Talk:James Siena

Vanity Page

Seems like a vanity page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:36DF:56F0:2461:6161:57DF:4DC (talk) 22:14, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

I don't disagree, there currently is a lot of edits of Siena's personal information without citations, excessive external links, and commercial gallery info sprinkled throughout. It seems like a history of COI edits. Jooojay (talk) 21:11, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

embedded link

Removed embedded link off main space. Return as proper citation if verifiable. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:09, 12 February 2023 (UTC) Printmakers and print programs who have collaborated with James Siena on prints include:

http://www.contemprints.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=141 Center for Contemporary Printmaking (2009 Mystery Artist)]
http://www.dieudonne.org Dieu Donné Papermill
https://web.archive.org/web/20120417180038/http://flyinghorse.cah.ucf.edu/artists.php?id=siena Flying Horse Editions (University of Central Florida)
https://web.archive.org/web/20111004145142/http://www.harlanandweaver.com/artistJS.htm Harlan & Weaver
http://islandpress.samfoxschool.wustl.edu Island Press (Washington University in St. Louis)
http://art.lincolncenter.org/ Lincoln Center Vera List Art Project (2006)
Lower East Side Printshop 
https://web.archive.org/web/20120327185015/http://www.neptunefineart.com/editions/artist/8_James_Siena Neptune Fine Art/Brand X Projects
http://www.paceprints.com/artist/769 Pace Prints
http://www.poligrafa.net/artist.php?id=160 Polígrafa Obra Gráfica
http://www.shorepublishingny.com/ Shore Publishing
http://tamarind.unm.edu/ Tamarind Institute (University of New Mexico)
http://www.ulae.com/jamessiena/index.aspx Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE)
http://www.bookprintmfa.uarts.edu/ The University of the Arts MFA Book Arts + Printmaking
http://www.wassaicproject.org/ Wassaic Project

Moved unsourced CV items off main space

Moved unsourced CV items off main space. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:10, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Awards

James Siena has received several awards during his tenure as a professional visual artist. Some notable awards are listed below:

• 2009–2010 Eissner Artist of the Year Award, Cornell University
• 2000 Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
• 1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Biennial Competition Award
• 1996 Visiting Artist, State University of New York at Albany
• 1995 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting
• 1994 Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts
• 1979 Charles Goodwin Sands Medal, Cornell University
• 1977 Edward Durrell Stone Award, Cornell University

Works in museums

completely unsourced WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:13, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Works by James Siena are part of the permanent collection of the following museums/institutions:

• Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Me.
• Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Me.
• Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Mo.
• Des Moines Art Center
• Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles
• Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
• McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Miami Art Museum
• Milwaukee Art Museum
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Philip Morris Collection, New York
• Progressive Corporation, Cleveland
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Neb.
• Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C.
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Yale University Art Gallery; New Haven, Conn.

excessive bibliography removed

This does not add to our understanding of this artist. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:20, 12 February 2023 (UTC) 1987
Sofer, Ken. “Atelier Conversations.” Art News (Summer 1987).

1996
Arning, Bill. “Art Reviews: James Siena-Pierogi 2000” (exhibition review). Time Out New York, 28 November–5 December 1996: 47, illustrated.
“The Motivations of Young Redefined Abstraction.” Tema Celeste Arte Contemporanea 58 (Autumn 1996): 54, illustrated.
Paparoni, Demetrio, ed. “L’astrazione ridefinita.” Tema Celeste Arte Contemporanea, (Autumn 1996).

1997
Ebony, David. “David Ebony’s Top Ten: James Siena at Christinerose” (exhibition review). artnet.com, 29 December 1997: illustrated.
Pall, Ellen. “The Neo-Dealers.” New York Times Magazine, 1 September 1997.
Smith, Roberta. “James Siena at Cristinerose Gallery” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 17 December 1997: E40, illustrated.

1998
Amy, Michael. “James Siena at Cristinerose Gallery” (exhibition review). Art in America (November 1999): 130, illustrated.
Smith, Roberta. “The Risk of Existence at Phyllis Kind Gallery” (exhibition review). The New York Times; 4 December 1998.

