James Deeb

I was born in partitioned Berlin in 1964. I remember drawing a lot as a child and making animated movies with lumpy clay dinosaurs.

I have exhibited professionally for over three decades. My work is darkly humorous and melancholy in roughly equal measures. I refer to it as art in a minor key.

I graduated from Indiana University at South Bend in 1988 and received an MFA from Western Michigan University in 1994.

2021 – The Ghosts on the Shore, pop-up exhibition of paintings and drawings, Gallery 900, Evanston, IL

2018 – The Midnight Broadcast, pop-up exhibition of paintings and drawings, art space, Evanston,IL

2017 – Art in Common Cause: Chicago Edition, group exhibition, Hubbard Street Lofts, Chicago, IL
Curator and co-coordinator

2017 – Mythic City, one-person exhibition, Towle Theatre, Hammond, IN

2017 – Unpresidented: Art in Common Cause, group exhibition, SPACE 900, Evanston, IL
Curator and co-coordinator

2016 – Mysterious Creatures, three-person exhibition, Rogue Gallery and Art Center, Medford, OR

2015 – Phenomena, group exhibition, Motor Row Gallery, Chicago, IL

2015 – The Art of Influence: Breaking Criminal Traditions, group exhibition, Schoenherr Gallery of North Central College, Naperville, IL

2012 – The Errant Parade, one-person exhibition, Gallery 180, The Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL

2011 – 25,000 Miles from Home, one-person exhibition, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, MI

2010 – From the Basement to the Attic, two-person exhibition, Southwestern Michigan College, Dowagiac, MI

2010 – The Recurring End, one-person exhibition, South Suburban College, South Holland, IL