Born in Lubbock, Texas

Lives and works in Santa Fe, Ne\N Mexico

Education

Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California, BFA

Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California, MFA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007

James Drake: War in Heaven, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

War in Heaven, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX

James Drake: Border of Desire, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX

2005

City of Tells, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Exh. cat, with essay by Ellen Berkovitch and poem by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

2004

Drawings for City of Tells, Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico

City of Tells, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

City of Tells with Signs Following, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas

2003

James Drake: Tongue-Cut Sparrows, Williams Center Art Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania

The Humingbird's Equation, EI Paso Museum of Art, EI Paso, Texas

2002

Zona Mariscal, Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

The Trophy Room and Other Interiors, Pillsbury & Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas

2001

Tongue-Cut Sparrows, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois

Valley of the World, University of Buffalo Art GalIery, Buffalo, New York

2000

Que Linda La Brisa, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

A Thousand Tongues Burn and Sing, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas Tongue-Cut Sparrows/A Thousand Tongues Burn and Sing, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California

1999

Conversation Inside-Outside, Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography, Sydney, Australia

A Thousand Tongues Burn and Sing, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska

A Thousand Tongues Burn and Sing, Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri

1998

James Drake, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas

Tongue-Cut Sparrows/A Thousand Tongues Burn and Sing, Pamela Auchincloss Project Space and Art Management, New York, New York

1997

Tongue-Cut Sparrows, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

1996

Tongue-Cut Sparrows, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas

1994

The Sky Was Swirling Like a Snake, EI Paso Museum of Art, EI Paso, Texas. Exh. cat. with essay by Marilyn Zeitlin

1992

Drawings, Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1991

Heart of Gold, Shea/Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1990

Place and Passage, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

1989

Juarez/El Paso, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, California

James Drake: The Border/La Frontera, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

New Lithographs, Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1988

James Drake: Border Incident, Alternative Museum, New York, New York

James Drake: Border/La Frontera, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas 1983 James Drake: Sculpture, Brown-Lupton Gallery, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas

1982

Sculpture, Galveston Arts Center on the Strand, Galveston, Texas

1981

New Visions, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas. Traveled to Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, Texas; Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas; EI Paso Museum of Art, EI Paso, Texas.

Exh. cat. with essay by David Turner

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007

Landscape of War, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, curated by Robert Storr

Drawings: Visions, Surfaces, and Beyond, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

2004

Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

179th Annual, National Academy Museum, New York, New York

2003

The Ultimate Collection, La Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin, Italy

Game Over, Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany

2002

Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990's, Colorado Springs Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado

2001

Zona Mariscal, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

2000

Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York. Exh. cat. with lead essay by Maxwell Anderson

New York Classicism Now, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York. Exh. cat.

Tamarind: 40 Years, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Natural Deceits, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas

1999

Crossing Zones, De Paul University Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

23rd International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Contemporary Narrative American Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut

Texas Draws, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

1998

Photoimage: Printmaking 60's to 90's, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Storylines, University of Colorado Art Gallery, Sibell- Wolle Fine Arts Building, Boulder, Colorado

1998 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans, Louisiana

Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina

1997

Edge of Chaos, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, New York

1996

Conceal/Reveal, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Exh. cat. with essay by Bruce Ferguson

Continuity and Contradiction, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida

Limited Edition Artists Books, Since 1990, Brooke Alexander, New York, New York

1995

Prints, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Made in Texas, Parchman StremmeI GaUery, San Antonio, Texas

1994

Poison Amor: James Drake and Terry Allen, A Collaboration, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas, Exh. cat. with essay bv Rosetta Brooks

Private Identity and Public Conscience, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1993 Shot in El Paso, EI Paso Museum of Art, EI Paso, Texas

Ida Applebroog and James Drake, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California Dark Suburban Fantasies, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, California

Like a Body Without a Shadow, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington DC Exh. cat. with essay by Christopher French

1992

Who Discovered Whom?, Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York

The Passionate Eye, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas

1991

The Perfect World, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas

Graphica Creative 90: The Sixth International Print Triennial, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland

1990

Center for Contemporary Arts Invitational, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Gender/Gender, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, New York, New York

Texas Figurative Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

1989

A Century of Sculpture in Texas, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Exh. cat. with essays by Becky Duval Reese and Patricia Hendricks

Traveling III: Myths and Motorcycles, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, New York Awards in the Visual Arts, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

1988

The Wall As Ground, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, EI Paso, Texas

Texas Narrations, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut

The Mid-America Biennial, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

1987

Contemporary Texas Figurative Drawing, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas

1986

Personal Environments, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Exh. cat. with essay by David Turner

Western States Biennial, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York

