Bio

James Huctwith lives and work in downtown Toronto. Born in 1967, he was raised in rural Southern Ontario. He attended Cayuga Secondary School from 1981 until 1986, graduating with honours from Grade Thirteen. Afterwards, he studied fine art for three years at the University of Guelph, primarily interested in theory, history and architecture - citing professors Suzy Lake and Margaret Priest as influences.

After this, he lived in Vancouver in the early ‘90’s where he first began to paint and exhibit. Returning to Toronto in 1995, he began producing and exhibiting professionally with the O’Connor Gallery. He was with the gallery for a decade, crediting the encouragement and support of the then proprietor, Dennis O'Connor, as "rare, invaluable and crucial to my ability to develop."

The next three years were marked by personal difficulty and marked changes. In the spring of 2005, Huctwith joined Gallery Jones in Vancouver for two years, and produced a run of 'cooled-out' non-figurative works, in contrast to the O’Connor shows which had been physically and emotionally explicit. Huctwith left O'Connor and joined Galerie Harwood near Montreal, also for two years, starting in 2006.  The work produced for this gallery was marked primarily by considered re-interpretations of the still life genre. 

Feeling it was time to regroup and rediscover where he wanted to go with the work, Huctwith moved all his work back to Ontario, placing past work with Galerie La Petite Mort in Ottawa. His first show there, in the fall of 2009, was a success. He signed on with XeXe gallery in Toronto in the summer of 2010.

Both published and regularly reviewed, his work is collected both nationally and internationally.

Solo Exhibitions

November 2011, Galerie La Petite Mort

October 2009, Galerie La Petite Mort            

October 2007, Galerie Harwood

October 2005, O’Connor Gallery

November 2004, O’Connor Gallery

October 2003, O’Connor Gallery

November 2002, O’Connor Gallery.             

November 1999, O’Connor Gallery.           

November 1997, O’Connor Gallery.              

March 1996, O’Connor Gallery. 

Memory Night

An Orgy Of Divergent Errors 

Answered Prayers                    

Continuous Banquet   

New Paintings

Institutional    

Deep Water 

Camera Obscura

Key To The City

Degenerate Art

Oil Paintings

Oil Paintings

Oil Paintings

Oil Paintings and Drawings

Oil Paintings

Oil Paintings

Oil Paintings

Oil Paintings

Oil Paintings

Oil Paintings

Group Shows

October 2010

February 2010

May 2007

August 2006

May 2006

July 2005

November 2000                               

October 2001                           

1996

1994 

Urban Artefacts

Answered Prayers

ArtPositive!

w/ Kevin Bell

International Art Fair  Toronto   

International Art Fair  Toronto      

XeXe Gallery, Toronto

Galerie Harwood

Xpace, Toronto

Gallery Jones, Vancouver

Represented by O’Connor Gallery

Represented by O’Connor Gallery

O'Connor Gallery

Octavia Gallery Opening, Vancouver

Ed Video Group Gallery, Guelph

Published  

2004        

Mondo Homo   

Bruno Gmunder, GmbH  

Alyson Books