Images
![This image depicts an artwork by James Bartolacci titled "Sweaty Steamy Night Out." This artwork was created in 2021 and measures 36" x 48" [HxW] (91.44 x 121.92 cm). Its medium is Oil and flashe on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/James-Bartolacci_JB1000_1663103387.jpg)
James Bartolacci
Sweaty Steamy Night Out, 2021
Sweaty Steamy Night Out, 2021
![This image depicts an artwork by James Bartolacci titled "Junlin And Their Handmade Top." This artwork was created in 2021 and measures 24" x 18" [HxW] (60.96 x 45.72 cm). Its medium is Pastel on paper.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/James-Bartolacci_JB1002_1663103390.jpg)
James Bartolacci
Junlin And Their Handmade Top, 2021
Junlin And Their Handmade Top, 2021
![This image depicts an artwork by James Bartolacci titled "Red." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures 40" x 28" [HxW] (101.6 x 71.12 cm). Its medium is Oil and flashe on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/James-Bartolacci_JB1003_1663103390.jpg)
James Bartolacci
Red, 2022
Red, 2022
Exhibitions
James Bartolacci: Time To Leave
It’s Much Louder Than Before
CV
James Bartolacci
- 1988
- Born in Easton, PA
- Lives and works in Queens, NY
Education
- 2020
- MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
- 2012
- BA, Art History Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Solo Exhibitions
- 2022
- Time To Leave, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2021
- Life Without Night, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2022
- Intimacy, Taymour Grahne Project, London, UK
- 2021
- Late Night Enterprise, Galerie Perrotin, New York, NY
- The Gaze, TJ Boulting Gallery, London, UK
- Pleasuretown, Goodtoknow.fyi, Miami, FL
- It's Much Louder Than Before, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; co-organized by Stefano Di Paola and James Bartolacci
- 2020
- Only When You Are Called: Yale MFA Thesis Exhibition, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
- 2019
- Run What You Brung: Yale MFA 2020 First Year Show, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
- 2017
- Got it For Cheap, The Hole, New York, NY
- Westside Exposure, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
- 2016
- From Inside the Whitney: Staff Art Show, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
- Greenpoint Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Public Art
- 2022
- Public Displays of Queer Affection, New York, NY
Bibliography - Articles and Reviews
- 2022
- Yerebakan, Osman Can, 7 Artists on the Resilience of Depicting Queer Intimacy in Public, June 13. (Link)
- Yerebakan, Osman Can, 5 Artists Capturing the Spirit of Nightlife, Artsy, February 2 (Link)
- 2021
- Amadour, Ricky, "Review: It's Much Louder Than Before at Anat Ebgi," California Art Review. September, 15. (Link)
- Brazil, Kevin, James Bartolacci’s Intimate Journey from Nightclub to After Party, Frieze Magazine, July 14. (Link)
- Elephant Magazine, Artist Spotlight, Issue #45, Spring/Summer
- Jansen, Charlotte, The Challenge and Allure of Portraying Sex in Art Today, Artsy, February 12. (Link)
- Interview: Painter James Bartolacci On Queer Nightlife As An Art Form, Something Curated, February 11 (Link)
- 2020
- Sheets, Hilarie: “Newly Minted Artists, Facing a Precarious Future, Take Action,” New York Times, May 19. (Link)