Resume

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2023 – Three Guest Artists, Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo
• 2018 – The Gallery, University of Hertfordshire
• 2017 – On Paper, Art Pavilion, London
• 2013 – South Polar Art , Exterasa Arte Actual Centre, Centro Historico, Mexico
• 2013 – South Polar Art , Contemporary Art Gallery of Xalapa, Mexico
• 2012 – Sud Polar , Antarctica Exhibition, Tigre Museum, Argentina, Sept – Oct
• 2012 – Polar Sud IV , Tigre Museo de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Polar Sud , Art in Antarctica, Centro Hispano,
  Americano de Cultua, Havana, Cuba
• 2011 – Moving Portraits: Sixty Years of portraits in moving image, De la Warr Pavilion,
  Bexhill on Sea
  2010 – Sur Polar, Art in Antarctica , CCEBA, Centro Cultural De Espana En Buenos Aires
• 2009/2010 – Upside Down World video art work:
  Streaming Museum, CAM and 7 continent big screens
  (including 17 x BBC Big Screens Britain)
  Rumanian film festival Kinofest
  Plymouth Arts Centre
  Big screens in Manchester and Liverpool
  Meinblau, Berlin
  C.A.R. Contemporary Art Ruhr, Germany
  1 Artspace, Sheffield
  Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
  Lumen, Leeds
  PRISM, Bank St Arts Sheffield
  Foyer Gallery Space, Hull School of Art and Design
  The Back Door Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• 2008 – Upside Down World, (Artists and Innovators for the Environment) The Streaming
  Museum, In Cyberspace and Public Space on 7 Continents (incl 17 BBC Urban screens UK)
  The Swimmer, National Portrait Gallery, London
• 2006 – Analogue: Pioneering British, Canadian and Polish Artists’ Video, (1968-88), Tate Modern andTate Britain, Nov- Dec. 2006. Anthology Film Archives, New York, Jan. 2007, Norwich Gallery, Jan 2007, FACT, Liverpool, March 2007, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Nov 2007, St James Cavalier, Valletta, Oct-Dec 2007, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Nov. 2008.
  Group show Sidedoor Gallery, New York
  Arteba Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 2005 – gHOST University of Hertfordshire Gallery
• 2003 – Gallerie Blickensdorf, Berlin
  Cocktail II Deluxe Digital Gallery, Hoxton, London
  Lux Video Open, RCA, London
• 2002 – Journeys – Two Artists’ Video Installations Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) Moscow
  Travelling Elena Vrublevskaya Gallery, Moscow
  (www.vgallery.ru/archivs/travel)
  Digital Prints Zinc, Birmingham
  Interrogating The Surface Millbank Gallery
  (Royal Military College), London
  Two Artists Centre for Attention, London
  (www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/marty
  www.hibeam.net/fw/fw/19/1531)
  Cocktail Deluxe Digital Gallery, Hoxton, London
  Digital Prints Zinc Gallery, Manchester
  Interrogating The Surface Atkinson Gallery, Millfield
  Art For The Millennium, New Greenham Arts Centre, Greenham
  Studio Voltaire, London
  Rich Pics Colville Place Gallery, London
  The Digital Aesthetic. Harris Museum, Preston
•  2001 – EVO 1 international exhibition, L Gallery, Moscow
  (www.davidjr.com/evo1/martystjames)
  Artists Prints Inside Space, London
  Printmakers Council Exhibition at The Royal National Theatre, London
  Rich Picts exhibition of digital works curated by the Colville Place Gallery – New Greenham Arts
  Smoking Man The Castle Museum, Nottingham
• 2000 – Painting The Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces The National Portrait Gallery, London.
  Boy / Girl a video diptych
  (25th Oct – 4th Feb 2001) with Picasso, Freud, Bacon, Munch, Warhol etc
  Self Portraits Flowers East Gallery, East London
  Falmouth Arts Centre – electronic prints
