w/ Carbon12, Dubai

Borusan Contemporary Art Collection

w/ Carbon 12

Ayyam Gallery, Dubai

w/ Blythe Projects, Los Angeles

James Clar is a media artist whose work is a fusion of technology, popular culture, and visual information. His work explores the limitations of various communication mediums and its effect on the individual and society. Focusing on the visual arts, his work often controls and manipulates light - the common intersection of all visual mediums.

While his early work dealt with analyzing how technology and media work, a move to the Middle East in 2007 has seen his focus shift to how technology and media affect. As an American living in Dubai, his art work has progressed towards deeper conceptual themes. These include nationalism, globalism, and popular culture in the age of mass information, and often analyzes the discrepancy in information between Western media and Middle Eastern media along with its effects on people.

2012

"Segment 2" at Borusan Contemporary, Istabul Turkey
Vienna Art Fair, Vienna Austria
The Sawami Collection II, Ayyam Gallery Dubai
The Dark Side Of The Moon, Carbon 12, Dubai
VOLTA NY, New York

2011

SPM, (Salsali Private Museum ) Show Off, Dubai
THE STATE: SOCIAL / ANTISOCIAL?, Traffic and The Third Line, Dubai
"WESTEND?", Museum on Seam, Jerusalem
Louis Vitton Gallery, Hong Kong
ART FUTURES, ART HK 11
Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Art Dubai 2011, Dubai
I Don’t Need Your Money Honey All I Need is Love, Traffic, Dubai

2010

Art Asia, Miami
THE STATE, Traffic, Dubai
Armed, Abu Dhabi Art 2010, Abu Dhabi
"What goes around, comes around", Galerie Caprice Horn Berlin, Germany
SCOPE BASEL, Basel, Switzerland
'Acceleration', Art Dubai 2010, Dubai Spring

2009

"The Singular Suit", Somerset House, London Fall
"For Your Eyes Only", traffic, Dubai Spring
"My Name is Robot", Jam Jar, Dubai Spring

2008

Galerie Roger Tator, Festival of Light, Lyon Winter
"Cliche in a Box", traffic, Dubai
CHANEL Mobile Art, Tokyo Spring