1999
Adams, Brooks. “The Risk of Existence-Phyllis Kind Gallery” (exhibition review). Artforum (February 1999): 93, illustrated.
Grabner, Michelle. “Test Family.” New Art Examiner (October 1999).
Johnson, Ken. “Trippy World at Baron/Boisante” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 22 October 1999.
Kaneda, Shirley. “James Siena: In the Absence of Perfection.” Bomb 67 (Spring 1999): 98–100, illustrated.
Smith, Roberta. “Rage for Art (Pierogi Reborn) at Pierogi 2000” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 19 February 1999.

2000
Cotter, Holland. “With a Nervy Sense of Today.” The New York Times, 25 February 2000: E39.
Cotter, Holland. “New York Contemporary, Defined 150 Ways” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 6 March 2000: E1, E5.
“Galleries-Chelsea: James Siena.” New Yorker; 17 April 2000: 20.
Johnson, Ken. “Reviews: 'Invitational Exhibition-American Academy of Arts and Letters'” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 31 March 2000: E35.
Newhall, Edith. “On View: New York's New Art.” New York Magazine, 28 February 2000: 76.
Ottman, Klaus. “Review: Works on Paper at Baron/Boisante” (exhibition review). Art News (May 2000): 232.
Siegel, Katy. “Review: Greater New York, P.S.1” (exhibition review). Artforum (May 2000): 174, illustrated.
“Working Proof: James Siena.” Art on Paper (July–August 2004): 55.

2001
Cohen, David. “Thank Heaven for Little Pictures.” artcritical.com, 11 November 2001: illustrated.
“Goings on About Town/Galleries-Chelsea: James Siena at Gorney Bravin + Lee” (exhibition review). New Yorker, 29 October 2001: 18.
Hobbs, Robert Carleton. "James Siena, 1991-2001." Daniel Weinberg Gallery (2001).
MacAdam, Alfred. “Reviews: James Siena at Gorney Bravin + Lee, NY” (exhibition review). Art News (December 2001): 140.
Johnson, Ken. “West Side: The Armory Show on the Piers Just Keeps Growing.” The New York Times, 23 February 2001: E33, discussed.
Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: James Siena at Gorney Bravin + Lee” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 26 October 2001: E35.
Johnson, Ken. “Art Guide: Galleries: Chelsea.” The New York Times, 2 November 2001: E37, illustrated.
Kalm, James. “Repetition in Discourse at the Painting Center” (exhibition review). NYArts (November 2001): 77, illustrated.
“Working Proof: James Siena, Nine Prints (1999–2001).” Art on Paper, (September–October 2001): 75, illustrated.

2002
Atkins, Robert. “10 Artists to Watch: Making Connections.” Art News (March 2002): 97, illustrated.
de Vegh, Suzanne. “James Siena, Gorney Bravin + Lee” (exhibition review). Brooklyn Rail. (January–February 2002): 30, illustrated.
Frankel, David. “Reviews: James Siena at Gorney Bravin + Lee” (exhibition review). Artforum (January 2002): 138–139, illustrated.
Koplos, Janet. “James Siena at Gorney Bravin + Lee” (exhibition review). Art in America (May 2002): 146–147, illustrated.
Utter, Douglas Max. “Reviews: Accumulations” (exhibition review). New Art Examiner [undated]: 76.

2003
Baker, Kenneth. “Siena Entwines Abstract Threads.” San Francisco Chronicle, 1 February 2003.
Cohen, David. “Arts & Letters: Review” (exhibition review). New York Sun, 26 June 2003: 15, illustrated.
Dannatt, Adrian. “Contemporary Commercial Galleries.” Art Newspaper (July–August 2003): 138, illustrated.
Fyfe, Joe. “Strange Loops.” Art on Paper (January–February 2003): 44–49, illustrated.
Naves, Mario. “Systematic Spaghetti.” New York Observer, 30 June 2003, p. 26.
Saltz, Jerry. “Out of Line: Draw Me? An Artist Confounds His Dogged Copier.” Village Voice, 2–8 July 2003: 56, illustrated.
Shinn, Dorothy. “New York artist paints by the numbers.” Akron Beacon Journal, 15 April 2003: E9.
Yablonsky, Linda. “Reviews: James Siena-Gorney Bravin + Lee” (exhibition review). Art News (October 2003): 126, illustrated.
Zevitas, Steven, ed. New American Paintings (March 2003): 134–137.

