RAiR | 1998-90

James McGarrell

The work of James McGarrell has been exhibited in the United States and abroad. He has shown in five Whitney Museum Annuals and Biennials, two Carnegie International Exhibitions, Documenta in Kassel Germany, and the American pavilion of the 1968 Venice Biennale. His paintings are in the permanent collections of several prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Institute Bellagio Residency. In 1995 James received the Jimmy Ernst Award for lifetime achievement from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Today he works in Newbury, Vermont. (From RAiR 50th Anniversary Exhibition Catalog, 2017)