James Siena

Born in 1957 in Oceanside (California, US), James Siena lives and works in New York.
James Siena is a seminal artist on the New York art scene. His work, by turns lithographs, engravings, drawings and paintings, involves complex geometrical abstractions established on the basis of a set of rules or “visual algorithms”. The mathematical rigour of the process does not, however, exclude the presence of the artist’s hand and the fragility of a gesture which is constantly repeated.
Siena’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Miles McEnnery Gallery, New York (2022) ; Baronian Xippas Brussels, Belgium (2021); Dieu Donné, New York, NY(2014); Galerie Xippas, Paris, France(2019, 2014); Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2015); Pace Gallery, New York, NY (2019, 2017, 2015, etc); Pierogi, Brooklyn (2014), NY; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; and the University Art Museum, University of Albany, New York, NY(2007); among others.
His work is in numerous institutional collections including the Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Works
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James Siena
CERTACTYLCLOR, 2019
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
190,5 x 152,4 cm -
James Siena
CRUISSRCUEOT, 2019
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
190,5 x 152,4 cm -
James Siena
Large Red and Black Manifold, 2016
Ink on paper
65,4 x 51 cm -
James Siena
Expanded Non-Plankton, 2016
Ink on paper and museum board
29,5 x 23,5 cm (framed) -
James Siena
Non-Map Fragment with Prongs, 2016
Ink on paper and museum board
30,5 x 24,8 cm (framed) -
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Triangle drawing, second version, 2011
Graphite on board
44 x 37 cm (framed) -
James Siena
Scattered Curve, Connected, 2009
Graphite on paper
29 x 23,5 cm (framed) -
James Siena
Connected Hooks with arrows (red), 2011 - 2012
Enamel on aluminium
74 x 57,5 cm -
James Siena
Closed Heliopolis, 2007
Ink on paper
152,5 x 101,5 cm -
James Siena
Floppy Combs, 2011
Enamel on aluminium
49 x 38,5 cm -
James Siena
Sawtoothed Mediterranean Form (île du Levant), 2012
Enamel on aluminium
49 x 38,5 cm -
James Siena
Underdog (Anti-Drain), 2012 - 2013
Enamel on aluminium
49 x 38,5 cm