1957 Born in Oceanside, CA
Lives and works in New York City
EDUCATION
1979 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, B.F.A.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 James Siena: Resonance Under Pressure, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Project Room: James Siena, Pace Prints, New York, NY
James Siena: Painting, Pace Gallery, 537 West 24th Street, New York, NY (Catalogue)
2017 James Siena: Drawing, Pace Gallery, New York. NY
2015 James Siena: New Sculpture, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2011 James Siena, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2010 James Siena: From the Studio, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
James Siena, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Works by Master Artist James Siena, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2008 James Siena, Pace Wildenstein, 545 West 22nd Street, New York, NY
2007 James Siena: Prints and States, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Big Fast Ink: James Siena Drawings, 1996–2007, University Art Museum, University of
Albany, Albany, NY
06-07 James Siena, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 James Siena: Recent Editions, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
James Siena: As Heads is Tails, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
05-06 James Siena: New Paintings and Gouaches, Pace Wildenstein, 534 West 25th Street,
New York, NY
2005 James Siena: Ten Years of Printmaking, William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2004 James Siena: Selected Paintings and Drawings 1990–2004, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
2003 James Siena, Drawing and Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, Walter Galleries, San
Francisco, CA
James Siena, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY
2002 James Siena: Recent Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 James Siena: 1991–2001, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY
2000 James Siena, Project Room, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY
James Siena, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 James Siena, Daniel Weinberg Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
97-98 James Siena, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY
1996 James Siena, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Pace Prints Exhibit, Kauffman Gallery, Huber Arts Center, Shippensburg, PA
2019 New Typographics: Typewriter Art as Print, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2018 The Annual Professional Painters’ Exhibition, Century Association, New York, NY
The Heckscher Collects: Recent Acquisitions, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
The New Members Exhibition, Century Association, New York, NY
Out of Control, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Principia Mathematica, Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, NY
The Projective Drawing, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY (Catalogue)
2017 Almost Nothing, James Barron Art, Kent, CT
Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors, Bowdoin College Museum of Art,
Brunswick, ME (Catalogue)
In the Absence of Color: Artists Working in Black and White, Hollis Taggart Galleries,
New York, NY
The State of New York Painting: Works of Intimate Scale by 26 Colorists, Kingsborough Art
Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Going Home: 43 Fifth Avenue, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Big Art / Small Scale, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Talking on Paper, Pace Gallery, Beijing, China
2015 Eureka, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2014 In the Round, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Print/Out: 20 Years in Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Line//Print, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Summer Group Show, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Paper A – Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York City, NY
2010 New Works: Prints, Drawings, Collages, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show, BravinLee programs, New York City, NY
At the edge, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH
Gentlemen....Start Your Engines!, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
The Visible Vagina, David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY
Group Show, BravinLee programs, New York City, NY
2009 Morphological Mutiny, David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY
Summer Show, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Morphological Mutiny, Nolan Judin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Talk Dirty to Me..., Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York City, NY
2008 Another Damned Drawing Show, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Black, G Fine Art, Washington, DC
Pierogi Et Al, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Works on Paper, BravinLee programs, New York City, NY
Fundamental Abstraction II - Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Attention to Detail, FLAG Art Foundation, New York City, NY
It´s Gouache & Gouache Only, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York City, NY
It´s Gouache & Gouache Only, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York City, NY
Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art Since 1945, Milwaukee Art
Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2007 Lines, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Judith Linhares / James Siena, University Art Museum University at Albany, State University
of New York, Albany, N
Block Party II, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Three Part Harmony: Definition, Delicacy, and Detail in Drawing, Curator's Office,
Washington, DC
Not for Sale, MoMA PS1, New York City, NY
Mixed Signals, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc, New York City, NY
2006 Drawing through it, David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY
Over Under Sideways Down, Backwards Forwards Square and Round, Irvine
Contemporary, Washington, DC
Group Exhibition: Black and White, Pulliam Gallery, Portland, OR
Parallel Visions II - Outsider and Insider Art Today, Galerie St. Etienne, New York City, NY
Contemporary Master Prints, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2005 James Siena by Chuck Close & James Siena Prints, Pace Prints, New York City, NY
Group Loop, G Fine Art, Washington, DC
Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, The Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, New York City, NY
TWO D, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Group Exhibition, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2004 200 Drawings: Annie Herron and Barry Blinderman Select from the Pierogi Flatfile, University Galleries
at Illinois State University, Normal, IL
La Colmena, Galeria de Fundaciíon, Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Summer 2004, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
Drawing a Pulse, University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI
Endless Love, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Black White, Danese, New York, NY
The Fall Line, OSP Gallery, Boston, MI
2002 On Paper, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles New Editions Monoprints, Pace Prints, New York, NY
177th Annual, National Academy of Design Museum, New York New Editions, Senior + Shopmaker Gallery,
New York, NY
The Tipping Point, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Accumulations, Kent State University, Kent, OH
By Hand, University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
Repetition In Discourse, Painting Center, New York, NY
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
2000 Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Invitational Exhibition American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York Fluid Flow, James
Graham and Sons, New York, NY
1999 Rage for Art (Pierogi Reborn), Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
Ultra Buzz, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Pattern, Graham Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Trippy World, Baron/Boisante Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Exploring Interior Landscape: Art from the Collection of Clifford Diver, Delaware Art
Museum, Wilmington, DE
Wall Paper, Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York, NY
The Risk of Existence, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Current Undercurrent, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tracery, Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY
All the Things You Are, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1996 96 Works on Paper, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1995 Wheel of Fortune, Lombard/Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY
Selections, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
S. Cono Pizzeria, Brooklyn, NY
Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
Obsession, Chassie Post Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Sworn Statements, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Lipton Owens Company, New York, NY
Jobs Overseas, Kunstverein Munich, Germany
The Beauty Show, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
1993 The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Nova Zembla, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Group Grope, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1992 Vibology, White Columns, New York, NY
1991 The Painting Project, Four Walls (organizer and participant), Brooklyn, NY
1990 A Question of Paint, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
1989 Drawings, Wolff Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Wolff Gallery, New York (two-artist show with Cary Smith), NY
Almost White, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Wolff Gallery, New York, NY
Atelier Conversations, John Good Gallery, New York, NY
1981 By Other Means, Just Above Midtown/Downtown, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBILIC COLLECTIONS
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Des Moines Art Center, IA
Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Philip Morris Collection, New York, NY
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS
2009 Eissner Artist of the Year Award, Cornell University
2000 Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 1999 Lewis Comfort
Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award
1996 Visiting Artist State University of New York at Albany
1995 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
Visiting Artist Monserrat College of Art
1994 Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts 1979 Charles Goodwin Sands
Medal, Cornell University