Todd James

Todd James (born 1969) is a contemporary artist from New York City. Self-taught, he started tagging the New York City Subway system under the name REAS when he was very young. James designed the Beastie Boys' Brooklyn Dust Elephant logo (1987) The Source (Magazine) logo as well as Mobb Deep, Red Man, Eminem, Kid Rock. Art from his coloring book/zine Attitude Dancer was used as a cover for Iggy Pop's Beat em up album . Todd Was the puppet designer for Crank Yankers on Comedy Central produced by Jimmy Kimmel and Jack Hole productions. He is also one of the artists who was commissioned to create a version of the Dungeons & Dragons ampersand for the digital magazine Dragon+.

Contents

• Five a side meets beach soccer umbro vs by todd james
• world domination todd james lazarides
• Selected solo exhibitions
• Selected group exhibitions
• References

He created, with Barry McGee and Steve Powers, Street Market at New York City's Deitch Projects. This exhibition was selected for the 2001 Venice Biennale. In 2004, he also participated in the group exhibition Beautiful Losers which travelled to several museums in the US. The Street Market installation was Re built and expanded for the L.A. MOCA "Art in the Streets" in 2011.

His works have been shown at numerous museums and galleries worldwide, like the Tate Liverpool, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts or the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Philadelphia.

His distinctive cartoon-style paintings are very ironic. Todd's paintings reflected a variety of influences, including the pop culture and American expressionist painters such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline.

Selected solo exhibitions

2015

Fantasy Island, Lazarides Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2010

Infinity Lessons, A.L.I.C.E. gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Great Adventure, Galería Javier López, Madrid, Spain

Make My Burden Lighter, Gering & López Gallery, New York City, New York, United States

2009

Disaster, Monster Children Gallery, Australia

Double Disaster, Don't Come Gallery, Australia

Don't Stop Get it Get it, Colette, Paris, France

2008

Blood & Treasure, Lazarides Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2007

Trouble, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected group exhibitions

2010

Brush Strokes, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Album exhibition, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009

The Paper Chasers, Ohwow, New Zealand

The New Yorkers, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2008

The Outsiders, The Lazarides Gallery, New York City, New York, United States

Destruction of Atlantis, Union Gallery London, United Kingdom

2007

Paper Trails, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2006

High Math, V1 Gallery Copenhagen, Denmark

Arkitip, Venice Beach, October, Todd James and KAWS, Venice, Italy

Arkitip, Tokyo, December, Todd James and KAWS, Tokyo, Japan

2005

Beautiful Losers, Contemporary Museum Baltimore, June 25 - Sept 25, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Beautiful Losers, Orange County Museum of Art, February 6 - May 15, Orange County, California

2004

Beautiful Losers, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, March 13 - May 15, Cincinnati, Ohio

Beautiful Losers, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, October 3, San Francisco, California, United States

2002

Beloved Fiend, Todd James, Tate Liverpool Biennal, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Pot o Gold 3, PAM Gallery Australia, Perks, Delta, Australia

2001

Tits and Ass, Todd James and Jamil GS, Huston Gallery, Seattle, WA

Pot o Gold 2, Todd James, Chris Johanson, and James Jarvis, PAM Gallery Australia, Perks, Australia

2000

Street Market, with Todd James, Steve Powers, Barry McGee, Deitch Projects, New York City, New York, United States

Street Market, with Todd James, Steve Powers, Barry McGee, Parco Gallery, Japan

Untitled 2000, Japan Group show Keith Haring Foundation, Japan

Street Market, with Todd James, Steve Powers, Barry McGee, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

1999

Indelable Market, Todd James, Steve Powers, Barry McGee, Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

1998

Daze/Crash with guest Reas, Recent Works, Pallazzo Enrico Coveri Florence, Florence, Italy

Adventures of the Four Letter Word, with Steve Powers