James Westwater, PULSE New York, New York City, 2010

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James Westwater was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in 1962. He studied art at Suffolk College and Manchester Metropolitan University, England and holds a BA with Honors in Design for Communication Media. He was awarded four scholarships from the Santa Fe Art Institute to attend workshops with Pat Steir, Komar and Melamid, Richard Tuttle and Peter Schjeldahl, and is a recipient of Robert Rauschenberg's Change, Inc. fellowship.

He has lived in Brazil, Portugal, the UK, Los Angeles, New Mexico and New York, and says that his art "emerges from a displaced sensibility - a place where simplicity encounters richness, and oddness and beauty coexist."

Exhibitions include Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York; Spacemakers, Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich and The Suburban, Chicago; NM 10: Dispersion, Cinemaland, Los Angeles; and Cream, Sun and Doves, London; and solo and two-person exhibitions at Heidi Cho Gallery, New York; NavtaSchulz Gallery, Chicago; James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe; Exhibitions 2d, Marfa; and Lulu's Alibi, Los Angeles, curated by Robert Berman.

His work is featured in the books 3-D Art/Techné, James Westwater: Plywood Chateaux, Shedworking: The Alternative Workplace Revolution; the Gallery Channel/Sky Arts documentary, Artland USA; and is included in several permanent collections, including the Lannan Foundation, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Biedermann Collection, Germany.

He lives and works in Beacon, New York.

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