Jimmy Fountain
Brooklyn, NY
646-591-5629
I am an Artist/Photographer originally from North Carolina now living and working in New York City.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
NY Photo Festival Photo Show, Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Brooklyn, May 2011
Crooks Corner, Chapel Hill NC October 2002
Spoke The Hub, Brooklyn NY April 2002
Glass, Steel Sculpture and Film Installation
The BAG Gallery, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
October 22 to November 3, 1993
Selected Group Exhibitions
Summer Group Show,Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Brooklyn, Summer 2010
Untitled, (2 Person Show curated by Erin Riley-Lopez),Center for Worker Education, CUNY, NYC, Summer 2010
Shot,Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Brooklyn, Fall 2009
Group Show 31, Humble Arts Foundation, Fall 2009
Intro Show, Madarts Gallery, Brooklyn, Summer 2009
Hello Living Art Walk (curated by Anders Knutsson), Brooklyn, Summer 2009
Selected works from 2007/2008, Madarts, Brooklyn, NY, Summer 2008
Winter Group Show, Madarts, Brooklyn, NY, Feb 2008
13th Annual Show (curated by Brian Clamp), Griffin Photography Museum, Winchester, MA, Fall 2007
Blow Up, Stay Gold Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, March 2007
Converter, Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, October 2006
Rockefeller Univ. NYC, NY , April 2006
Pleased to Meet You - an introduction to the Branch Artists, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC, March 2006
Two for the See-Saw (curated by Bill Thelen), Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC, October 2005
3 Unrelated Photographers, Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC, February 2005
NADA art fair, Miami, FL, December 2004
Anima Botanica, Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC, March 2004
Rockefeller Univ., January 2004
Anima Botanica, Branch New York, Biennial group show NYC, NYC Dec. 2003
Wish for Color, Sponsored by Genart/Banana Republic Opening Nov. 2003 at Tribute, NYC
'Get lucky with an emerging artist' Here/Art, NYC Summer 2003
Berkeley Carroll School Benefit, Brooklyn NY, Spring 2003
Life of the City, Museum of Modern art, NYC ,Feb 28, May 21, 2002
Here is New York, NYC, NY, October, 2001
Voyeurism Presented by the Video Lounge at free 103 Williamsburg, NYC (film installation), Fall 1999
Home, Art in General, NYC (film), January 31, 1997
Awards
Genart/Banana Republic Emerging Artist Award
December, 2003
Publications/Books
"Points of Interest", self published with 1 16x20 open editioned print in each book, 2009.
"Now It's Dark", self published with 1 8x10 open editioned print in each book, 2003.
"Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs", Edited by Gilles Peress,
Michael Shulan, Charles Traub, Alice Rose George, Scalo Publishers, 2002
NY Times, NY Times Magazine, Washington Post Magazine, The Believer, Einstein's Tongue and Others
Education
School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, BFA, 1994