James Michael Starr

BORN
1951  East Liverpool, Ohio
EDUCATION
1972 Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, OK, B.A.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Stranger in a Strange Land, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
2009 San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
2008 Little Victims, Conduit Gallery, Dallas
Studies for a Dream About Hans Bellmer, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
2007 McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas
2006 All About Us, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
2005 Stuck, Conduit Gallery, Dallas
Constructionists, MainSite Contemporary Art, Norman, OK
2003 Constructed Observations, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
Recent Assemblage, Conduit Gallery, Dallas
2000 Trojan Horses, Oklahoma Christian University, Oklahoma City, OK
The Handwriting on the Wall, Stone by Stone Gallery, Dallas
1999 Autobiographical Collage & Assemblage, Stone by Stone Gallery, Dallas
1998 Evidence of Grace, Mountain View College, Dallas
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Hecho en Dallas, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX - Jurors: Tomas Bustos, Creative Arts Center of Dallas, Cristina Medina, Mountain View College and Gabrielle Castaneda Pruitt, 14th Street Gallery, Plano, TX
2009 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Williams Tower, Houston - Juror: John Zarobell, Asst. Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Dallas Arts Revue 30th Anniversary Member Show, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas
Masterworks, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
Anxiety, Cantanker Magazine, Austin - Juror: Andrea Mellard, Asst. Curator at the Austin Museum of Art
Cultivate Beauty, The 930 Art Center, Louisville, KY
2008 Outside the Lines, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas
The Art of Politics, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
2007 31: Thirty-one artists. Thirty-one works., Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
2006 Sur del Trinidad, Ice House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX - Jurors: Tina Medina, Mountain View College, Sarah Jane Semrad, Exec. Dir. at La Reunion and Jose Vargas, Gallery Coordinator at Ice House Cultural Center
Longview Museum of Fine Arts 44th Invitational Exhibition, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX - Juror: Anne Allen, Dir. of Arlington Museum of Art
2005 Dia de los Muertos, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas
Salon du FIT, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas
Diptych, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
2004 Assemblage 100, Gully Lounge Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Assemblage 100, Red Tart Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Assemblage 100, Expressions, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
The Sum of the Parts, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Material Possibilities, Griffith Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University,Nacogdoches, TX
2003 Assemblage 100, Percy Thompson Gallery, Stratford, New Zealand
Miniatures, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
For the Birds, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
Elemental, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas
2002 The Summer Show, Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, OK
Collecting Mixed Media, Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN
Loteria, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas
ArtCollec 2002, Paris, France
Boxes Boxed, Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2001 Mirror Images, Boyd Gallery, Dallas
Sculptural Sycretism II, Collin County College, Plano, TX
Emerging Artists, Mainsite Contemporary Gallery, Norman, OK
Critic's Choice, Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas - Juror: Steven Nash, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
A Presence Seen, University of Dallas, Irving, TX - Juror: Mary McCleary, Stephen F. Austin University
2000 Critic's Choice, Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas - Jurors: Sara Kellner, Diverseworks, Houston; Carla Stellweg, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio; Chris Cowden, Women and Their Work, Austin
Sculpture 2000, Blossom Street Gallery, Houston
27th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA - Juror: James Surls
The Dream Life of Objects, Stone by Stone Gallery, Dallas
1999 Juried Competition, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas - Juror: Terrie Sultan, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Critic's Choice, Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas - Juror: James Surls
1998 Dada Moon, Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin - Juror: Kathryn Davidson
Critic's Choice, Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas - Jurors: Elizabeth Ferrer, Austin Museum of Art; Stephen Vollmer, El Paso Museum of Art
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Masters: Collage - Major Works by Leading Artists Lark Books, Asheville, NC,2010. ISBN 1-60059-108-6
2006 L'art du Collage a L'aube du Vingt et Unieme Siecle (The Art of Collage at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century), Pierre Jean Varet; Editions ArtColle, Sergines, France, 2006. ISBN 2-9526031-0-3
New Directions in Altered Books, Gabe Cyr; Lark Books, Asheville, NC, 2006. ISBN 1-57990-694-X
2004 Cornell's Birth, Dale Copeland; Puniho Press, Okato, New Zealand, 2004. ISBN 0958248907
2003 Bunch, Craig. "Constructed Observations," Artlies (no. 40, Fall 2003), p. 69.
Assemblage 100, Dale Copeland; Puniho Press, Okato, New Zealand, 2003.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Borrell, Houston
Brian and Lynn Boyd, Dallas
Craig Bunch, Oakhurst, TX
James Clark, Brazoria, TX
Rob Clark, Beaumont, TX
Rebekah Crossman, Dallas
Ann Dunbar, Dallas
James Farb, Houston
Larry Felty, Waxahachie, TX
Gloria S. Hammack, Dallas
Ora Harrison, Houston
Austin Haynes, Dallas
Grant Hester and Steve Weingarten
Gregory Higgins, Dallas
David and Cari Hooper, Dallas
Jeannie Houston, Dallas
Wayne Johnson, Austin
Jerome C. Kaplan, Houston
Edward Knippers, Arlington, VA
Pete Lacker, Dallas
David Linscomb, Beaumont, TX
Jeanne McCallum & Andy Wallace, Sebastopol, CA
Charles H. McMullen, Dallas
Annie Mazaud, New York
Tadd Myers, Dallas
R.L. Nielsen, Houston
Dick Patrick, Dallas
Davida Pfuhl, Colorado Springs, CO
Steve Ricketts, Louisville, KY
Hala Saad, Dallas
Joni and Mark Sager, Austin
Mac Secrest, Houston
Caroline Waite, Dallas
Chris Wallace, Houston
Mathew Wolf, Houston
Chris Wulke, Houston