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James Stanley Associate Professor, Painting Associate Professor, Fine Arts 2D
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  • email jestanley@massart.edu
  • phone 617-879-7192
  • education
    • Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Columbia University
    • Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
    • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Art, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Industry Experience

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017     Lands Seen and Unseen, Barton College, Wilson, NC

2015     New Work, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2011      Dark Matter, Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA

2009    Let it Burn, Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA

2007    The Garden, Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA

The Hills and the Plains, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL

2006    There Were Giants in the Earth in Those Days, Freight + Volume Gallery, New York, NY

Salt of the Earth, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

      GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018    Against Forgetting I, GAA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Connections: Visual Fellows of the Cape, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA

The Visual Thread, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

2017     Adjunct Faculty Exhibition, Brown University, Providence, RI

Summer Show, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2016    The Faculty Curates, Mugar Art Gallery, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH

               Visual Arts Faculty of the Summer Program, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2014     In Progress Show, ArtStrand Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2013     Kin, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2012     Our Roots: FAWC Takes Wings, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Curated by Berta Walker

Drawing Invitational, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

2011       From the Barn to the Apple, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

2010      Boy, Oh Boy!  Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL

FAWC: Former Fellows 2002-2003, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

HeadJAM: a portrait invitational, Artstrand Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Fuckheads: Portraiture for Silicon Enlightenment, Kinkead Contemporary,

Culver City, CA, Curated by Angela Dufresne

2009     Giving Face: Portraits for a New Generation, Nicholas Robinson Gallery,

New York, NY, Curated by Stephen Heighton

Fuckheads: Portraiture for Silicon Enlightenment, SCA Contemporary Art,

Albuquerque, NM, Curated by Angela Dufresne

2008     Always Kiss Me Goodnight, Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA

2007     Highlights of Distinctive Messengers LA and NY, House of Campari, Miami, FL

Keeping it Real, Richmond Center, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

Painted Faces, Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA

Some Kind of Portrait, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

Distinctive MessengersHouse of Campari, New York, NY

First Kiss, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2006     Manhattan Project, Fredric Snitzer Galley, Miami, FL

Project Room, Freight + Volume Gallery, New York, NY

2005     Can I Get a Witness? Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL

Columbia University MFA Thesis Show, Studebaker Building, New York, NY

Curated by Jeffrey Uslip

2004     AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY

Hungry Eyes, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

Curated by Ali Subotnik

 

Awards

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2018     Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Fellowship

2005    Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program

2004    Gelman Painting Fellowship Columbia University

2004    Rudin Award, World Studio Foundation Scholarship Program

2002    Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Visual Arts Fellowship

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