James Casebere

(Lansing, Michigan, 1953 - )

American

James Casebere grew up outside of Detroit, studied with Siah Armajani as an undergraduate student at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Minnesota), and with John Baldessari as a graduate student at California Institute of Arts (Cal Arts). For over 40 years Casebere has built and photographed architecturally-based models, which explore the relationships between sculpture, photography, architecture, and film. Starting with the Sonsbeek ’86 exhibition, in Arnhem, Holland through 1992, Casebere also made large-scale sculptural installations. 

 

His work is in the collections of and has been shown at major museums around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum (New York); the Tate Gallery (London); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles); and many others. He has had solo shows at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (Canada); Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (Spain); Museum of Modern Art Oxford (UK); Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (Ohio); the Indianapolis Museum of Fine Arts (Indiana); and other museums. 

 

In 2016, his work was the subject of a major retrospective at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany and has been included in exhibitions highlighting the work of what is now widely regarded as the Pictures Generation, after the title of a 1977 exhibition at Artists Space gallery (New York). Casebere is the recipient of three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three from the New York Foundation for the Arts and one from the Guggenheim Foundation. In April 2019, he was awarded the Abigail Cohen Rome Prize through the American Academy in Rome.

 
Casebere's work can be found in the museum collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art; Birmingham Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Jewish Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; among many others. 

New York, New York

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