Meredith James

b. 1982, New York, NY

Education

2009

MFA in sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2004

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Awards/Grants

2016

Sharpe Walentas Studio Program Awardee, Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY

2015

Fellowship for Emerging Artists, Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation, New York, NY

2014

Emerging Artists Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY

2013

AIRSpaceResident, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

August Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Spring Fellowship, Lighthouse Works, Fisher’s Island, NY

2012

Shackel Fellow, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2011

Resident, The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME

2009

Land Arts of the American West, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2007

March and April Residency, Sculpture Space, New York, NY

2005

September Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2004

The Albert Alcalay Prize, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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Selected solo exhibitions

2025

The Exit, Marinaro, New York, NY

2019

Shadows on the Wall, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY

2015

Catalyst: New Projects by Meredith James, Kameelah Rasheed, and Casey Tang, Curated by Hitomi Iwasaki, The Queens Museum, Queens, NY

2014

Land Lock, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY

2010

The Invention of Morel Pages 89-91, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA

Espalier, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY

Selected group exhibitions

2023

Fronds, Marinaro, New York, NY

Local Objects, International Objects, Brooklyn, NY

2022

The Return, CPM Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Jung Lovers, Curated by Jennifer Sullivan and Jack Arthur Wood, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2020

Every Lie To Truth, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

2019

Perverse Furniture, Artspace, New Haven, CT

Proposition, Curated by Jesse Greenberg, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY

Horology, Organized by Elizabeth Jaeger and Silke Lindner-Sutti, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY

Inverted Eyeball, Curated by Theodore Darst, Jonathan Ehrenberg, and Young Joo Lee, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (screening)

2018

The Private Collection of Water McBeer, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY

2017

Eternal Return, Curated by Nate Heiges as part of his series Interiors, New York, NY

99 Cents or Less, Curated by Jens Hoffman, MOCAD, Detroit, MI

Double Take, Agency, Brooklyn, NY

2016

In Practice: Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New, Curated by Olga Dekalo, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY

Matryoshka Show, Water McBeer Gallery, New York, NY

2015

Finestra Aperta: Shara Hughes, Elizabeth Jaeger, Meredith James and Annie Thornton Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY

Jane Corrigan, Meredith James, Gloria Maximo, Dasha Shishkin, FEUER/MESLER, New York, NY

Sun Screening Vol. II, Curated by Claudia Bitran, Videology, Brooklyn, NY (screening)

Installation for the 2015 Skowhegan Awards Dinner, 4 World Trade Center, NYC

White Columns 2015 Benefit Auction, White Columns, NYC

Age of Aquarius, Curated by Dark Matters, Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn, NY (screening)

2014

Numbers Don’t Lie, 247365 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

AIRSpace 2013-2014, Curated by Jonathan Durham, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

Keepie Uppie, Curated by Dimitrois Antonitis, Hydra School Projects, Hydra, Greece (screening)

Play, Curated by Ragnheiour Gestsdottir and Emily Weiner, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY and The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (screening)

2013

Where The Sun Don’t Shine, Curated by Jesse Greenberg and MacGregor Harp, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY

Love, Curated by Sharona Eliassaf and Emily Weiner, The Willows, Brooklyn, NY

Videonale 14, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, Germany (screening)

2012

Video collaboration with Michael Wang to accompany Gregory Spears’ Requiem Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY and Arts at the Park, NY (screening)

The Double, Cabinet, Brooklyn, NY and LAXART in Los Angeles, CA (screening)

2011

Crushed Candy, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL

WE ARE: Jonathan Ehrenberg and Meredith James, NurtureArts, Brooklyn, NY

Object Lessons, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2010

Rive Gauche/Rive Droite, Curated by Marc Jancou Contemporary, Catherine Houard and Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, France

Experiment, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (screening)

Symbol Rush, Newman Popiashvili, New York, NY

2009

King's County Biennial, Curated by James Fuentes, Kidd Yellin, Brooklyn, NY

Careerists and Visionaries, Curated by Jacques Louis Vidal, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY

MFA Thesis Show, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2008

People Weekly, Curated by Linda Norden, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY

2006

Labyrinthitis, Rivington Arms, New York, NY

2004

Uneasy, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA