Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
JAMES J.A. MERCER
jjjjjamesmercer@gmail.com
jamesmercer.net
Education
2020 MFA, Visual Art, Columbia University, New York
2007 BFA, Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Exhibitions
2023 To Your Eternity - The 4th Future of Today Biennial, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2022 Vacation, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
Vacation, The Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
70th Street, Colnaghi, New York
2021 Columbia Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition, curated by Amy Sadao, The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York
2020 Solutions, Tomato Mouse, Brooklyn, New York
Minorly Magical, K&P Gallery, New York
Alone Together, Steve Turner LA, Los Angeles
2019 Aesthetically Functional Only, curated by Edsel Williams, 1675 Broadway, New York
Whams of Summer, Ki Smith Gallery, New York
Columbia Visual Arts First Year MFA exhibition, curated by Natalie Bell,
The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York
2017 Where Do We Stand? Two Years of Drawing with Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York
2016 Open Sessions 8: Planes and Corridors, The Drawing Center, New York
2014 Yearbook 14, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York
2012 X-TRA ZEUS!, Machines with Magnets, Providence, Rhode Island
2010 Mountains and Folds, The Mountain Fold Gallery, New York
2009 My Space, The Gelman Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design
2008 Providence Print Show 2008, 5 Traverse Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
Hypertoys, The Dirt Palace, Providence, Rhode Island
Pawtucket Foundation Prize Exhibition, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
2007-8 Sugar Corner Unhinged, Providence Art Windows, Providence, Rhode Island
2007 Privatized Providence: The Secret Apartment in the Providence Place Mall,
The Space at Alice, Providence, Rhode Island
DESTINY, The Stairwell Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
Senior Invitational Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design
Senior Printmaking Degree Project Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design
2006 Prehalloween with Tiffany X.Y.Z., Benson Hall Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design
Wunderground, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Screenings
2023 IFFR, PoMoFoMo, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia
Tabor Film Festival, Desinić, Croatia
Flatpack Festival, Getaways, Birmingham, England
2022 Edge of Frame: Alone with the Moon, London International Animation Festival,
Barbican Theater, London, England
2021 Backstage Ghost, Backyard Ghost, Brooklyn, New York
2020 Edge of Frame: States of Emergency, London International Animation Festival,
Barbican Theater, London, England
Commiserate Chicago, University of Chicago MADD Center, Chicago, Illinois
2019 The Magic Floot 3, The Tomato House, Brooklyn, New York
2018 Experimental Animation, Harpy Gallery, Rutherford, New Jersey
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Redcat, Los Angeles. Block
Cinema, Chicago, Illinois. Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York
Animation Night, Harvestworks, New York
2017 The Magic Floot 2, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Animated Videos by Johnny Rogers and James Mercer, Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, Maryland
The Magic Floot, The Tomato House, Brooklyn, New York
2013 Movies Made in a Month / MORRIS, The Tomato House, Brooklyn, New York
2011 DMTV2, Hollywood Theater, Portland, Oregon
Awards and Residencies
2016-17 Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York
2014 Artist in Residence, Clocktower Productions, Brooklyn, New York
Press
2023 Loayza, Beatrice, On the 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam, Artforum, February 10
2020 Interview with Stipan Tadic and Yifan Jiang, WKCR, May 6
2018 Sachs, Kathleen. Dreamscapes and Visions, The Chicago Reader, November 7
2014 Chiaverina, John. Tiny Space, Grand Guignol, ARTnews, September 30
Richmond, Ben. In 2157 the World Will Be Covered in Trash, and It Will Look Like This, Vice Motherboard, June 20
Writing
Dylan Vandenhoeck, Two Coats of Paint, 2022
https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2022/12/dylan-vandenhoeck-seeing-yourself-seeing.html
Jennifer Coates, Two Coats of Paint, 2022
https://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2022/01/jennifer-coates-and-the-landscapes-afterglow.html
Annette Hur, Two Coats of Paint, 2021
https://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2021/11/annette-hur-painful-elegant-mortality.html
Teaching
2021-present Drew University, Adjunct Professor, Digital Imaging and Digital Animation, Madison, NJ
2023 Columbia University Visual Art, Adjunct Professor, Drawing