Jim Campbell
b. 1956 Chicago, lives and works in San Francisco
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Jim Campbell Hosfelt Gallery, (San Francisco, CA)
Jim Campbell: Anderson Collection at Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
2018 Tilted Plane, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)
Day for Night, Salesforce Tower (San Francisco, CA)
2017 Jim Campbell: Abstract Document, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (New York, NY)
Jim Campbell: Far Away Up Close, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
2015 Jim Campbell: Accumulating Psycho, Chronus Art Center (Shanghai, China)
Jim Campbell: Ritmos de luz, Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Madrid, Spain)
2014 Light Matter – The Jim Campbell Experience 1990 – 2014, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Jim Campbell: Scattered Light, Edinburgh Place, City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Jim Campbell: Eternal Recurrence, International Commerce Centre, City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Jim Campbell: New Work, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Jim Campbell: Rhythms of Perception, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
Jim Campbell: New Work, , Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Jim Campbell: At The Threshold, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA)
2012 The Transformative Surface, University of New Mexico Art Museum (Albuquerque, Nm)
2011-2012 Jim Campbell: Exploded Views, SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)
2011 Jim Campbell and David Rokeby, Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
Jim Campbell: Exploded View, Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, NY)
Jim Campbell: Static Time, 20 Years of Electronic Art, Espacio Fundación Telefonica (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Scattered Light, Upper Landing Park, in conjunction with the Minnesota Museum of American Art and Northern Spark Festival (St. Paul, MN)
Jim Campbell: Recent Work, Howard Yezerski Gallery (Boston, MA)
Jim Campbell - Material Light, National Museum of Photography (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Jim Campbell: 4 Works, Hosfelt Gallery (New York, NY)
Jim Campbell, Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, Canada)
Jim Campbell, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland)
2010 Scattered Light, Madison Square Park, Madison Square Park Conservancy (New York, NY)
Jim Campbell: In the Repose of Memory, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum & Roanoke College Galleries, dual exhibition (Salem, VA) Jim Campbell: New Work, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (New York, NY) *
Jim Campbell, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
2009 Le Mois de la photo a' Montreal: Pavel Pavlov et Jim Campbell, SBC, Gallery Contemporary Art (Montreal, Canada)
2008 Jim Campbell: Home Movies, Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, CA)
2007 Home Movies, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Quantizing Effects, Museum of Glass (Tacoma, WA)
2006 4300 watts, Hosfelt Gallery (New York, NY)
Jim Campbell, College of Wooster Art Museum (Wooster, OH)
2005 Quantizing Effects: The Liminal Art of Jim Campbell, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM; travels to Knoxville Museum of Art, TN; Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine; Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA*
Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Material Light, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (New York, NY)
2004 Palo Alto Art Center (Palo Alto, CA) *
Wavelengths, American Museum of the Moving Image (New York, NY)
Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD)
The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu, HI)
2003 Memory Array, UC Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, CA)
Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
Seeing, Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA)
2002 Data and Time, Nagoya City Art Museum (Nagoya, Japan)
Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Creative Time (temporary outdoor commission), Battery Park (New York, NY)
2001 Time, Memory and Meditation, Anderson Gallery (Richmond, VA)
Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA) *
Contemporary Configurations, Museum of Art & History (Santa Cruz, CA)
Time & Data, Wood Street Galleries (Pittsburgh, PA) *
2000 Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA)
Cohen Berkowitz Gallery (Kansas City, MO)
1999 Transforming Time, Nelson Art Museum, Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) *
1998 Reactive Works, San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, CA) *
1997 Digital Watch, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO)
Reactive Works, Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA)
1996 Electronic Art, Cohen Berkowitz Gallery (Kansas City, MO)
1995 Dialogue, Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
1994 Hallucination, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Salem, NC)
1992 Electronic Art, Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
1991 Hallucination, Fresno Art Museum (Fresno, CA)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Dataform: Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, (Blacksburg, VA)
Almost Human: Digital Art from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, CA)
2019 The Armory Show (New York City, NY)
2018 You Are Here Light, Color, and Sound Experiences , North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC)
The Flickering Uncertain, Chronus Art Center (Shanghai, China)
New Media New Millennium, Hunter Museum of American Art, (Chattanooga, TN)
Pushing Buttons, UrbanGlass (Brooklyn, NY)
2017 Dominion, New Media Gallery (New Westminster, BC)
ELEMENTAL; Marking Time, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, (La Canada Flintridge, CA)
Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, (San Jose, CA)