1983

Southern Fictions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

1982

Fabric/Fiber, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas

1980

Southwest Sculpture, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas

1979

Made in Texas, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas

1976

Art Exhibition Peace, Slovenj Gradec,Yugoslavia

1975

International Biennial of Graphic Art, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

Historical Preservation Authority to Commemorate the Civil Rights Marches of 1963, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Pascagoula County Library, Pascagoula, Mississippi

EI Paso County Courthouse, EI Paso, Texas

AWARDS

2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

2001 Nancy Graves Award for Visual Arts

1989 Awards in the Visual Arts, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art

1989 National Endowment for the Arts Grant

1989 National Endowment for the Arts Travel Fellowship, France

1988 Mid-America Arts Alliance, National Endowment for the Arts

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

EI Paso Museum of Art, EI Paso, Texas

Federal Reserve Bank, Washington DC

The John D. and Catharine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Illinois

Museo de Arte Y Historia, Ciudad, Juarez, Mexico

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

New York Public Library, New York, New York

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California

San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (since 1985)

2005

lndyke, Dottie. "Paper & Pencil, Drawings Have Authentic Touch of the Artist's Own Hand," Albuquerque Journal, January 28

Madoff, Steven Henry. "Party of 36 (Plus 1 Serpent)," The New York Times, February 6

2004

Ehie, Teresa H. The Hummingbird's Equation, Catalogue, EI Paso Museum of Art, EI Paso, Texas

Fischer, Zane. "Age? Beauty? Both? Not So Old Masters," Santa Fe Reporter, March 21

Johnson, Patricia C. "Artists Drawing Distinctions After All of These Years," Houston Chronicle, December 17

Mayo, Marti. Essay. "A Dedicated Residence for the New and the Now," Perspectives @ 25, A Quarter Century of New Art ill Houston, Catalogue, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas

2002

Johnson, Ken. "James Drake: The Hummingbird's Equation," The New York Times, February 15

2001

Harris-Fernandez, Al. Essay. "From the Valley of the World," James Drake: Artificial Life in the Valley of the World, Catalogue, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

2000

Anderson, Maxwell L., Forward. Whitney Biennial 2000, Catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Basualdo, Carlos, Caniglia, Julie, and Siegel, Katy. "Whitney Biennial: The Curators Speak," Artforum, March

Goodrich, John. "Savvy Industriousness and the Lions of Good Energy," Review Magazine, April

Johnson, Ken. "New York Classicism Now," The New York Times, September 8

Plante, Michael. "Report from New Orleans," Art in America, March

Sáenz, Benjamin Alire. "In the Desert of Your Heart," Artlies, Summer Issue

Weil, Rex. "New York Reviews, James Drake," ArtNews, September

1998

Brooks, Rosetta. "James Drake, Artpace," Artforum, November

Cotter, Holland. "A Tour Through Chelsea, the New Center of Gravity," The New York Times, May 15

Kotik, Charlotta. "1998 New Orleans Triennial: Nothing Endures... But Art," Arts Quarterly

1997

Ferguson, Bruce. "Global Art, James Drake," Flash Art, March/April

Ferguson, Bruce. Essay. "Conceal/Reveal," Conceal/Reveal, Catalogue, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1994

Johnson, Patricia. "Dark Wit," Houston Chronicle, August 31

Zeitlin, Marilyn A. Essay. "The Sky Was Swirling Like a Snake," Catalogue, EI Paso Museum of Art, EI Paso, Texas

1993

Ross, Jeanette. "Lone Star Reveries," Artweek, January

Whitehouse, Anne. "Memorial to an Uncivil Era," The Los Angeles Times, April 11

1992

Harrison, Helen A. "An Ardent Critique about Colonization," The New York Times, March 21 Hickey, Dave. Essay. New Texas Art, Catalogue, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington & Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho

Kimmelman, Michael. "Sculpture, Sculpture Everywhere, Silhouettes of the Southwest," The New York Times, July 31

1990

Joselit, David. "Living on the Border," Art in America, December

Richard, Paul. "James Drake, On the Border," The Washington Post, October 9

1989

Henry, Gerrit. "James Drake," Art in America, April

1988

Torreano,John and Zeitlin, Marilyn. Essays. The Border/La Frontera, Catalogue, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas

1987

Beck, Ferrell. "The Function of Particular Memory," Artweek, May

Brenson, Michael. "How the Myths and Violence of the West Inspire its Artists," The New York Times, June 15

Gregory, Joe. "James Drake, Enclosers of Selfhood," Artspace, Summer Issue

Kotik, Charlotta. Essay. Third Western States Biennial, Catalogue, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York

1985

Bell, David. "Southwest '85," Art in America, September

Vander Lee, Jana. "Lone Star Sculptors," International Sculpture, June/July