  Art cinema OFF-OFF, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Centre d’Art, Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
  Cine Cafe, Paris
  Batofar, Association Signe st Eau, Alfortville, France
• 1999 – VIDARTE, Barranca del Muerto, Mexico
  Transat Video, Herouville Saint-Clair, France
  RAI SAT, SpA, Rome, Italy
• 1998 – Electronically Yours Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan. International Exhibition. British representative
  Pandemonium Video Festival, Lux Centre, London
  Zone Festival of Electronic Media Maidstone
  Sporting Heroes National Portrait Gallery, London
• 1997 – I.C.A. London. Video Artists – presented and showing of videotapes curated by Julia Knight
  Screens Exhibition of Electronic Moving Image, Trondheim Art Museum, Norway
  Small Is Beautiful Flowers East Gallery, London
• 1996 – Pandemonium Video Festival Istitute of Contemporary Art, London.
  20 years of British artists video tapes
  A Collection For The Future Ferens Art Gallery Hull
  7 channel multi-monitor Video Portrait – purchased for the permenant collection
  The Cutting Edge Davies Street Gallery London
• 1995 – 4 Video Portraits Davies Street Gallery London
  ARTEC International Art & Technology Biennale Nagoya, Japan representing Britain – a retrospective of video portraits (installation)
  Video Positive Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool
  The Ark 7 monitor video portrait installation
  Artists Words Fringe Gallery, Glasgow
• 1994 – The Swimmer reinstalled for the new wing of The National Portrait Gallery opened by HRH Queen Elizabeth
• 1993 – New Video Works Kunstakademeit, Trondheim Norway Video Portrait of The Mayor of Trondheim.
  The Portrait Now National Portrait Gallery exhibition of contemporary portraiture Miniature Video
  Portrait The Smoking Man
  Multi- monitor video portrait The Swimmer purchased and installed at The National Portrait Gallery, London
• 1991 – Whitechapel Art Gallery Open 2 (invited artist) London
• 1990 – Viewing Figures, Camden Arts Centre, London with German video artist Maria Veda supported and commissioned and supported by Camden Council Arts department and Samcom UK
  European Media Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
  Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
  Third eye Centre Gallery, Glasgow
  The Bundeshaus, Landesvertretung Niedersachsen, Bonn, Germany
  The Civic Monument Drawings, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
  Visions and Transmissions, Harris Museum, Preston
  Eighty to Ninety, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
• 1987 – Paradise Lost, At The Edge an installation, Air Gallery, London
• 1985 – Charting Time, Serpentine Gallery, London
  Anglo Francais exchange, Tate Gallery London
  Anglo Francais exchange, Pompidou Centre Gallery Paris
• 1985 – Love Sacred and Profane curated by James Lingwood: Plymouth Arts Centre
  Stoke City Museum and Art Gallery
  Channel 5 video showcase, London Video arts
• 1984 – Anglo French Video, Pompidou Centre, Paris
  Human Interest Art about People curated by Norbert Lynton,
  The Cornerhouse Gallery,Manchester including Francis Bacon,
  Henry Moore, Stanley Spencer, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton etc
• 1983 – Drawings, A Mixed Exhibition to Explore the Nature of Drawing
          Rochdale Art Gallery with Frank Auberbauch, John Walker.. etc
• 1980 – Silent water, Video at Air, Air Gallery London
  Art and the Sea I.C.A Gallery, London
  Art and the Sea, Bluecoat, Liverpool
• 1984 – Sculpture by Young Artists Living or Working in Wales
  a Welsh Arts Council touring exhibition curated by Clive Adams:
  Aberyswtyth Arts Centre, Aberyswtyth
  Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
• 1976 – New Live Contemporaries, Acme Gallery, London