Garage Inventors, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Virtual Views, Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN)
2016 Moving Image: Landscape, University of Michigan Museum of Art, (Ann Arbor, MI)
ReVisiones: albumes, promesas y memorias, VISIONA, Diputacion de Huesca, (Huesca, Spain)
Home Cinema, OCT Art and Design Gallery, (Shenzhen, China)
Uncertainty, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, (Pasadena, CA)
CODE and NOISE, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, (Santa Fe, NM)
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery, (San Francisco, CA)
Home Cinema, Daegu Art Museum, (Daegu, South Korea)
CODE and NOISE, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, (Santa Fe, NM)
The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, (San Francisco, CA)
Light Show International Tour, CorpArtes, Santiago, Chile. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, (London, England)
Home Cinema, Gare Saint Sauveur, (Lille, France)
Particle and Wave, Hosfelt Gallery, (San Francisco, CA)
2015 Jim Campbell: New Work & Collaborations with Jane Rosen, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, (San Jose, CA)
Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, Museum of the Moving Image, (Astoria, NY)
NEAT: New Experiments in Art and Technology, Contemporary Jewish Museum, (San Francisco, CA)
Light Show International Tour, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, (London, England)
Invento: As Revolucoes que nos Inventaram, OCA Museum, (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
By This River, Curated by Michael Solway, Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, USA)
All (is) Vanity, Seoul Museum (Seoul, Korea)
Watch This! Revelations in Media Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C., USA)
Light Show International Tour, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (Sydney, Australia), Organized by the Hayward Gallery (London, England)
Home Cinema, Exit Festival (Maubeuge, France)
How to Construct a Time Machine, MK Gallery (Milton Keynes, England)
RAM: Rethinking Art & Machine, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax, Canada)
2014 Biometric, New Media Gallery (New Westminster, BC, Canada)
Relics, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (San Jose, CA)
Light Show International Tour, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (Auckland, New Zealand), Organized by the Hayward Gallery (London, England)
Sleuthing the Mind, Pratt Manhattan Gallery (New York, NY)
Hybrid Art 2014, Optical Pavilion at VDNKH (Moscow, Russia)
Family Matters: Living and representing today’s family, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Dirge: Reflections on [Life and] Death, MOCA Cleveland, (Cleveland, OH)
Presentism: Light as Material, Young Projects, (Los Angeles, CA)
Of Walking, Museum of Contemporary Photography, (Chicago, IL)
Tilted Plane, Hosfelt Gallery, (San Francisco, CA)
2013 Art and Optics: The Speed of Communication, Espacio Fundación Telefonica (Lima, Peru)
Transposition: Motion is Action, National Art Museum of China (Beijing, China)
0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art and Penland School of Crafts (Raleigh, NC) *
On Time/ Grand Central at 100, New York Transit Museum Gallery (New York, NY)
Perth International Arts Festival (Perth, Australia)
LUMINOUSFLUX: light works, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia (Perth, Australia)
Light Show, Hayward Gallery (London, England)
2012 In Search of Time, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (East Lansing, MI)
Screen Obscura, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
The Transformative Surface, University of New Mexico Art Museum (Albuquerque, NM
Look Both Ways, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Rorschach, Phillips de Pury & Company (New York, NY)
Solway Gallery 50th Anniversary (Cincinnati, OH)
Emoção Art.Ficial 6.0 Media Art Biennial, Itaú Cultural (São Paulo, Brazil)
Work by Newly Elected Members & Recipients of Honors & Awards, American Academy of Arts & Letters (New York, NY)
Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, Australia)
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts & Letters (New York, NY)
SmartSpace, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA)
Visions Fugitives, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing, France)
Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA) *
Selected Histories 20th Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)
2011 Jim Campbell & David Rokeby, Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
Re-writing Worlds,The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia)
Transitio MX, International Electronic Art and Video Festival (Mexico City, Mexico)
Keeping an Eye on Surveillance,The Performance Art Institute (San Francisco, CA)
Walking + Falling, Jim Campbell, Chris Marker, & Eadweard Muybridge, Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, Canada)
At Fifty, Krannert Art Museum, 1961-2011, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois (Champaign, IL)
Time Flies, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Red (Force Fields), David Richard Contemporary (Santa Fe, NM)
Artist+Artist, Rohde Contemporary (Copenhagen, Denmark)
RAM: Rethinking Art and Machine,THEMUSEUM (Kitchener, ON, CAN)
Broodwork: It’s About Time, OTIS College of Art and Design (Los Angeles, CA)
Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art (Istanbul, Turkey)
Blink!,Light, Sound and the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO)
America: Now + Here, ANH Inc., americanowandhere.org (touring exhibition)
2010 Come as You Are: The Absent Body in Art, Zeppelin Museum (Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Material Evidence, Beach Museum, Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS)
Outer/Inner, Wood Street Galleries (Pittsburgh, PA)
Shadow Dance, Kunsthal KAde (Amersfoort, Netherlands)
Unexpected Reflections, Meridian Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Wall Drawings, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Watch This, Smithsonian Museum of American Art (Washington D.C.)
2009 Altered States, di Rosa Preserve (Napa, CA)
Art & Electronic Media, Bitforms Gallery (New York, NY)
Artifacts of a Postdigital Age, STRP Festival, KIOSK Gallery (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Jacksonville, FL)
Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten, ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Human Copyright, Musee de la Civilisation (Quebec City, Canada)
Inappropriate Covers, Bell Gallery, Brown University (Providence, RI)
Incheon Digital Arts Festival (INDAF) 2009, Incheon Global Fair and Festival (Incheon, Korea)
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal: Pavel Pavlov et Jim Campbell, SBC Gallery (Montreal, Canada) *
Likeness, Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA)
New Work, Hosfelt Gallery (New York, NY)
Seeing as Believing, Axis Gallery (Sacramento, CA)
Tech Tools of the Trade, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA)
Texting the Torah, Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, CA)
Textual Landscapes, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (New York, NY)
2008 Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition & Symposium 04-06, National Museum of China (Beijing, China)
Phantasmagoria, Salina Art Center (Salina, KS)
Art+Communications: Spectropia, RIXC (Riga, Latvia)
Art Taipei 2008 - Art Tech, National Taiwan Museum (Taipei, Taiwan)
01SJ Biennial Superlight, San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, CA)
01 Festival (San Jose, CA)
Text Memory, Wood Street Galleries (Pittsburg, PA)
ArteFact Capturing Time - Mapping the Moment, STUK (Leuven, Belgium)
Phantasmagoria, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, FL)
California Video, J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
New Frontier, 2008 Sundance Film Festival (Park City, UT)
Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Lafayette, LA)
Phantasmagoria, McColl Center for Visual Art (Charlotte, NC)
2007 Closed Circuit: Video and New Media at the Metropolitan, Metropolitan Museum (New York, NY)
Phantasmagoria, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango (Bogota, Columbia)
A History of New, Krannert Art Museum (Champaign, IL)
ArteFact, STUK Arts Centre (Leuven, Belgium)
Luminaries and Visionaries, Kinetica Museum (London, UK)
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science & Technology
Mouth Open Teeth Showing, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Home Sweet Home, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (San Jose, CA, USA)
Urban Screens Manchester 2007, Cornerhouse Gallery (Manchester, UK)
2006 Preview, Hosfelt Gallery (New York, NY)
Locating the Photographic, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art (Hobart, Australia)
Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
Crossing the Screen, IMAI (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Icons, Krannert Art Museum (Champaign, IL)
The First Illusion: The Transitional Object, Palo Alto Art Center (Palo Alto, CA)
The Message is the Medium, Jim Kempner Fine Art (New York, NY)
Edge Conditions, San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, CA)
The Infrastructural Image: Recent Bay Area Video, Film, and New Media Art on the City, International Film Center (Vancouver, Canada)
Mixed Media Project, Count Down (Milan, Italy)
DANM Festival, Museum of Art and History/University of California (Santa Cruz, CA)
Measure of Time, Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, CA)
Auflosung II Rausch/en / Signal Noise, NGBK (Berlin, Germany)
City Gaze(Die Stadt hat Augen), “Spots” Light- and Media Façade (Berlin, Germany)
Auflosung I High Definition, NGBK (Berlin, Germany)
2005 Techno/Sublime, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO)
What Sound Does A Color Make? Eyebeam, Center for Art and Technology, New York; Wood Street Galleries (Pittsburgh, PA)
Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland)
Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College (Denver, CO)
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth, New Zealand)
University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu (organized by Independent Curators International, NY)
Singular Expressions, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska (Lincoln, NE)
Intelligent Distribution: Artists Respond to Technology, Sonoma State University Art Gallery (Rohnert Park, CA)
Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Krannert Art Museum (Champaign, IL)
AxS: At the Intersection of Art & Science, Cal Tech & the Armory Center (Pasadena, CA)
Climax: the High Light of Ars Electronica, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei, Taiwan)
Exquisite Electric, Grand Central Art Center, Cal State Fullerton (Santa Anna, CA)
Mois Multi 2006, Les Productions Recto-Verso (Quebec City, Canada)
