Bio
James Woodfill is a 1980 graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute and has lived and worked in Kansas City since. As an interdisciplinary artist, his work is focused on direct experience through the composition of objects, occurrences and site. His artworks regularly blur boundaries in their execution, often merging with functional design. His installations bridge the fields of sculpture, painting and public art, and his work in the public realm has extended into education and curatorial projects, writings and numerous urban planning projects and studies.
Woodfill’s gallery installations have been widely recognized, including reviews in Art In America, Art Papers, The New Art Examiner, Hyperallergic, Art Slant and Sculpture Magazine. His public work has received numerous awards from the American Institute of Architects, and it has been included twice in the Americans for the Arts/Public Art Network annual “Year in Review.” His work has also been recognized by I.D. Magazine and by Art in America in their “Public Art in Review.” Woodfill currently holds the position of Professor in the Painting Department of the Kansas City Art Institute.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Stereophonic / Semaphoric at Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
2020 Code Practice Solo exhibition at Joseph Nease Gallery, Duluth, MN (June)
2019 Code Practice Solo exhibition at The Drawing Room / Weinberger Fine Art, Kansas City, MO
2019 Tuning Field Solo exhibition at Crossroads Hotel Gallery, Kansas City, MO, curated by Hesse McGraw
2014 The Outside of the Left Side of the Inside Solo Exhibition, City Ice Arts, Kansas City, MO
2013 Sum Minus Site Specific Installation in tandem with Group Exhibition Rises Lora. La Esquina, Kansas City, MO, in
collaboration with David Dowell.
2010 Fragments Solo Exhibition, Review Exhibition Space, Kansas City, MO
2010 Stations Solo Exhibition, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE. Curated by Hesse McGraw
2007 Rehab Solo Exhibition, Review Exhibition Space, Kansas City, MO
2006 Approximate Place Solo Exhibition, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2002 Wichita Lure Project Solo Exhibition, Temporary Outdoor Installation, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
2002 Harmony Solo Exhibition, Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1999 Whirl Solo Exhibition Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1997 New Signals Solo Exhibition, el dorado inc, Kansas City, MO
1996 Signals (Forced Oscillators) Installation commissioned for a benefit for The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Downtown
Airport, Kansas City, MO
1995 Stations Solo Exhibition, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1995 Signals (Fliers) Temporary Outdoor Installation, The Chair Building, Kansas City, MO
1992 Signals Solo Exhibition, University of Nebraska at Omaha Gallery of Art, Omaha, NE
1992 Signals Solo Exhibition, Central Missouri State University Gallery of Art, Warrensburg, MO
1991 Signals Solo Exhibition, Leedy Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
1989 Machines Solo Exhibition, Cottey College, Nevada, MO
1985 Projections Solo Exhibition, Cottey College, Nevada, MO
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019