Michele JAMES

Recent exhibitions


2024
-TKO, the 3rd Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka International Miniprint (Japan)
2023
-Akané gallery, Miniprint, Samer (France)

-Awagami International Miniprint, Tokushima (Japan)

-Lafage Museum, Print Triennial, Lisle-sur-Tarn (France)

2022
-Bimpe IX, Visual Space Gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
-5th New York International Miniature Print Exhibition
-Associative Gallery (« Mois de l’estampe »), Beauvais (France)
-World Print Project « Senza frontiere, senza barriere », Villa Benzi Zecchini, Trévise (Italy)
-Collective exhibition : Port-Folio « A l’attaque », Atelier de la Grette, Besançon (France)
2021
-Chamalières Print Triennial,France
-Fine Arts Gallery, the International Miniprint of Kazanlak, Bulgary
-The hall of Awagami Japanese Paper, Inbe Space, Tokushima (Japan)
-Associative Gallery, Beauvais (France)
-Open door workshop, Arnouville (France
2020
-Collective exhibition, Ailleur’s studio, Paris (France)
-On paper contest, Barcelone (Spain)
-« Printmaking whithout borders »,Villa Benzi Zecchini, Trévise (Italy)
-"Printmaking whithout borders" , Villa zecchini, Montebelluna (Italy)
-Anteros Arts work foundation, Norwich (England)

2019
-Associative Gallery, Beauvais (France)
-19th Biennial of Sarcelles (France)
-Artspace, Woodbridge (England)
-Manhattan Graphic Center, 4th International Print Exhibition, New-York (Usa)

-The hall of Awa Japanese paper, Inbe Space, Tokushima (Japan)
-Usine Utopik, Tessy-Bocage (France)

2018

-Not So Mini Exchange and Exhibition, Alberta Printmakers Gallery, Calgary (Canada)
-Associative Gallery, Beauvais (France)
-Heike Gallery, Miniprint Berlin 2018, Berlin (Germany)
-FINA Art Gallery, University British Columbia, Kelowna (Canada)
-City Hall , collective exhibition, Clermont ( France)
-Dundarave Print Workshop & Gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
-Federation Gallery, Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition ( Bimpe), Vancouver (Canada)
-4th print biennial, tank Arts Center, Cairns (Australia)
-Associative Gallery, Beauvais (France)
-Salon des artistes du Beauvaisis, City Hall Beauvais (France) Town Prize
-Raymond Lafage Museum, 4th Etching print triennial, Lisle sur Tarn (France)
-2e International Print Biennial, Dreux, France
-2nd Annual International Miniature Printmaking Exhibition 2017, Dubaï Art Print Week, Dubaï (United Arab Emirates)
-Associative Gallery, Beauvais (France)
-L’étang d’art gallery, Bages (France)

2017
-18th International Biennial of Sarcelles (France)
-3rd Miniature Print exhibition, New-York (USA)
-10th Mondial Print Triennial of Chamalières (France)
-Tharrats Grafics Art foundation, Barcelona (Spain)
-37th Mini Print of Cadaques, Taller galeria Fort, Cadaques (Spain)
-Wingfield Barns, Wingfield (United Kingdom)
-“Quel cirque”, Print Center , Céret (France)
-Associative Gallery, Beauvais (France)
-"Cherchez la petite bête ", La traversée Gallery, Bayonne (France)
-Cascade Print Exchange XI, Oregon State University, Corvallis (USA)
-Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists (SNAP) Gallery, Edmonton (Canada)
-Not So Mini Exchange and Exhibition, Alberta Printmakers Gallery, Calgary (Canada)
-FINA Gallery, The University of British Colombia Okanagan (Canada)