2004 Time, Space, Gravity, Light, Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Passage of Mirage, Chelsea Museum (New York, NY)
Lineaments of Gratified Desire, Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Memory, Salina Art Center (Salina, KS)
Algorithmic Revolution, ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Troy Story, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
2003 Microwave International Media Art Festival (Hong Kong)
The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, ME) travels to The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO) and the Austin Museum of Art (Austin, TX) Afterimage: The L.E.D. as Primary Material, Wood Street Galleries (Pittsburgh, PA)
Experimenta House of Tomorrow, BlackBox, The Arts Centre (Melbourne, Australia)
Surface Tension, The Fabric Museum (Philadelphia, PA)
Bytes and Pieces, ICA (San Jose, CA)
Id/Entity, San Francisco Camerawork (San Francisco, CA)
Still/Motion, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
2002 2002 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY)
2002 Busan Biennial Exhibition (Busan, South Korea)
Emocao Artificial (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Taipei Biennial Exhibition, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei, Taiwan)
Future Cinema, ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany) travels to Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, (Helsinki, Finland) and ICC Center (Tokyo, Japan)
Situated Realities, Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD) travels to Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA) and Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Minnesota)
Out of the Box, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art (Daejeon, South Korea)
High Tech/Low Tech Hybrids: Art in a Digital Age, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts (Walnut Creek, CA)
Walk Ways, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland Oregon) travels to Western Gallery, Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA); Dalhousie University Art Galley (Halifax, Nova Scotia); Oakville Galleries (Oakville, Ontario); Texas Fine Arts Association (Austin, TX); Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts (Reading, PA) (organized by Independent Curators Incorporated, curated by Stuart Horodner)
2001 BitStreams, The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY)
Eureka: New Art from the Bay Area, Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego, CA)
Conceptual Color: In Albers’ Afterimage, San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA)
New Work: Contemporary Figuration, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Interaction 01 (Gifu, Japan)
2000 Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria)
Illuminations: Contemporary Film and Video Art, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC)
Eureka Fellowship Awards, San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, CA)
Eureka 2, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (San Jose, CA)
Vision Ruhr (Dortmund, Germany)
Time Keepers, San Francisco Camerawork (San Francisco, CA)
Direct Current, Byron Cohen Gallery (Kansas City, MO)
New Work: Abstract Painting, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Plugged In, Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield (Bakersfield, CA)
Scanner, California College of Arts & Crafts Institute (Oakland, CA)
1999 New Voices, New Visions, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA)
Digital Hybrids, McDonough Museum (Youngstown, OH)
The Photographic Image, National Museum (Kwachon, Korea)
The Body, Salina Art Center (Salina, KS)
Electronic Art, Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH)
1998 Body Mecanique, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Digital Poetics, Sherry Frumkin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
Bay Area Technology Art, Haines Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Art & Technology, Duke University Museum (Durham, NC)
1997 Biennale, ICC Center (Tokyo, Japan)
Serious Games, Barbican Gallery (London, UK)
Interaction 97 (Gifu, Japan)
Meditations in Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)
Digital Decisions, Art Academy of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH)
451 Degrees, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
1996 Creative Time: Art in the Anchorage (Brooklyn, NY)
SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)
Transformers, Auckland City Art Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand)
Interactivity, Salina Art Center (Salina, KS)
Techne, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Mortal Coil, Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
1995 New York Digital Salon (New York, NY)
Art as Signal, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois (Champaign, IL)
