About James Welling

  • Biography

    James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a post modern artist*. He earned both a BFA and an MFA at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he studied with, among others, Dan Graham. He emerged in the 1970s as a post conceptual* artist for whom photographic norms and the representational" field itself were and remain contested and problematized. Welling lives and works in Los Angeles.

    During his career, Welling has experimented with different photographic mediums, including Polaroids, gelatin silver prints, photograms and digital prints.

    Having studied under John Baldessari at CalArts and exhibited with Sherrie Levine at Metro Pictures, Welling began his career in the so-called Pictures Gene...

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