Ann-Marie James (b. 1981) was born in Buckinghamshire, UK and currently lives and works in Suffolk. James studied MA Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art, London (2010–12); Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (2010) and BA (Hons) Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London (2001–04).
Awards include the Artists International Development Fund travel award, Arts Council England (2016); The Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship at The British School at Rome (2013–2014); MFI Flat Time House Graduate Award, supported by the John Latham Foundation, London (2012); The Jealous Graduate Print Prize, London (2012) and The Queen's Award, Central Saint Martins Scholarship Awards (2003).
Residencies include The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy (2013), Headspace (supported by the Daiwa Foundation), Nara, Japan (2011) and Lantana Projects, Memphis, Tennessee, USA (2006).
Public collections include The British Museum, London; The British School at Rome, Rome; Chelsea College of Art & Design Library, University of the Arts, London and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Photo by Antonio Palmieri, in the studio at The British School at Rome, 2013
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2010-2012 Wimbledon College of Art
University of the Arts, London
MA Fine Art
2010 Chelsea College of Art and Design
University of the Arts, London
Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art
2001 – 2004 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
University of the Arts, London
BA (Hons) Fine Art
2000 – 2001 Cambridge Regional College, Cambridge
BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
RESIDENCIES
2019 Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, UK
2013 The Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship, The British School at Rome, Italy
2011 Headspace Residency, (supported by the Daiwa Foundation), Nara, Japan
2006 Lantana Projects Residency, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
AWARDS
2018 Artists Access to Art Colleges Placement, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
2016 Artists International Development Fund travel award, Arts Council England
2013 Shortlisted: The Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, UK
2012 MFI Flat Time House Graduate Award, supported by the John Latham Foundation, London, UK
Jealous Graduate Print Prize, Jealous Gallery, London, UK
2011 Artists and Collectors Bursary, University of the Arts, London
2009 Shortlisted, LICC London International Creative Competition
2003 The Queen's Award, Central Saint Martins Scholarship Awards
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Ann-Marie James: Geometria, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
Ann-Marie James: Sea Change, Lyndsey Ingram, London, UK
Ann-Marie James: Alchemy, Wiltshire Museum, Devizes, UK (touring)
2018 Ann-Marie James: After Dürer, Fairhurst Gallery, Norwich, in collaboration with Karsten Schubert, London, UK
2015 Ann-Marie James: Le Monde Moderne, Edel Assanti in collaboration with Karsten Schubert, London, UK
2013 Ann-Marie James: Musée Imaginaire, Knoerle & Battig, Winterthur, Switzerland
Ann-Marie James: Proserpina, Karsten Schubert, London, UK
2012 (with Alex Hoda) Metamorphoses, Edel Assanti and 20 Projects, London, UK
2011 Ann-Marie James: Hanami, Soho Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2010 Ann-Marie James: Pareidolia, Edel Assanti Project Space, London, UK
Ann-Marie James: Knot, Brahm Gallery, Leeds, UK
2009 Ann-Marie James: Danse Macabre, First Floor Projects, London, UK
2006 (with Daniel Todd) Beginning at the end, Art at Carnaby / National Campaign for the Arts, London, UK
2006 Ann-Marie James: Mobile, The Medicine Factory, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
CURATING
2018 IN QUOTES, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK
2017 IN QUOTES, East GalleryNUA, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Notice the Small Things: A Group Exhibition, Jealous East, London, UK
Art on the Mind, Proud Galleries, London, UK
Unboxed, Curated by Clare Palmier, The Art Station / Bank House Flat, Saxmundham, UK
The London Original Print Fair (Karsten Schubert), Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Drawing Biennial 2019, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2018
The London Original Print Fair (Karsten Schubert), Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
IN QUOTES, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK
2017
Control to Collapse, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London, UK
Alba Hodsoll, Ann-Marie James, Celia Hempton, Emilie Pugh, Katya Lewis, Lydia Gifford, Martha Beaumont, Samantha McEwen; FLORA GOODWIN, London, UK
Outpost Members’ Show 2017, curated by Andy Holden, Norwich, UK
