James Klyman-Mowczan
Individual
Alternate Names
James K-MRoles
Artist, CuratorBiography
James K-M’s painting and sculpture is abstract, geometric, and metaphysical. Since returning to painting (from digital) in 2006, his solo exhibitions include, Cave Paintings (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, 2008), and Sefirot (Zack Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2012), with work in group exhibitions Paleofuturity (Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, Ontario, 2011), Los Artistas Magos, (Council of Fine Arts, Camagüey, Cuba, 2009/10), The Geometry of Knowing (Audain Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2015), The Pull of Repetition (North View Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2016), Farmacia at the 13th Havana Biennial, 2019, and Complicit Landscapes, at the 14th Havana Biennial, 2022. His most recent solo exhibitions were Pyramids and 777 at Conduit Gallery, Vancouver, in 2019, and at The Point Gallery on Salt Spring Island, 2021. K-M has given artist talks at Simon Fraser University, the Museum of Anthropology (Vancouver), Camagüey Council of Fine Arts (Cuba), the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Montreal and Amsterdam), and at the 13th Havana Biennial in 2019. In 2012, K-M was artist-in-residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, Connecticut. In 2013, following a trip to Mexico City, he turned to sculpture. Between 1991 and 2006, K-M created digital paintings and exhibited interactive works worldwide. In 1997, he was nominated Bravo TV Digital Artist of the Year (1997) and went on to curate five annual digital print exhibitions, and co-found the Digitalis Digital Art Society (2001-2005). Since 2020, James K-M has lived on Salt Spring Island, BC. He has been painting and exhibiting in Canada and internationally since 1978.Salt Spring Arts, 2024