About the Artist


Jimmy Fountain grew up in North Carolina and is currently living and working in New York. He has previously exhibited photographs, film/video, installations, and drawings in galleries, museums, schools and all sorts of other spaces all along the eastern seaboard of the United States. He graduated from the Museum School in Boston in 1994.

Awards

Genart/Banana Republic Emerging Artist Award
December, 2003

Solo Exhibitions

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

Publications/Books

"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
(contributed 1 photograph)

Selected Group Exhibitions

13th Annual Show (curated by Brian Clamp of ClampArt)
Grifin 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 of Lump Gallery) at Branch Gallery, 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 Botanic, Branch New York, Biennial group show, NYC
NYC Dec. 2003

Wish for Color, Sponsored by Genart/Banana Republic Opening Nov. 19, 2003 at Tribute, NYC
Online exhibit launched December 1, 2003

'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)
Sept 1999

Home, Art in General, NYC (film)
January 31, 1997

Fashion, Art in General, NYC (film)
October, 1995