4th China Xi’an International Print Festival, Art Gallery, Xi’an Academy of Fine Art, Xi’an, China
Sluice Biennial, PIY PaintLounge, London, UK
IN QUOTES, East GalleryNUA, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK
In and beyond the space of the Roman Forum: Julia Davis, Ann-Marie James, Pollyxenia Joannou and Lisa Jones, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
The Drawing Biennial, The Drawing Room, London, UK
Jealous Prize 2017, Jealous Gallery East, London, UK
2016
Start Art Fair, (Jealous Gallery), Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Mental Furniture Conceptual Yard Sale, Flat Time House, London, UK
The Shift: Eight Years Of Flat Time House, Flat Time House, London, UK
Drawing Lines, Jealous Gallery East, London, UK
Drawn, UCLH Arts and Heritage, University College Hospital Street Gallery, London, UK
2015
Jusqu’à ce que rien n’arrive , Maison des Arts de Malakoff, Malakoff, France
PanoRAMA, Opere Scelte, Turin, Italy
DACS Foundation Benefit, Londonewcastle Space, London, UK
Jealous Prize Winners Graduate Group Show, Jealous Gallery East & Jealous Gallery North, London, UK
The Open West, The Wilson, Cheltenham, UK
Smiths Row Open, Smiths Row, Bury St Edmunds, UK
Drawing Biennial 2015, The Drawing Room, London, UK
Art Brussels, (Karsten Schubert), Brussels, Belgium So Many Shadows, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
2014
Macmillan De'Longhi Art Auction, Darren Baker Gallery, London, UK
This Is Jealous, Jealous Gallery, London, UK
The Jerwood Drawing Prize, The Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
Passport to Pimlico, Churchill Gardens Square, London, UK
The Jealous Print Prize, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Art Brussels, (Karsten Schubert), Brussels, Belgium
The London Original Print Fair, (Jealous Gallery), Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Art14, (Karsten Schubert), London, UK
Art14, (Jealous Gallery), London, UK
The Jerwood Drawing Prize, The Gallery, Plymouth College of Art, and Plymouth Arts Centre, UK
Arte Fiera, (Valentina Bonomo), Bologna, Italy
2013
Friday 13th, The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Here We Go, A Changing Group Exhibition, Part II: Volume, Karsten Schubert, London, UK
The Collective, The House of St Barnabas, London, UK
Old Master Dialogues, cutated by Day+Gluckman, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, UK
I Where A Dress, curated by Sasha Burkhanova, Display London, London, UK
Macmillan De'Longhi Art Auction, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Flat Time House MFI Group: The Future Lasts a Long Time, PAMI, London, UK
The Jerwood Drawing Prize, JVA at Jerwood Space, London, UK
Carousel, curated by Adam Bridgeland, Aspex, Portsmouth, UK
DRAWINGS: Mel Bochner, Robert Holyhead, Ann-Marie James, Tess Jaray, Bridget Riley & Alison Wilding, Karsten Schubert, London, UK
The New British, Lloyds Club, London, UK
Monochrome, HUSK, London, UK
MFI & Stryx present: How to build a table, Stryx, Birmingham, UK
London Original Print Fair (Jealous Gallery), Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Jealous Prize Winners Past & Present, Jealous Gallery, London, UK
Jealous Graduate Print Prize, Art13 (Jealous Gallery), London, UK
Take Me Out, London Art Fair (Limoncello), London, UK
2012
3 Cases and a Carry-on, Catherine Dianich Gallery, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
MULTIPLIED (Karsten Schubert), Christie's South Kensington, London, UK
Wimbledon MA Fine Art Degree Show 2012, London, UK
Macmillan De'Longhi Art Auction 2012, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Bringing Home the Art, curated by Holly Stevenson, Deptford X, London, UK
Chelsea Collective Inaugural Exhibition, Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich, UK
What does your screen smell like? The Garage Space Gallery, London, UK
[space] Vauxhall Street Open Studios, London, UK
Young British Art II, curated by Ryan Gander & Christina von Rotenhan, DIENSTGEBÄUDE, Zürich, CH
Wunderkammer, curated by Thomas Cuckle, The Nunnery, London, UK
2011
Iconoclasts, curated by Katie Heller: Wendy Bevan, Jodie Carey, Gordon Cheung, Oliver Clegg, Nancy Fouts, Henry Hudson, Alice Instone, Alexander James, Ann-Marie James, Anthony Noel Kelly, Alexander Massouras, Laurence Owen, Alan Rankle, Martin Smith, Rebecca Stevenson, Bouke de Vries, Simon Ward & Masaki Yada, Lloyds Club, London UK
(In)visible: Laurence Edwards, Henry Hudson, Ann-Marie James, Sayaka Maruyama, Groves/Natcheva, Louise Thomas, Hugo Wilson, Edel Assanti, London, UK
Wit, Fear and Sarcasm: Rowena Hughes, Ann-Marie James, Dodda Maggy, Mariana Mauricio, Robert Nichol, FAS Contemporary, The Fine Art Society, London, UK
CCW Salon, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
PRINT & DESIGN NOW! 2011, SW1 Gallery, London, UK; traveling to BEARSPACE Deptford, London, UK
Help the sun rise again, Open Draw / ASC Gallery, London, UK
