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James Howard Exhibited at The Saatchi Gallery

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James Howard
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2007

46 digital prints

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“All of the images and quite a lot of the text were hijacked from real spam emails in my junk folder. I collaged them together to make new narratives. It’s all done with Photoshop, but I also use other kinds of graphic software that’s been cracked – I try to keep my work quite faithful to how real Internet scammers do it. Spam preys on our insecurities and needs; in the privacy of our own homes everything becomes much more available and dangerous. I often make installations with monitors, but used digital prints for this work to reference the adverts in the back of magazines. It’s like the gallery space can be divided into advertising plots, with wall space sold off by the square metre. I think of this piece as a portrait of today and my work is a sort of on-going social commentary. I work with urgency to get as much of this stuff processed before it’s entirely lost: soon spam filters will be so advanced that we’ll forget what a spam email ever was.”





































James Howard
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2007

46 digital prints






Other artists in
Black Mirror: Art as Social Satire

Simon Bedwell    Richard Billingham    Steve Bishop    Clayton Brothers    Michael Cline    Jessica Craig-Martin    Justin Craun    Aaron Fowler    Gao Brothers    Valerie Hegarty    David Herbert    James Howard    Des Hughes    Scott King    Douglas Kolk    Wendy Mayer    Dominic McGill    Aleksandra Mir    Ben Schumacher    Anne Speier    Roman Stanczak    John Stezaker    Jade Townsend    Marianne Vitale    Bedwyr Williams

James Howard's Biography

James Howard
Born in 1981, Canterbury, UK
Lives and works in London, UK


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2011
Authorized, Aubin Gallery, London, UK

2010
Black Money, Peifen Fine Art - 21 Fleet Street, London, UK

2009
Reputable Company, Sartorial Gallery, London, UK
Dirt Cheap Flights to Classy Paradise, CRATE, Margate, Kent, UK

2008
James Howard & Mai-Lin Tan "Guang Dong Heart Beating Quickly Quickly, Peles Empire, London, UK

2007
James Howard in The Regions, Marksman Gallery, Reading, UK


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2013
New Age of Aquarius - Duve, Berlin, Germany.
From Here On - Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.

2012
Ray 2012 / Making History, Frankfurter Kunstverein Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
From Here On, FotoMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium (Rencontres d' Arles touring)
Technicolour Yawn / Gaehn, Import Projects, Wittenbergplatz, Berlin, Germany
Technicolour Yawn / Gaehn, Import Projects- toured to Karst, Plymouth, UK
Big Love, Catch in association with FORT, 22 Kingsland Road, London.
Pop Molecule - The Appearence of Science, Aubin Gallery, London, UK.
Rock Paper Scissors, Galleria UNO UNO, Milan, Italy

2011
From Here On, Atelier de Mécanique, Rencentres d' Arles, Arles, France
Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, Calafornia, USA
Tetragram for Gathering, Detroit, Stockholm, Sweden
Apocalypstick, The Nunnery Gallery, London

2010
Newspeak- British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
The Future can Wait, (Charlie Smith) Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Cheap Flights, Fortress Studios, London
FRESSEN UND GEFRESSEN WERDEN, Peles Empire, London
Paper Monument – We Pictured You Reading This, REDUX, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Elementology, 1646, Den Haag, Netherlands

2009
Everyday Altered –Gallery Primo Alonso, London
The Free Art Fair - Barbican Centre, London
FIFTHYEARS, SARTORIAL Gallery
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
MILK PLUS, (Special Don’t Worry Chemical) –Curated by Mai-Lin Tan
Plastic Culture - the Legacy of Pop, UK touring exhibition
Virtual Insanity, Cinders Gallery, New York

2008
Super - Cilia, Royal Liver Building, Pier Head, Liverpool
Promises, Terrence Higgins, London Art Fair, London

2007
Seven Hundred and Twenty Eight Days Later, Marksman Gallery, Reading
12 2 1, Canary Wharf, London
Royal Academy of Arts MA Graduation Exhibition, London

2006
Krakow Castle RA/KRA – Group show (Curator, Exhibitor) Krakow, Poland
Nationwide Mercury Art Exhibition, Covent Garden, London
Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London