Curriculum Vitae
Born in Chicago in 1956. Lives and works in San Francisco.
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1978 B.S. Mathematics, 1978
2024
Jim Campbell, Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA
2022
- Jim Campbell: Wandering, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019
- Jim Campbell: Closer to Nothing, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Jim Campbell: Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2018
- Jim Campbell: Tilted Plane, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2017
- Jim Campbell: Far Away Up Close, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Jim Campbell: Abstract Document, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
2015
- Jim Campbell: Accumulating Psycho, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China
- Jim Campbell: Ritmos de luz, Espacio Fundación Telefónica Madrid, Spain*
2014
- Indirect Imaging, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
- Light Matter – The Jim Campbell Experience 1990 – 2014, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Jim Campbell: Scattered Light, Edinburgh Place, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Jim Campbell: Eternal Recurrence, International Commerce Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Jim Campbell: New Work, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Jim Campbell: Rhythms of Perception, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
- Jim Campbell: New Work, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
2013
- Jim Campbell: At The Threshold, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
2011
- Jim Campbell: Exploded View, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
- Jim Campbell: Static Time, 20 Years of Electronic Art, Espacio Fundación Telefonica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Scattered Light, Upper Landing Park, St. Paul, MN, in conjunction with the Minnesota Museum of American Art and Northern Spark Festival
- Jim Campbell: Recent Work, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
- Jim Campbell – Material Light, National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Jim Campbell: 4 Works, Hosfelt Gallery, New York
2010
- Jim Campbell: In the Repose of Memory, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum & Roanoke College Galleries, VA (dual exhibition)
- Jim Campbell: New Work, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York*
- Jim Campbell, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2008
- Jim Campbell: Home Movies, Berkeley Art Museum
2007
- Home Movies, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
- Quantizing Effects, Museum of Glass, Tacoma*
2006
- 4300 Watts, Hosfelt Gallery, New York
- Jim Campbell, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
- Quantizing Effects, Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, CA; Knoxville Museum of Art, TN*
2005
- Ambiguous Icons, The Center for Photography at Woodstock
- Jim Campbell: New Work, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
- Material Light, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
- New Work, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
- Quantizing Effects, Site Santa Fe*
2004
- Jim Campbell, Palo Alto Art Center*
- Wavelengths, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
- Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art
2003
- Jim Campbell, University of South Florida Contemporary art Museum, Tampa
- Memory Array, Berkeley Art Museum
- Seeing, Exploratorium, San Francisco
2002
- Data and Time, Nagoya City Art Museum
- Digital Works, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
- Jim Campbell, Gallery 2211, Los Angeles
- Motion and Rest, Arizona State University, Tempe
2001
- Contemporary Configurations, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
- Jim Campbell: Time and Data, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh*
- Time, Memory and Meditation, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
2000
- Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO
- Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
1999
- Transforming Time: Electronic Works 1990-1999, Nelson Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe*
1998
- Reactive Works, San Jose Museum of Art San Jose
1997
- Digital Watch, Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
- Reactive Works, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
1996
- Electronic Art, Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1995
- Dialogue, Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco
1994
- Hallucination, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Salem, NC
1992
- Electronic Art, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
1991
- Hallucination, Fresno Art Museum
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2024
The Stone Age at Bienvenu Steinberg, NY, USA
Day Jobs at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA, USA
Strike Fast Dance Lightly at Norton Museum of Art, FL, USA
2023
We Dream of New Horizons at Noor Riyadh Exhibition, Saudi Arabia
Day Jobs at Blanton Museum at UT Austin, TX, USA
Strike Fast Dance Lightly at The Church, NY, USA
Encode/Store/Retrieve at San Jose Museum of Art, CA, USA
Topologies of the Real at the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China
2022
- Empire of Water, The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
- Kinetismus – 100 Years of Electricity in Art, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
- Coded Realities: Art + Tech, Reeves House Visual Arts Center, Woodstock, GA
2021
- Lumiere Durham 2021, Durham, England
- Super Fusion – 2021 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art and Tianfu Gallery, Chengdu, China
2020
- 20/20: Twenty Artworks Celebrating Twenty Years, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
2019
- DATAFORM: Daniel Canogar, Jim Campbell, and Yorgo Alexopoulos, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blackburg, VA
- Artefact 2019, Stuk Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
2018
- Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- Jim Campbell & Zhang Peili, ‘The Flickering Uncertain, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China
- You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
- New Media, New Millennium: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
- Pushing Buttons, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY
2017
- Dominion, New Media Gallery, New Westminster, BC, Canada
- ELEMENTAL; Marking Time, Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, CA
- Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- Garage Inventors, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Virtual Views, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
2016
- Moving Image: Landscape, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
- ReVisiones: albumes, promesas y memorias, VISIONA, Diputacion de Huesca, Huesca, Spain
- Home Cinema, OCT Art and Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
- Uncertainty, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
- CODE and NOISE, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA. Curated by Christine Duval
- 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Home Cinema, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea
- CODE and NOISE, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. Curated by Christine Duval and part of Currents 2016, The Santa Fe International New Media Festival
- The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Light Show International Tour, CorpArtes, Santiago, Chile. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
- Home Cinema, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
- Particle and Wave, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015
- Jim Campbell: New Work & Collaborations with Jane Rosen, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
- NEAT: New Experiments in Art and Technology, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
- Light Show International Tour, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
