DANA JAMES.  New York, NY.  1986.

For information on available pieces or to arrange for a studio visit, please contact danamjames@gmail.com

Represented by Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York.


Dana James is a painter and New York native, based in Brooklyn, NY. Since graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 2008, her work has been exhibited extensively and can be found in private and public collections around the world, including the UBS art collection and Gibson & Dunn. James is represented by Hollis Taggart Contemporary in New York City, as well as Bode Projects in Berlin, Germany. Most recent solo exhibitions include Pearls & Potions (2023, NY) and Something Meant to Say (2021, NY). Hushed Neon (2024, Berlin) and Otherwise All Was Silent (2020, Berlin). James was featured as one of the "Top 20 Artists Shaping the New Decade" by Daily Collector in 2020, in which her work was described as “simultaneously dark and feminine, creating worlds marked by duality.”

James’ 2019 two-person show, The Thread at M.David & Co. Gallery, was chosen as a must-see exhibition by New York Magazine, and her 2017 solo show, Sometimes Seen Dreams, at the Lodge Gallery was featured in the Art Critical Review Panel. She has been featured in publications such as Art Forum, Brooklyn Rail, ArtSpace, LE MILE, and Hyperallergic.

“There is a glow that calls upon the glinting of the ocean, the magic felt in the vastness of nature as a child, and the flashing of color just before drifting into sleep. The paintings act as a panorama of linear time; they serve as a reminder that we are small and predictable creatures, incessantly creating and shedding beautiful accounts of the earth and its elements. They are visual diaries that speak to contradiction, a latency caromed by intermittent activity.” —Dana James

EDUCATION

School of Visual Arts. 2008 (2005-2008)

Emerson College (2004-2005)

COLLECTIONS

UBS BANK. LION TREE CAPITAL. BANK OF AMERICA

Selected Press:

SOLO SHOWS

  • Something I Meant to Say, Hollis Taggart Gallery, Chelsea, NY June, (2021)

  • Otherwise All Was Silent, Bode Projects, Berlin (2020)

  • The Thread, Dana James & Lizbeth Mitty. David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn NY (2019)

  • Sometimes Seen Dreams. The Lodge Gallery. Lower East Side, NY (2017)

  • Surface Tension, JAG, Philadelphia, PA. (2016)

  • Patterns in Nature, JAG,. Philadelphia, PA (2015)

  • As by Sinking, Attic Studios Gallery. Long Island City, NY (2014)

  • Every Night at Midnight, at Envoy Enterprizes. Lower East Side, NY (2013)

  • Lungs, at Union Gallery. Tribeca, NY (2010)

ART FAIRS

  • Expo Chicago, Hollis Taggart, Chicago (2023)

  • Untitled Art Fair, Bode Projects, Miami, FL (2022)

  • RISA Art fair, Bode Projects in conjunction with Koenig Gallery, Berlin Germany (2022)

  • Untitled Art Fair, Hollis Taggart Gallery, Miami, FL ( 2021)

  • Untitled Art Fair, Hollis Taggart Gallery, Miami, FL ( 2020)

  • Art Hamptons Fair, Urban Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY. (2017, 2021)

  • Cutlog Art Fair, Jag Modern. New York, NY. (2014)

SELECT GROUP SHOWS

2020-2022

  • Love Letter, Dana James & Jo Hummel, Gruin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  • Abstract Acension, HOLLIS TAGGART, Southport, CT

  • Berlin Art Week, Bode Projects, Berlin, Germany

  • Clean Slate, Gruin Gallery, Los Angeles

  • Reunion, Hollis Taggart, SouthPort, CT

  • Contemporary Women Paint: Abstract Expressions, Moberg gallery, Des Moines, IA

  • Sound & Color, SugarLift with the High Line Nine, Chelsea, NY

  • Look Again, Hollis Taggart Contemporary, Westport, CT.

  • Refract Mere, Marquee Projects, Bellport, LI. 

  • Taggart Times 7, Hollis Taggart Contemporary, Chelsea, NY

2018-2019

  • Breaking the Frame, Hollis Taggart Contemporary, Chelsea, NY

  • Cue Art Benefit, curated by Lilly Wei & Sharmistha Ray, Rogue Space, Chelsea, NY

  • Kicking Abstract & Taking Names, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa, curated by Conn Ryder

  • 2020 Vision, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY

  • Thrive, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT

  • Fugue, Another Gallery, New York, NY

  • Bring Your Own Sunshine, Kenise Barnes Fine Art. Larchmont, NY

  • Planned Parenthood Benefit, M. David & Co. Brooklyn, NY

  • Horizons, Chase Edwards Contemporary, Bridgehampton, NY.

  • Castle Hill Benefit. David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY

2016-2017

  • Duality; Glimpses of the Other Side, ISLIP Museum of Art, Long Island, NY.

  • Driven to Abstraction, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY.

  • Incipiences, The Buggy factory, Curated by Paul D’Agostino. Brooklyn, NY.

  • Straight Outta, Eva Chimento Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

  • Making the Future, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY.

  • The Project Room, David & Schweitzer Contemporary. Brooklyn, NY.

  • Focus, Blam Projects, Curated by Fiercely Curious. Brooklyn, NY.

  • Forever Thens, Curated by Cory Dixon at Brock University, Ontario, Canada.

  • Treading Urban Water, Fiercely Curious at the Crosby House, New York, NY.

  • Jardin, No. 4 Studio. Brooklyn NY.

  • Technology as Hands, Fiercely Curious, Sky Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.

  • Jumping the Shark, Royal Society of American Art. Brooklyn, NY.

  • We are What the Seas Have Made us. Proto Gallery, NJ.

  • Thrice Legendary or Forever Thens, Curated by Paul D’Agostino Centotto Gallery, Brooklyn NY.

  • Forever Now: You Deserve Better. Back Drop Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.

2014-2015

  • Mixtape, 56 Bogart Street. Brooklyn NY.

  • Back to the Future, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn NY.

  • HerART Benefit LSG Fund, New York, NY

  • The Painting Center Turns 21, Brooklyn, NY.

  • Making History, Store Front Benefit, Brooklyn, NY.

  • Summer, Seager Gray gallery, San Fransisco, CA.

  • Axiom Gallery, Santa Monica, California.

  • Honorable Beasts, Elgin Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.

  • Sluice + Exchange Rates, Brooklyn, FireProof. Brooklyn, NY.

  • Lilly Sarah Grace Fund, Female Arts Exhibition. New York, NY.

PANELS

  • Getting Basic; How to Sell Your Art. Soho 20 and the Feminist Art Project, with Kat Greifen, & Jackie Battenfield. Covered by Hyperallergic and ArtSpace

  • School of Visual Arts Scholarship Awardee Panel. New York, NY (2018-2020)

  • Transcender Crit Panel. Brooklyn Fire Proof, New York (2018)

  • Art Critical, The Review Panel, Brooklyn Public Library. Brooklyn, NY (2017)

  • School of Visual Art Alumni Panel, SVA, New York, NY. (2016)

  • Feminism in Art, Idio Gallery. Brooklyn, NY (2016)

  • Bushwick Art Crit: BACG 3rd Annual AIB Bushwick Open Studio Crit Night. Brooklyn, NY (2016)

Enlightening the New York Studio School, Panel Speaker. Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2015)


RESIDENCIES

100 West Corsicana, Corsicana, Texas. (January 2020) 

Pouchcove, Newfoundland, Canada (July 2022)

EDUCATION

School of Visual Arts. 2008 (2005-2008)

Emerson College (2004-2005)

COLLECTIONS

UBS BANK. LION TREE CAPITAL. BANK OF AMERICA