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James Jean

James Jean is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose works explore imagination and reality through narrative-driven, layered compositions. His expressionistic, painterly approach to mark-making blends figuration with abstraction in works that are at once technically precise and gestural. His artistic practice focuses mainly on painting and drawing, while also embraces other media including sculpture, installation, and video. Fusing aspects of history, tradition, literature, nature, and personal experience, Jean’s dream-like and at times disorienting visual vocabulary draws upon art historical antecedents ranging from Baroque painting to Japanese woodblock prints and Chinese silk scroll paintings. 

Jean’s work has been featured in various solo exhibitions including Jonathan LeVine, New York (2009); Martha Otero, Los Angeles (2010); Tilton Gallery, New York (2013), and Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo (2018), among others. In 2016, his work was included in the group exhibition Juxtapoz x Superflat, organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Takashi Murakami and Evan Pricco. Eternal Journey, a major retrospective of his work, was hosted by Lotte Museum of Art in Seoul in 2019. 

Jean lives and works in Los Angeles.

 

MILESTONES

1997-2002 - Lived in New York

2003 - Moved to Los Angeles

2005 - First Art Book published, entitled Process Recess.

2006 - Moved to Santa Monica

2012 - Moved to Asia

2014 - Returned to Los Angeles

2015 - Married

2015 - Son born in Saitama, Japan

2019 - Eternal Journey, Seoul, South Korea

 

EDUCATION

1997-2001 B.F.A. The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY  B.F.A

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022  Ur Days R Numbered，Gallery All，Shanghai，China

2021   Seven Phases, HYBE Insight Museum, Seoul, South Korea

2019   Eternal Journey, Lotte Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

2018   Azimuth, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2015   Zugzwang, Hidari Zingaro Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2013   Parallel Lives, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

2011   Rebus, Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009   Kindling, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021   Running. Qingdao Art Museum, Qingdao, China

2021   The Eyes Have It. Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

2020   Show Me The Signs, Blum and Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018   California Love, Galerie Droste, Wuppertal, Germany

2016    Juxtapoz X Superflat, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2016   Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA

2016    Juxtapoz X Superflat, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA

2016    Takashi Murakami's Superflat Collection―From Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer―, Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan

2014   Masterworks, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

2014    SuperAwesome, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA

2013     Vitruvius, Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012    City of Fire, Stephen Webster, Beverly Hills, CA

2012     Gin & Juice, Ivory & Black Soho, London, UK

2011    Rebus Book Release, Art Catalogues, Ahmanson Building, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA

2011    Oniomania, Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010     L.A. Secret Studio: David Choe & James Jean, Parco Factory, Tokyo, Japan

2009   GR Biennale, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2008   Just In: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection, Leonard Dobbs Gallery, Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2008    Beyond Baby Tattooville, Members Gallery, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

2006    Panelists 2, Giant Robot Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 2006    Black and White, Compound Gallery, Portland, OR

2006    Unforgiving, The Changing Room, New York, NY

 2005     Idols of Perversity, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY

 2005     Soothsayers, Scion Installation Space, Culver City, CA

2005    Characters, Scene II, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT

2005     Characters, Scene I, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, NJ

2001     International Printmaking Competition, SoHo20 Gallery, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS

2019    Seoul, Korea. Lotte Museum of Art. Eternal Journey

2018    Los Angeles, CA. OVM. Azimuth.

2015    Tokyo, Japan. PIE Books. Pareidolia.

2015    Los Angeles, CA. OVM. Xenograph. 

2011    San Francisco, CA. Chronicle Books. Rebus.

2010    San Francisco, CA. Chronicle Books. Rift.

2009    San Francisco, CA. Chronicle Books. Kindling: 12 Removable Prints.

2009    Richmond, VA. AdHouse Books. Process Recess: The Hallowed Seam, vol. 3. Text by James Jean

2008    San Francisco, CA. Chronicle Books. XOXO: Hugs and Kisses (Postcard Book). 

2008    New York, NY. DC/Vertigo Comics. Fables: Covers by James Jean. Texts by James Jean and Bill Willingham

2007    Richmond, VA. AdHouse Books. Process Recess, vol. 2. Text by James Jean

2005    Richmond, VA. AdHouse Books. Process Recess, vol. 1. Texts by James Jean and Paul Pope

AWARDS

2008    Bronze Lion, Cannes Lions Festival 2008, Cannes, France.

2008     Best Packaging Design (Nomination), Grammy Award, Los Angeles, CA

2008    Best Cover Artist, Eisner Award, San Diego, CA

2008     Best Publication Design, Eisner Award, San Deigo, CA

2007     Gold Medal, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY

2007     Best Cover Artist, Eisner Award, San Diego, CA2007  

2007    Best Short Story, Eisner Award, San Diego, CA.

2007    Best Cover Artist, Harvey Award

2007    Gold Medal, Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles, CA

2006    Best Cover Artist, Eisner Award, San Diego, CA

2006    Best Cover Artist, Harvey Award

2005    Best Cover Artist, Eisner Award, San Diego, CA

2005    Best Cover Artist, Harvey Award

2004    Best Cover Artist, Eisner Award, San Diego, CA

2001    Alan M. Goffman Award, New York, NY

2000    Gold Medal, Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles, CA

2000    Gilbert Stone Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2000    Jellybean Photographics Millenium Award, New York, NY

SPECIAL PROJECTS

2013    Velum, Installation at Lane Crawford, Hong Kong, China

2010    Birds and Boys, Installation at 3.1 Phillip Lim, Los Angeles, CA

2008    Trembled Blossoms, Animated Film for Prada S/S 2008 Collection

2007    Wallpaper & Fabric Prints for Prada S/S 2008 Collection

 

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2012    Lecture, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.

2011    Lecture, RISD, Providence, Rhode Island.

2009    OFFSET, Dublin, Ireland

2009    Semi-Permanent, Auckland, New Zealand

2009     Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

2008    Atlanta Art Forum, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA

2007    Semi-Permanent, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

2007    Lecture and Demonstration, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

2005    Lecture and Demonstration, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

LOTTE Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea