James Sullivan

 

 

An artist with more than 40 years’ experience, Sullivan is an innovate educator and cultural leader in the visual arts. He is currently Present of the Board at the Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency, and Professor Emeritus of Sculpture in the Division of Art at Southern Methodist University, where he served as chair for 17 years. He exhibits widely in a number of media including sculpture, sculptural installation, performance, drawing, and prints. He has had over 25 solo or two-person exhibitions including at JIAAF, Hadong, South Korea; Galerie Sol del Rio and Concepción 41 in Guatemala; the Art Museum of South Texas; Meadows Museum of Art, Dallas; Amerika Haus, Berlin; Galerie Muhlenbusch, Düsseldorf; and the Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau. He has participated in group exhibitions throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe. He is a 1989 recipient of the Philip Morris Skulptur Stipendiat to work in residency in Berlin, German, and the 2018 Distinguished International Artist at the Jursan International Art Foundation in Hadong, South Korea.

Sullivan earned his MFA degree in sculpture at California State University, Long Beach and BA in philosophy at Yale University. He has taught as Visiting Professor at the Hochschule de Kunste, Berlin, and Gachon University, Seoul South Korea and acted as Visiting Critic at the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven CT. He has been represented by Conduit Gallery, Dallas, since 1990. He lives and works in Dallas, Texas.

Conduit Gallery Exhibitions

SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS (selected)

Architecture of the Body, Anteroom, Corsicana, TX, 2021

Distinguished International Resident Artist, Jurisan International Art Farm, Hadong, Korea, 2018

If I Was Here/If You Were There. Permanent Installation, Jurisan Art Farm, Hadong, Korea, 2018

Mi Cuerpo no Está Aqui/Mi Cuerpo Está Aqui (Colaborative installation with Hellen Ascoli)

Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX, 2017

Pensado Desde mi Cuerpo. Hellen Ascoli et Jay Sullivan. Galerie Sol del Rio, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 2015

Dallas City Performance Hall, Dallas TX 2015

Searching for ….and other things. Hellen Ascoli and Jay Sullivan. S 1, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 2014

Art is Me, Art is You. (What is the Sound of US), DUMBO art Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 2014

Alice Leonora Briggs/James Sullivan. The Gallery at UTA, University of Texas at Arlington, 2014

Le Corps Propre. Artspace at Untitled, Oklahoma City, OK, 2013

Remains. Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2013

The Reluctance of Things. Robert and Elaine Stein Gallery, Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH 2012

New Work. Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX, 2010

Variations. Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX, 2007

Four Figures. Meadows Museum, 2006 (installation, with dance performance)

Natural Histories. Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX April, 2005

Provisional Self: Sculpture and Drawings. Meadows Museum of Art, Dallas, TX , 2002

Presence/Absence. Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau, Germany, 2002

Recent Sculpture. Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX 2000

Matter and Meaning, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX 2000 (catalogue)

Sculpture and Drawings, Longview Museum of Fine Art, Longview, TX, 1998

Requia: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, 1998

Sculpture and Drawings, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX, 1997

Body : Fragment, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 1996 (catalogue)

Figur/Umgekehrte Figur, Installation, Berliner Dom, Berlin, Germany, Nov. 1994

Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, 1994

Drawings and Sculpture, Brookhaven Community College, Dallas, TX, 1993

Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, 1992

Komodore/Sullivan, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX, 1991

Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, 1990

Galerie Muhlenbusch, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1990

Berliner Plastiken, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany, 1990 (catalogue)

Installation, Kirby Theater, Amherst MA , 1987

Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MA, 1987

Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA, 1986

INSTALLATIONS / SITE-SPECIFIC / PERFORMANCE WORK

Conversations and Gifts (Collaboarative installation with Hellen Ascoli). Artspace Kamin, Comalapa, Guatemala, Dec. 2014

Art is Me, Art is You. (What is the Sound of US) Collaborative Performance, DUMBO art Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 2014

Living Room. Collaborative installation. Center for Creative Connections, Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas TX, 2010-2011

Art is Me, Art is You. Performance, Los Angeles CA, 2010

“Loud Room: Quiet Room” Installation in “Prelude: works in Progress and Unfinished Works” Pollock Gallery, SMU, Dallas, TX, 2001

Garden. Collaborative installation with Kaleta Doolin, 20TH Anniversary Invitational, Connemara Conservancy, Plano, TX, 2000

“Loud Room/Quiet Room” Fort Burgwin Research Center, Ranchos de Taos, NM 1996 (destroyed)

Figur/Umgekehrte Figur, Installation, Berliner Dom, Berlin, Germany, Nov. 1994

“2 Houses” Collaborative installation with Stephen Mohring, Connemara Invitational Plano, TX, 1992

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

The Fragmented Figure, Site Gallery, Houston, 2023 (October)

Les Arts à Saint Paul, Saint Paul La Roche, France 2021

Longitude/latitude: 30 years at Conduit Gallery. Conduit Gallery, TX 2014

Sculpture Walk. Allied Arts Council, St. Joseph, MO, 2014 (Tumulus, 2014)

Fountainhead. The Art Foundation, Dallas, TX 2012

Wunderkammer. Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX 2011

Small Sculpture. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 2011

Check Up : Recent Additions to the Art Collection. Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX, 2010-1

Natural Translation: Harry Geffert and James Sullivan. Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX, 2010

Art is Me, Art is You. Exhibition and Performance. Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA 2010

Rapid Artists 2010. Conference of the Society for Manufacturing Engineers, Los Angeles, 2010

Rapid Artists 2010. One Arts Place, Dallas, TX, 2010

Collections, Cultures, and Collaborations with Flatbed Press. UNT Art Gallery, Denton, TX, 2010

Face and Form: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture in the Meadows Collection. Meadows Museum, Dallas TX. 2009

Experiencing Perspectives II. Daimler Financial Services, Fort Worth, TX. 2009-11

The Plan is the Body. Big Chimney Art Space, Chicopee, MA 2009

Print Club of Cleveland Fine Art Print Fair. Cleveland, OH, 2009, 2011

Experiencing Perspectives 2008-9. Daimler Financial Services, Fort Worth, TX, 2008-9

Meadows Art Now ,McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas TX 2009

Indexing the Moment. CADD Art Lab, Dallas TX 2008

The Chair Show. Austin Museum of Art, Austin TX, 2008

Small Work. Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2008

Alchemy or Change. Main Gallery, University of Texas at Dallas, 2008

“The Chair Show”. Austin Museum of Art, Austin TX, 2008

Red Dot Fair—Art Miami 2007, Conduit Gallery Artists , Dec. 2007

Printmaking Invitational. Carillon Gallery, Fort Worth, TX, 2007

Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 2006

Drawing as Alterity. Studio Gallery, Brookhaven Colege, Dallas, TX 2005

The Third Coast: Texas on Townsend. Haley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004

Conduit Gallery 20th Anniversary Exhibition. Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX 2004

Form. AIA Gallery, Dallas, TX 2003

I-45 Combined, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX, 2002

Daou, Letscher, Robertson, Sullivan. Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2002

3 x 3 x 3: Contemporary Figurative Art. The Gallery at UTA. University of Texas, Arlington. 2002

Vessels of the Soul, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, Texas, 2001

Counterpoint: Six Artists from Conduit Gallery, University Art Gallery, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX, 2001

Vision and Movement, 2000: Public Art, Public Transit. The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, TX, 2000

Inevitable Progression I. Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, 1999

The Figure: Experiencing Views. University of Texas, San Antonio, 1999

Faculty Exhibition, Meadows Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, 1998

34th Longview Museum of Art Invitational, Longview, TX 1998 (Awarded Best in Show, Purchase Prize)

New Dallas Art: Small Works, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX, 1998

Six Ways of Seeing, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, 1996

Uber Grenzen Miteinanderen, Stadt Museum, Erlangen, Germany, 1995

Body and Spirit, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX, 1994

Human Nature, Human Form, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, 1993

Senses Beyond Sight, D-Art Center, Dallas, TX, and Abilene Art Center, Abilene, TX, 1993

Drawings by Gallery Artists, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, 1993

Kaleidoscop, Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany, 1992

Connemara Invitational (site-specific installation), Plano,TX, 1992

Drawings by Texas Artists, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX, 1991

Werkspuren, Bildhauerwerkstatt, Berlin, Germany, 1990

James W. Sullivan and Margaret Morton, Washington Art Ass., CT, 1989

Faculty Exhibition, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 1989

Critic's Choice, D-Art Gallery, Dallas, TX, 1988

Excellence, 1988, Texas Sculpture Assoc., Dallas, TX, 1988

Art and Religion, Huntingdon College, Montgomery, AL, 1988

Three Sculptors, Maris Gallery, Westfield State Univ., MA, 1987

On the Human Condition, Zone Gallery, Springfield, MA, 1987

Art of the Northeast Silvermine Guild Center, CT, 1987

Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA, 1987

New Britain Museum of American Art, CT 1986

Northeast Open, Grove Street Gallery, Worchester, MA, 1986