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SOLO EXHIBITIONS (invited and curated)


2022

Past Forward: New and Recent Work, WallSpace–LNK, Lincoln, Nebraska, November 3 - November 26, 2022


2019

Nebraska Now: Recent Quilts and Photographs by Michael James, Museum of Nebraska Art, January 12 - April 26, 2019.

2018
India Through Beginner's Eyes: New Textiles by Michael James, Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, Nebraska, May 4 - 25, 2018

2015
Ambiguity & Enigma: Recent Quilt by Michael James, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, Lincoln, NE, June 5, 2015 - February 22, 2016

2013
Michael James: Organizing Nature, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX, May 9 – July 7

2010
Hand Craft: A Decade of Digital Quilts, Metro Community College, Omaha, NE, November 18 – December 17


New and Recent Quilts, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, October 1 – 30

2009
Michael James: Oeuvres récents, 15ème Carrefour International du Patchwork, Ste. Marie-aux-Mines, Alsace, France, September 17 – 20


The Sidebar Show – New Work, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, April 2 - 18

2008
The Life in a Day – New Work, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, March 27 – April 26

Michael James: Reinventing Quilts in a Digital Age, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (invited/curated, last ten years)


2024


The Work of Their Hands, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, North Carolina, February 22 - October 27, 2024


2023


Nebraska Artist Biennial 4, Gallery 1516, Omaha, Nebraska, September 8 - December 17, 2023.

Guilty Pleasures (collage no. 10) recipient of the "Best in Multimedia" award


Layered & Stitched: 50 Years of Innovative Art, International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 5 - December 16, 2023 (touring exhibition organized by Studio Art Quilt Associates)


2021


Nebraska Artist Biennial 3, Gallery 1516, Omaha, Nebraska, May 12 - August 1, 2021.

Haveli 3 (Varanasi) recipient of the "Best in Multimedia" award


Pushing the Surface 2, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio, May 29 - Sept. 5, 2021


2018
Compelled to Tell: Markmaking, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE, May 22 - September 23, 2018

Text Message: Words and Letters in Contemporary Art, Racine Art Museum, January 21 - May 6, 2018

2017
Storyline: The Contemporary Quilt, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, September 22, 2017 - January 7, 2018; Kathryn Hall, curator

Crossing Generations: Past, Present & Future, sponsored by the Surface Design
Association, curated by Jane Sauer; Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR, July 10 - August 5, 2017

2016                         
Terra Firma, A Selection of Nebraska Landscapes, works from the collection of the Museum of Nebraska Art, Gallery 1516, Omaha, NE, May 24 - June 12
 
2015                         
Outside the Lines: Color Across the Collections, Newark Art Museum (NJ) September 19, 2015 – January 10, 2016
 
New Arrivals: Art Quilts, curated by Anita Jones, Curator of Textiles, includes recent additions to the Baltimore Museum of Art’s late 20th-century textile collection. Dec. 15, 2015 - June 19, 2016. Baltimore Museum of Art (MD) '

2014
Quilt (R)Evolution: Art Quilt Retrospective 1979 – 2014, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio,  September 20 – November 22

Flight Patterns - curated group exhibition, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA, April 2014 - April 2015

Art Quilt Elements - juried group exhibition, Wayne Art Center, 413 Maplewood Avenue, Wayne, PA, March 21 - May 3

9th International Fiber Biennial - curated group exhibition, Snyderman-Works Gallery, 303 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA, March 7 - April 19

2012
High Fiber: Recent Large-scale Acquisitions in Fiber, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, September 30, 2012 - January 20, 2013. Bruce W. Pepich, Curator.

Everything in Between: Art Quilts, Fabric Collage and Embroidery, Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, September 27 – November 10

Without Boundaries: Transformations in American Craft, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO,August 24 – October 21. Lynn Friedman Hamilton, curator.

Backstitch: A 25-year Retrospective of Advances and Milestone in Quiltmaking, The New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, July 12 – October 14. Anita Loscalzo and Laura Lane, co-curators.

