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James Castle Biography
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Born in Garden Valley, Idaho, USA
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1910 - 1915 |
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Attends the Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind, Gooding, Idaho
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1977 |
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Died in Boise, Idaho
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2013
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Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, Serpentine Gallery, London, U.K.
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2012
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Shock of the News, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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2012
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James Castle: Show and Store, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
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2012
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James Castle, Tayloe Piggot Gallery, Jackson, WY
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2012
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James Castle, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
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2012
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Jubilation/Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined, American Folk Art Museum, New York
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2012
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Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
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2011
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Self-Taught Masters of American Art from Important Private Collections in Dallas, Houston,
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2011
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Collage, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
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2011
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Zettels Traum, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
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2011
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James Castle, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany (solo)
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2011
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James Castle – Mostrar y almacenar, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Travels to: K 21 – Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
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2011
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James Castle, Tayloe Piggott Gallery. Jackson, Wyoming (solo)
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2010
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James Castle: Books, Lawrence Markey Gallery, San Antonio, Texas (solo)
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2010
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James Castle: A Retrospective, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA (solo)
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2010
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James Castle & Jane Rosen, J Christ Gallery and Tayloe Piggott Gallery at the Dallas Fair, Dallas, Texas
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2010
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Until Now, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2010
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Castle/Yoakum/Steffen: Works on Paper by Three Major Self-Taught Artists, Russel Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, Illinois
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2010
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1000 Lives, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju Folk Museum, Gwangju, Korea
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2010
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La Collection de Christian Zacharias: La maison et l´infini, Fondation de l`Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
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2010
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James Castle, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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2009
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Tension, Invention, Intoxication and Liberty: Victor Hugo to Martin Ramirez, Jan Krugier Gallery
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2009
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Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary
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2009
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James Castle, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
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2009
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James Castle Drawings: Vision and Touch, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY (solo)
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2009
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James Castle. Tying it together, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho (solo)
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2009
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Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
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2009
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James Castle, Douglas Hayde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
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2009
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James Castle: A Retrospective, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (solo)
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2009
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Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Traveled to: IVAM - Institut Valencià d`Art Modern, Valencià, Spain
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2009
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Your Gold Teeth II, Marianne Boesky Gallery. New York, NY
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2009
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Approaching Abstraction, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
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2008
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James Castle, Selected Works, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2008
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James Castle: Rock/Paper/Scissors – drawings, constructions and sculpture, J.H. Muse Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming (solo)
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2008
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James Castle: A Retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Traveled to: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkely, California (solo)
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2007
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James Castle: Drawings and Found Object Sculpture, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco (solo)
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2007
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James Castle, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, Texas, Catalogue with essay by Allan Gurganus (solo)
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2007
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Unspeakable: James Castle, Andrea Merrell, Wes Mills, J Crist Gallery, Boise, Idaho
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2006
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Rock, Paper, Scissors: American Collage Now, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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2006
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Inner Worlds Outside, Whitechapel, London
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2006
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James Castle—Silent Satire: The Political Cartoon Appropriations, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (solo)
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2006
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James Castle/Walker Evans: Wordplay, Signs and Symbols, Knoedler & Company, Mary 4–August 11. Catalogue with text by Stephen Westfall. (solo)
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2005
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James Castle: Drawings, Constructions and Books Collection of the Boise Art Museum, Boise Art Museum, March 26–June 5, 2005. Catalogue with text by Sandy Harthorn. (solo)
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2005
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James Castle: Icehouse unto Early Attic: Books & Art, Student Union Gallery, Boise State University, Idaho (solo)
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2005
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One Man's Vocabulary, Muse Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming (solo)
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2005
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Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, October 28–December 3. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, curator.
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2005
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150 Works of Art, No Walls, Henry Art Gallery, Univerisity of Washington, Seattle
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2004
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Cut it Out: Collaged Works by American Self-Taught Artists, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY
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2004
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Fabulous Histories: Indigenous Anomalies in American Art, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 21–November 19. Jim Valentine, Brendan Greaves, and Willim Pym, curators.
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2004
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American Art Brut, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
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2004
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Summer Group Show, PDX, Portland, Oregon
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2004
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Elegance of Form: Home, Boise Art Museum
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2003
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American Cutout, New York Studio School, NY
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2002 - 2003
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James Castle: Structures, Knoedler & Company, November 21–January 18. Catalogue with text by Frank Del Deo (solo)
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2002
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James Castle: Works on Paper, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany (solo)
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2002
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Provenance in the Wild West: James Castle & the Icehouse Books, The University of the West of England, Bristol (solo)
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2002
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The Art Books of James Castle, Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts, Columbia College, Illinois (solo)
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2002
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Reputedly Illiterate: The Art Books of James Castle, Library at the Faculty of Art, Media and Design. University of West England, Bristol, England (solo)
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2002
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Gifts in Honor of the 125th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
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2002
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American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
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2002
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Fast Forward II, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California
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2002
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American Vernacular, Ricco/Maresca, New York, NY
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2002
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New Year, New Work, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery at John McEnroe Gallery, New York, NY
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2002
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James Castle, Structures, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
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2002
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James Castle, Works on Paper, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
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2001
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Raw Vision: The First Ten Years, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, Illinois
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2001
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New Year, New Work, New York, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery at John McEnroe Gallery, New York, NY
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2001
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James Castle, James Mayor Gallery, London, England (solo)
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2001
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James Castle, Drawings and Works on Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
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2000
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James Castle, The Common Place, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY. Catalogue with text by John Yau (solo)
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2000
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James Castle, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Georgia (solo)
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2000
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James Castle, House Drawings, The Drawing Center, New York, NY. Catalogue with text by Jay Tobler (solo)
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2000
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Reputedly Illiterate: The Art Books of James Castle, American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, NY. Traveled to the Rutherford Library, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (solo)
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2000
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offsite/online, J Crist Gallery, Boise (solo)
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2000
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New Century, New Venue, New York, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery at John McEnroe Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2000
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An Individual Approach: The Art of James Castle, Boise Art Museum (solo)
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2000
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A Room of His Own, J Crist Gallery, Boise (solo)
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2000
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Making Choices: The Raw and the Cooked, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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2000
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When Reason Dreams, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
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2000
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New Century, New Venue, New York. Fleisher/Ollman Gallery at John McEnroe Gallery, New York, NY
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1998
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A Silent Voice: Drawings & Constructions of James Castle, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (solo)
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1997
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Images in a Silent World: The Art of James Castle, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
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1996
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Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho (solo)
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1996
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Idaho Center for the Book, Boise State University, Idaho (solo)
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1996
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An Amazing Luminous Fountain: The Work of James Castle, J Christ Gallery, Boise, Idaho (solo)
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1994
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Albertson College, Caldwell, Idaho (solo)
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1989
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Works by James Castle, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho (solo)
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1982
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A Voice of Silence: A Retrospective of Works by James Castle, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho;Traveled to: Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, Washington; Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; Paris Gibson Square Gallery, Great Falls, Montana; MSU Fine Arts Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana (solo)
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1981
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James Castle: A Primitive Artist, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (solo)
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1981
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Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, Alaska (solo)
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1980
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A World Without Words, Los Tres Gallery, Longview, Washington (solo)
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1976
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James Castle`s Drawings, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho (solo)
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1974
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James Castle, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
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1967
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The Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
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1965
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A Voice of Silence: Drawings by James Castle, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California (solo)
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1963
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Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho (solo)
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1962
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Bush Barn, Salem Art, Salem, Oregon (solo)
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1962
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A Voice of Silence: Drawings by James Castle, Image Gallery, Portland, Oregon (solo)
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| Selected Public Collections |
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High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
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Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
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Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
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Berkeley Art Museum/ Pacific Film Archive, California
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
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Portland Art Museum, Oregon
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
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Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library, New York, NY
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY
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Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
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Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, Florida
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The Boise Art Museum exhibited and collected his art over more than 40 years and holds now the largest collection of his work
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