Born 1960, Cardiff, Wales
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland

Education

1983

Royal College of Art, London, UK

1979

Central School of Art, London, UK

1978

University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales

Solo Exhibitions

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

2024

Galeria Wschód, Warsaw, Poland

2023

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

2022

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

2021

Window, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2020

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

2019

Untitled (Sex), Select, Berlin, Germany

2018

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

2017

Raucci e Santamaria, Milan, Italy

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA

2010

Frame Paintings, Mummery+Schnelle, London, UK

2008

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

2007

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

2006

Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK

2005

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

2004

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

2003

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

2002

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

2001

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

1998

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

1997

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

1996

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

1995

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

1991

Albermarle Gallery (Mark Glazebrook), London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2023

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

2022

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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)

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008

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

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2003

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

2002

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

2000

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

1999

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

1998

Raum, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

1996

East End Academy, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

1993

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

Curated Projects

2023

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

2021

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

2020

Fieldwork, 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow, Scotland

2019

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

2018

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2012

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

2009

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

2008

Serge Charchoune, Mummery+Schnelle, London, UK

2005

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

Solo Publications

2023

Merlin James, Sikkema Jenkins/Kerlin Gallery/P420 Gallery

2020

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

2018

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2007

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

2004

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

2002

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

1996

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)

1995

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)

1991

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

Selected Group Exhibition Catalogues

2023

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

2021

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2006

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

2005

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)

2003

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

2002

Landscape, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

1999

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

Collections

Arts Council England, UK
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA
Boxes Museum, Shunde, China
British Council, UK
Brooklyn Museum, USA
The Bunker Artspace, Miami, Florida, USA
Colby Art Museum, Maine, USA
Dallas Museum of Art, USA
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
National Museum of Wales, UK
HUA Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
San Antonio Art Museum, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Tate, London, UK