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JAMIE NARES

ES Jamie Nares (nacida en Londres en 1953) es una artista británica radicada en Nueva York, reconocida por su práctica multidisciplinaria que incluye pintura, cine, video, fotografía, música y performance. Destaca por sus pinturas gestuales de gran escala, creadas con herramientas hechas por ella misma, y por sus innovadores trabajos en cine experimental, como el largometraje Rome ’78 y el video Street. Su obra explora el movimiento, la fisicalidad y la percepción del tiempo, y forma parte de importantes colecciones como el MoMA y el Whitney. En 2019, Jamie reveló su identidad como mujer transgénero, integrando esta experiencia en su trabajo artístico.

EN Jamie Nares (born in London in 1953) is a British artist based in New York, known for her multidisciplinary practice encompassing painting, film, video, photography, music, and performance. She is recognized for her large-scale gestural paintings created using tools she makes herself, as well as her innovative experimental films such as the feature Rome ’78 and the video Street. Her work explores movement, physicality, and the perception of time, and is included in major collections like MoMA and the Whitney Museum. In 2019, Jamie publicly came out as a transgender woman, incorporating this experience into her artistic practice.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Abright Knox Museum

Brookfield Properties

Chase Manhattan Bank

Paine Webber

American Express

The Museum of Modern Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Natinal Gallery of Art, Washington

The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

Whitney Museum of American Art

Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM)

GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.

Grand Hyatt, Tokyo

MGM Grand, Las Vegas

Colección Kenedy

Colección ONU (Great Mural)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 

“Time Like This”, Carling Dalenson Gallery, Estocolmo, Suecia

2024

“Nares Traces”, Kasmin Gallery, NY

2019

“Nares: Moves”, Baker/Rowland Gallires, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

2013

“Street”, Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

“Road Paint”, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

“Street”, Cinemarfa Film Festival, Marfa, TX

“Street”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2012

“New Media Series – James Nares: Street”, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

“Street”, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

“James Nares, 1976: Films and Other Works”, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

2011

Cinemarfa Film festival, Marfa, TX

“The Films of James Nares”, IFC Center, New York, NY

2010

“New Paintings and a Film”, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“James Nares at the Armory Show”, Paintings and Video, The Armory Show, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Pier 94, New York, NY

2009

“James Nares, New Paintings, New Video: Element Number One”, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

2009

“James Nares”, Galleria Arnes Y Roepke, Madrid, ES

2008

Galerie Stefan Roepke, Cologne, DE

2008

Sebastian Guinness Gallery, Dublin, IE

“James Nares: Motion Pictures (film retrospective), Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

2007

Galerie Stefan Roepke, Cologne, DE

Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005

“New Paintings and Chronophotographs”, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

Goss Gallery, Dallas, TX

2003

Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

2001

Paul Kasmis Gallery, New York

1999

Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

Galerie Thomas von Lintel & Nusser, Munich

Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife

1997

Paul Kasmin Gallery.

Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich

Lemberg Gallery, Michigan

Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife

1991

Galeria Leyendecker,Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Galería Paul Kasmin,  Nueva York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

“Preoccupations: A Jamie Nares Retrospective”, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY

2022

“All I Know”, Kasmin Gallery, London, UK

2022

“Traces – Season III”, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

2018

“This Land”, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco

2017

“Painting Paintings 1975”, Gagosian Gallery, NY

2015

“Greater New York”, MOMA, NY

2014

“The City Dinamic: Representing Crisis and Renewal in New York City,

Chicago, Los Angeles, 1960 – 1980”, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, and Princeton University of Art Museum, Princeton

2013

Cinemarfa Film Festival, Marfa, Texas

“Slow: Marking Time in Photography and Film”, Museum Of
Contemporary Art, Jacksonville

2012

“33 Años Después, Una Hora Antes 2”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife

2010

“Action Behind the Margins,” MUSEO REINA SOFIA, Madrid
Lehman Maupin, New York

“Process/Abstraction”, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

2009

“Blue”, James Graham & Sons, New York

“New paintings”, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

“Looking at Music: Side 2”, MOMA, New York

2008

“New Durham Press prints” Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX.

2007

“The Price of Nothing,” Efa Gallery, New York

2006

WETTERLING GALLERY, Stockholm, Sweden

“Action Precision,” Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York

2005

“Cross Section”, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

“Extreme Abstraction,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

“Abstraction,” Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle

“Sets, Series, and Suites: Contemporary Prints,” MFA, Boston

1997

“Summer”,Paul Kasmin Gallery,new York.

“Essential Gestures,”Galeria de arte,Johnson County community College.
Kansas.

1996

“The New York Scene 1.996”, Gotlands Konst Museum, Gotland Suecia

“Young Collectors Exhibition”, Lemberg Gallery, Bloomfield Hills,
Michigan

1995

“Six from New York”, Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

“James Nares & Christopher Wool”, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles

“A Day Without Art”, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1994

“DiFabio,Nares,Twombly,Zwack”, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

“The Brushstroke & Its Guise”, New York Studio School, New York

“Seasights Photographs” Offshore Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y.

1993

“Das Abstrakte”, Die Galerie ist Dienstag,Galerie Thomas Rehbein
Colonia.

“Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition”, Galería Leo Castelli, Nueva
York y Galería Allan Stone, Nueva York.

“Four Centuries of Drawing, 1.593-1993”, Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los
Angeles

“Exquisite Corpse”, The Drawing Center, New York

1992

“Painting in New York Now”, P.S. 1 Museum, L. Island City, NY.

“Group Show”, Galería A. Luhring, NY.

