Bio
BIO
James Bullough is an American born artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. His studio paintings, and huge monumentally scaled site-specific murals combine delicately handled realistic portraiture with harsh graphic distortion and abstraction. Inspired by the gritty urban graffiti he saw as a young artist growing up in Washington, DC, Bullough harnessed it’s energy and edge while teaching himself more traditional realistic oil painting techniques by studying the Old Masters. Combining the momentum of the one and the technical precision of the other, his work is about staging compelling contrasts and juxtapositions. Whether working with spray paint on massive facades or oils in his studio, Bullough’s work strikes a delicate balance between realistic portraiture and stylised distortions, straddling the space between traditional and contemporary.
Bullough’s studio work has been exhibited at numerous galleries, museums, and art fairs across the globe and with multiple sold out solo shows to his name his work continues to be in high demand. His murals can be found world wide with landmark pieces in New Zealand, Sweden, France, Germany, Mexico, The Ukraine, and throughout the US.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Dec 2021 Scope Art Fare (Miami art week) – Mirus Gallery, Denver Co. / Miami USA
Feb 2020 ‘Parallel Truths’ – Thinkspace Gallery – Los Angeles California USA
Dec 2017 Scope Art Fare (Miami art week) – Thinkspace Gallery featured artist – Miami USA
May 2016 ‘Breaking Point’ – Thinkspace Gallery – Los Angeles Ca. USA
Feb 2015 Transcendence – Art Whino Gallery – Washington DC USA
EXHIBITIONS
March 2025 The Ürban Art Expo – Haus der Visionäre, Berlin Germany
Feb 2025 Kirk Gallery – Denmark
Jan 2025 ‘PERSEVERANCE: 20 Years of Thinkspace’ – Brand Arts Center, Los Angeles CA
March 2024 Hydra Expo – Berlin Germany
March 2023 Goldshteyn Saatort Gallery – Paris France
Oct 2023 Goldshteyn Saatort Gallery – Paris France
Jan 2023 Galeries Bartoux – Paris France
Sept 2018 Urban Nation Museum – Second show – (Permanent Collection) – Berlin, Germany
Dec 2017 Juxtapoz Magazine Clubhouse – Miami USA
Sept 2017 Urban Nation Museum – Grand Opening – (Permanent Collection) – Berlin, Germany
June 2017 (Feature Artist) LAX/DTW – Innerspace Gallery– Detroit USA
May 2017 Flourish – MESA Contemporary Arts Museum – Mesa AZ USA
Feb 2017 POW! WOW! – Honolulu Museum of Art – Honolulu HI USA
March 2016 Scope art fair – NYC USA
Dec 2015 The Reason for the Season – Stolenspace Gallery – London UK
Dec 2015 Scope art fair – Miami Fla USA
Sept 2015 Brotherhood – Johathan LeVine Gallery currated by Yasha Young – New York, NY. USA
June 2015 Vitalitiy and Verve – Long Beach Museum of Art, Thinkspace Gallery, & POW WOW
Long Beach – Long Beach Ca. USA
June 2015 LAX/DTW – Currated by Thinkspace Gallery at Inner State Gallery – Detroit MI USA
Feb 2015 The 2nd Annual POW! WOW!: Exploring The New Contemporary Movement –
Honolulu Museum of Art – Honolulu HI USA
Dec 2014 Thinkspace Gallery Showcase – Aqua Art Fare – Miami, Florida USA
May 2014 LAX/TXL – Currated by Thinkspace LA. at Urban Nation – Berlin, Germany
Aug 2013 All My Stars Exhibition – Strychnin Gallery – Berlin, Germany – (JBAK)
Aug 2013 Project “M” – Urban Nation Museum– Berlin, Germany – (JBAK)
July 2013 The Circle Show – Urban Spree – Berlin, Germany
Dec 2012 Metropolitan – Strychnin Gallery – Berlin, Germany
Sept 2012 re:MMX – MMX Gallery – Berlin Germany
April 2012 Various – CoVerlag Gallery – BerlinGermany
Jan 2011 ENCORE – MMX Gallery – Berlin, Germany
Oct 2010 Show VII – MMX Gallery – Berlin, Germany
April 2010 Featured Artists Group Show – De Castellane Gallery – Brooklyn, NY USA
NOTABLE MURAL PROJECTS
Nov 2024 ‘Untitled’ – Berlin Germany – Drontheimer Str. Private mural commission
March 2024 ‘Untitled’ – Berlin Germany – freestanding mural sculpture for the Hydra Expo
June 2024 ‘Desert Rose’ – Mexico City – private mural commission for hotel
Oct 2023 ‘Untitled’ – Denver Mural Project – lead artists on roughly 35×300 foot mural
Aug 2023 ‘Satisfied Mind’ – Berlin Germany – collaboration with artists Kkade and Onur Dinc
May 2023 ‘Freedom Fist’ – Roanoke Virginia USA – private commission mural – collaboration
with artist Onur Dinc
Oct 2022 ‘Untitled’ – Shine on St. Pete Mural Festival – St. Petersburg Florida
Aug 2022 ‘Untitled’ – Berlin Germany – Drontheimer Str. – private mural commission
collaboration with Onur Dinc
June 2022 ‘Untitled’ – Braedstrop Denmark – private mural commission – collaboration with
artist Onur Dinc
Sept 2021 ‘Untitled’ – Bolougne-ser-Mer France – 4 murals on 4 different buildings in 10 days -
collaboration with artists Li-Hill and Onur Dinc
April 2021 ‘Twinbrook’ – Rockville, Maryland USA – private mural commission on a 4 story
parking garage
April 2020 ‘Untitled’ – Fort Lauderdale – private mural commission on the roof-top pool deck of
a beachfront hotel
Feb 2019 ‘Untitled’ – Los Angeles California USA – private mural commission just outside of
the Staples Center
Oct 2019 ‘Untitled’ – Silver Spring, Maryland USA – private mural commission in historical
downtown Silver Spring MD
June 2019 ‘Niamh Chinn Oir’ – Artscape Mural Festival – Goethenburg Sweden
June 2018 Las Vegas Circus Center Mural – Las Vegas Nevada USA – private commission
May 2018 ‘Unified’ – Berlin, Germany – Berlin Mural Festival – Bernburger Str. 4, Kreuzberg
collaboration with TelmoMiel
Feb 2018 ‘Untitled’- Hawaii USA – Pow Wow Hawaii
Oct 2018 ‘Untitled’ -Washington DC USA – Private mural commission on two neighbouring
14 story buildings
Sept 2017 ‘Untitled’ – Berlin Germany – Commission by the Urban Nation Museum for their Grand
Opening at Bülowstrasse
March 2017 ‘Pania of the Reef’ – Napier, New Zealand – for SeaWalls “murals for oceans”
July 2016 ‘Rise’- Kiev, Ukraine – Art United Us Project