James Brinsfield

James Brinsfield was born in Chicago and lived in Massachusetts and Germany as the son of a career military officer. While in high school in Massachusetts he was awarded a scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where he attended weekend drawing classes. Thereafter he moved to Chicago and earned a BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MFA in painting and studied with noted abstract film maker Stan Brakhage. 

Brinsfield has 17 one-person shows in his exhibition history including exhibitions in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Kansas City. He is the first painter awarded a Charlotte Street Fund Award. He has been reviewed in Art in America  three times as well as reviews published of his work appearing in Art News, Flash Art,  Contemporanea, The Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post and the Kansas City Star. His paintings are in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. He is a Lecturer in the painting department of the Kansas City Art Institute.

Brinsfield is scheduled to have a one-person exhibition at Haw Contemporary in the spring of 2014.