Royal College of Art, London, UK

Central School of Art, London, UK

University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales

(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Maureen Paley & Studio M, London, UK

Some Steps, Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany
Arrivals, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Far and Near, Anton Kern, New York, USA
The Philadelphia Art Alliance, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA

Window, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

River, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA

Untitled (Sex), Select, Berlin, Germany

A view of the Clyde River at Glasgow, 2018, A-M-G5, Glasgow, Scotland
Long Game, OCT Boxes Art Museum, Shunde, China (C)

Raucci e Santamaria, Milan, Italy

Long Game, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
To the Present, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Paintings for Persons, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA

Meeting at the Building, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Genre Paintings, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA

Freestyle, Kunstverein Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany
In Penombra, Raucci e Santamaria, Naples, Italy
Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, Germany
Black Paintings, Großbeerenstraße 56c, Berlin, Germany

Signal Box, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Parasol Unit, London, UK
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France

In The Gallery, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA

Frame Paintings, Mummery+Schnelle, London, UK

Birds, places, other things, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Mummery+Schnelle, London, UK

Paintings of Buildings, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA
Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Wales Pavilion, 52nd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Painting to Painting, New York Studio School, New York, USA
Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium

Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Easel Paintings, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Easel Paintings, Bay Art, Cardiff, Wales
Recent Paintings, Vitamin Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

The Middle Distance, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
New Compositions, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Pictures, Brent Sikkema, New York, USA

Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Yves Hoffmann, Paris, France

Painting, Wooster Gardens (Brent Sikkema), New York, USA
(with artist-curated works by William Nicholson and Alex Katz)

Wooster Gardens (Brent Sikkema), New York, USA
Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, UK

Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
Critical Pictures, Kingston University, London, UK

Poussin’s Phocion and other works, Standpoint Studios, London, UK
Poussin’s Phocion, National Museum of Wales, Wales

Albermarle Gallery (Mark Glazebrook), London, UK

Voyage, Morena di Luna, Hove, UK
Magicians less prone to mental disorders than other artists, finds research, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, USA
Summer Group Show 2024, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, USA
Healing, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, USA
Like the light at the beginning of the world, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Obsession II, Galerie Wschód, Warsaw, Poland
A Life in Pictures. A Portrait of Seeing for Rudolf Zwirner, Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany
Double Shuffle, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (two person with Victoria Morton)
Come a Little Closer, D. C. Moore, New York, USA
I MET, Spazio Mutina, Fiorano, Italy
Landschaft, Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne, Germany

Their Private Worlds..., Matthew Brown gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Sea Show, Winter Street Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, USA
Singing in Unison, Below Grand (53 Orchard Street), New York, USA
To be a giant and keep quiet about it, Margot Samel, New York, USA
Moderato Cantabile, Stoppenbach & Delestre, London, UK
Di Semplicità e di Brevido (De Pisis and contemporary painting), P420, Bologna, Italy

Mixing It Up, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
A small thing done edgily, June, Berlin, Germany
New Songs for Old Rituals, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK

Double M, Double X, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Freitod, Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany

Merlin James/David Schutter; After Poussin/After Ruisdael, A-M-G5, Glasgow, Scotland
Soto Voce, Bortolami, New York, USA
The Last Day of May, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Uptown Painting, Peter Freeman Gallery, New York, USA
Slow Painting (Leeds City Art Gallery and tour)

Salon 007, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Painting Amongst Other Things, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

La Vita Materiale, The Goma, Madrid, Spain
PARK, G/F, Hong Kong, China
PARK Holly’s Gallery, Guangzhou, China

Ghosts of Other Stories, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
The Public Body, Art Space, Sydney, Australia
Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Shapes, Cuts and Breaks, Seventeen, London, UK
Outside, Karma, Amagansett, New York, USA

Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Painting is No Ordinary Object, Hollis Taggart, New York, USA
Basal, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, Germany
Vital Signs, Museo Della Grafica, Pisa, Italy

Parergon and Gutter, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Building Materials, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
The Room and its Occupants, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Whisper Down the Lane, Gallery 400 UIC Chicago, USA
Inevitable Figuration, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy
Picture Show, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
SS Blue Jacket, KARST, Plymouth, UK

Bucolic Frolic, Mummery+Schnelle, London, UK
One Night Stand, Goat Major Projects, Cardiff; Trade, Nottingham, UK
The Big Picture, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA
Interior Visions, Colby College, Maine, USA
The Man Don't Give…, Motorcade/Flash Parade, Bristol, UK
Les Misérables, OHIO, Glasgow, Scotland
Broken/Window/Plane, Tracy Williams Gallery, New York, USA

Between My Head and My Hand..., Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR, USA

The Beholder's Share, Mummery+Schnelle, London, UK
Southside Studios, Glasgow, Scotland
Long, Long Gone, Leo Koenig, New York, USA
Self-Consciousness, Veneklasen Werner, Berlin, Germany
Le Tableau, Cheim and Read, New York, USA
Building on a Cliff, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, USA

Doppo Gobbo, Fluxia Gallery, Milan, Italy
New Ideas in Abstraction, APSU, Clarksville TN, USA
Galerie Marabini, Bologna, Italy
Nus, Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil

Mummery+Schnelle, London, UK
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA

Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, USA
Things We Lost in the Fire, Leicester City Art Gallery, UK
Mutineer, Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, Berlin, Germany

Things We Lost in the Fire, Transition Gallery, London, UK
M di Mare, Galleria Fabjbasaglia, Rimini, Italy
Full House, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

Seeing Things: New British Painting, Galleria Fabjbasaglia, Rimini, Italy
Sidelonging, 117 Commercial Rd., London, UK
Short Stories About Painting, Art Space Gallery, London, UK
Interested Painters, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

Painting Direct, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Contemporary Painting, Colby College Art Gallery, Waterville ME, USA
The Five Corners of Painting, artconnectionlille, Lille, France
The Edge of the Real, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
No Particular Place to Go, APT Gallery, London, UK

Selected Paintings, Max Wigram Projects, London, UK
The Lazarus Effect, Prague Biennale, Czech Republic
Yes! I am a long way from home, Huddersfield Art Gallery (touring: Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury; The Nunnery, London), UK
Dirty Pictures, Approach Gallery, London, UK

Landscape, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
The Embarkation for Cythera, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK

Painters Painting, The Approach, London, UK
Not Enough, Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
Brent Sikkema, New York, USA
Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK

Thomas Korzelius Gallery, New York, USA
River Deep, Mountain High, Dundee University, UK
East International, Norwich, UK
Another Country, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren, New York, USA

Raum, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

East End Academy, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

Quoi de Neuf?, Delsol et Innocenzi, Paris, France

André Derain: Works on Paper, 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow, Scotland

You Can Have Curves and Straight Lines (Paule Vézelay/Louise Hopkins), 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow, Scotland

Fieldwork, 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow, Scotland

Prunella Clough: Paintings, 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow, Scotland

Charchoune: 1930s/1960s, 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow, Scotland, co-curated with Andrew Mummery

E(i)lshem(i)us, 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow (Glasgow International), Scotland, co-curated with Carol Rhodes

Serge Charchoune, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Adrian Morris: New Foundations, 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow (Glasgow International), co-curated with Carol Rhodes
Ballet of the Palette, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland (ten artist collaboration)
Under the Radar: Serge Charchoune, Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany, co-curated with Michael Meuller

Christina Ramberg, 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow (Glasgow International), Scotland, co-curated with Carol Rhodes

Serge Charchoune (1889-1975), Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, USA; Talbot Rice gallery, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Ever since I put your picture in a frame, 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow (Glasgow International), Scotland, co-curated with Carol Rhodes

Primitif Compliqué (Serge Charchoune and contemporary painting), Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium

Serge Charchoune, Mummery+Schnelle, London, UK

Incorrgible, Sentimental (Serge Charchoune and contemporary painting), Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Merlin James, Sikkema Jenkins/Kerlin Gallery/P420 Gallery

River (interview with Louis Block)
A View of the Clyde River at Glasgow, A-M-G5, Glasgow, Scotland

Merlin James: Long Game, OCT Shenzhen, China/Kerlin Gallery Dublin, Ireland (interview with Christina YZ, text by Declan Long)

Merlin James: Signal Box, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany (interview with Ellen Blumenstein)

Merlin James, Parasol Unit, London, UK (interview and reprinted review texts)

Merlin James: In The Gallery, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (text by the artist)

Merlin James, Venice Biennale Wales Pavilion, Italy (text by Hannah Firth)

Merlin James: Recent Paintings, Vitamin arte, Turin, Italy (text by Ilaria Bonacossa)
Merlin James: Easel Paintings, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Pictures, Lubrina Editore/Brent Sikkema, Bergamo/New York, USA (text by Ilaria Bonacossa)

Merlin James: Critical Pictures, Picker Gallery, Kingston University, UK (text by Juan Cruz)
Merlin James, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK (exhibition leaflet, interview with Merlin James by Simon Wallis)

Poussin's Phocion, National Museum of Wales, UK (hand list, text by the artist)
Poussin's Phocion and other work, Standpoint Studios, London, UK (text by the artist, limited edition print)

Merlin James, Albemarle Gallery, London, UK (text by the artist)

Double Shuffle, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (two-person, with Victoria Morton)
A Life in Pictures. A Portrait of Seeing for Rudolf Zwirner, Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany

Mixing it Up, Hayward Gallery Publications (texts by Ralph Rugoff and Martha Barrett)

Slow Painting, Hayward Gallery Publications (text by Martin Herbert)

Slow Painting, Hayward Gallery Publications (text by Martin Herbert)

PARK, Holly’s Gallery, Guangzhou, China (text by Darragh Hogan)
Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK

Affiliate Yearbook, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland (edited by Tina Fisk)

Painting is Not Condemned to Repeat Itself, Hollis Taggart, New York, USA (text by John Yau)
Vital Signs, London, UK

SS Bluejacket, KARST, Plymouth, UK
Parasol Unit London 2004-2014, London, UK

Inevitable Figuration, Fondazione Pecci, Prato, Italy (texts by Marco Bazzini and Davide Ferri)

Interior Visions, Colby College, Maine, USA (text by Sanford Schwartz)

Between My Head and My Hand There is Always the Image of Death, PNCA, Portland, USA (pamphlet, text Kirsten Kennedy)

Another Country, Estorick Collection, London, UK (text by Brendan Prenderville)

Kallat, Fluxia Gallery, Milan, Italy (text 'Doppo Gobbo' by Luca Francesconi)

M di Mare, Galleria Fabjbasaglia, Rimini, Italy (text by Fabio Tiboni)

Painting Direct, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany (texts by Rolf Lauter and William Feaver)
Seeing Things: New British Painting, Galleria Fabjbasaglia, Rimini, Italy (text by Davide Ferri)
Contemporary Painting, Colby College Art Gallery, Waterville, Maine, USA (artist’s statement)
White Window, Canterbury, UK (text by Jane Lee)

The Lazarus Effect, Prague, Czech Republic
Yes! I am a long way from home, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, England

Landscape, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

River Deep, Mountain High, Westland Place, London, UK (text by Kier Smith)
East International, Norwich, UK (artist's statement)

Individually Published Texts by the Artist

Serge Charchoune: The Twenties and Beyond, exhibition catalogue essay, Rosenberg & Co., New York, USA

André Derain, exhibition catalogue essay, Stoppenbach & Delestre Gallery, London, UK
Amor Mundi: Notes Towards the Definition of a Collection, Hoffman Collection, Dallas, USA

Adrian Morris, gallery brochure, interview with Tenzing Barshee, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

Alex Katz, exhibition catalogue essay, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys, exhibition catalogue, Courtauld Institute, London, UK