Performance Art Work Presentations

It is important to note that these works are not performing arts or drama, but have a specific history related to fine art and the plastic arts. The works are closer to live art or happenings which consolidate the notion of time-based works being of an immediate nature, that is the artist actually creates the work in the audience’s presence rather than through a specific art object such as a painting or sculpture: the performance becomes the object.

• 2010 – Homage, at The National Review of Live Art, (Invited Artist)
• 2006 – Homage Contemporary Music Festival, London
• 1990 – Civic Monument, a major touring performance monument for city centres
  Production Company: ART ANGEL TRUST:
  Birmingham Art Gallery
  Glasgow City Centre
  Serpentine Gallery, London
• 1989 – Libertys Department Store, London
• 1988 – Metropolis Space, Los Angeles USA
  Studio Theatre, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
  Man of Teak,The Economist Building, London
  So Nice To Come Home To, a Riverside studios, London
• 1987 – Performance En Direct, Articule Gallery, Montreal, Canada supported by The British Council
  Soap, The Arts Council of Britain Pavilion, Ideal Home Exhibition, Earls Court, London
• 1986 – Man of Teak, The Design Show, Olympia, London
  So Nice To Come Home To:
  British Canadian Video Exchange supported by the British Council:
  Performance at the Rivoli, Toronto, Canada
  Saw Gallery Ottawa, Canada
  Western Front, Vancouver
  Winnipeg Art Gallery
  Midland Group, Nottingham
  Kijkuis, Den Haag
  Bath Arts Festival
  Thamesdown Arts Festival
• 1985 – Man of Teak, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
  South Parade Pier, Southsea
  Hornpipe Theatre, Fratton
• 1984 – Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York City USA
• 1983 – True Life Romance The Philadelphia Art Alliance, USA
  Plug-Inn Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
  True Life Romance, Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York City
  Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Holland
  The Touring Exhibitionists, Performance Art tour of Britain,supported by the Arts Council of Great Britain: Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Diorama, London; Rochdale Art Gallery; The Midland Group, Nottingham; Balmbras, Newcastle; The Zap Club, Brighton
  True Life Romance, LVA Gallery at Air, London
  Performance series at The Serpentine Gallery, London
  Live Art Performance, Jolliffe Studios, Swindon with Max Eastley and Mike Cooper
  Performance and Video/ Video on Performance at The South London Art Gallery
  British Canadian Video Exchange supported by the British Council:
  Bamboo, Toronto
  Saw Gallery, Ottawa
  True Life Romance, Midland Group, Nottingham
• 1982 – Performance Art Tour of North America, supported by the British Council:
  Off Centre Gallery, Calgary
  Western Front Gallery, Vancouver
  Plug Inn Gallery, Winnipeg
  N.A.M.E Gallery, Chicago
  Northern Illinois University Gallery
  Niagra Centre
  A.R.C. Toronto
  Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York City
  The Empire Salon Gallery, Baltimore
  D.B.D Gallery, Los Angeles
  Kultureel Sentrum, Tilburg Holland
  ‘De Krabbedans’ Gallery, Endhoven, Holland
  The Basement Group, Newcastle
  Creolfrith Gallery, Sunderland
  The Waterloo Gallery, London
  Oriel Gallery, Welsh Arts Council Gallery, Cardiff
  Four Days of Performance Art, Midland Group, Nottingham
  Two Days of Live Art at the Waterloo Gallery, London
  The Sheffield Performance Art Festival, The Leadmill,
  Arena Studio, Wolverhampton Polytechnic
  Live Art at The Gallery, Manchester
• 1980 – Days Done, The London Filmmakers Co-op, London
• 1979 – The White Elephant Gallery, Leeds
• 1978 – 8 in 4 Acme Gallery, London
• 1977 – Performance art tour of Wales (Supported by the Welsh Arts Council)
  Within those Blu – Grey Suits, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
• 1976 – New Live Contemporaries, Acme Gallery, London
• 1975 – Liverpool Academy Gallery

