Residencies:
2026, Joya: AiR, arte + ecología, Velez-Rubio, Andalusia, Spain
2026, Ou Gallery, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
2016- 2026, Chashama Studio Program, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY
2025, Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Warnecke Vineyard, Healdsburg, Sonoma Valley, California
Gallery Representation:
2026- 2027, Pandora Art Gallery, Mittenwalder Str., Berlin, Germany
Education:
2018- 2020, Brooklyn College, CUNY- Master of Arts
1990-1994, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine- Bachelor of Fine Arts
Solo Shows:
2027, Pandora Galerie, Berlin
2017, Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn
2014, Spoke The Hub, Brooklyn
2013, Work Shop Gallery, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
2010, Gilles Larrain Gallery and Art Salon, 95 Grand Street, Manhattan
2010, NY Public Library, St Agnes Branch, Amsterdam Ave, Manhattan
2009, NY Public Library, Harlem Branch, 9 W124th Street, Manhattan
2009, The Gallery Bar, 120 Orchard Street, Manhattan
2003, XYZ, Hotel W, San Francisco
Art Fairs:
2023, Superfine Art Fair, Chashama Booth, Iron23, W23rd Street, Manhattan
2018, Spring/Break, Chashama Space to Create, Times Square, Manhattan
Group Shows:
2026, Autumn Selections, curated by Guinchi, Pandora Galerie, Berlin
2026, Memory, Gallery 14BC, E 14th St, East Village, Manhattan
2026, Liminal, curated by Madison Nelmark, Jan Johansen Gallery, Anoka, Minnesota
2025, Breath 2025, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
2025, Nature/Nurture, curated by Katarina Lanfranco, Sweet Loraine Gallery, Brooklyn
2025, Warnecke Ranch, Chalk Hill AiR, Sonoma County, California
2023, Artpie, curated by Xuanlin Ye, Chicago
2021, BWAC Summer Show, curated by Alicia Degener, Brooklyn
2021, From Green to Grey, curated by June Sekiguchi and William Raines, Seattle
2020, Papergirl Brooklyn, curated by Annie Del Hierro and Sina Basila Hickey, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
2019, Ground Floor Gallery, Priority Mail, curated by Krista Scenna and Jill Benson, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2018- 2019, The Village West Gallery, “Ancien Régime: the pre-revolutionary world”, Jersey City, NJ
2018, Allow me to Reintoduce Myself, curated by Krista Saunders Scenna and Carolina Penafiel, Queens
2018, Schweinfurth Art Center, Made in NY, Auburn, NY
2017, Point Green, curated by Monika Lidia, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
2017, 440 Gallery, Home, curated by Joan Bankemper, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2017, Industry City, PS 295 arts program benefit, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
2017, Ground Floor Gallery, Marked Urgent, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2016, 440 Gallery, curated by JoAnne McFarland, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2016, Trestle Gallery, Trestle Art Benefit, curated by Mary Negro, Gowanus, Brooklyn
2016, Trestle Gallery, curated by Heather Darcy Bhandari, Gowanus, Brooklyn
2016, BRIC House Gallery, Up for Debate, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
2015, 440 Gallery, curated by Bill Carroll, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2014, BAC, Access Art, 111 Front Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn
Press/Publications:
2026, “Of Mountains”, River Margin, edited by Lana Eileen
2020, Suzanne Randolph Fine Arts, In the Studio with James Rose
2013, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, "James Rose, Park Slope Artist to show in Gowanus", November.
2011, Portland Press Herald, "Harlow Explores: What is Drawing", June.
2010, Time Out New York, Own This City, "James Rose, Art show in Greenpoint", October.
2009, Good Day New York, Channel 5, Fox Network, "James Rose, the People's Artist", Reporter Christal Young joins James Rose on the subway for an interview and to film him drawing subway riders.
Public Art/Social Practice/Collaborative:
2015, Queens Museum, Public Faculty #9, a group of artists set up a living room in public space and invited people from the neighborhood to answer the question, "How do you feel connected?", led by Jeanne Van Heeswijk.
2012, The Tax Dodgers, a street theater group using the metaphor of baseball to point out the top 30 tax dodging corporations (Dirty Thirty). A group of activists (an offshoot of OWS) dressed in authentic Brooklyn Dodger baseball uniforms and performed in the streets in front of the corporation's head quarters in Manhattan. Covered by CNN, NY Times, Democracy Now, Huffington Post and given a display case in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
2011-2013, People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, I was a member of this collaborative street performance group. We used large scale puppets and artful props to illustrate critical issues for demonstrations, marches and other direct actions against social injustices.
Artist Talks given:
2017, 440 Gallery, panel discussion regarding, (home), group juried show, curated by Joan Bankemper. I was alongside Robert Pennington, Nancy Doniger, Joan Bankemper, with questions from gallery director Amy Williams and the audience.
2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, Occupy Museums' Debt Fair, Counter-Commencement Ceremony, I was invited to speak about my feelings regarding debt and the financialization of artists.
2015, Queens Museum, Arts Connection, Slide Slam, chosen as one of ten artists to give a five-minute slide show of my work at the event.
2011, 16 Beaver Street, Manhattan, New York, regarding my artwork of the OWS movement.
2011, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, New York, regarding my artwork of the OWS movement.
2009, Harlem Branch, New York Public Library, regarding the artwork I had on display in the library.
Group shows from way back:
2012, GCCA, Wall Street to Main Street, curated by Imani Brown and Fawn Potash, Catskill, New York
2011, Blue Stockings, Art from Occupy Wall Street, LES, Manhattan
2011, Printed Matter, Art of Occupy, 10th Ave, Chelsea, Manhattan
2011, Mana Fine Art Annex, Exquisite Corpse, 227 Coles Street, Jersey City, N.J
2011, The Loom, Figuratively Speaking, 1087 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY
2011, Harlow Gallery, The Drawing Story, 160 Water St., Hallowell, Maine
2011, Art Space, Scrawl, New Haven, Connecticut
2010, Icosahedron Gallery, 606 West 26th Street, Manhattan
2008, Upstate Artist Guild, Albany, New York
2008, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, New York
2007, Hudson Arts Walk, Warren Street, Hudson, New York
2006, Riders Mills, CCCA, Old Chatham, New York
2006, Back Stage Gallery, Polk Street, San Francisco
2005, ArtSF, Undertones, San Francisco
2005, ArtSF, Say What!?, San Francisco
2004, California College of Art, Staff Exhibit, Oakland, California
2003, Studio Z, Valencia Street, San Francisco
2002, Mural, DJ Dimitri Mykonos, Mountain View, California
1999, Panorama, Red Devil Lounge, Polk Street, San Francisco
1996, The Hand, Post Street, San Francisco
1995, Maine College of Art Alumni Show, Moser Gallery, Manhattan
1994, Maine College of Art, Clapp House Gallery, Portland, Maine