1983
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Born 1960, Cardiff, Wales
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland
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.
Galeria Wschód, Warsaw, Poland
Some Steps, Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany
Arrivals, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
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
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
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)
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