- Invento: As Revolucoes que nos Inventaram, OCA Museum, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Marcello Dantas
- By This River, Curated by Michael Solway, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
- All (is) Vanity, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
- Watch This! Revelations in Media Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
- Light Show International Tour, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
- Home Cinema, Exit Festival, Maubeuge, France
- How to Construct a Time Machine, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, England*
- RAM: Rethinking Art & Machine, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, Canada
2014
- Biometric, New Media Gallery, New Westminster, BC, Canada
- Relics, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- Light Show International Tour, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
- Sleuthing the Mind, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
- Hybrid Art 2014, Optical Pavilion at VDNKH, Moscow, Russia
- Family Matters: Living and representing today’s family, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
- Dirge: Reflections on [Life and] Death, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
- Presentism: Light as Material, Young Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2013
- Of Walking, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
- Tilted Plane, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Art and Optics: The Speed of Communication, Espacio Fundación Telefonica, Lima, Peru
- Transposition: Motion is Action, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
- 0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art and Penland School of Crafts, Raleigh, NC*
- On Time/ Grand Central at 100, New York Transit Museum Gallery, New York, NY
- Perth International Arts Festival, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- LUMINOUSFLUX:light works, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- Light Show, Hayward Gallery, London, England*
2012
- In Search of Time, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
- Screen Obscura, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- The Transformative Surface, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
- Look Both Ways, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Rorschach, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY
- Solway Gallery 50th Anniversary, Cincinnati, OH
- Emoção Art.Ficial 6.0 Media Art Biennial, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
- Work by Newly Elected Members & Recipients of Honors & Awards, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
- Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia*
- Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
- SmartSpace, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
- Visions Fugitives, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France
- Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA*
- Selected Histories 20th Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2011
- Jim Campbell & David Rokeby, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- Re-writing Worlds: The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
- Transitio MX: International Electronic Art and Video Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
- Keeping an Eye on Surveillance, The Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
- Walking + Falling: Jim Campbell, Chris Marker, & Eadweard Muybridge, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- At Fifty: Krannert Art Museum, 1961-2011, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
- Time Flies, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Red (Force Fields), David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
- Artist+Artist, Rohde Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
- America: Now + Here, ANH Inc., americanowandhere.org (touring exhibition)
- RAM: Rethinking Art and Machine, THEMUSEUM, Kitchener, ON Canada
- Broodwork: It’s About Time, OTIS College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
- Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
- Blink! Light, Sound and the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2010
- Material Evidence, Beach Museum, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
- Outer/Inner, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
- Shadow Dance, Kunsthal KAde, Amersfoort, Netherlands
- Unexpected Reflections, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
- Wall Drawings, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
- Watch This, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
2009
- Altered States, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
- Art & Electronic Media, Bitforms Gallery, New York
- Artifacts of a Postdigital Age, STRP Festival, KIOSK Gallery, Eindhoven
- Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
- Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten, ZKM, Karlsruhe
- Human Copyright, Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec City
- Inappropriate Covers, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
- Incheon Digital Arts Festival (INDAF) 2009, Incheon Global Fair and Festival
- Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal: Pavel Pavlov et Jim Campbell, SBC Gallery, Montreal*
- Likeness, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
- New Work, Hosfelt Gallery, New York
- Seeing as Believing, Axis Gallery, Sacramento
- Tech Tools of the Trade, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA
- Texting the Torah, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
- Textual Landscapes, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
2008
- 01SJ Biennial, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
- Art+Communication:Spectropia, RIXC, Riga*
- Art Taipei 2008-Art Tech, National Taiwan Museum
- ArteFact Capturing Time-Mapping the Moment, STUK, Leuven*
- Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette*
- California Video, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles*
- Living Room, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
- New Frontier, 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
- Phantasmagoria, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS; Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC*
- Text Memory,Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
- Twilight, ICA Maine College of Art, Portland
2007
- A History of New, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
- ArteFact, STUK Arts Centre, Leuven*
- AXIOM Gallery/Aspect Magazine Exhibition, Boston Cyberarts Festival
- Closed Circuit, Video and New Media at the Metropolitan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- E-Art: New Technologies and Contemporary Art; 10 Years of Action of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Home Sweet Home, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
- Luminaries and Visionaries, Kinetica Museum, London
- Mouth Open Teeth Showing, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
- Outside The Box, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK
- Phantasmagoria, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota
- Speed3, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia
2006
- Art Koln, Cologne, Germany
- Auflosung I High Definition, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin*
- Auflosung II Rausch/en / Signal Noise, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin*
- City Gaze (Die Stadt hat Augen), “Spots” Light- and Media Façade, Berlin
- Crossing the Screen, inter media art institute (IMAI), Dusseldorf
- Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham,MA
- DANM Festival, Museum of Art and History, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Edge Conditions, San Jose Museum of Art
- The First Illusion: The Transitional Object, Palo Alto Art Center
- Icons, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
- Inaugural Exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery, New York
