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James Herman

  1. Something
  2. Termite Drawings
  3. Schmoo Store
  4. Even A Blind Man Knows When The Sun Is Shining
  5. Glass Island Studio 
  6. Dose Trump
  7. Earth Pizza




(b. Denver, CO., 1985) James is an artist working between sculpture, painting, and printmaking. Herman’s painted works include process-based, abstract plywood pieces, functioning alongside a critical homesteading practice. Literally and figuratively meditating on processes of repetitive labor, Herman offers a utopian formal and ecological perspective by foregrounding off-the-grid building methods, repurposed materials, and a simultaneously thoughtful and cheeky modernist referentiality. Across media, his works propagate intentional domestic practices through piecemeal, communal, revelation.
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b. 1985
Lives and works in Los Angeles.

EDUCATION
University of Oregon BFA, 2011
Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, 2010

SELECT EXHIBITIONS //
2024
Sea View, “Homework” solo show, Los Angeles

2023
Emma Gray HQ, “Something” two person show with Vanessa Chow, Los Angeles

2019
Various Small Fires, "Yardwork" installation, Los Angeles

2018
Ibid Gallery, "Island" solo show, Los Angeles

2017
Ibid Gallery, "Glass Island Studio" solo show, Los Angeles

2016
Rio Gallery, "A Call to Place: The first five years of the Frontier Fellowship" by Epicenter. Salt Lake City, UT

2015
Night Gallery, "AARON WRNKLE 1978 - " organized by Aaron Wrinkle. Los Angeles, CA
Cabrillo National Monument, "CONVERGENCE" group show curated by Lianne Mueller. Point Loma, CA
Secret Recipe, "Hay Nap" James Herman, Joshua Petker, and JD Olerud. Los Angeles, CA


BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Los Angeles Magazine, “Gardens of Earthly Delights” by Michael Slenske

2018
Autre, "Opening of James Herman's Island" by Lani Trock

2016
New York Times, "Communal Living the 21st Century Way" by Tom Vanderbilt
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