About the artist

Ian James was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1981 and lives in Los Angeles. His work has shown at Chin’s Push, Pepin Moore, Charlie James, REDCAT, and has performed at the Hammer Museum, Liz Glynn’s Black Box, Knowledges at the Mt. Wilson Observatory, Night Gallery and Human Resources. He recently published the book Industrial Color/Light Test through Golden Spike, runs the artist project space metro pcs with Matt Siegle, and was awarded a 2014 Rema Hort Mann Foundation YoYoYo grant. He received his MFA at CalArts and is an adjunct assistant professor at Otis College of Art & Design.