James Casebere American, 1953

James Casebere (Detroit, United States, 1953)

James Casebere was born in 1953, in Detroit.

He trained with Siah Armajani, at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and later with John Baldessari at Cal Arts.

His early works are primarily large-scale sculptural installations. The exhibition held at Sonsbeek in 1986 in Arnhem, Netherlandsas, as well the artworks he focused on until 1992, serve as a clear indication of his artistic direction during this period.

His works are part of the collections of major museums worldwide, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2016, the Haus der Kunst in Munich paid homage to him with a retrospective.

He also took part in exhibitions that underscored his involvement with the Pictures Generation, a movement that also gave the name to an exhibition hosted in 2009 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

He received numerous scholarships to continue his research through his work: three from the National Endowment for the Arts, additional three from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and one from the Guggenheim Foundation.

In 2019, he won the Abigail Cohen Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.