JAMES GORTNER CV

EDUCATION

2010 MFA, Columbia University

2001 BA, Hawaii Pacific University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 – “Terra Incognita”, Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Practice, NY

2019 – “Myths & Mirrors”, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY “Eternal Flame”, VillageOne, NY

2017 – “Dimensions Variable”, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY “Force Field”, Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery, CT

2016 – “Ground Breakage”, Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery, CT

2015 – “Transformer”, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY “Games”, Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery, CT

2013 – “The Lovers”, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY

2007 – “Portraits Made In Darkside”, Dittrich & Schlichtum Gallery, Berlin

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 – “TBT” Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo “TBT” Village One Art, NY

2023 – Dads, Westbeth Gallery, NY (Curator)

2023 – Notes On Experimentation, Mana Contemporary, NJ

2023 – Winter group show, Westbeth Gallery, NY

2023 – New Group Show, Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Practice, NY

2022 – Winter group show, Westbeth Gallery, NJ

2021 – Opening Show, Amelchenko Gallery, NJ Art Miami, Modern Fine Art

2020 – Double Trouble, Village One Gallery, NY Hamptons Virtual Art Fair, Hamptons, NY

2019 – RW Norton Museum, LA

2019 – Summer Group Show, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY

2018 – Summer Group Show, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY MIA in MIA, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY

2017 – ESKFF, Mana Contemporary, NJ

2016 – Summer Group Show, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY BSMT Group Show, Mana Contemporary, NJ

2015 – 1st & 4th floor Exhibition Spaces, Mana Contemporary, NJ

2015 – Thank You Connecticut, Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery, CT

2015 – Auxiliary Space, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY

2014 – MIA in MIA, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY

2014 – Auxiliary space, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY.

2013 – Returning Reality, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY

2013 – Summer Session, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY

2011 – Nouveau Art Nouveau, Tape Modern No.21, Berlin

2010 – Columbia Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center for the Arts, NY

2010 – B-sides, Kara Walker Project Space, NY

2010 – Lidl vs Netto, Marzahner Promenade, Academy of Economics, Berlin At Least a Hundred Words, Pool Gallery, Berlin

2010 – Feast of Fools, Second-Floor, NY

2009 – Group Exhibition, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Gallery Columbia University, NY

2006 – Pool Artist Group Show: You Must Create, Pool Gallery, Berlin

ART FAIRS

2021 – Art Palm Beach, Modern Fine Art

2019 – Art New York, Zemack Contemporary, NY

2019 – Art Palm Beach, Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery, FL

2017 – Art Miami, Lyons Wier Gallery, FL

2016 – Art Miami, Lyons Wier Gallery, FL

2016 – Houston Art, Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery, TX

2016 – Art Hamptons, Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery, NY

2016 – Art Palm Beach, Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery, FL

2014 – Art Miami, Lyons Wier Gallery, FL

2014 – Downtown Fair, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY

2013 – Art South Hampton, Lyons Wier Gallery, NY

2013 – Art Windward, Lyons Wier Gallery, FL

2007 – Art Cologne, Pool Gallery, Cologne

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2022 – Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, “Roosevelt Island’s Annual Pop-Up Pool Party Returns With A Rainbow Deck”, Time Out New York, June.

2020 – Nicole Gordon Levine, “James Gortner: An Artist Who Brings Paintings To Life” Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Oct.

2019 – “Summer Session”, New American Art Collector Magazine, July.

2017 – New American Paintings (Northeast). Patricia A. Hines, “What’s Old Is New: Abstract Artist Makes New Work With Old Paintings”, Stamford Advocate, Oct.

2017 – “James Gortner And Iris Apfel: Collectors, Creators, Reinventors”, Twyla.com, Art Connects Us, Summer.

2016 – Interview by Brainard Carey, “James Gortner”, Yale Radio, June 27.

2015 – Susan Dunne, “GAMES Exhibition Straddles the Line Between Painting, Sculpture, and Collage”, Hartford Courant, November.

2015 – Darby & Friends, WGCH radio interview, September.

2015 – Nicole Gordon Levine, “James Gortner Exclusive”, stylabl.com, June.

2014 – Margaux Gali, “James Gortner: Diamond in the Rough”, Veoir Magazine, September.

2013 – NaShish Scott, “The Lovers At Lyons Wier Gallery”, Quiet Lunch Magazine.

2011 – Tema Stauffer, “The Mana Log”, Mana Contemporary.

2010 – Joshua J. Friedman, “An Artspace Odyssey”, Columbia Magazine, May.

2009 – “Art gets gifted”, Columbia Spectator, October.

2008 – Louise Jarvis Flynn, “White Album: Meet New York’s New Avant Garde”, Men’s Journal, July.

2007 – Von Sophie Von Maltzahn, “Geschichten aus dem Crack-Haus” (Faces of a Crack House), Art market, Berliner Newspaper, October 12.

2007 – “Interview with James Gortner”, Galore Magazine Germany, March.
Eva Turbl, “Heads: James Gortner”, IQ Style Magazine Germany, October.

TEACHING

2017 – Art Students League, NY

2010 – Adjunct Art Professor, Columbia University, NY 2009 Assistant Art Professor, Columbia University, NY

COLLECTIONS

Jiang Zimen, 5th President of China Reese Witherspoon, Actress Wooster Street Art Collective Jimenez-Colon Collection

Eileen Kaminsky S. Family Foundation various private collections