“Group Show”, Museo de Arte de Tenerife, Tenerife.

“James Nares, Peter Shuyff”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife.

“Group Show”, Galería Curt Marcus, NY.

“Exquisite Corpse”, The Drawing Center, Nueva York.

“Group Show”, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri.

“La Regenta”, Casa de la Cultura, dir. por Reiner Opoku,
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,islas Canarias.

“Group Show”, Galería Mars, Tokio, Japón.

“Drawings”, Galería Stuart Regen, Los Angeles, California.

“Off the Wall”, Centro Cleveland para el Arte Contemporáneo, Cleveland.

1991

“James Nares, Ian Davenport, Stephen Ellis”, Galería Paul
Kasmin, NY.

Group Show, Galería Rose Compass, Chicago, Illinois.

“A Bestiary”, Galería Paula Cooper, Nueva York.

“Poets-Painters Collaboration”, Galería Brooke Alexander, NY.

“James Nares, Peter Schuyff, Gary Stephen”, Galería Marc Richards, Los Angeles.

“Anderson,Dupuis,nares,Pierson,”galeria Aurel Scheibler.Colonia

1990

Group Show, Galería A. Luhring, Los Angeles.

Group Show, Vrej Baghoomian, Nueva York.

“The Circle”, Museo Queens, Nueva York.

“Witnesses”, Artists Space, Nueva York.

“Auction/Exhibition”, ACT-UP, Nueva York.

“Drawings and Watercolors”, Galería Paul Kasmin, N. York.

1989

“Metamodern” Harcus Gallery,Boston ,Ma.

“Projects & Portfolios, The 25th National Print Exhibition”, Brooklyn Museum,New York.

“Drawing”, Galería Joe Fawbush, Nueva York.

“Benefit for the Wooster Group”, Brooke Alexander Editions, Nueva
York.

“The Golden Ladder”, Galería Fawbush, Nueva York.

“Don’t Bungle The Jungle”, Galería Tony Shafrazi, Nueva York.

“Group Show”, Michael Klein, Nueva York.

1988

“Paintings: Gerry Morehead, Peter Nadin, James Nares, Robin Winters”, Michael Klein Inc., Nueva York.

“Rebop”, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jane Dickson, Hanna Duncan, Michael McClard, Richard Merkin, James Nares, Gary Panter, Walter Steding, dirigida por Glenn O’Brien, Galeria Paula Allen, Nueva York.

Group Show, Galería Luhring Augustine & Hodes, N. York.

“Rainforest”, 48 Laight Street, Nueva York.

1987

Group Show, Scott Cook Fine Arts, Nueva York.

“Consonance”, ISD, Inc., Nueva York.

“Joan Nelson, James Nares, Cara Perlman, Kiki Smith, Brett de Palma,
Michael Mazur, Martin Potts”, Galeria Fawbush, Nueva York.

” Art Againt Aids Exhibition”, Nueva York.

1986

Group Show, Galería Annie Plumb, Nueva York.

“Emerging Artists ’86”, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Cleveland, Ohio.

1985

“Ripe Fruit”, P.S. 1 Museum , Long Island City,NuevaYork, dirigida por
LisaLiebmann.

Group Show, Galería Cable, Nueva York.

Group Show, Galería Gabrielle Bryers, Nueva York.

“East Village Show”, Galería Holly Solomon, Nueva York.

“Drawings”, Galería Barbara Toll, Nueva York.

“Mystery Show”, Museo de Jersey City, Nueva York, dirigida por
Andrea Belag.

“Factura”, Galería Sclesinger-Boisante Inc., Nueva York, dirigida por
Steven Harvey.

Group Show, Galería Tony Shafrazi, Nueva York.

1984

“The First Show”, Galería Cable, Nuev York.

“Dall’Olio All’Aereoplano””, Studio Carrado Levi, Milán.

“Ecstasy”, Galería Monique Knowlton, Nueva York, dirigida por Carlo McCormick.

“Sex Show”, Galería Cable, Nueva York.

“Saloon”, Galería Bill Rice, Nueva York.

“Bomb Show”, Galería Blum Helman, Nueva York.

1983

Group Show, Kamikaze Club, Nueva York, dirigida por Cookie Mueller, New York.

“Manhattan Mercury”, Galería Venster, Rotterdam, dir. por Edit deAk.

“Hundreds of Drawing”, Artists’s Space, Nueva York.

“Books & Co.”, Nueva York, (Installation window for Norman Mailer’s
book “Ancient Lives”),New York.

1982

“Critical Perspectives”, PS 1, Nueva York, dirigida por Edit deAk, (Allen Vega, Yoko Ono, Pat Place, Futura 2000).

Group Show, Galería Holly Solomon, Nueva York.

Group Show, Mark Twain Bank Shares, Kansas City,Missouri.

1978

“Manifiesto Show”, Collaborative Projects Inc., Nueva York.

“Dog Show”, Collaborative Projects Inc., Nueva York.

“Income and Wealth Show”, Collaborative Projects Inc., Nueva York.

1977

“Exhibit A”, Galería 83 Grand Street, Nueva York, dirigida por McClard.

“Batman Show”, Collaborative Projects Inc., Nueva York, dirigida por Diego Cortez.

“The Doctors and Dentists”, Collaborative Projects Inc., Nueva York, dirigida por Colleen Fitsgibbon.

“The Sun Projected”, instalada en Jay St. Loft, Nueva York.

1974

Galería Art Meeting Place, Londres.

1972

Galería Curving Space, Londres, ( D. Medalla, J. Dugger).

Galería A.M.P., Londres.