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 Antonio Arch Fine Arts Ltd. in Toronto, and signing up with Galerie La Petite Mort in Ottawa. His first show there, in the fall of 2009, was a success.
Both published and regularly reviewed, his work is collected both nationally and internationally.
Solo
Exhibitions
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.
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 and Drawings
Oil Paintings
Oil Paintings
Oil Paintings
Oil Paintings
Oil Paintings
Oil Paintings
Group
Shows
February 2010
May
2007
August
2006
May
2006
July
2005
November
2000
October
2001
1996
1994
ArtPositive!
w/ Kevin Bell
International Art Fair Toronto
International Art Fair Toronto
Galerie Harwood
Xpace, Toronto
Gallery Jones, Vancouver
Represented by O’Connor Gallery
Represented by O’Connor Gallery
Octavia Gallery Opening, Vancouver
Ed Video Group Gallery, Guelph
October 2006
2004
Stripped: The Illustrated Male
Mondo Homo
Bruno
Gmunder, GmbH
Alyson Books