2016
-Dundarave Print Workshop & Gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
-Bimpe IX (Biennial International MiniPrint Exhibition), Federation Gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
-Galerie Irohani, Osaka (Japan)
-The 1st TKO International Miniprint Exhibition, Artzone Kaguraoka, Kyoto (Japan)
-On paper contest, Glasgow (Scotland)
-The 1st TKO International Miniprint, B-Gallery, Tokyo (Japan)
-"Cherchez la petite bête ", Marché des Douves & Pascal Daudon’s studio, Bordeaux (France)
-Associative Gallery, Beauvais (France)
-Seacourt International Miniprint Biennial, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Bangor (Ireland)
-The 7th Kiwa Exhibition, Kyoto International Woodprint Association, Kyoto Municipal Museum, Kyoto (Japan)
-International Triennial of Contemporary Engraving, "21x21", El Catascopio Gallery, Barcelona (Spain)
-Cascade Print Exchange X, Oregon State University, Corvallis (USA)

2015

• Not So Mini Exchange and Exhibition, Alberta Printmakers Gallery, Calgary (Canada) PEOPLE’S PRIZE
  -New-York International Miniature Print, New York’s Print Week (IFPDA), The Manhattan Graphics Center, New-York (USA)
  -Centre for Contemporary Art, Trizay Abbey (France)
  June/September
• 14th Lessedra World Art Print, Mini Print, Sofia (Bulgaria)
• 4th Magné Print Biennial (France)
  -Salon artistique de Fitz-James (France)
  -Ty Glaz Gallery, Beauvais (France)
• "En faveur de la chose écrite", City Hall of Saint-Laurent-du-Pont (France)
  -"Ecritures gravées", House of the General Council, Clermont (France)
• Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists (SNAP) Gallery, Edmonton (Canada)
• FINA Gallery, The University of British Colombia Okanagan (Canada)

2014
-World Print Triennial, Chamalières (France)
-Dundarave Print Workshop, Vancouver (Canada)
-Federation gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
-BIMPE VIII (Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition), Vancouver (Canada) HONOURABLE MENTION
-26th Salon Artistique Fitz-James, (France) FIRST PRICE

Past exhibitions

2013
-Artist’s books collective exhibition, Cultural Center, Buzanval, Beauvais (France)
-Boris Vian Gallery, Beauvais (France)
-Lessedra World Print Annual, Sofia (Bulgaria)
-Maladrerie Saint-Lazare, Cello festival, Beauvais (France)
-Estampadura (European Triennial), Le Majorat Gallery, Villeneuve-Tolosane, Toulouse (France)

2012

-Manif’arts, Ponchon (France)

2011

-Séraphine Louis Gallery, Clermont (France)
-Journée de l’estampe contemporaine, place Saint-Sulpice, Paris (France)
-Lessedra World Print Annual, Sofia (Bulgaria)
-6th Kiwa Exhibition, Kyoto International Woodprint Association, Kyoto municipal Museum, Kyoto (Japan)

From 1998 to 2010
I have participated in over forty exhibits, both in France and abroad.

Public and private collections

-Bibliothèque Nationale de France (livres d’artistes) Paris (France)

-Departmental Museum, Beauvais (France)

-Association Mouvement d’Art Contemporain (AMAC), Chamalières (France)

-Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto (Japan)

-Ville de Sarcelles (France)

-Japan Prints Association, Tokyo (Japan)

-Art Sakima Museum, Okinawa (Japan )

-Prints collection Graver maintenant (France)

-Department of Art, University of Oregon, Corvallis (USA)

-TKO (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka) International Print Collection (Japan)

-Artbook Edition with Marc Pessin from poems by Nicolae Labis, Marc Pessin’s Studio, Saint-Laurent-du-Pont (France)
Shagaf group, Dubaï, United Arab Emirates

Artistic trajectory

After years of painting and drawing, I have dedicated myself almost exclusively to engraving, in particular etching and wood engraving. I enjoy techniques that capture the marks of the present but also superimpose those of the past.
Etching gives me the ability to show the passage of time and the memory of things gone by. The path is often long from the beginning (creation of the plate) to the end (printing). Our intentions are sometimes contradicted by our materials (acids or other toxic chemicals, the resistance of the wood), but for my perspective, this tension allows me to express myself more deeply. I am also interested in the relationship between drawing and writing and in Inuit art. I often develop my works in series (as folds, landscapes, characters, alphabets) and artistic books (Racines du silence, Légendes inuit, Spirale, Lumière de l’ombre, etc.).
My current research revolves around writing, and probes at the limit of abstraction and figure (using human forms, animals and various alphabets).