| James Brown was born in 1951 in Los Angeles, California. He currently lives and works in New York, Paris, and Oaxaca, Mexico. 1972 Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Immaculate Heart College, Hollywood, California. 1973-1975 Ecole Supériore des Beaux-Arts, Paris. 1975 Master of Arts (MA), Immaculate Heart College, Hollywood, California. |
| James Brown - Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
2012 |
Drawnings and painting 1982/1985, L'ARIETE arte contemporanea, Bologna (Italy) |
2011 |
Firmament, GAM, Torino (Italy) |
2009 |
Communication with the Unknown, Livingstone Gallery, The Hague (The Netherlands) |
| Into the Emptiness, Soave arte moderna e contemporanea, Alessandria (Italy) | |
| Triangle Blue, Stavelot (Belgium) | |
| The Planets Connected, Galerie Willy Schoots, Eindhoven (The Netherlands) | |
| James Brown in Italy Three Decades, Magi’900, Pieve di Cento (Italy) | |
| Museum Princessenhof, Leeuwarden (The Netherlands) | |
| Galeria Hilario Galguera, Mexico City (Mexico) | |
| James Brown/Stephen Mueller: Bronzes and Paintings, Otto Zoo, Milano (Italy) | |
2008 |
Doom, Site Gallery, Sheffield (UK) |
| Sculpture and painting, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris (France) | |
2007 |
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne (Germany) |
| Sculpture and Painting, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris (France) | |
2006 |
Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (USA) |
| Galleria Civica G. Segantini, Arco, Trento (Italy) | |
| Galleria Civica G. Segantini, Arco, Trento (Italy) | |
| Work on Paper 1981-2005 , Fisher Landau Center, New York (USA) | |
| Work Against Nature / Opus contra naturam, Galleria L'ariete, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Galleria Civica G. Segantini, Arco, Trento (Italy) | |
| Summer Solstice, Aidan, Moscow (Russia) | |
2005 |
Juliana Gallery, Seoul (South Korea) |
| James Brown 10 acos en Oaxaca, Ex-Escuela Quintana Roo, Merida (Mexico) | |
| Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden) | |
2004 |
Anthony Grant, New York (USA) |
| James Brown: The Internal Order, Livingstone, The Hague (The Netherlands) | |
| Form of Stillness, Dieu Donn Papermill, New York (USA) | |
| Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Rouen (France) | |
| Willy Schoots, Eindhoven (The Netherlands) | |
| Iago, Oaxaca (Mexico) | |
| James Brown Residencia Oaxaca, Maco, Oaxaca (Mexico) | |
2003 |
Opera Contra Natura, Galleria d'Arte, San Marino (Repubblica di San Marino) |
| Lead, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga (Spain) | |
| Le verità svelate, Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio, Napoli (Italy) | |
| Le verità svelate, Museo di San Severo, Napoli (Italy) | |
| James Brown, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne (Switzerland) | |
| Graphic Works and Carpe Diem, Galería La Caja Negra, Madrid (Spain) | |
| Gemälde und Skulpturen, Galerie Sander, Berlin (Germany) | |
2002 |
Gemälde und Skulpturen, Galerie Sander, Darmstadt (Germany) |
| James Brown, Galerie Jan Wagner, Berlin (Germany) | |
| Seaweed, Galeria Charpa, Valencia (Spain) | |
| Das graphische Werk, Galerie Peter Bäumler, Regensburg (Germany) | |
| Retrospective, Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image, La Louvière (Belgium) | |
| Carpe Diem, John Hopkins University, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Or et Plomb, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris (France) | |
2001 |
James Brown, Obalne Galerjia, Piran (Slovenia) |
| Works on Paper 1981-98, Galleria d'Arte A&A, Venezia (Italy) | |
| The Eye of the Violet, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York (USA) | |
| The Substance of Shadow, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden) | |
| New Graphic Works, Pace Gallery, New York (USA) | |
| Works on Paper, Galerie Berndt Klüser, München (Germany) | |
