James Company Contemporary Art Projects

James Company Contemporary Art Projects, together with Nonstop Enterprises, is building a bespoke public art program for this historic multi-use building in the heart of Chelsea, Manhattan, launching in 2026.

James Company has been building enduring and award winning collections for hotels for twenty years. To read more about our hospitality projects click here. 

Explore a studio visit with artist Patrick Jacobs, who discusses his magical pieces, two of which James Company commissioned for the lobby of The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel. Film by SandenWolff.

Cathedral of St John The Divine, New York (June - August 2000)

An exhibition commemorating the 30th anniversary of Stonewall with installations by Donald Moffett, Liz Deschenes and Kevin Larmon.

The Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont and Derneberg, Germany

THE SOLICE OF AMNESIA (May - October 2018)

An exhibition in Reading, Vermont, co-curated with American artist Alexis Rockman from Hall Art Collection about the psychological effects of climate change. The exhibition includes works by Ansel Adams, Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Olivo Barbieri, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Katherine Bradford, Olafur Eliasson, Mitch Epstein, Dan Flavin, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Michael Joo, Anselm Kiefer, Guillermo Kuitca, Marcin Maciejowski, Shirin Neshat, Sven Pahlsson, Robert Rauschenberg, Alexis Rockman, Ed Ruscha, Wilhelm Sasnal, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Michael Wolf.

For more information, installation views and an essay about the exhibition please click here.

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont

AURORA ROBSON: HUMAN NATURE WALK (June 2023 - February 2024)

Displaced abundance. That’s how artist Aurora Robson views our plastic debris problem. It’s an incredibly powerful way to reframe such an insidious global issue. We tend to think of abundance as a positive—as a state of being that we can cultivate to make our lives better, happier, and more secure. Our global economic systems have been built on facilitating the abundance mindset through nonstop development and the promotion of consumerism, commercialism, and global trade. We are conditioned to believe that more is better, and new is even better. When it comes to plastic, our tendencies towards abundance have created a global crisis of chaotic displacement. Plastic is a manifestation of our best innovative imaginations and our worst unconscious behaviors. Robson intentionally redirects its incessant flow into something less harmful and more beautiful and meaningful.

For more information on the exhibition or to purchase a catalogue with a foreword by Museum Director Danny Lichtenfeld, and essays by the curator and Rebecca Solnit please click here.

FELT EXPERIENCE (June - October 2022)

Co-curated with Director of Exhibitions Sarah Freeman, this exhibition surveys the work of five artists, based in New York, Canada, and California, who are working in felt today: Marjolein Dallinga, Ruth Jeyaveeran, Melissa Joseph, Liam Lee, and Stephanie Metz. Their studio practices range from the exploration of the personally and universally nostalgic (Joseph), to a desire to connect our interior and exterior worlds (Lee), to a coaxing out of the potential aliveness of the material (Dallinga), to an investigation of time and memory within repetitive motions of making (Jeyaveeran), to a masterful merging of opposing qualities through curiosity and play (Metz). For more information please click here.

SEQUENCES: ODE TO MINOR WHITE (June - October 2021)

A group exhibition including Andrea Belag, William Eric Brown, Niqui Carter, Kevin Larmon and Jessica Judith Beckwith, with original works by Minor White from the Bank of America Collection, that explores how the aesthetic and philosophical seeds sown by the modernist American photographer Minor White (1908 - 1976) can be found germinating and flourishing in the art of today. For more information on the exhibition click here.

To see a commissioned film by Little Pond Digital documenting The Seed, the site-specific installation by Jessica Judith Beckwith click here.

ALISON WRIGHT: GRIT AND GRACE: WOMEN AT WORK (March - October 2020)

Grit and Grace is a solo exhibition of images by photojournalist Alison Wright. While Wright has made countless voyages around the world on humanitarian assignments, Grit and Grace is her passion project, begun when she was on assignment in Nicaragua in 2012. There she witnessed the resilience of women in the most difficult circumstances, supporting their children by searching through landfills for rubber and other materials for one dollar a day. In the years since, Wright’s travels have taken her to Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Japan, Tanzania, the Congo, Myanmar, Liberia, Bangladesh, Mexico, and many more countries (27 to be exact) to witness women working to survive and to transform their communities. Sadly Wright passed away in 2022. Her book Grit and Grace: Women At Work In The Emerging World,with forward by the Dalai Lama and published just after her death, documents this incredible series in full and provides details of the women she met. To order a copy please click here.

For more information about the exhibition please click here.

STEVEN KINDER 552,820 (March - October 2020)

Steven Kinder 552,820 highlights an on-going project of Kinder’s focused on the unhoused and those living on the streets in America. The title refers to the number of those who experienced housing insecurity in the U.S. in 2019.

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