2004
Cohen, David. “Art and Letters: Gallery-Going.” New York Sun, 5 February 2004.
“’Endless Love’ Exhibits Artworks That Required Time and Effort” (exhibition review). Antiques and the Arts Weekly, 2 January 2004.
“Endless Love” (exhibition review). New Yorker, 2 February 2004.
Kimmelman, Michael. “Touching All Bases at the Biennial” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 12 March 2004: E27, E38.
Kramer, Hilton. “This Endless Love Isn’t Really Romantic-It’s Reactionary” (exhibition review). New York Observer, 2 February 2004.
Pagel, David. “They’re Fun and They’re Smart” (exhibition review). Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2004: E23.
“The Art World-What’s New: The Whitney Biennial” (exhibition review). The New Yorker, 22 March 2004: 100–101.
Smith, Roberta. “Emerging Talent, and Plenty of It.” The New York Times, 12 March 2004: E27, E32, illustrated.
Smith, Roberta. “Art In Review: ‘Endless Love’” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 6 February 2004.
Westerbeke, Julia. “Labor of love.” Time Out New York, January 29–February 5, 2004: 69, illustrated.
“The Year in Prints: The First Annual New Print Review.” Art on Paper 9 (November/December 2004): 59, illustrated.

2005
Belcove, Julie L. “Rule Breaker: Artist James Siena Has His Own Ingeniously Complicated, Utterly Mesmerizing Way of Painting.” W Magazine (December 2005): 208–212, illustrated.
Bonetti, David. “Prints and Paintings Provide Strong Gallery Shows” (exhibition review). St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 24 April 2005, Arts & Entertainment: F4, illustrated.
Bonetti, David. “James Siena: Ten Years of Printmaking at William Shearburn Gallery” (exhibition review). Art on Paper (September–October 2005): 73–74, illustrated.
Brady, Sallie. “Young, Focused and Fearless.” Art and Antiques 28 (October 2005): 77, illustrated,
Cohen, David. “Arts & Letters-Gallery Going: When the Rule Ruled” (exhibition review). New York Sun, 3 March 2005: 19+.
Cohen, David. “Arts & Letters - Gallery Going: James Siena” (exhibition review). New York Sun, 17 November 2005: 12.
Cooper, Andrew. “The Transcendent Imperative.” Tricycle (Winter 2005): 73–74, 77, illustrated.
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: ‘Logical Conclusions’” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 18 March 2005: E42.
Harris, Jane. “The ruling class: Seeking the poetic potential of neutral signs” (exhibition review). Village Voice, 16–22 March 2005, Voice Choices: 8.
MacAdam. Barbara A. “Reviews: New York-Logical Conclusions, PaceWildenstein” (exhibition review). Art News 104 (June 2005): 119.
Morgan, Robert C. “Reviews: Logical Conclusions, PaceWildenstein, New York” (exhibition review). tema celeste 110 (July–August 2005): 69.
Naves, Mario. “Maddening Consistency Hampers Siena’s Intricately Pretty Pictures” (exhibition review). New York Observer, 5 December 2005: 18, illustrated.
Ribas, João. “New and Features-The AI Interview: James Siena.” artinfo.com, 27 December 2005: illustrated.
Siena, James. “James Siena In Conversation with Chris Martin.” Interview by Chris Martin. Brooklyn Rail (November 2005):16–17.

