James English LEARY
James English Leary was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1982. The artist received his BFA from Cooper Union in New York City in 2004. Leary’s works have been exhibited internationally and included in the Whitney Biennial, the Liverpool Biennial, MoMA PS1 and the Sundance Film Festival. Exhibitions of the artist’s work include: Tennis Elbow at Journal Gallery in New York City; Patter at Nina Johnson in Miami, Florida; Small Fishes Swim Around Inside of Large Fishes at Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer in Vienna, Austria; and Hoi Polloi at Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York City. Leary is a founding member of The Bruce High Quality Foundation. The artist is a Tiffany Foundation Award recipient and a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation resident. Leary lives and works in New York City, where he teaches at the Cooper Union School of Art.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
Nina Johnson, Miami, Florida, USA
Como é estranho ter um corpo, Simoes De Assis, São Paolo, Brazil
2019
“Small Fishes Swim Around Inside of Large Fishes”, Galerie Lisa Kandhofer, Vienna Parisian Laundry, Montreal
2018
“Another Family Romance”, Galerie Lisa Kandhofer, Vienna
“Hot Polloi”, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York
“Half a Mississippi Steamboat”, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen
2017
“Barn Burner”, Carl Kostyal, London
Sim Galeria, Curitiba, Brazil
“The Bursting Grape”, Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna
2016
“Family Romance”, Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
“Lady Chatterley’s Lover’s Lovers”, Four AM, New York
“Triple Motherfucker”, Vito Schnabel Projects, New York
“The Joys of Mortgaging Your Future”, Boyfriends Gallery, Chicago
2015
“Sticky Fingers”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
“Smoked Fruit”, Ray Smith Studio, New York
2014
“Rorschach Rhapsody”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
“Variantes Asimétricas”, Fundación Mapfre Guanarteme, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2019
“Flat Out: Drawings, 2000 – 2019”, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City
2017
“Occupy Mana”, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City
“Look Me In The Eye Sister”, Galería Leyendecker, Canarias
2016
“At Capacity”, Fastnet, Brooklyn
“Body Language”, Powrplnt, Brooklyn
“James English Leary & Aine Vonnegut”, Safe Gallery, Brooklyn
“If Walls Are Trembling”, Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna
“Friends With Benefits”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife
2015
“Unreasonable Sized Paintings”, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York
2014
“A Needle Walks into a Haystack”, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
“Mana Exposition”, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City
2013
“Group Show”, Old Room, New York
EXHIBITIONS WITH THE BRUCE HIGH QUALITY FOUNDATION
2019
“The End of Western Art”, ACA Galleries, NY
2016
“Pizzatopia”, Vito Sachnabel Gallery, New York
2015
“Mother”, Vito Sachnabel Gallery, New York
2014
“Isles Of The Dead”, Mc Clain Gallery, Houston
“Vive La Sociale!”, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“The Last Brucennial”, Vito Sachnabel Gallery, New York
2013
“Selections From The Greek & Roman Collection From The Metropolitan
Museum Of Art”, Vito Schnabel Gallery, New York
“Meditations Of The Emperor”, Mark Fletcher Gallery, New York
“Ode To Joy: 2001-2013”, Brooklyn Museum, New York
“Freedom”, The Cohen Gallery, Providence
“Tectonic”, DIFC, Dubai
“The Transubstantiation Bruce”, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
“White Collar Crimes”, Acquavella Galleries, New York
2012
“The Bruce High Quality Foundation”, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger,
Switzerland
“Bruceforma”, MOMA PS1, New York
“Brucennial 2012”, Vito Sachnabel Gallery, New York
2011
“These Days”, Sotheby’s NY, New York
“It Started With A Car Crash”, 20 Projects Gallery, London
“Argumenta”, Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta, Gran Priorato, Malta
2010
“Brucennial 2010”, Vito Sachnabel Gallery, New York
“Whitney Biennial 2010”, The Whitney Musseum, New York