- The Infrastructural Image: Recent Bay Area Video, Film, and New Media Art on the City, Vancouver International Film Center
- Locating the Photographic, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, Australia
- Measure of Time, Berkeley Art Museum
- The Message is the Medium, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York
- Mixed Media Project, Count Down, Milan
- Smart Art / Liet Motiff, European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrueck, Germany*
- What Sound Does a Color Make?, Center for the Visual Arts, Denver; Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore*
2005
- Art Koln, 235 Media, Koln, Germany
- AxS: At the Intersection of Art & Science, Cal Tech and The Armory Center, Pasadena
- Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
- Climax: The Highlight of Ars Electronica, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts*
- Exquisite Electric, Grand Central Art Center, California State University Fullerton, Santa Anna
- Intelligent Distribution: 10 Artists Respond to Technology, University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
- Mois Multi 2006, Les Productions Recto-Verso, Quebec City
- Siggraph 2005, Los Angeles Convention Center
- Singular Expression, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NK*
- Techno Sublime, University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder*
- What Sound Does a Color Make?,Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh; Eyebeam, New York*
2004
- Algorithmic Revolution, ZKM, Karlsruhe
- Gravity and Light, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
- Image and Idea, Gallery C, Los Angeles
- Lineaments of Gratified Desire, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
- Memory, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
- The Passage of Mirage, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
- Time, Space, Gravity and Light, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
2003
- After Image,Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
- Art Apparatus, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
- Bytes and Pieces, San Jose Insitute of Contemporary Art
- The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
- House of the Tomorrow, Experimenta, Melbourne*
- ID/ENTITY: Portraiture in the 21st Century, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
- Microwave03 Festival, Kowloon, Hong Kong
- Surface Tension, The Fabric Museum, Philadelphia
2002
- Artficial Emotion, São Paolo, Brazil Busan Biennial, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum
- Busan Biennial , Busan Metropolitan Museum of Art, South Korea
- Future Cinema, ZKM, Karlsruhe; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; and ICC, Tokyo*
- High Tech / Low Tech Hybrids, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
- Media Art, ZKM, Daejon Municipal Museum of Art, South Korea*
- Situated Realities, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
- Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts, Museum, Taiwan*
- Walkways, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR*
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York*
2001
- Bitstreams, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Conceptual Colors in Albers’ After Image, San Francisco State University
- Eureka Fellowship Show, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
- Figuration, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
- Highlights Festival, Montreal
- Interaction ’01, Gifu, Japan*
- Untitled, Gallery 2211, Los Angeles
2000
- Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria*
- Direct Current, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
- Eureka Fellowship Show, San Jose Museum of Art
- Illuminations, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
- Plugged In, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield
- Scanners, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
- Timekeepers, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
- Vision Ruhr, Dortmund, Germany*
1999
- The Body, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
- Digital Hybrids, McDonough Museum, Youngstown, OH*
- Electronic Art, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati
- Facing Fear, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- New Voices New Visions, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
- The Photographic Image, National Museum, Kwachon, South Korea
1998
- Art & Technology, Duke University Museum, Durham, NC*
- Bay Area Technology Art, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
- Body Mecanique, Wexner Art Center, Columbus*
- Digital Poetics, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles
1997
- 451 Degrees, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- Digital Decisions, Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH
- ICC Bienalle, ICC Center, Tokyo*
- Interaction ’97, Gifu, Japan*
- Meditations in Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Serious Games, Barbican Gallery, London*
1996
- Creative Time-Art in the Anchorage, Brooklyn
- Interactivity, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
- Mortal Coil, Sesnon Art Gallery University of California, Santa Cruz
- Seca Awards Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Techne, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- Transformers, Auckland City Art Gallery*
1995
- Art as Signal, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign*
- Biblio Vertigo, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL*
- Digital Mediations, Art Center College of Design, Pasaden
- Hotel Interactional, Gallery Otso, Helsinki
- Interaction ’95: Dialogue with Media Art, Gifu, Japan*
- ISEA 95, Montreal (Collaboration with Elliott Anderson) New York Digital Salon
- New York Digital Salon, New York
- Press/Enter, Power Plant, Toronto*
- Techne, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles
- Unpredictable Memories, Capp Street Project, San Francisco; collaboration with Marie Navarre
1994
- Color in the Shadows, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
- InterActive,Works Gallery, San Jose
- ThreeVisions, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge,MA
1993
- A New Sensation, Seybold Conference, San Francisco
- Iterations, International Center of Photography, New York*
1992
- Facing the Finish, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art*
1991
- Le Printemps de PRIM, Montreal
1990
- Bay Area Media, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Fifteenth Anniversary Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
- Fifteenth Anniversary Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
- Inner Tensions, Pro Arts Open Studio, Emeryville, CA
2022
- Empire of Water, The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
- Kinetismus – 100 Years of Electricity in Art, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
- Coded Realities: Art + Tech, Reeves House Visual Arts Center, Woodstock, GA
2021
- Lumiere Durham 2021, Durham, England
- Super Fusion – 2021 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art and Tianfu Gallery, Chengdu, China
2020
- 20/20: Twenty Artworks Celebrating Twenty Years, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
2019
- DATAFORM: Daniel Canogar, Jim Campbell, and Yorgo Alexopoulos, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blackburg, VA
- Artefact 2019, Stuk Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
2018
- Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- Jim Campbell & Zhang Peili, ‘The Flickering Uncertain, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China
- You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
- New Media, New Millennium: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
- Pushing Buttons, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY
2017
- Dominion, New Media Gallery, New Westminster, BC, Canada
- ELEMENTAL; Marking Time, Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, CA
- Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- Garage Inventors, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Virtual Views, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