Serge Charchoune, exhibition monograph, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK/Smart Museum, Chicago, USA

Alex Katz, exhibition catalogue essay, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
William Nicholson, catalogue raisonne essay, Modern Art Press/Yale, London, UK

Live Undead, exhibition brochure essay, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Serge Charchoune, exhibition catalogue essay, Mummery+Schnelle, London, UK

Carol Rhodes, exhibition catalogue essay, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK

William Nicholson, exhibition catalogue essay, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Alex Katz: Cartoons and Paintings, exhibition catalogue essay, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria

Painting per se, published lecture, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, USA

Morandi: The Collector’s Eye, exhibition catalogue essay, Estorick Collection, London, UK
Alex Katz: The Woodcuts and Linocuts, exhibition catalogue essay, Blum Editions, New York, USA

Lowry’s People, exhibition catalogue text, The Lowry Centre, Salford, UK
Lowry’s Places, exhibition catalogue text, The Lowry Centre, Salford, UK

Edges, etchings, Alex Katz; poem, Robert Creeley; essay, Merlin James, Peter Blum Editions, New York, USA

The Non-Existence of Art Criticism, the 1996 Stanley Picker Lecture, Tate Gallery; New York Studio School; Kingston University, Kingston University Press, London, UK
Alex Katz: Twenty-Five years of Painting, edited by David Sylvester; text by Merlin James, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

David Jones: Map of the artist's mind, exhibition catalogue essay, Lund Humphries, London, UK

Engaging Images: "Practical Criticism" and visual art, Menard Press/King's College, London, UK

Selected Articles and Reviews by the Artist

De Staël Catalogue Raisonné, Burlington Magazine, April 2023

Sickert (at Tate), Burlington Magazine, August 2022
Merlin James on Sickert and Photography, Tate Etc., Spring 2022

Adrian Morris: Space Explorations, Mousse, April 2019
David Jones, Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet by Thomas Dilworth, Burlington Magazine, January 2019

Soutine (at the Jewish Museum), Burlington Magazine, August 2018
Modigliani at the Tate (letter to the Editor), Burlington Magazine, April 2018

Serge Charchoune Catalogue Raisonné Vols IV and V by Pierre Guénégan, Burlington Magazine, March 2015

Marsden Hartley (at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin), Burlington Magazine, November 2014
Daumier (at the Royal Academy), Burlington Magazine, February 2014

L. S. Lowry (at Tate Britain), Burlington Magazine, September 2013
Soutine (at the Orangerie), Burlington Magazine, January 2013
Museums in Flux (letter from Glasgow), Art in America, February 2013

David Jones's Chalice with Flowers and Seal. Text for the exhibition A Tool for the Making of Signs by Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan, Chapter, Cardiff 2012
Late Guston (at Inverleith House, Edinburgh), Burlington Magazine, November 2012
Edvard Munch (at Tate Modern), Burlington Magazine, September 2012
Edvard Munch (at Tate Modern), World of Interiors, July 2012

Letter From a Thief (open letter to John Berger), Picpus magazine No.7, 2011
Roger Hilton: Night Letters and Selected Gouaches edited by Alan Bold, Burlington Magazine, February 2011

Serge Charchoune (Artvera, Geneva), Burlington Magazine, March 2010
Serge Charchoune Catalogue Raisonné Vol III by Pierre Guénégan, Burlington Magazine, August 2010

Sex and Picture Framing, Picpus magazine, No.1, 2009
Utrillo (Pinacothèque de Paris), Burlington Magazine, August 2009
Serge Charchoune Catalogue Raisonné Vols I and II by Pierre Guénégan, Burlington Magazine, January 2009

A Visit to Kelvingrove (Letter to the Editor), Burlington Magazine, July 2008
Alex Katz (book review, six recent publications), Burlington Magazine, July 2008
Late Derain, Turps Banana magazine, issue 4, London 2008
Roger Hilton: The Figured Language of Thought by Andrew Lambirth, Burlington Magazine, April 2008

