Residencies:
2025, Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Warnecke Vineyard, Sonoma, California
2016 to present, Chashama Studio Program, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Education:
2018- 2020, Brooklyn College, CUNY
- MA in Art Education
1990-1994, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
- BFA in painting
Classes and Workshops:
2004, California College of the Arts
- Oil painting
- Visiting artist lecture series
1999, New Horizons, Walnut Creek, California
-Illustrator, Photoshop, Advanced HTML
1994, Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, Maine
- Blacksmithing
Press/Publications:
2024, Studio Visit Magazine, Issue 53 and 54, full page spread on my recent paintings.
2020, Suzanne Randolph Fine Arts, In the Studio with James Rose
2015, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, "Bay Ridge Artist finds Gallery close to Home", February.
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.
2008, Metroland, weekly editorial and entertainment paper, "Cirque de la Nightclub", profile on James Rose organization of artistic events in Albany, New York.
Solo Exhibitions:
2017, Maimonedes Hospital , Brooklyn, NY.
2014, Spoke The Hub, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2013-2014, Brooklyn Work Shop Gallery, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
2010, Proctor's Theater Guild Room Gallery, Schenectady, New York
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, George Bruce Branch, W125th Street, Manhattan
2009, NY Public Library, Harlem Branch, 9 W124th Street, Manhattan
2009, The Gallery Bar, 120 Orchard Street, Manhattan
2009, Capital Repertory Theater, Albany, New York
2003, XYZ, Hotel W, San Francisco, California
1994, Clapp House Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Group Exhibitions:
2025, Nature 25, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
2025, Nature/Nurture, curated by Katarina Lanfranco, Sweet Loraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023, Superfine Art Fair, Chashama Booth, Iron23, W23rd Street, Manhattan
2023, Artpie, Small Works, curated by Xuanlin Ye, Chicago
2021, BWAC Summer Show, curated by Alicia Degener, Brooklyn
2021, From Green to Grey, Virtual Exhibition, curated by June Sekiguchi and William Raines, Seattle
2020, Papergirl Brooklyn, curated by Annie Del Hierro and Sina Basila Hickey, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
2019, BWAC and Chashama, Summer Show, curated by Alicia Degener, Red Hook, 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
2028, Spring Break Art Fair, Chashama, Space to Create, Times Square, NYC
2018, The Cigar Factory, Allow me to Reintroduce Myself, curated by Krista Saunders Scenna and Carolina Penafiel, LIC, Queens
2018, Schweinfurth Art Center, Made in NY, Auburn, NY
2017, Ground Floor Gallery, Holiday Market, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2017, Point Green, Tremors, curated by Monika Lidia, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
2017, Ground Floor Gallery, Priority Mail, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2017, 440 Gallery, Home, curated by Joan Bankemper, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2017, Trestle Gallery, Small Works, curated by Bill Carroll, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
2017, Industry City, PS 295 arts program benefit, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
2017, Ground Floor Gallery, Marked Urgent, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2016, 440 Gallery, Small Works, curated by JoAnne McFarland, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2016, Trestle Gallery, Trestle Art Benefit, curated by Mary Negro, Gowanus, Brooklyn
2016, Art Slope, Big Tent, curated by Jonathan Blum, Dara Oshin, and Eric Wolf, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2016, Trestle Gallery, Small Works, curated by Heather Darcy Bhandari, Gowanus, Brooklyn
2016, BRIC House Gallery, Up for Debate, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
2015, 440 Gallery, Small Works exhibition, curated by Bill Carroll, Park Slope, Brooklyn
2014, BAC, Access Art, 111 Front Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn
2014, Limner Gallery, Small Works, Hudson, New York
2013, Lazarus Gallery, Art of Play, New Rochelle, New York
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, California
2005, ArtSF, Undertones, San Francisco, California
2005, ArtSF, Say What!?, San Francisco, California
2004, Studio Z, San Francisco, California
2004, California College of Art, Staff Exhibit, Oakland, California
1999, Viv Emerging Artist Show, Polk Street, San Francisco, California
1996, The Hand, Post Street, San Francisco, California
1995, Maine College of Art, Juried Alumni Show, Moser Gallery, Madison Ave, Manhattan
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.