BIOGRAPHY
JAMES SIENA
(1958 - Present)
James Siena is an American Contemporary artist based in New York City. His art is typically created through a series of self-imposed constraints also sometimes referred to as visual algorithms. In most of his work, he establishes a basic unit and action and repeats it indefinitely. Siena stated, "At a certain point, I wanted to make drawings and works that act as machines. The way they act as machines is you have to find your way out of them. As you undo the masking of them they come to life."
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1958 |
Born: Oceanside, CA |
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1977 |
Received Edward Durrell Stone Award, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
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1979 |
BFA from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Receives Charles Goodwin Sands Medal, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
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1994 |
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting |
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1999 |
Receives Award in Art from 2000 American Academy of Arts and Letters |
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2000 |
Receives Award in Art from 2000 American Academy of Arts and Letters |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
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2005 - 2006 |
James Siena, Recent Work, Pace, Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo) |
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2003 - 2004 |
New Editions, Pace Editions, New York, NY |
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2003 |
Summer Group Show, Pace Editions, New York, NY San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (solo) Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY (solo) The Fall Line, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA |
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2002 |
New Editions: Monoprints, Pace Prints, New York, NY Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) New Editions, Senior + Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY The Tipping Point, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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2001 |
Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY (solo) Accumulations, Kent State University, Kent, OH By Hand: Pattern, Precision, and Repetition iBen Contemporary Drawing, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Branch, CA Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC |
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2000 |
Mapping, Territory, Connexions, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY (solo) |
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1999 |
New Work: Painting Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Cyber Cypher Either Or, Mario Diacono Gallery Boston, MA Rage for Art (Pierogi Reborn), Brooklyn, NY |
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1998 |
The Risk of Existence, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY Wall Paper, Nicolas Davies Gallery, New York, NY Daniel Weinberg Gallery San Francisco, CA (solo) |
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1997 |
Cristinerose Gallery New York, NY (solo) Current Undercurrent, Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn, NY Tracery, Betsy Senior Gallery New York, NY All Things You Are, Geophery Young Gallery Great Barrington, MA |
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1996 |
Pierogi 2000 Brooklyn, NY (solo) 96 Works on Paper, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA |
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1995 |
Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY Selections, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY Wheel of Fortune, Lombard/Fried Fine Arts New York, NY |
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1994 |
Lipton Owens Company New York, NY Job Overseas, Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany Sworn Statements, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington. MA |
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1993 |
Exquisite Corpse, Drawing Center, New York, NY Group Grope, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA |
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1989 |
Drawings, Wolff Gallery, New York, NY The Art of the Computer and Xerox Machine, Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
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1987 |
Atelier Conversations, John Good Gallery, New York, NY |
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1986 |
J. Noblett Gallery Sonoma, CA (solo) |
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1981 |
By Other Means, Just Above Midtown/Downtown, New York, NY |