Serge Charchoune: The Abstract School, Turps Banana magazine, issue 3, London 2007
Balthus (at the Ludwig Collection, Cologne) Burlington Magazine, November 2007
Ivon Hitchens by Peter Khoroche, Burlington Magazine, November 2007
Peter Lanyon, Modernism, and the Land by Andrew Causey, Burlington Magazine, November 2007
Armando Reverón by John Elderfield et. al., Burlington Magazine, September 2007

James Pryde (Fleming Collection), December 2006
Modigliani (Royal Academy), Burlington Magazine, September 2006
Alex Katz, First Sight: Working Drawings by Jean Christophe Ammann (book review) Burlington Magazine, March 2006
Vuillard Catalogue Raisonné by Guy Cogeval et. al. (shorter notice article/book review) Burlington Magazine, March 2006
Degas, Sickert, Toulouse-Lautrec (Tate), Burlington Magazine, January 2006

Jean Hélion (Pompidou Centre, Paris), Burlington Magazine, April 2005
Derain publications, Burlington Magazine, April 2005
Picture Research (Alinari photographs and contemporary painting), Turps Banana magazine, issue 1, London 2005

Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné by Joan Ludman, Burlington Magazine, May 2004
Raoul De Keyser (at the Whitechapel Gallery, London), Burlington Magazine, July 2004
Edward Hopper (Tate Gallery), Burlington Magazine, September 2004

Thomas Jones (National Gallery of Wales), Times Literary Supplement, 13th June 2003
André Derain (at IVAM Valencia), Burlington Magazine, May 2003
Sidney Nolan by T. G Rosenthal, Burlington Magazine, February 2003
Roger Hilton by Adrian Lewis, Burlington Magazine, January 2003

Alfred Jensen (at DIA Center, New York), Burlington Magazine, January 2002

Morandi (at the Tate Gallery), Burlington Magazine, September 2001
Balthus Catalogue Raisonné by Jean Clair, Burlington Magazine, July 2001
Bhupen Khakhar and Canrivalesque by Timothy Hyman, Burlington Magazine, July 2001
Signifying Art by Marjorie Welish, Burlington Magazine, May 2001
André Derain: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint Vol.III by Michel Kellermann, Burlington Magazine, May 2001
Paris, Manet Still Life (at Musée d’Orsay), Burlington Magazine, January 2001

What Is Painting? Representation and Modern Art by Julian Bell, Burlington Magazine, January 2000
Gwen John by Alicia Foster, Burlington Magazine, January 2000
New York, Picabia (at Michael Werner), Burlington Magazine, July 2000
Recent Abstraction in New York (including Tom Nozkowski, Santi Moix), Burlington Magazine, April 2000
New York, Modernism Surveys (at MoMA, the Met and the Jewish Museum), Burlington Magazine, May 2000
Recognising the Real Thing (review of Jed Perl’s eyewitness), New Criterion, June 2000
Daumier (exhibitions at Paris and Washington), Art in America, April 2000

William Nicholson (essay, and reproduction of a painting by Merlin James), William Nicholson: Painter. Landscape and Still Life, exhibition catalogue, South East Arts touring exhibition, 1995-6
Learning the Lingo (letter on painting, conceptualism and deconstruction), Modern Painters, Winter 1995-6
From London (Bacon, Freud, Andrews, Kossoff, Auerbach and Kitaj; British Council exhibition), Burlington Magazine, October 1995
Archepelagos of Serendipity (Patrick Heron by Mel Gooding), Times Literary Supplement, September 2 1995

A Hard Won Perspicacity (Looking at Giacometti by David Sylvester), Art Newspaper, October 1994
Bonnard (South Bank Centre touring Exhibition), Burlington Magazine, September 1994
Identity Parade (R.B.Kitaj), Tate Magazine, Summer 1994
André Derain: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint by Michel Kellerman, Burlington Magazine, June 1994
Mystery and Materiality (Medardo Rosso, South Bank touring exhibition), Times Literary Supplement, May 13 1994
Jack B. Yeats: a Catalogue Raisonné by Hilary Pyle (and other Yeats publications), Burlington Magazine, April 1994
Roger Hilton (at Hayward Gallery), Burlington Magazine, February 1994