2016
- Moving Image: Landscape, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
- ReVisiones: albumes, promesas y memorias, VISIONA, Diputacion de Huesca, Huesca, Spain
- Home Cinema, OCT Art and Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
- Uncertainty, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
- CODE and NOISE, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA. Curated by Christine Duval
- 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Home Cinema, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea
- CODE and NOISE, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. Curated by Christine Duval and part of Currents 2016, The Santa Fe International New Media Festival
- The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Light Show International Tour, CorpArtes, Santiago, Chile. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
- Home Cinema, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
- Particle and Wave, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015
- Jim Campbell: New Work & Collaborations with Jane Rosen, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
- NEAT: New Experiments in Art and Technology, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
- Light Show International Tour, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
- Invento: As Revolucoes que nos Inventaram, OCA Museum, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Marcello Dantas
- By This River, Curated by Michael Solway, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
- All (is) Vanity, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
- Watch This! Revelations in Media Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
- Light Show International Tour, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
- Home Cinema, Exit Festival, Maubeuge, France
- How to Construct a Time Machine, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, England*
- RAM: Rethinking Art & Machine, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, Canada
2014
- Biometric, New Media Gallery, New Westminster, BC, Canada
- Relics, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- Light Show International Tour, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
- Sleuthing the Mind, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
- Hybrid Art 2014, Optical Pavilion at VDNKH, Moscow, Russia
- Family Matters: Living and representing today’s family, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
- Dirge: Reflections on [Life and] Death, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
- Presentism: Light as Material, Young Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2013
- Of Walking, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
- Tilted Plane, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Art and Optics: The Speed of Communication, Espacio Fundación Telefonica, Lima, Peru
- Transposition: Motion is Action, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
- 0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art and Penland School of Crafts, Raleigh, NC*
- On Time/ Grand Central at 100, New York Transit Museum Gallery, New York, NY
- Perth International Arts Festival, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- LUMINOUSFLUX:light works, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- Light Show, Hayward Gallery, London, England*
2012
- In Search of Time, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
- Screen Obscura, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- The Transformative Surface, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
- Look Both Ways, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Rorschach, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY
- Solway Gallery 50th Anniversary, Cincinnati, OH
- Emoção Art.Ficial 6.0 Media Art Biennial, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
- Work by Newly Elected Members & Recipients of Honors & Awards, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
- Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia*
- Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
- SmartSpace, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
- Visions Fugitives, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France
- Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA*
- Selected Histories 20th Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2011
- Jim Campbell & David Rokeby, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- Re-writing Worlds: The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
- Transitio MX: International Electronic Art and Video Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
- Keeping an Eye on Surveillance, The Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
- Walking + Falling: Jim Campbell, Chris Marker, & Eadweard Muybridge, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- At Fifty: Krannert Art Museum, 1961-2011, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
- Time Flies, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Red (Force Fields), David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
- Artist+Artist, Rohde Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
- America: Now + Here, ANH Inc., americanowandhere.org (touring exhibition)
- RAM: Rethinking Art and Machine, THEMUSEUM, Kitchener, ON Canada
- Broodwork: It’s About Time, OTIS College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
- Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
- Blink! Light, Sound and the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2010
- Material Evidence, Beach Museum, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
- Outer/Inner, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
- Shadow Dance, Kunsthal KAde, Amersfoort, Netherlands
- Unexpected Reflections, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
- Wall Drawings, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
- Watch This, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
2009
- Altered States, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
- Art & Electronic Media, Bitforms Gallery, New York
- Artifacts of a Postdigital Age, STRP Festival, KIOSK Gallery, Eindhoven
- Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
- Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten, ZKM, Karlsruhe
- Human Copyright, Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec City
- Inappropriate Covers, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
- Incheon Digital Arts Festival (INDAF) 2009, Incheon Global Fair and Festival
- Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal: Pavel Pavlov et Jim Campbell, SBC Gallery, Montreal*
- Likeness, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
- New Work, Hosfelt Gallery, New York
- Seeing as Believing, Axis Gallery, Sacramento
- Tech Tools of the Trade, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA
- Texting the Torah, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
- Textual Landscapes, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
2008
- 01SJ Biennial, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
- Art+Communication:Spectropia, RIXC, Riga*
- Art Taipei 2008-Art Tech, National Taiwan Museum
- ArteFact Capturing Time-Mapping the Moment, STUK, Leuven*
- Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette*
- California Video, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles*
- Living Room, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
- New Frontier, 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
- Phantasmagoria, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS; Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC*
- Text Memory,Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
- Twilight, ICA Maine College of Art, Portland
2007
- A History of New, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
- ArteFact, STUK Arts Centre, Leuven*
- AXIOM Gallery/Aspect Magazine Exhibition, Boston Cyberarts Festival
