2022
2019
Nebraska Now: Recent Quilts and Photographs by Michael James, Museum of Nebraska Art, January 12 - April 26, 2019.2018
India Through Beginner's Eyes: New Textiles by Michael James, Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, Nebraska, May 4 - 25, 2018
2015
Ambiguity & Enigma: Recent Quilt by Michael James, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, Lincoln, NE, June 5, 2015 - February 22, 2016
2013
Michael James: Organizing Nature, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX, May 9 – July 7
2010
Hand Craft: A Decade of Digital Quilts, Metro Community College, Omaha, NE, November 18 – December 17
2009
Michael James: Oeuvres récents, 15ème Carrefour International du Patchwork, Ste. Marie-aux-Mines, Alsace, France, September 17 – 20
2008
The Life in a Day – New Work, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, March 27 – April 26
Michael James: Reinventing Quilts in a Digital Age, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (invited/curated, last ten years)
2024
The Work of Their Hands, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, North Carolina, February 22 - October 27, 2024
2023
Nebraska Artist Biennial 4, Gallery 1516, Omaha, Nebraska, September 8 - December 17, 2023.
Guilty Pleasures (collage no. 10) recipient of the "Best in Multimedia" award
Layered & Stitched: 50 Years of Innovative Art, International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 5 - December 16, 2023 (touring exhibition organized by Studio Art Quilt Associates)
2021
Nebraska Artist Biennial 3, Gallery 1516, Omaha, Nebraska, May 12 - August 1, 2021.
Haveli 3 (Varanasi) recipient of the "Best in Multimedia" award
Compelled to Tell: Markmaking, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE, May 22 - September 23, 2018
Text Message: Words and Letters in Contemporary Art, Racine Art Museum, January 21 - May 6, 2018
2017
Storyline: The Contemporary Quilt, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, September 22, 2017 - January 7, 2018; Kathryn Hall, curator
Crossing Generations: Past, Present & Future, sponsored by the Surface Design
Association, curated by Jane Sauer; Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR, July 10 - August 5, 2017
2016
Terra Firma, A Selection of Nebraska Landscapes, works from the collection of the Museum of Nebraska Art, Gallery 1516, Omaha, NE, May 24 - June 12
2015
Outside the Lines: Color Across the Collections, Newark Art Museum (NJ) September 19, 2015 – January 10, 2016
New Arrivals: Art Quilts, curated by Anita Jones, Curator of Textiles, includes recent additions to the Baltimore Museum of Art’s late 20th-century textile collection. Dec. 15, 2015 - June 19, 2016. Baltimore Museum of Art (MD) '
2014
Quilt (R)Evolution: Art Quilt Retrospective 1979 – 2014, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio, September 20 – November 22
Flight Patterns - curated group exhibition, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA, April 2014 - April 2015
Art Quilt Elements - juried group exhibition, Wayne Art Center, 413 Maplewood Avenue, Wayne, PA, March 21 - May 3
9th International Fiber Biennial - curated group exhibition, Snyderman-Works Gallery, 303 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA, March 7 - April 19
2012
High Fiber: Recent Large-scale Acquisitions in Fiber, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, September 30, 2012 - January 20, 2013. Bruce W. Pepich, Curator.
Everything in Between: Art Quilts, Fabric Collage and Embroidery, Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, September 27 – November 10
Without Boundaries: Transformations in American Craft, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO,August 24 – October 21. Lynn Friedman Hamilton, curator.
Backstitch: A 25-year Retrospective of Advances and Milestone in Quiltmaking, The New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, July 12 – October 14. Anita Loscalzo and Laura Lane, co-curators.
Textiles Today: Redefining the Medium, Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO, April 24 – June 2
Silent Waters, three-person exhibition at Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, NE, May
Man-made Quilts: Civil War to the Present, Shelburne Museum, Burlington, VT, May 13 – October 28
8th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, March 2 – April 28
2011
Patchwork from Folk Art to Fine Art, Newark (NJ) Museum, September through December
Inaugural Exhibition, Modern Arts Midwest Midtown, Omaha, NE, September –
November
Structure and Improvisation: Contemporary Quilts of Nancy Crow, Rosalie Dace, Michael James and Paula Nadelstern, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY, Jan. 21 – May 1
2010
Component Parts, Textiles, Clothing & Design Faculty exhibition, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Sept. 13 – Oct. 11
5th Annual Gallery Artists Group Show, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, July 2 – August 31
2009
5th Annual Small Works Group Show, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, Oct. 29 – December 31
4th Annual Gallery Artists Group Show, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, July 9 – September 5
2008
Wish List IV, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, November 7 – December 24
Structure, Surface and Expression: Quilt Directions Today, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC, September – January 2009
Visual Systems: The Quilter’s Eye, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, University of Nebraska – Lincoln , July 9 – September 25
Material Matters: Quiltmaking in the 21st Century, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, June 20 – August 31
Summer Show: Gallery Artists, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE, May – August
Quilts in Common, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, March 30 – August 17
Sixth International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, Bruce Hoffman, Curator, March 1 – April 30
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2021
2021 Nebraska Artist Biennial, Gallery 1516, Omaha, Nebraska, May 9 - August 1, 2021.
"Haveli 3 (Varanasi)" received the "Best in Multimedia" Award.
(Columbus, Georgia)
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Suntreader #3 (1980)
Quilt with a Colorful Past (2008)
Baltimore Museum of Art Metamorphosis (1983)
Museum of Arts & Design (NYC) Crash Site (1996)
Waves II: Storm Surge (1988)
Rhythm/Color: Bacchanal (1986)
The Newark Museum of Art (Newark, NJ) Rhythm/Color: Spanish Dance (1986)
Renwick Gallery Quilt No. 150: Rehoboth Meander (1993)
Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC)
Racine Art Museum (Racine, WI) Home Economics (2005)
Mind's Eye (2002)
Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC) Offering (2004)
Rhythm/Color: Improvisation 3 (1987)
Indianapolis Museum of Art (IN) Smoke Signals (2001)
Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA)
Interference Effect: (Betrayed) Lover's Knot #1 (2004)
Memento Vivere (2002)
Night Sky 1 (1977)
Shelburne Museum (Burlington, VT)
Ghost Figure (2005)
Sky/Wind Variations 2 (1990)David Owsley Museum of Art (Muncie, IN)
Suntreader (Monophony) 1979
Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearney, NE)
Controlled Release (2012)
A Narrative of Space, of Time (2008)[Four Square Series 1] Blink (2006)
At or Near the Surface (2006)
Orange/Blue (1997)
International Quilt Museum (Lincoln, NE)
Elegy (flatland) (2015)
All the spaces of intimacy (2015)[Four Square Series 3] Flex (2006)
Daybook: 8 September 2006 (2006)
Interference Effect #1 (2004)
Women are? Men are? (2003)
Scan (2001)
Spiritus Mundi (2000)
Wall 1 (1999)
Yellow Brick Road (1996)
Suspended Animation (1992)
Sky/Wind Variations III (1991)
A View into Time/Motion (1987)
Bias Cut (1986)
La Tempête (1983)
Blue Undercurrents (1983)
City Rhythms (1983)
Interweave 5 (1982)
Aurora (1978)
Elaborated Tangram (1976)
National Quilt Museum
(Paducah, KY) Aletsch (1990)
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (CA)
Bourrée (1992)
Crosscurrents III (1990)
Graded Polychrome Stripe #4 (1982)
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum (Golden, CO) American Dream (2003)
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum (Belfast, N. Ireland) Rain Dance (1987)