Textiles Today: Redefining the Medium, Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO, April 24 – June 2

Silent Waters, three-person exhibition at Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, NE, May

Man-made Quilts: Civil War to the Present, Shelburne Museum, Burlington, VT, May 13 – October 28

8th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, March 2 – April 28

2011
Patchwork from Folk Art to Fine Art, Newark (NJ) Museum, September through December

Inaugural Exhibition, Modern Arts Midwest Midtown, Omaha, NE, September –
November

Structure and Improvisation: Contemporary Quilts of Nancy Crow, Rosalie Dace, Michael James and Paula Nadelstern, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY, Jan. 21 – May 1

2010
Component Parts, Textiles, Clothing & Design Faculty exhibition, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Sept. 13 – Oct. 11

5th Annual Gallery Artists Group Show, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, July 2 – August 31

2009
5th Annual Small Works Group Show, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, Oct. 29 – December 31

4th Annual Gallery Artists Group Show, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, July 9 – September 5

2008
Wish List IV, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, November 7 – December 24

Structure, Surface and Expression: Quilt Directions Today, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC, September – January 2009

Visual Systems: The Quilter’s Eye, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, University of Nebraska – Lincoln , July 9 – September 25

Material Matters: Quiltmaking in the 21st Century, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, June 20 – August 31

Summer Show: Gallery Artists, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, May – August

Quilts in Common, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, March 30 – August 17

Sixth International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, Bruce Hoffman, Curator, March 1 – April 30

The Grid, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, January - March


SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS 


2021


2021 Nebraska Artist Biennial, Gallery 1516, Omaha, Nebraska, May 9 - August 1, 2021.

       "Haveli  3 (Varanasi)" received the "Best in Multimedia" Award.



WORK IN MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

The Columbus Museum                         Past Tense  (2011)

(Columbus, Georgia)


Museum of Fine Arts Boston                 Suntreader #3  (1980)

                                                               Quilt with a Colorful Past (2008)

 
Baltimore Museum of Art                       Metamorphosis  (1983)
 
Museum of Arts & Design (NYC)            Crash Site  (1996)
                                                               Waves II: Storm Surge   (1988)
                                                               Rhythm/Color: Bacchanal   (1986)
 
The Newark Museum of Art (Newark, NJ)       Rhythm/Color: Spanish Dance  (1986) 
 
Renwick Gallery                                      Quilt No. 150: Rehoboth Meander (1993)

Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC) 

                                                         
 Racine Art Museum (Racine, WI)      Home Economics   (2005)
                                                           Mind's Eye   (2002)
 
Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC)           Offering  (2004)
                                                         Rhythm/Color: Improvisation 3  (1987)
 
Indianapolis Museum of Art (IN)           Smoke Signals  (2001)
                       
Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA)    
                                                         Interference Effect: (Betrayed) Lover's Knot #1  (2004)
                                                         Memento Vivere   (2002)
                                                         Night Sky 1    (1977)
 
Shelburne Museum (Burlington, VT)    

                                                         Ghost Figure  (2005)

                                                         Sky/Wind Variations 2  (1990)
 
David Owsley Museum of Art (Muncie, IN)     
                                                         Suntreader (Monophony)  1979
 
Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearney, NE)  

                                                           Controlled Release  (2012)

                                                           A Narrative of Space, of Time  (2008)
                                                           [Four Square Series 1] Blink   (2006)
                                                           At or Near the Surface  (2006)
                                                           Orange/Blue  (1997)
 
International Quilt Museum (Lincoln, NE) 

                                                            Elegy (flatland)  (2015)

                                                            All the spaces of intimacy  (2015)
                                                            [Four Square Series 3] Flex  (2006)
                                                            Daybook: 8 September 2006  (2006)
                                                            Interference Effect #1  (2004)
                                                           Women are? Men are?  (2003)
                                                           Scan  (2001)
                                                           Spiritus Mundi  (2000)
                                                           Wall 1  (1999)
                                                           Yellow Brick Road  (1996)
                                                           Suspended Animation  (1992)
                                                           Sky/Wind Variations III  (1991)
                                                           A View into Time/Motion   (1987)
                                                           Bias Cut  (1986)
                                                           La Tempête  (1983)
                                                           Blue Undercurrents  (1983)
                                                           City Rhythms  (1983)
                                                           Interweave 5  (1982)
                                                           Aurora  (1978)
                                                           Elaborated Tangram  (1976)
                                                           
National Quilt Museum 

(Paducah, KY)                                     Aletsch  (1990)


San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (CA)   
                                                           Bourrée  (1992)
                                                           Crosscurrents III  (1990)
                                                           Graded Polychrome Stripe #4  (1982)
 
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum (Golden, CO)   American Dream  (2003)
 
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum (Belfast, N. Ireland)   Rain Dance  (1987)