| James Brown, Bodega-Quetzalli, Oaxaca (Mexico) | |
| Litografie-Incisioni-Monotipi, Galleria Franco Masoero, Torino (Italy) | |
| Vincent Katz Poetry, Juliana Gallery, Seoul (South Corea) | |
| Graphic Works, Burton/Marinkovich Fine Art, Washington (USA) | |
| Prints-Paintings-Ceramics, Ralph Pucci, New York (USA) | |
2000 |
James Brown, Smallworks Gallery, Las Vegas (Usa) |
| James Brown, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco (USA) | |
| Impressions 1987-99, Galerie Pierre Tal-Coat, Hennebont (France) | |
| James Brown, Galleria Nova, Ronco/Ascona (Switzerland) | |
| Catalogue Raisonné, Librairie Les Arcades, Paris (France) | |
| Works on Paper 1981-98, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern (Germany) | |
| Internal Order, Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands (USA) | |
| Œuvres sur papier 1981-98, La Maison des Arts, Malakoff (France) | |
| Paintings from Mexico, Galleria Bonomo, Bari (Italy) | |
| Works on Paper 1981-98, Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz (Germany) | |
1999 |
Internal Order, Galerie Lelong, Paris (France) |
| Œuvres sur papier 1981-98, Musée d'Art Moderne, Céret (France) | |
| James Brown, Galleria In Arco e Galleria Raffaelli, Torino (Italy) | |
| Internal Order, Ace Gallery, Mexico City (Mexico) | |
| Disappeared and Reappeared ed altre litografie, Galerie Prova d'Artista, Venezia (Italy) | |
| Œuvres recentes, Centre d'Art Contemporain Bouvet-Ladubay, Saumur (France) | |
1998 |
Souvenir-Monotypes-Prints&Artistbooks, Living Stone Gallery, Den Haag (The Netherlands) |
| Selected Paintings and Works on Paper, Serge Sorokko Gallery, New York (USA) | |
| Peintures recentes, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne (Switzerland) | |
| James Brown, Scognamiglio & Teano, Napoli (Italy) | |
1997 |
The Story of the Stone, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) |
| Recent Paintings, Serge Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco (USA) | |
1996 |
James Brown, Galleria Bonomo, Roma (Italy) |
| Recent Painting & Sculpture, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York (USA) | |
| Graphic Works, Visconti Fine Art Kolizej, Ljubljana (Slovenia) | |
| Graphic Works, Centre Culturel Français, Ljubljana (Slovenia) | |
| Blue Paintings (The Fourteen Stations), Galerie Bäumler, Regensburg (Germany) | |
| Opere Recenti, Ciocca-Raffaelli, Milano-Trento (Italy) | |
1995 |
Recent Works, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal (Canada) |
| The Terrifying Image, Galerie Lelong, Paris (France) | |
| Selected Works, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Recent Works, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (USA) | |
| The Moroccan Images, Hartman and Company, La Jolla (USA) | |
| James Brown, Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea, Trento (Italy) | |
| Peintures et Aquarelles Recentes, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne (Switzerland) | |
| Paintings-Collages-Gouaches 1995, Galleria Bonomo, Bari (Italy) | |
| James Brown, Espace Kiron, Paris (France) | |
| Works on Paper 1995, Brian Kish Office for Architecture & Art, New York (USA) | |
1994 |
Bilder und Collagen, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Münich (Germany) |
| Sciences Naturelles au Maroc, Galerie Meltem, Casablanca (Morocco) | |
| The Moroccan: Paintings, Prints and Sculptures, Connaught Brown Gallery, London (UK) | |
| James Brown, Gallery Akira Ikeda, Nagoya (Japan) | |
| James Brown, Galerie Ribbentrop, Eltville Am Rhein (Germany) | |
| 1980's, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Zurich (Switzerland) | |
1993 |
James Brown, Galleria Bonomo, Bari (Italy) |
| James Brown, Galerie Athisma, Lyon (France) | |
| James Brown, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (Usa) | |
| James Brown, Galerie Holtmann, Köln (Germany) | |
| James Brown, Galerie Peter Baumler, Regensburg (Germany) | |