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SOLO EXHIBITIONS (invited and curated, last ten years)

2022

Past Forward: New and Recent Work, WallSpace–LNK, Lincoln, Nebraska, November 3 - November 26, 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

Pushing the Surface 2, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio, May 29 - Sept. 5, 2021

2018
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

WORK IN MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

The Columbus Museum Past Tense (2011)

(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)

MICHAEL JAMES STUDIO QUILTS @ 50﻿

Marking 50 Years in the Domain of the Non-traditional Quilt

MICHAEL JAMES STUDIO QUILTS @ 50