Film and Video Screenings

• 1990 – The National Review of Live Art, Riverside Studios, London Heartbeat
  video-tape colour 7mins (producers Channel Four Television)
  M.O.V.E. Manchester Olympic Video Exhibition The Runner single channel video portrait object 17mins colour
• 1988 – ICA video festival Boston, USA
  Comment commission for Channel 4 UK Broadcast
• 1987 – Time Code in association and commissioned by Channel 4 television Heartbeat video-tape, colour, 7mins:
  Channel 4, UK Broadcast
  SOS, Holland Broadcast
  TVECNE, Espana Broadcast
  INA, France Broadcast
  CBC, Canada Broadcast
  Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  NOS Television, Nederlands Broadcast
  WGHB Television, Boston, USA Broadcast
  The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston USA
  ZDF Television, Germany Broadcast
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in association with The American Film Institute
  Nouveau Cinema and Video Festival, Montreal “prize winner”
  Yugoslavian Festivals Ljubljana and CD Bienniel
  The School of Art Institute, Chicago
  Inter-media Arts, Minneapolis
  Visual Studies workshop, Rochester, Mass San Francisco Art Institute
  Exit, New York City
  WNET Thirteen, New York Broadcast
  Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan London Video Art, Iron Heart video-tape,colour, 9mins
  Geneva Video Festival
  Montreal Video Festival, Nouveau prize winner
  Alter Image, Channel Four television
• 1986 – Montebeliard Video Festival, France
• 1985 – New British Video, Channel 4 UK
  Bonn Video Festival, Germany
  Tokyo Video Festival, Japan
  View From This Side, TSW collaboration UK
  Romance don’t dance alone, Alter Image series,
  Channel 4 Television
  True Life Romance, Nippon Television, Japan
  True Life Romance, Swiss Television
  Madrid Video Festival, Spain
  Barcelona Video Festival, Spain
  Yugoslavia Video Festival
  Video 123, The Contemporary Art Television Fund, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, USA
  Ghosts in the Machines, Channel 4 television
• 1984 – Montebeliard video festival, France
  Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo, Japan
• 1982 – Infermental Budapest, Hungary
• 1980 – The London Filmmakers Co-op, London:
  Gre-man (the grey suit) 16mm colour and black and white 15mins
• 1976 – Mr and Mrs HTV Bristol television

Residencies

• 2022 – Artist in Residence, Altamira Museum, Northern Spain
• 2014 – Artist in Residence, Antarctica
• 2013 – Artist in Residence, Art China, Huangshan, China
• 2010 – Artist in Residence, Cill Rialaig, Ireland
• 2010 – Artist in Residence, Antarctica
• 2002 – Artist in Residence, Kolodzei Foundation, Moscow
• 1998 – Artist in Residence, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
• 1993 – Artist in Residence, Kunst Academy, Trondheim, Norway
• 1991 – Artist in Residence, 101 Gallery, Ottawa
• 1991 – Artist in Residence, Het Recept, Amsterdam
• 1983 – Artists Fellowship, Rochdale Art Gallery

Commissions

• 2000 – Picture Yourself, (a year long digital inter-active artwork) The National Galleries of Scotland
• 1990 – The Civic Monument, an Artangel Trust and Gulbenkian Foundation commission.
• 1988 – Artists commission by MoVE Manchester Olympic Committee, Arts Council Great Britain and Film Umbrella. The Runner portrait of Paula Dunn, Britains fastest woman runner. Single channel video portrait object 17mins colour
• 1987 – Channel 4 Time code worldwide television video series

Collections

• Rochdale Art Gallery
• Sheffield Hallam University
• The National Portrait Gallery, London
• Ferens Art Gallery and Museum
• Camden Council Art Collection
• Slade School of Art
• Kolodzei Collection, Moscow
• Chelsea School of Art
• Wetherspoons plc, London
• Le Conte collection, London
• Private collection Austria
• Flowers gallery, London

Awards/Prizes

• 2005 – British Council Travel Award
• 1999 – Arts and Humanities Small Grants Award
• 1998 – Arts and Humanities Research Scheme Award
• 1998 – Paul Hamlyn Foundation / Acme studios residency award
• 1997 – British Council Travel Award
• 1994 – Greater London Arts award
• 1994 – British Council Travel Award
• 1991 – Greater London Arts award
• 1990 – The Harold Wingate Scholarship Artists Award
• 1989 – New Directors Award, Channel Four Television and Arts of Great Britain
• 1989 – West Midland Arts Performance Award
• 1988 – Gulbenkian Foundation, Major Live Art Production award
• 1987 – Gulbenkian Foundation, Research and Development award for performance
• 1987 – Arts Council of Great Britain Training Award
• 1986 – Tokyo Video Festival Prizewinner
• 1986 – British Council Travel Award
• 1984 – Arts Council of Great Britain, Video Bursary
• 1983 – London Video arts bursary
• 1982 – Performance Art Fellowship, Northern West Arts
• 1981 – British Council Travel Award
• 1980 – Greater London Arts award
• 1979 – Welsh Arts Council Film bursary
• 1978 – Welsh Arts Council Major Artists Award
• 1976 – Welsh Arts Council Film Award
• 1976 – New Contemporaries, Acme Gallery, London, Live art prizewinner