JAMES GOULDTHORPE
jwgouldthorpe@gmail.com
jgouldthorpe.com
510 235 2023
EDUCATION
1995 MFA, Mills College, Oakland, California
1987 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1986 Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Telling Stories, Shoe Box Gallery, online
2021 Telling Picture:Experiments in Narrative, Machine Loci, Berkeley, CA. (solo)
2021 Close to Home, Creativity in Crisis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2021 In Interesting Times, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, online
2021 Impressions Covid, BPMI-UCLA, online
2020 Curating the Creative Reimagined, Mozaik, online
2020 Covid-19, Creative Outlet, Ideas-Block, online
2019 On The Tip of My Tongue, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR.2019 Face to Face, Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 Illustrious, Analog Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Worrisome:Short Stories, Terrain Gallery, Spokane, WA (solo)
2019 Graphic Narrative, Gestalt Project, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Worrisome:Short Stories, Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA (solo)
2018 Portrait Revolution, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA
2017 Context II, Foundry Art Center, Saint Charles, Missouri
2016 The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation, Grant Recipients Exhibition, Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA
2016 Particles: A Painting in Ten Chapters, Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA (solo)
2014 Pictures: Featuring-Great American Novel, ProARTs, Oakland, CA (solo)
2014 Video Art Festival Miden, Historic Centre of Kalamata, Kalamata, Greece
2014 featured artist, Prompt Press, online (solo)
2014 Consilience of Art and Science, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
2013 Video Art Festival Miden, Historic Centre of Kalamata, Kalamata, Greece
2012 Video Art Festival Miden, Historic Centre of Kalamata, Kalamata, Greece
2012 Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2010 20 year Anniversary Show: Art at the Dump, Intersection 5M, San Francisco, CA
2009 Embarcadero Four, San Francisco, CA
2009 Rethinking Recycling: Art from the San Francisco Dump, 50 Freemont, San Francisco, CA
2009 Terrior: A sense of Place, Art at the Cheese Factory, Marin, CA
2007 Art of Recycling, Salt Lake City Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2007 House Not a Home, BlankSpace Gallery, Oakland, CA (solo)
2007 The Art of Recycling, Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
2006 Cast-offs, a selection of works made at the Artists in Residence program
at the San Francisco Dump, Richmond Arts Center, Richmond, CA (solo)
2006 Kwan Henmi Architecture Planning, San Francisco, CA
2006 Hearts & Brains, San Francisco Dump Artist Residency, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2005 Killing Small Animals, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA (solo)
2004 meat, donuts & guns, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2003 New Works, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK (solo)
2002 Duncan Littlecreek Gallery, Elko, NV (solo)
2001 Farm and Six Dogs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2002 Cuts of Meat, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2001 New paintings, Jernigan and Wicker Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 New paintings, 750 Gallery, Sacramento, CA (solo)
1996 animals, plants & machines, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1996 HOME, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA (in collaboration with Trena Noval)
1995 animals plants & machines, Mills College Art Gallery, MFA show, Oakland, CA
1992 Act 1, Scenes 1-4, School 33 Arts Center, Baltimore, MD (solo)
1990 The Solid “I”, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA (solo)
1991 Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
1991 The Solid “I”, MICA Decker Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1990 Maryland State Arts Council Grant Recipients, Bauhaus Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1989 Fullscale Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Fullscale Gallery, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES
2020 CRISIS residency, online
2019 Prelinger Library, San Francsico, CA
2018 Willapa Bay, Osysterville, WA
2014 Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA
2005 San Francisco Dump, Recology, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS
2016 Center for Cultural Innovation, Quick Grant
2015 The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant
2014 Arts and Science Award, Pence Gallery
2013 Investing in Artist Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation
1995 The Jay Defeo Prize, Mills College
1994 Trefethen Meret Award, Mills College
1994 Murphy-Cadogen Award
1991 Change Ink Grant
1990 Maryland State Arts Council Grant