- Closed Circuit, Video and New Media at the Metropolitan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- E-Art: New Technologies and Contemporary Art; 10 Years of Action of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Home Sweet Home, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
- Luminaries and Visionaries, Kinetica Museum, London
- Mouth Open Teeth Showing, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
- Outside The Box, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK
- Phantasmagoria, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota
- Speed3, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia
2006
- Art Koln, Cologne, Germany
- Auflosung I High Definition, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin*
- Auflosung II Rausch/en / Signal Noise, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin*
- City Gaze (Die Stadt hat Augen), “Spots” Light- and Media Façade, Berlin
- Crossing the Screen, inter media art institute (IMAI), Dusseldorf
- Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham,MA
- DANM Festival, Museum of Art and History, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Edge Conditions, San Jose Museum of Art
- The First Illusion: The Transitional Object, Palo Alto Art Center
- Icons, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
- Inaugural Exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery, New York
- The Infrastructural Image: Recent Bay Area Video, Film, and New Media Art on the City, Vancouver International Film Center
- Locating the Photographic, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, Australia
- Measure of Time, Berkeley Art Museum
- The Message is the Medium, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York
- Mixed Media Project, Count Down, Milan
- Smart Art / Liet Motiff, European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrueck, Germany*
- What Sound Does a Color Make?, Center for the Visual Arts, Denver; Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore*
2005
- Art Koln, 235 Media, Koln, Germany
- AxS: At the Intersection of Art & Science, Cal Tech and The Armory Center, Pasadena
- Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
- Climax: The Highlight of Ars Electronica, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts*
- Exquisite Electric, Grand Central Art Center, California State University Fullerton, Santa Anna
- Intelligent Distribution: 10 Artists Respond to Technology, University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
- Mois Multi 2006, Les Productions Recto-Verso, Quebec City
- Siggraph 2005, Los Angeles Convention Center
- Singular Expression, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NK*
- Techno Sublime, University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder*
- What Sound Does a Color Make?,Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh; Eyebeam, New York*
2004
- Algorithmic Revolution, ZKM, Karlsruhe
- Gravity and Light, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
- Image and Idea, Gallery C, Los Angeles
- Lineaments of Gratified Desire, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
- Memory, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
- The Passage of Mirage, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
- Time, Space, Gravity and Light, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
2003
- After Image,Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
- Art Apparatus, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
- Bytes and Pieces, San Jose Insitute of Contemporary Art
- The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
- House of the Tomorrow, Experimenta, Melbourne*
- ID/ENTITY: Portraiture in the 21st Century, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
- Microwave03 Festival, Kowloon, Hong Kong
- Surface Tension, The Fabric Museum, Philadelphia
2002
- Artficial Emotion, São Paolo, Brazil Busan Biennial, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum
- Busan Biennial , Busan Metropolitan Museum of Art, South Korea
- Future Cinema, ZKM, Karlsruhe; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; and ICC, Tokyo*
- High Tech / Low Tech Hybrids, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
- Media Art, ZKM, Daejon Municipal Museum of Art, South Korea*
- Situated Realities, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
- Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts, Museum, Taiwan*
- Walkways, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR*
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York*
2001
- Bitstreams, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Conceptual Colors in Albers’ After Image, San Francisco State University
- Eureka Fellowship Show, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
- Figuration, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
- Highlights Festival, Montreal
- Interaction ’01, Gifu, Japan*
- Untitled, Gallery 2211, Los Angeles
2000
- Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria*
- Direct Current, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
- Eureka Fellowship Show, San Jose Museum of Art
- Illuminations, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
- Plugged In, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield
- Scanners, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
- Timekeepers, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
- Vision Ruhr, Dortmund, Germany*
1999
- The Body, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
- Digital Hybrids, McDonough Museum, Youngstown, OH*
- Electronic Art, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati
- Facing Fear, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- New Voices New Visions, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
- The Photographic Image, National Museum, Kwachon, South Korea
1998
- Art & Technology, Duke University Museum, Durham, NC*
- Bay Area Technology Art, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
- Body Mecanique, Wexner Art Center, Columbus*
- Digital Poetics, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles
1997
- 451 Degrees, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- Digital Decisions, Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH
- ICC Bienalle, ICC Center, Tokyo*
- Interaction ’97, Gifu, Japan*
- Meditations in Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Serious Games, Barbican Gallery, London*
1996
- Creative Time-Art in the Anchorage, Brooklyn
- Interactivity, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
- Mortal Coil, Sesnon Art Gallery University of California, Santa Cruz
- Seca Awards Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Techne, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- Transformers, Auckland City Art Gallery*
1995
- Art as Signal, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign*
- Biblio Vertigo, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL*
- Digital Mediations, Art Center College of Design, Pasaden
- Hotel Interactional, Gallery Otso, Helsinki
- Interaction ’95: Dialogue with Media Art, Gifu, Japan*
- ISEA 95, Montreal (Collaboration with Elliott Anderson) New York Digital Salon
- New York Digital Salon, New York
- Press/Enter, Power Plant, Toronto*
- Techne, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles
- Unpredictable Memories, Capp Street Project, San Francisco; collaboration with Marie Navarre
1994
- Color in the Shadows, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
- InterActive,Works Gallery, San Jose
- ThreeVisions, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge,MA
1993
- A New Sensation, Seybold Conference, San Francisco
- Iterations, International Center of Photography, New York*
1992
- Facing the Finish, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art*
1991
- Le Printemps de PRIM, Montreal
1990
- Bay Area Media, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Fifteenth Anniversary Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
- Fifteenth Anniversary Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
- Inner Tensions, Pro Arts Open Studio, Emeryville, CA
2022