Hotel Interactional, Gallery Otso (Helsinki, Finland)
ISEA 95, collaboration with Eliott Anderson (Montreal, Canada)
Digital Mediations, Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA)
Interaction 95 (Gifu, Japan)
Unpredictable Memories, Capp Street Project, collaboration with Marie Navarre (San Francisco, CA)
Press/Enter, The Power Plant (Toronto, Canada)
LAC Project, collaboration with Su-Chen Hung (Montreaux, Switzerland)
Techne, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (Los Angeles, CA)
Biblio Vertigo, Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL)
1994 ThreeVisions, Carpenter Center, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Color in the Shadows, California College of Arts & Crafts (Oakland, CA)
InterActive, Works Gallery (San Jose, CA)
1993 Iterations, International Center of Photography (New York, NY)
Montage, International Festival of the Image (Rochester, NY)
1992 Facing the Finish, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; traveled to Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, CA and Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1991 Le Printemps de PRIM, Production Realisations Independantes de Montreal (Montreal, Canada)
1990 Bay Area Media, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)
Fifteenth Anniversary Show, New Langton Arts (San Francisco, CA)
Public Commissions
2010-2017 Werner Klotz & Jim Campbell, Reflecting Ribbon, The New San Francisco Central Subway, Union Square Market Station, San Francisco, USA
2010-2013 The Journey, San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, San Diego International Airport, USA
2013 Exploded View (Dallas Cowboys), The Art Collection, Dallas Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX
2012 Constellation, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, San Francisco, CA
2011 Exploded Views, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2010-2011 Urban Reflection, San Francisco Arts Commission, Lights on Market ARTery Project, San Francisco, USA
Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York
2009 Sotto Voce, St. Sulpice Cathedral, Paris, France, with Benjamin Bergery
2006 Annonciation/Annunciation, St. Sulpice Cathedral. Paris France / with Benjamin Bergery
Gait Studies in Low Resolution, “Spots” Light- and Media Façade, Berlin, Germany
2005 Wave Map, Byron Rogers Federal Courthouse, Denver, CO
Ocean Mirror, University of CA, San Francisco
2002 Primal Graphics, Creative Time, Battery Park Site, NY, NY 2001
168 Light Bulbs, 2 year public art project, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
2001 Building Memory, Westside Center, Tempe, AZ, Tempe Arts Commission
White Circle, Highlights Festival, Montreal, Quebec
1998 Untitled, collaboration with Eliott Anderson, San Francisco State
University Muni Station, San Francisco Arts Commission
1995 LAC Project, collaboration with Su-Chen Hung, Montreaux, Switzerland
1992 Ruins of Light, America West Sports Arena, Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Arts Commission
Selected Awards
2012 13th Annual Bay Area Treasure Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Arts & Letters Award, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York
2003/4 Guggenheim Fellowship
2002/3 Langlois Foundation Grant, Montreal, Quebec
2000 Langlois Foundation Grant
1999-2000 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship Award in Multimedia
1999-2001 Eureka Fellowship Award, Fleishhacker Foundation
1998 Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; Honorable Mention, Interactive Art
1996 SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
Mangini, Elizabeth. "Jim Campbell, Hosfelt Gallery." Artforum, December 2017.
Allen, Mike. “’Rock Star’ Digital Artist Unites Holins. Roanoke College.” Roanoke Times. May, 30, 2010, sec. Arts & Extras.
Anbian, Robert. Reflections on ‘Bay Area Media’, Release Print 13, May 1990, p. 6.
Baker, Kenneth. Artists Channel Bay Area Environment, San Francisco Chronicle, March 25, 1990, This World pp. 13-14.
A Striking Video Chops Up Streisand, San Francisco Chronicle, August 9, 1990.
The End is the Thing at the Modern, San Francisco Chronicle, September 21, 1991, p. C5.
Monitoring the Art Circuit, San Francisco Chronicle, November 27, 1992, Datebook p. 1.
Times Shifting Sawdust, San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 1995, Datebook p. 1.
Modern Art Redefined, San Francisco Chronicle, July 11, 1998, Datebook p. 1.
Campbell Lets the Light In at Hosfelt, San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2000, pp. D1, D10.
Artists Respond to Biotechnology, San Francisco Chronicle, October 4, 2003, p. D10.
Critics’ Choices 2004: Art Top 10, San Francisco Chronicle, December 26, 2004, Datebook.
Electronics Artist Campbell Turns His Eye Toward Mass Protests, Echoing Futurists, San Francisco Chronicle, February 26, 2005. p. E10.