Preludes to Completeness (Ben Nicholson at the Tate Gallery), Times Literary Supplement, November 12, 1993
Paris Post War: art and existentialism 1945-55 (Tate Gallery, London), Burlington Magazine, September 1993
Copier Créer (transcriptions from old masters, at the Musée du Louvre), Burlington Magazine, August 1993
Rembrandt Bugatti (Sladmore Gallery, London), Burlington Magazine, July 1993
The man who knew the entire world (Marsden Hartley by Townsend Ludington), Times Literary Supplement, June 1993
Flowers and Desert Places (Georgia O'Keeffe, Hayward Gallery retrospective and recent publications), Times Literary Supplement, May 14 1993
Ivon Hitchens (centenary exhibitions), Burlington Magazine, May 1993
Sickert (at the Royal Academy), Burlington Magazine, March 1993

Studying Art's Form (painting and sculpture versus conceptualism), London Magazine, December/January 1992-93
The Non-Objective World (Pre-World War Two abstraction at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), Burlington Magazine, November 1992
Those Magnificent Machines (William Heath Robinson by James Hamilton), Times Literary Supplement, November 27, 1992
Epstein by Steven Gardiner, London Magazine, September/October 1992
Artistic Urges (Roth by Glynn Hughes), Times Literary Supplement, August 19, 1992
Rembrandt Bugatti, London Magazine, June/July 1992
Rouault (at the Centre Georges Pompidou), Burlington Magazine, June 1992
The Rebellious Debutant's Cause (Leonora Carrington at the Serpentine Gallery), London Magazine, April/May 1992
Giacometti (at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris), Burlington Magazine, March 1992
Derwent Lees, London Magazine, February/March 1992
Vuillard (South Bank Centre touring exhibition), Burlington Magazine, January 1992

How to Look at Modern Art by Philip Yenawine, Times Literary Supplement, December 6, 1991
Richard Diebenkorn (at the Whitechapel Art Gallery), Burlington Magazine, December 1991
The Flip-Side of Minimalism (Francesco Clemente) Times Literary Supplement, October 4, 1991
Ideas of Classicism (On Classic Ground ed. by Elizabeth Collings, and Derain by Jane Lee) London Magazine, June/July 1991
Excerpts from Paintings (100 Details from pictures in the National Gallery, by Kenneth Clark)
Times Literary Supplement, June 1991
Ivon Hitchens by Peter Khoroche Burlington Magazine, June 1991
Enslaved to the Figure (Arturo Martini at the Accademia Italiana, London) Times Literary Supplement, June 21, 1991
Camille Claudel (at Musée Rodin) Burlington Magazine, June 1991
Jack Yeats (at Whitechapel Art Gallery) Burlington Magazine, May 1991
Up and Down the Euston Road (Victor Pasmore at the Serpentine Gallery) Times Literary Supplement, May 3, 1991
Bomberg (at Jacobson Gallery London) Burlington Magazine, March 1991
Derain (at MOMA Oxford) Art Monthly, March 1991
Satellite Airwaves (Jules Olitski and permissive pluralism) London Magazine, February/March 1991
Spencer's Grand Design (Stanley Spencer at the Barbican Art Gallery)
Times Literary Supplement, February 1, 1991

