Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Arts

James Walsh

Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Arts
Region: Brooklyn, NY
Residencies: 1999

James Walsh was born in Brooklyn, studied literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Oxford University in England. He has been making visual work in a variety of media since 1986, and has shown throughout the United States and Europe. In addition to numerous one-of-a-kind artists' books, he is the author of three books with small presses: Foundations (1997), Solvitur ambulando (2003), and There was Something in the Weather (2012). Awards and residencies include a Fulbright Fellowship to Turkey, an apexart Outbound Residency in Bangkok, and residencies at MacDowell, The Edward Albee Foundation, Art Omi, Wave Hill, and The Center for Book Arts.

Studios

Alexander

James Walsh worked in the Alexander studio.

Funded through the generous support of Elizabeth Alexander, this studio was built in memory of her late husband, the renowned portrait painter John White Alexander (1856-1915). Originally designed as a visual art gallery, Marian MacDowell persuaded Elizabeth that the space would better serve the arts if commissioned as a visual…

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