Home Movies’ Not Like the Ones Your Dad Made, San Francisco Chronicle, April 14, 2007, p. E1.
Benet, Carol. The Arts: The Bay Area Media Show Takes Video to the Edge, The Ark (Tiburon, CA), April 11, 1990.
Bing. Alison. Art and Personal Space, Camerawork, Fall/Winter 2003, pp. 12-15.
Jim Campbell at the Palo Alto Art Center, Artweek, May 2004, p. 12.
Bonetti, David. Modernism Goes International, San Francisco Examiner, September 20, 1991, p. D2. Bonetti, David. Computer Artist Campbell Finds Visual Poetry in Motion, San Francisco Chronicle, March 16, 2002, pp. D1, D10.
Breslin, Ramsey Bell. Under the Digital Sun, Eastbay Express, December 1, 2000.
Carriere, Daniel. Quand Les Machines Revent, Le Devoir (Montreal), May 18, 1991.
Cobb, Chris. Jim Campbell, Hosfelt Gallery, Flash Art, July/September 2002, pp. 120-1.
Cornwell, Regina. Interactive Art: ‘Touching the Body in the Mind’, Discourse 14.2, Spring 1992, p. 203.
Cutajar, Mario. Jim Campbell at Art Center, LA Weekly, June 13, 1997, p. 43.
Davis, Randal. Wired Interactive at Works, Artweek, November 17, 1994, back cover.
Dompierre, Louise. Pools of Reflection, Press Enter catalogue, April 1995.
Drucker, Johanna. Sweet Dreams, Contemporary Art and Complicity, ©2005, pp. 241-6.
Feinsilber, Pamela. Only Connect, San Francisco, March 2002, pp. 92-5.
Findsen, Owen. ‘Dialogues’ Communicate Arts Future, The Cincinnati Enquirer, February 7, 1999.
Fischer, Jack. Technocrat has an artist’s soul, exhibits in S.F. and New York, San Jose Mercury News, Sunday, March 24, 2002, p. 5E.
Machine Dreams, San Jose Mercury News, April 19, 2004, pp. 1C, 3C.
Fish, Tim. Art of the City, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, April 13, 1990, p. D1.
Giovanotti, Micaela, BitStreams, Tema Celeste, May-June 2001, p. 102.
Grey, Meg. Jim Campbell: Digital Habitat, Res, vol. 5, no. 3, 2002, pp. 77-9.
Hackman, Katie. Jim Campbell at the Byron C. Cohen Gallery, NY Arts, January/February 2006.
Helfand, Glen. Critic’s Choice: Jim Campbell, San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 10, 2000, p. 102.
Jim Campbell, Hosfelt Gallery, Artforum, Summer 2002, pp. 180-1.
Jan, Alfred. Video Installations at New Langton Arts, Visions Art Quarterly, Winter 1990, p. 48.
Jenkins, Steven. A Conversation with Jim Campbell, Artweek, February 17, 1994.
Jim Campbell, The New Yorker, May 16, 2005, p. 24.
Kurtz, Glenn. Jim Campbell, Tema Celeste, May / June 2002, p. 95.
Jim Campbell at Hosfelt Gallery, Artweek, June 2000, p. 15. pp. 11-12.
Lambert, Emily. Binary Art, Forbes, January 12, 2004, p 211.
Lazar, Julie. Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, Flash Art, January/February 2003, p. 55.
Lepage, Jocelyne. Le Printemps de PRIM: les arcade culturelles de l’avenir, La Presse (Montreal), May 25, 1991.
Maclay, Catherine. The Art of the Elusive, San Jose Mercury News, June 28, 1998, p. G1.
Marchessault, Janine. Incorporating the Gaze, Parachute 65, 1st Quarter 1992, p. 24.
Mehta, Julie. Programming Digital Art, Art Business News, December 2003, pp. 42-3. 68.
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Selected Public Collections
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Austin Museum of Art
Berkeley Art Museum
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
Cincinnati Art Museum
Denver Art Museum
de Young Museum, San Francisco
Fisher Collection, San Francisco
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Newark Museum
Collection of Phoenix Percent for Art Program
San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, San Diego International Airport
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Jose Museum of Art
The Society for Arts and Technology [SAT], Montreal
Collection of the Tempe Arizona Public Art Program
US General Services Administration, Denver
University of California, San Francisco
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Education
1978 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. Electrical Engineering and Mathematics