In and Out of Time (contemporary painting) London Magazine, October/November 1990
Inner and Outer Landscapes (Unquiet Landscape by Christopher Neve, and The Landscape Vision of Paul Nash by Roger Cardinal) Times Literary Supplement, October 12-18, 1990
Hélion (at the Liverpool Tate) Burlington Magazine, October 1990
Barye, González and Wlérick (at Sladmore, Whitechapel and Bruton Galleries) Burlington Magazine, September 1990
Hofmann and Kokoschka (Crane and Marlborough Galleries) Burlington Magazine, August 1990
Matthew Smith (Crane Kalman Gallery) Burlington Magazine, July 1990
Conditions and Conditioning (The Conditions of Success by Alan Bowness, and The Velvet Prison by Miklos Haraszti) London Magazine, June/July 1990
After the Authentic (The Pursuit of the Real: British figurative art from Sickert to Bacon, Barbican Art Gallery) Times Literary Supplement, May 25-31, 1990
Recent Abstraction Burlington Magazine, May 1990
Bram van Velde, Masson, Alechinsky's illustrations to Balzac Burlington Magazine, February 1990
Euphoric Archeology (Milan Kunc's paintings) London Magazine, February/March 1990
von Hitchens (Edinburgh City Art Centre) Burlington Magazine, January 1990

The Autumn of the Ecole de Paris (Charchoune, Hélion, Magnelli, van Velde, Fautrier), London Magazine, December/January 1989-90
Paul Nash (York City Art Gallery), Burlington Magazine, December 1989
David Jones by Nicolete Gray, Burlington Magazine, November 1989
Cherishing Illusions (The School of London by Alistaire Hicks, and the paintings of Sam Fisher)
London Magazine, October/November 1989
Impure Abstraction (the recycling of minimalism), London Magazine, August/September 1989
Bad Art by Quentin Bell, London Magazine, June/July 1989
David Jones (at Kettle's Yard Cambridge and Austin/Desmond Gallery London), Burlington Magazine, June/July 1989
Being Reasonable (contemporary painting, Vlaminck and the École de Paris), London Magazine, June/July 1989
Cecil Collins (at the Tate Gallery), Burlington Magazine, July 1989
Animate Objects (contemporary sculpture and Rembrandt Bugatti), London Magazine, February/March 1989
Richard Diebenkorn by Gerald Nordland, Burlington Magazine, March 1989
A Guide to Research (Balzac's Chef d'Oeuvre Inconnu translated and introduced by Anthony Rudolf), London Magazine, April/May 1989

Mind, Body and Painting (Richard Wollheim's Painting as an Art), London Magazine, March 1988
Alex Katz by Anne Beattie, Burlington Magazine, April 1988
Tides in the Affairs of Modernism (Visions and Blueprints: avant-garde culture and radical politics in early twentieth-century Europe by Edward Timms and Peter Collier, and Modern Painters Magazine, issue one), London Magazine, October/November 1988
Critical Bearings (contemporary art, Ivon Hitchens, Dutch painting in the Harold Samuel collection)
London Magazine, December/January 1988-9
Doubts (The Spirit of Place: Nine Neo-Romantic Artists and Their Times by Malcolm Vaughn, and Cecil Collins by William Anderson), London Magazine, August 1988
Dream Lands (contemporary painting and El Greco's 'Fabula'), London Magazine, January 1988
Enthusiastic Underwriting (contemporary painting and Thomas Jones's Italian sketches), London Magazine, February 1988

Relating to David Jones
Anglo-Welsh Review, No.80, 1985

David Jones Today, ILEA Arts Review, Summer 1983

–––, Maureen Paley now represents Merlin James, artdaily.com, 14 November 2024
Jones, Jonathan, Giants of Ukrainian art, Henry Moore goes to war and Chris Ofili’s myth making – the week in art, theguardian.com, 28 June 2024

Senatus, ‘LOEWE re-opens boutique in Milan’, 26 October 2023
James, Merlin, and Morton, Victoria, BOMB Magazine, Summer Issue, 1 June 2023 (Cover story)
Image Magazine, Summer Issue, June
Clayton-Lea, Tony, ‘The Guide: Visual art – Victoria Morton and Merlin James: Double Shuffle’, The Irish Times – The Ticket, 27 May 2023
Bourbon, Matthew, ‘One Work, Short Take: Merlin James at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin’, Glasstire, 27 April 2023
Griffin, Jonathan, ‘Merlin James’s “Arrivals”’, e-flux Criticism, 3 March 2023