- Empire of Water, The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
- Kinetismus – 100 Years of Electricity in Art, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
- Coded Realities: Art + Tech, Reeves House Visual Arts Center, Woodstock, GA
2021
- Lumiere Durham 2021, Durham, England
- Super Fusion – 2021 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art and Tianfu Gallery, Chengdu, China
2020
- 20/20: Twenty Artworks Celebrating Twenty Years, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
2019
- DATAFORM: Daniel Canogar, Jim Campbell, and Yorgo Alexopoulos, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blackburg, VA
- Artefact 2019, Stuk Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
2018
- Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- Jim Campbell & Zhang Peili, ‘The Flickering Uncertain, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China
- You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
- New Media, New Millennium: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
- Pushing Buttons, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY
2017
- Dominion, New Media Gallery, New Westminster, BC, Canada
- ELEMENTAL; Marking Time, Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, CA
- Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- Garage Inventors, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Virtual Views, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
2016
- Moving Image: Landscape, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
- ReVisiones: albumes, promesas y memorias, VISIONA, Diputacion de Huesca, Huesca, Spain
- Home Cinema, OCT Art and Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
- Uncertainty, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
- CODE and NOISE, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA. Curated by Christine Duval
- 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Home Cinema, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea
- CODE and NOISE, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. Curated by Christine Duval and part of Currents 2016, The Santa Fe International New Media Festival
- The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Light Show International Tour, CorpArtes, Santiago, Chile. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
- Home Cinema, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
- Particle and Wave, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015
- Jim Campbell: New Work & Collaborations with Jane Rosen, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
- NEAT: New Experiments in Art and Technology, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
- Light Show International Tour, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
- Invento: As Revolucoes que nos Inventaram, OCA Museum, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Marcello Dantas
- By This River, Curated by Michael Solway, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
- All (is) Vanity, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
- Watch This! Revelations in Media Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
- Light Show International Tour, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
- Home Cinema, Exit Festival, Maubeuge, France
- How to Construct a Time Machine, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, England*
- RAM: Rethinking Art & Machine, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, Canada
2014
- Biometric, New Media Gallery, New Westminster, BC, Canada
- Relics, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- Light Show International Tour, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand. Organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
- Sleuthing the Mind, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
- Hybrid Art 2014, Optical Pavilion at VDNKH, Moscow, Russia
- Family Matters: Living and representing today’s family, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
- Dirge: Reflections on [Life and] Death, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
- Presentism: Light as Material, Young Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2013
- Of Walking, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
- Tilted Plane, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Art and Optics: The Speed of Communication, Espacio Fundación Telefonica, Lima, Peru
- Transposition: Motion is Action, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
- 0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art and Penland School of Crafts, Raleigh, NC*
- On Time/ Grand Central at 100, New York Transit Museum Gallery, New York, NY
- Perth International Arts Festival, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- LUMINOUSFLUX:light works, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- Light Show, Hayward Gallery, London, England*
2012
- In Search of Time, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
- Screen Obscura, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- The Transformative Surface, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
- Look Both Ways, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Rorschach, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY
- Solway Gallery 50th Anniversary, Cincinnati, OH
- Emoção Art.Ficial 6.0 Media Art Biennial, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
- Work by Newly Elected Members & Recipients of Honors & Awards, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
- Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia*
- Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
- SmartSpace, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
- Visions Fugitives, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France
- Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA*
- Selected Histories 20th Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2011
- Jim Campbell & David Rokeby, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- Re-writing Worlds: The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
- Transitio MX: International Electronic Art and Video Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
- Keeping an Eye on Surveillance, The Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
- Walking + Falling: Jim Campbell, Chris Marker, & Eadweard Muybridge, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- At Fifty: Krannert Art Museum, 1961-2011, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
- Time Flies, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Red (Force Fields), David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
- Artist+Artist, Rohde Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
- America: Now + Here, ANH Inc., americanowandhere.org (touring exhibition)
- RAM: Rethinking Art and Machine, THEMUSEUM, Kitchener, ON Canada
- Broodwork: It’s About Time, OTIS College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
- Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
- Blink! Light, Sound and the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2010
- Material Evidence, Beach Museum, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
- Outer/Inner, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
- Shadow Dance, Kunsthal KAde, Amersfoort, Netherlands
- Unexpected Reflections, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
- Wall Drawings, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
- Watch This, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
2009
- Altered States, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
- Art & Electronic Media, Bitforms Gallery, New York
- Artifacts of a Postdigital Age, STRP Festival, KIOSK Gallery, Eindhoven
- Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
- Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten, ZKM, Karlsruhe
- Human Copyright, Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec City
- Inappropriate Covers, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
- Incheon Digital Arts Festival (INDAF) 2009, Incheon Global Fair and Festival
- Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal: Pavel Pavlov et Jim Campbell, SBC Gallery, Montreal*
