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
2016
Ambiguity & Enigma: Recent Quilt by Michael James, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, Lincoln, NE, June 5, 2015 - February 22, 2016
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (invited/curated, last ten years)
2026
What to Collect Now — Contemporary Textiles Part 2, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA April 7 - June 7, 2026
2025
What to Collect Now — Contemporary Textiles Part 1, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA September 20 - October 31, 2025
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
(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)
The Law of Gravity (2010)
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)