Merlin James
Biography
Born:1960 South Wales

Studied: 1978-79 Cardiff College of Art

1979-82 Central School of Art, London, (BA 1st Class Hons., painting)

1983-86 Royal College of Art, London,(MA, painting)

Residencies: 1995 Kingston University, Critic in Residence

1996 Glasgow School of Art, Artist in Residence

Positions since 1997 Associate editor, Burlington Magazine

Visiting faculty, Bard College, New York

Selected Exhibitions:

1990 Albemarle Gallery, London (group)
1991 Albemarle Gallery, London (solo)
1992 Eagle Gallery, London (solo)
1993 Delsol et Innocenzi, Paris (group)
1994 Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London (group)
1995 Standpoint Gallery, London (solo)
1995 National Museum of Wales, (solo)
1996 Connaught Brown, London (group)
1996 Whitechapel Gallery, London (group)
1996 Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (solo)
1997 Francis Graham-Dixon, London (solo)
1997 Andrew Grant Gallery,
Edinburgh College of Art (solo)
1997 Picker Gallery,
Kingston University (solo)

Wooster Gardens (Brent Sikkema), New York (solo)
1998 Kunstlerhaus, Vienna (group)
Grand Valley State University,
Michigan (group)
Wooster Gardens (Brent Sikkema),
New York (group)
Chicago Art Fair (group)
20th century British Art Fair,
London (group)
Art '98 Fair, London (group)
1999 Brent Sikkema/Lawrence Rubin
Greenberg Van Doren, New York
Another Country (group)
Don't Smoke in my House, Vicki
Tarrant, London (group).
Art First, London (group).
East International, (selected by
Peter Doig) Norwich, UK. (group).
Stephen Lacey Gallery, London (group).
Art First, London (group)
River Deep, Mountain High,
Gallery Westland Place. London;
Thomas Korzelius Gallery, New York,
(Three person drawings show with
James Hyde and Joe fyfe).
2000 Stephen Lacey Gallery, London (group)
The Nunnery, London, (group)
Contemporary Art Centre, Dundee, (group).
Forthcoming Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, (solo)

Select bibliography
Merlin James, 'Random Notes',
reproductions of paintings
with a statement, London
Magazine August/September 1988

Merlin James, Albemarle Gallery
catalogue, 1990, text by the artist

Two drawings reproduced,
London Magazine,
December/January 1991

John Cornall,'Night-Time Interiors'
(review of Merlin James's
Albemarle exhibition),London Magazine,
June 1991

Review of Albemarle exhibition,
Art Line, Summer, 1991

Poussin's Phocion, Standpoint


Gallery catalogue, 1995,
text by the artist

Poussin's Phocion, National
Museums and Galleries of Wales
hand list, 1995, text by the artist

David Cohen, 'A Fine Anxiety'
(feature article on Merlin
James) Modern Painters,
Spring 1995

J. Darracott, report of National
Museum of Wales exhibition,
Museum News, Spring 1996

J. Lee, 'Persistently
Painting'AN magazine, July 1996

Kettle's Yard exhibition leaflet,
interview with Merlin James by
Simon Wallis, 1996

Critical Pictures, catalogue to
Kingston University touring
exhibition, text by Juan Cruz,1996

D. Cohen,'Painting with Attitude',
review of Kettle's Yard Gallery
exhibition,The Independent,
27 August, 1996

Martin Coomer, review of
Francis Graham-Dixon
Gallery exhibition,
Time Out, Feb 25th., 1997.

Martin Coomer, review of
Francis Graham-Dixon
Gallery exhibition,
Flash Art, July 1997.

D. Cohen, review of Francis
Graham-Dixon exhibition, Art
in America, February, 1998.

Catalogue to 'Raum' exhibition,
Kunstlerhaus, Vienna,1998;
reproduction and notebook texts

Catalogue to 'Critical Faculty'
exhibition, Kingston University;
(reproduction).

Catalogue to 'Open Drawing'
exhibition, Cheltenham/Berlin 1998;
(reproduction)

Transcript magazine, Vol III, No. 2,
1998. Interview with Merlin James,
(reproductions).

20th Century British Art Fair, Royal
College of Art, 1998; reproduction
of painting by Merlin James.

Dictionary of Artists in Britain
Since 1945 (David Buckman, London 1998).

East, curated by Peter Doig and Roy
Arden.(Norwich, 1999). Catalogue. Statement and reproduction.

River Deep, Mountain High, (London, 1999) Catalogue.Reproductions.

Conversation on drawing with Joe
Fyfe and James Hyde, Modern
Painters, Autumn 1999.

Conversation: Merlin James and James
Hyde, Journal of Contemporary Art,
New York (forthcoming).

British Art in the 90s: The Saatchi Decade.Booth-Clibborn Editions, London. 1999. (reproductions, biography).

Art in America, October 1999.
(reproduction and discussion by Barry Schwabsky).

Merlin Jasmes has written extensively on art and art criticism for the
Burlington Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, and other journals.

He is represented by Brent Sikkema New York, and Andrew Mummery London.


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