- Likeness, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
- New Work, Hosfelt Gallery, New York
- Seeing as Believing, Axis Gallery, Sacramento
- Tech Tools of the Trade, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA
- Texting the Torah, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
- Textual Landscapes, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
2008
- 01SJ Biennial, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
- Art+Communication:Spectropia, RIXC, Riga*
- Art Taipei 2008-Art Tech, National Taiwan Museum
- ArteFact Capturing Time-Mapping the Moment, STUK, Leuven*
- Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette*
- California Video, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles*
- Living Room, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
- New Frontier, 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
- Phantasmagoria, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS; Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC*
- Text Memory,Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
- Twilight, ICA Maine College of Art, Portland
2007
- A History of New, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
- ArteFact, STUK Arts Centre, Leuven*
- AXIOM Gallery/Aspect Magazine Exhibition, Boston Cyberarts Festival
- Closed Circuit, Video and New Media at the Metropolitan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- E-Art: New Technologies and Contemporary Art; 10 Years of Action of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Home Sweet Home, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
- Luminaries and Visionaries, Kinetica Museum, London
- Mouth Open Teeth Showing, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
- Outside The Box, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK
- Phantasmagoria, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota
- Speed3, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia
2006
- Art Koln, Cologne, Germany
- Auflosung I High Definition, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin*
- Auflosung II Rausch/en / Signal Noise, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin*
- City Gaze (Die Stadt hat Augen), “Spots” Light- and Media Façade, Berlin
- Crossing the Screen, inter media art institute (IMAI), Dusseldorf
- Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham,MA
- DANM Festival, Museum of Art and History, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Edge Conditions, San Jose Museum of Art
- The First Illusion: The Transitional Object, Palo Alto Art Center
- Icons, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
- Inaugural Exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery, New York
- The Infrastructural Image: Recent Bay Area Video, Film, and New Media Art on the City, Vancouver International Film Center
- Locating the Photographic, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, Australia
- Measure of Time, Berkeley Art Museum
- The Message is the Medium, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York
- Mixed Media Project, Count Down, Milan
- Smart Art / Liet Motiff, European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrueck, Germany*
- What Sound Does a Color Make?, Center for the Visual Arts, Denver; Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore*
2005
- Art Koln, 235 Media, Koln, Germany
- AxS: At the Intersection of Art & Science, Cal Tech and The Armory Center, Pasadena
- Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
- Climax: The Highlight of Ars Electronica, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts*
- Exquisite Electric, Grand Central Art Center, California State University Fullerton, Santa Anna
- Intelligent Distribution: 10 Artists Respond to Technology, University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
- Mois Multi 2006, Les Productions Recto-Verso, Quebec City
- Siggraph 2005, Los Angeles Convention Center
- Singular Expression, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NK*
- Techno Sublime, University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder*
- What Sound Does a Color Make?,Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh; Eyebeam, New York*
2004
- Algorithmic Revolution, ZKM, Karlsruhe
- Gravity and Light, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
- Image and Idea, Gallery C, Los Angeles
- Lineaments of Gratified Desire, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
- Memory, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
- The Passage of Mirage, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
- Time, Space, Gravity and Light, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
2003
- After Image,Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
- Art Apparatus, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
- Bytes and Pieces, San Jose Insitute of Contemporary Art
- The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
- House of the Tomorrow, Experimenta, Melbourne*
- ID/ENTITY: Portraiture in the 21st Century, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
- Microwave03 Festival, Kowloon, Hong Kong
- Surface Tension, The Fabric Museum, Philadelphia
2002
- Artficial Emotion, São Paolo, Brazil Busan Biennial, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum
- Busan Biennial , Busan Metropolitan Museum of Art, South Korea
- Future Cinema, ZKM, Karlsruhe; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; and ICC, Tokyo*
- High Tech / Low Tech Hybrids, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
- Media Art, ZKM, Daejon Municipal Museum of Art, South Korea*
- Situated Realities, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
- Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts, Museum, Taiwan*
- Walkways, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR*
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York*
2001
- Bitstreams, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Conceptual Colors in Albers’ After Image, San Francisco State University
- Eureka Fellowship Show, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
- Figuration, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
- Highlights Festival, Montreal
- Interaction ’01, Gifu, Japan*
- Untitled, Gallery 2211, Los Angeles
2000
- Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria*
- Direct Current, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
- Eureka Fellowship Show, San Jose Museum of Art
- Illuminations, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
- Plugged In, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield
- Scanners, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
- Timekeepers, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
- Vision Ruhr, Dortmund, Germany*
1999
- The Body, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
- Digital Hybrids, McDonough Museum, Youngstown, OH*
- Electronic Art, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati
- Facing Fear, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- New Voices New Visions, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
- The Photographic Image, National Museum, Kwachon, South Korea
1998
- Art & Technology, Duke University Museum, Durham, NC*
- Bay Area Technology Art, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
- Body Mecanique, Wexner Art Center, Columbus*
- Digital Poetics, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles
1997
- 451 Degrees, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- Digital Decisions, Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH
- ICC Bienalle, ICC Center, Tokyo*
- Interaction ’97, Gifu, Japan*
- Meditations in Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Serious Games, Barbican Gallery, London*
1996
- Creative Time-Art in the Anchorage, Brooklyn
- Interactivity, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
- Mortal Coil, Sesnon Art Gallery University of California, Santa Cruz
- Seca Awards Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Techne, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- Transformers, Auckland City Art Gallery*