‘Merlin James at Kerlin Gallery’, Contemporary Art Writing Daily, 5 October 2021
Ebony, David, ‘“Brandless” Abstractions’, ArtNews, 24 March 2021

Block, Louis, ‘Merlin James with Louis Block’, Brooklyn Rail, April 2020

Dunne, Aidan, ‘A showcase of pencil and charcoal drawings, and a visual diarist: Last Day of May’, The Irish Times, 18 June 2019

‘Long Game: Merlin James’ at Boxes Art Museum, Shunde’, Blouin Art Info, 29 March 2018
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ArtReview, ‘Five shows to see in Shanghai’, 11 November 2016
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Picpus, Issue 17, Summer 2016
O’Keeffe, Catherine, ‘Artsdesk’, Totally Dublin, June 2016
Dunne, Aidan, ‘The unpredictable magic of Merlin James’, 31 May 2016
O’Sullivan, John, The Sunday Times Culture, 29 May 2016
Kelly Murphy, Aidan, ‘Picture This’, The Thin Air, 27 May 2016
Mair, Moray, Review of To the Present, Mutant Space, 19 May 2016
Long, Declan, radio piece, RTÉ Arena, 16 May 2016
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Bui, Phong, ‘Merlin James Genre Paintings’, The Brooklyn Rail, 5 March 2015
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Ebony, David, ‘David Ebony’s Top 10 New York Gallery Shows for February’, ArtNet, 25 February 2015
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Prince, Mark, ‘Merlin James Freestyle’, ArtReview, April 2014

Cahill, James, ‘Recent Exhibitions, London’, The Burlington Magazine, August 2013
Ward, Henri, ‘Parasol Unit: Merlin James’, City Road Online, 30 July 2013
Carey-Kent, Paul, FAD, 20 July 2013
Coombs, Dan, ‘Merlin James at Parasol Unit, Per Kirkeby at Michael Werner’, Abstract Critical, 26 June 2013
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Hyde, Mr., ‘The (less dramatic) adventures of Merlin’, .shortlist.com, 13 June 2013
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Metro, 14 March 2012, p. 14
Leach Hughes, Cristín, ‘Merlin James – In the Gallery’, The Sunday Times: Culture, 3 March 2012, p. 39
Dunne, Aidan, ‘A wizard in the gallery’, The Irish Times, 23 February 2012
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The Irish Times, ‘25 things to look forward to in 2012’, 31 December 2011
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Esplund, Lance, ‘Mixing Minimalism, Mythology and the Miscellaneous’, The Wall Street Journal, 23 July 2011
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Yau, John, ‘Merlin James, Louise Hopkins’, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2010

Schwabsky, Barry, ‘Merlin James/Serge Charchoune’, Artforum, February 2009
Stott, Tim, ‘Merlin James, Birds, Places and Other Things’, ArtReview, Issue 29, January 2009, p. 118
James, Merlin, ‘Sex and Picture Framing’, Picpus, 2009

Butler, Kate, ‘Merlin James: Birds, Places, Other Things’, The Sunday Times: Culture, 9 November 2008
Irish Arts Review, Autumn 2008, p. 44
Turvey, Lisa, ‘Merlin James’, Artforum, February 2008
Yau, John, ‘Merlin James, Paintings of Buildings’, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2008
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Cohen, David, ‘Model Agencies’, The New York Sun, 13 December 2007
Macmillan, Duncan, review of the Venice Biennale, The Scotsman, 15 June 2007
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Laurent, Claude, ‘Explorateur Pictural’, La Libre Belgique, 21 February 2007
Legrand, Dominique, Le Soir, 31 January 2007

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Neel, Jane, ‘Merlin James, Andrew Mummery Gallery’, Contemporary, Issue 55, 2003
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Naves, Mario, ‘Merlin James, Brent Sikkema Gallery’, New York Observer, 21 June 2002
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