENDULUM (17 min, Super8-to-16mm)
STEEL ROD (5 min, Super8-to-16mm, silent)
ARM AND HAMMER (3.5 min, Super8-to-16mm, silent)
RAMP (3 min, Super8-to-16mm)
TWISTER (2 min, Super8-to-16mm, silent)
1977 TV FACES (6 min, Super8-to-16mm)
SUICIDE? NO, MURDER (30 min, Super8-to-16mm)
1978 ROME '78 (75 min, Super8-to-16mm.)
1980 NO JAPS AT MY FUNERAL (60 min, video)
1982 WAITING FOR THE WIND (7.5 min, Super8)
1987 STUDIO TAPE (45 min, Hi-8 video)
1990 GLOVE (1.5 min, Hi-8 video)
LENS (2.5 min, Hi-8 video)
1991 HAMMERED (2 min, video)
THE LIGHTHOUSE (30 min, video)
WEATHER BED (3 min, video)
CORNFIELD (8.5 min, video) e.
PIANO (8.5 min, video)
1998 CLOTH (3 min, 16mm, silent)
PUNCH (2 min, 16mm, silent)
GIOTTO CIRCLE #2 (3.5 min, Hi-8 video)
2007 GLOBE (43 min, HD video)
PAPER FACTORY (8 min, video)
DRIP (2 min, video)
DROP (4 min, HD Video)
PRIMARY FUNCTION (2 min, HD video)
2008 WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE (8 mins, HD video)
2009 ELEMENT NUMBER ONE (30 mins, HD video)
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