1995
- Art as Signal, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign*
- Biblio Vertigo, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL*
- Digital Mediations, Art Center College of Design, Pasaden
- Hotel Interactional, Gallery Otso, Helsinki
- Interaction ’95: Dialogue with Media Art, Gifu, Japan*
- ISEA 95, Montreal (Collaboration with Elliott Anderson) New York Digital Salon
- New York Digital Salon, New York
- Press/Enter, Power Plant, Toronto*
- Techne, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles
- Unpredictable Memories, Capp Street Project, San Francisco; collaboration with Marie Navarre
1994
- Color in the Shadows, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
- InterActive,Works Gallery, San Jose
- ThreeVisions, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge,MA
1993
- A New Sensation, Seybold Conference, San Francisco
- Iterations, International Center of Photography, New York*
1992
- Facing the Finish, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art*
1991
- Le Printemps de PRIM, Montreal
1990
- Bay Area Media, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Fifteenth Anniversary Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
- Fifteenth Anniversary Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
- Inner Tensions, Pro Arts Open Studio, Emeryville, CA
- Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
- Austin Museum of Art
- Berkeley Art Museum
- Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
- Cincinnati Art Museum
- Denver Art Museumde Young Museum, San Francisco
- Fisher Collection, San Francisco
- Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
- Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Newark Museum
- Collection of Phoenix Percent for Art Program
- San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, San Diego International Airport
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- San Jose Museum of Art
- The Society for Arts and Technology [SAT], Montreal
- Collection of the Tempe Arizona Public Art Program
- US General Services Administration, Denver
- University of California, San Francisco
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2023
Untangled Shadows, Health and Sciences Innovation Building, University of Arizona, AZ
Ark, The Emery, Emeryville, CA
2022
Helical Trace, LUMA Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Three Arcs, Water Street, Raybon Plaza, Tampa, FL
2010-20
- Werner Klotz & Jim Campbell Reflecting Ribbon, The New San Francisco Central Subway, Union Square Market Station
2019
- Fragmented Windows, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation, San Francisco, CA
2018
- Day for Night, Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, CA
2016
- Jacob’s Dream: A Luminous Path, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA, with Benjamin Bergery
2015
- Swirl, Cowles Commons, Des Moines, IA
2014
- 8½ x 11, Union Depot, St. Paul, MN
2010-13
- The Journey, San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, San Diego International Airport, San Diego, CA
2013
- Exploded View (Dallas Cowboys), The Art Collection, Dallas Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX
2012
- Constellation, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, San Francisco, CA
2010-11
- San Francisco Arts Commission, Urban Reflection, Lights on Market ARTery Project, San Francisco, CA
- Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York
2009
- Sotto Voce, St. Sulpice Cathedral, Paris, with Benjamin Bergery
2006
- Annonciation / Annunciation, St. Sulpice Cathedral, Paris, with Benjamin Bergery
- Gait Studies in Low Resolution, “Spots” Light- and Media-Façade, Berlin
2005
- Ocean Mirror, University of California San Francisco
- Wave Map, Byron Rogers Federal Courthouse, Denver
2002
- Primal Graphics, Creative Time, Battery Park, New York
2001
- 168 Light Bulbs,Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
- Set design for ODC Dance Troupe, San Francisco
- Building Memory,Westside Center, Tempe, AZ; Tempe Arts Commission 1% for Arts Program
- White Circle, Highlights Festival, Montreal
1998
- Untitled (with Eliott Anderson), San Francisco ArtsCommission 1% for Art Program
1995
- LAC Project, Montreaux, Switzerland, with Su-Chen Hung
1992
- Ruins of Light, America West Sports Arena, Phoenix, AZ; Phoenix Arts Commission 1% for Art Program
2012
- 13th Annual Bay Area Treasure Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Arts & Letters Award, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York
2003-4
Guggenheim Fellowship Award
2002-03
- Langlois Foundation Grant, Montreal, Quebec
2000
- NEA Selection Panelist for Museum Grants
- Langlois Foundation Grant, Montreal, Quebec
- Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria Honorable Mention: Interactive Art
1999-00
- Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship Award in Multimedia
1999-01
- Eureka Fellowship Award, Fleishhaker Foundation
1998
- Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria Honorable Mention: Interactive Art
1996
- Lecture Museum of Modern Art N.Y.
- SECA Award, San Francisco
1994
- Phoenix Arts Commission Selection Jurist for the new Arizona Science Center Public Art Project
- “Artists in Color in the Shadows Show” panel member at California College of Arts & Crafts
1993-97
- Artists Advisory Panel
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2017
Public art expected to change San Francisco skylineSpivack, Cari. KALW.org. November 2, 2017Poetic Pixelation, Perceptual Politics: Jim Campbell @ HosfeltTanner, Marcia. squarecylinder.com. October 2, 2017Preview Of Salesforce Sculpture At Hosfelt GalleryWhiting, Sam. San Francisco Chronicle. September 15, 2017Expressing to the UnconsciousBright, Richard. Interalia Magazine. July, 2017California Today: A Light Installation Atop The Salesforce TowerMcPhate, Mike. New York Times. May 5, 2017Nation’s Tallest Public Art To Top Salesforce TowerWhiting, Sam. San Francisco Chronicle. May 4, 2017
2016
Exhibits Inside Soaring Cathedral, Stark BunkersCharles, Desmarais. San Francisco Chronicle. December 14, 2016In San Francisco, Closing the Gap Between Art and TechSelz, Gabrielle. Hyper Allergic. January 5, 2016
2015
Light Art Flickers To Life DowntownMorain, Michael. The Des Moines Register. December 21, 2015Not Just NEAT, ‘New Experiments in Art and Technology’ DelightsHotchkiss, Sarah. KQED Arts. November 4, 2015Las esculturas luminosas de Jim Campbell llegan a la Gran Vía de MadridCuesta, Isabel. El Pais. June 24, 2015In Conversation With Electronic Artist Jim CampbellCappleman, Nicola. The State Of The Arts. June 22, 2015Laberinto de luzLightecture. February 2015
2014
Jim Campbell: Indirect ImagingAnderson, Darran. Studio International. December 22, 2014Jim Campbell: Indirect ImagingCooper, Neil. The List. December 5, 2014World-renowned artist unveils first UK solo show in DundeeBirchenall, Joe. STV Dundee. November 25, 2014Jim Campbell: Rhythms of PerceptionThompson, Seth. Afterimage Online. July 2014Reviews: Jim CampbellDykstra, Jean. ARTnews. June 2014Philips: The LED Art of Jim CampbellLeahRae. http://www.ledinside.com. April 11, 2014Why Is Jim Campbell’s Low-Res Video Art So Compelling, Even Captivating?Benjamin, Ashton. Artnet News. April 2, 201419 Questions for “Electronic” Artist Jim CampbellCooper, Ashton. Blouin Art Info. March 31, 2014Jim Campbell’s Sculptural LED Light InstallationsRosenthal, Emerson. Vice. March 19, 2014Pixelated: The LED Art of Jim CampbellBehringer, David. design milk. March 19, 2014Charged: Jim Campbell in NYCShin, Nara. http://www.coolhunting.com. March 10, 2014Artist Jim Campbell Takes Over an S.F. Gallery With Fluttering LEDsCuriel, Jonathan. SF Weekly. January 1, 2014
Edited by Steve Deitz. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern Germany, 2010
Jim Campbell: Time and DataWood Street Galleries. Pittsburgh, 2001
Transforming Time: Electronic Works 1990-1999Nelson Art Museum. Tempe, 1999
Quantizing Effects: The Liminal Art of Jim CampbellEdited by Sarah King. Site Santa Fe, 2005