2006
Baker, R.C. “Galleries: James Siena.” The Village Voice, 18–24 January 2006.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Annual Report 2005–2006. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University,
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2006: inside front and back cover, illustrated.
Glueck, Grace. “The Enduring Allure of Scratching on Metal [The Museum of Modern Art: The Compulsive Line]” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 9 March 2006: E7, discussed.
“James Siena” (exhibition review). The New Yorker, 23 & 30 January 2006:18.
Kino, Carol. “Op, Op and Away” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). Town & Country (January 2006): 90, illustrated.
McQuaid, Cate. “The Draw of These Abstracts? Changing Plot Lines” (Mario Diacono Gallery exhibition review). The Boston Globe, 9 November 2006: 8C.
Schmerler, Sarah. “The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now at the Museum of Modern Art, New York” (exhibition review). Art on Paper 10 (July/August 2006): 66–67.
Sheets, Hilarie M. “The Big Draw.” Art News 105 (January 2006): 98–103, illustrated.
Smith. Roberta. “Art in Review: James Siena” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 6 January 2006: E34, illustrated.
Smith. Roberta. “Galleries: Chelsea – James Siena: New Paintings and Gouaches” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 20 January 2006: E30.
Twomey, Chris. “James Siena” (exhibition review). www.thenewyorkartworld.com (January 2006): illustrated.
Westfall, Stephen. “James Siena’s Linear Cosmos.” Art in America (April 2006): 120–123, illustrated.

2007
Schmerier, Sarah. “The Exhibitionists.” Time Out New York, 22–28 February 2007: 23, illustrated.

2008
Cohen, David. “Gallery-Going: Abstraction & Adventure––From elaborate construction to raunchy figuration, artists blur the lines” (PaceWildenstein exhibition preview). The New York Sun, 19 March 2008: Spring in the City: S3.
Cohen, David. “Gallery Going: Following, and Breaking, His Own Rules” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). New York Sun, 3 April 2008: Arts & Letters: 22, illustrated.
Beckman, Rachel. “‘Herb and Dorothy’: You Can't Spell Heart Without Art.” Washington Post, 19 June 2008: C5.
“Galleries––Chelsea: James Siena” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). The New Yorker, 21 April 2008: 22.

2009
Richard, Frances. “Tactical Antagonisms.” Art on Paper 14, no. 2 (November/December 2009): 23–26, illustrated.

2010
Asfour, Nana. “Art: Reviews—Morphological Mutiny: Steve DiBenedetto, Alexander Ross and James Siena” (exhibition review). Time Out New York, 14–20 January 2010: 42.
Boehl, Sabine. “Abstraction—The Space of the Image and the Image’s Space in the 21st Century.” RES Art World/World Art, no. 5 (March 2010): 21, illustrated; 22, 24, discussed.
Smith, Roberta. “To the Warp and Weft, Add Vision and Craft.” The New York Times, 26 January 2010: C1+, illustrated.

2011
Finch, Charlie. “Noble or Nibble? Last Train to Dullsville” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). artnet.com, 22 April 2011.
“Galleries—Chelsea: James Siena” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). The New Yorker, 11 April 2011: 10.
Ochmanek, Annie. “Reviews: James Siena, Pace Gallery” (exhibition review). Artforum 49, no. 10 (Summer 2011): 402–403, illustrated.
Yau, John. “Art Seen: James Siena, Pace Gallery” (exhibition review). Brooklyn Rail (April 2011): 56, illustrated.

2014
James Siena, Galerie Xippas, Paris, March 22–April 26, 2014. James Siena: Sequence, Direction, Package, Connection, Dieu Donné, New York, May 10–June 21, 2014.

2015
James Siena, Xippas Art Contemporain, Geneva, January 30–March 14, 2015. James Siena: New Sculpture, Pace Gallery, 508 West 25th Street, New York, March 27–April 25, 2015. James Siena: Typewriter Drawings, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, September 12–October 31, 2015. James Siena: Labyrinthian Structures, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, September 5–December 20, 2015.

2017
James Siena: Drawing, Pace Gallery, 537 West 24th Street, New York, January 12–February 11, 2017.

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