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Futura Bold, curated by Juan Bolivar, The Nunnery, London, UK
Edel Assanti = 1, Edel Assanti, London, UK
DESIRE AND REPULSION, Curated by Ali Gunn and Stuart Southwell, The Art Corner, Manchester, UK
A Different View Part 1: Portraits - Alex March, Ann-Marie James & James Petrucci, curated by Katie Goodwin, St George’s Gallery, London, UK
Salad al fresco, Sprout, London, UK
States of Reverie, Scream, London, UK
Carto-Graph, Brass Gallery, Leeds, UK
2010
Biro Show, The White Gallery, Milan, Italy
Ann-Marie James; Scott Mason; Kirsten Little, Renaro Space, London, UK
Moving Image South, hmvCURZON Wimbledon, London, UK
MULTIPLIED, Christie's South Kensington, London, UK
Ann-Marie James; Simon Schafer, Edel Assanti at Oxjam, 229, London, UK
La Ruche Open Studios, Hive Projects, London, UK
(Untitled) Part II, St James', London, UK
Generation 10, Hyatt Regency - The Churchill, London, UK
Postgraduate Diploma Final Show, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK (catalogue)
Brenda Landon Pye Exhibition 2010, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
MISE EN PLACE, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
Process, curated by Mike Shaw, Burghley Sculpture Garden, Stamford, UK
Riff-Raff, curated by David Southard, Q, London, UK
The Group Show, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, New York, USA, selected by David Elshout, Rachel Hinde and Kate McNamara
Changing The Nature , curated by Purge Projects, Vulpes Vulpes, London, UK
Anonymous Drawings N°10, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2009
Tate Modern / Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK
Westminster Open 2009, London, UK, selected by Suzanne Cotter, Professor Joanna Woodall, Heidi Hazeu, Mary-Alice Stack, Robert Gordon McHarg and Bridget Crowley
The Drawing Salon, The Mews Project Space, London, UK
Watch This Space, Opera Quarter Bar, London, UK
2006
ING Discerning Eye 2006, The Mall Galleries, London, UK (catalogue)
Pulsar, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
Friday Late Nights at the Whitechapel, The Wormhole Saloon, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Basement Art Project, http://www.basementartproject.com
2005
Max 5 Video Festival, Cafe Gallery Projects, London, UK
Artist’s Video Lounge, South London Gallery, London, UK
2004
The Bigger Picture, Co-ordinated by The Cornerhouse, Manchester and the BBC Exchange Square, Manchester, UK
Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France (catalogue)
Tank TV, www.tank.tv, October curated programme
ARTéNÎM, ‘Artskool’ project, Parc Expo Nîmes, Nîmes, France
60 Seconds, Space-twotentwo, London & 291 Gallery, London, UK
60 Seconds, Darklight Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland
BA (HONS) Fine Art Degree Show 2004, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK (catalogue)
Salt, 291 Gallery, London, UK
(X)HIBIT, Davies Street Gallery, University Of The Arts, London, UK (catalogue)
Artskool, Paris – London Book Project (Publication and Exhibition), Galerie gauche, École nationale supériure des beaux-arts, Paris, France
Le Salon Montrouge, Centre Administratif de Montrouge, Paris, France; travelling to Musée Armadeo CARDOSO de SOUZA, Portugal (catalogue)
Candid Projection Room, Candid Arts Trust, London, UK
Microwave, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK (catalogue)
Utrpohia, 291 Gallery, London, UK
2003
Visitors, Klinika E Psikatrise, Pristina, Kosovo
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 Ann-Marie James: Le Monde Moderne, Essay by Charlie Fox, Published by Ridinghouse, London, UK
2013 Friday 13, The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
The Jerwood Drawing Prize, JVA at Jerwood Space, London, UK
Ann-Marie James: Proserpina, Essay by Michael Bracewell, Published by Ridinghouse, London, UK
2012 Charles Danby, Beauty Lays Elsewhere and Other, Commissioned by Edel Assanti and 20 Projects, London, UK
Juliet Bailey, Ann-Marie James, Edgar Wind Journal Vol. 4: Remix, Edgar Wind Society for Art History, University of Oxford, UK
2010 20 Hoxton Square Newspaper, February Issue, London, UK
Point Never, Issue 2, UK
Rattle, Issue 1, London, UK
2009 BIC/RELIC by Dorothy Feaver, Commissoned by First Floor Projects, London, UK
LECTURES AND TEACHING
2019 BA Fine Art, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK
2018 BA (Hons) Fine Art Lecture, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK
2014 Tate Britain, Clore Auditorium: Paint Club: There’s a ghost in my house, Dr Jo Melvin, Andrew Cranston, Dougal McKenzie and Ann-Marie James
COLLECTIONS
The British Museum, London, UK
The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
Chelsea College of Art & Design Library, University of the Arts, London, UK
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
John Jones Collection, London, UK