Merlin James：Long Game

b. Cardiff, 1960

Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland

EDUCATION:

1983–86 MA, Painting, Royal College of Art, London

1979–82 BA (Hons), Central School of Art, London (now Central St. Martins)

1978–79 Cardiff College of Art

CURRENT & FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS:

2016 Paintings for Persons, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York (solo)

The Public Body .01, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2016

To the Present, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Long Game, CCA, Glasgow, UK

2015

Meeting at the Building, Gallery 2, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Genre Paintings, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, USA

2014

Freestyle, Kunstverein Freiberg, Germany

Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, Germany

In Penombra, Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy

2013

Signal Box, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

Sex Paintings, OHIO, Glasgow, UK

Merlin James, Parasol Unit, London, UK

Painting, Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France

2012

In the Gallery, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

New Paintings, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2011

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, USA

2010

Frame Paintings, Mummery + Schnelle, London, UK

2008

Birds, Places, Other Things, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Paintings, Mummery + Schnelle, London, UK

2007

Painting to Painting, New York Studio School, New York, NY, USA

Merlin James: Painting, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium

Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France

2006

Paintings of Buildings, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, USA

Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK

2005

Sea, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2004

Easel Painting, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, travelling to Bay Art, Cardiff, UK

Vitamin Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

2003

The Middle Distance, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

New Compositions, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK

Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, USA

2002

Pictures, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Pictures, Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo, Italy

New Paintings 2002, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2001

Galerie Yves Hoffmann, Paris, France

Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK

1998

Painting, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY, USA

1997

Francis Graham Dixon, London, UK

Andrew Grant Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, UK

Critical Pictures, Andrew Grant Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, UK

Wooster Gardens, New York, NY, USA

1996

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK

Critical Pictures, Picker Gallery, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK

1995

Poussin’s Phocion, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK

Poussin’s Phocion and Other Works, Standpoint Studios, London, UK

1992

Eagle Gallery, London, UK

1991

Albermarle Gallery, London, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2016

Cuts, Shapes, Breaks and Scrapes, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK

2015

Out There, Thataway, CCA Derry, Derry, Northern Ireland

basal, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, Germany

Vital Signs: 12 London Artists, Clifford Chance, London, UK

2013

The Parergon and The Gutter, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Room and its Inhabitants, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada

Inevitable Figuration, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy

Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA

Picture Show, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK

SS Blue Jacket, KARST, Plymouth UK

2012

A Bucolic Frolic, Mummery+Schnelle, London, UK

One Night Stand, Goat Major Projects, Cardiff, Wales; Trade Gallery, Nottingham, UK

The Big Picture, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, USA

Interior Visions, Colby College Art Gallery, Waterville, ME, USA

The Man Don’t Give..., Motorcade/Flash Parade, Bristol, UK

Les Misérables, OHIO, Glasgow, UK

Broken/Window/Plane, curated by John Yau, Tracy Williams Gallery, New York, USA

2011

Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

Between My Head and My Hand..., PNCA Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR, USA

White Columns Benefit Auction, New York, NY, USA

2010

The Beholder’s Share, Mummery+Schnelle, London, UK

Merlin James, Andrew Taylor, Tom Varley, Southside Studios, Glasgow, UK

Long, Long Gone, Leo Koenig, New York, NY, USA

Self-Consciousness, Veneklasen Werner, Berlin, Germany

Le Tableau, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA

Building on a Cliff – Merlin James, Matt Conners, Arturo Herera, Sikkema Jenkins,New York, NY, USA

2009

Doppo Gobbo, Fluxia Gallery, Milan, Italy

New Ideas in Abstraction, APSU, Clarkesville, Tennessee, USA

Nudes, Galeria Fortes Vila鏰, Sao Paolo, Brazil

Turps: Part Two, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy

2008 

21: Selections of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2007

Mutineer, Atelierhaus Mengerziele, Berlin, Germany

Things We Lost in the Fire, Leicester City Art Gallery, UK

An Eclectic Eye, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona, USA

And so it goes, Welsh Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy, travelling to Chapter Gallery,Cardiff, UK

2006

Things We Lost in the Fire, Transition Gallery, London, UK

Faces of a Collection, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

(Re)markable, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK

Interested Painters, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, USA

2005

Short Stories About Painting, curated by Jeffrey Dennis, Michael Richardson

Seeing Things, curated by Davide Ferri, Galleria Fabjbasaglia, Rimini, Italy

2004

Direct Painting, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

The Five Corners of Painting, curated by Jane Lee, artconnexion, Lille, France

On the Edge of Real, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

No Particular Place to Go, curated by Mary McLean, APT Gallery, London, UK

Contemporary Painting, curated by Alex Katz, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville,ME, USA

The Edge of the Real, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

Sidelonging, curated by Andreas Leventis, 117 Commercial Street, London, UK

Les Cinq Coins De Peinture, artconnexion, Lille, France

2003

Dirty Picture Show, The Approach Gallery, London

Yes! I am long way from home, The Nunnery Gallery, London, UK, travelling to Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland,UK; The Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK

The Lazarus Effect, curated by Helena Kontova, Luca Beatrice and Lauri Firstenberg,Prague Biennale, Czech Republic

2002

Closer, curated by Peter Jones, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK

Landscape, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

2001

Painters Painting, The Approach, London, UK

2000

Not Enough, Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy

Stephen Lacy Gallery, London, UK

Regrouping, The Nunnery, London, UK

Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, USA

River Deep Mountain High, curated by Kelly Taylor, Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, UK

1999

Another Country:The Constructed Landscape,Brent Sikkema Gallery and Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY, USA

Don’t Smoke in My House, Vicki Tarrant, London, UK

Art First, London, UK

EAST International, selected by Peter Doig, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK

Stephen Lacy Gallery, London, UK

River Deep Mountain High, Gallery Westland Place, London, UK; travelling to Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee (2000), Dundee, UK; Thomas Korzelius Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1998

Raum, Kunstlerhaus Vienna, Austria

Critical Faculty, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA

Painting, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY, USA

1996

Connaught Brown, London

Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London

1995

Royal College of Art, London, UK

1994

Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London, UK

1993

Quoi de Neuf?, Delsol et Innocenzi, Paris, France

1990

Albermarle Gallery, London, UK