James Harris is a photographer and artist based in London, working internationally across the worlds of art, design, and architecture. His work has been exhibited at Pace Gallery New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Barbican, Gabrielle Ammann Gallery (Cologne), the Design Museum, and in Seoul with Duson Gallery, hosted by Harper’s Bazaar Art Magazine.
He has collaborated with institutions and practitioners including the Royal Academy of Arts, Domaine de Boisbuchet, Konstantin Grcic, Random International, and Design Miami. His works are held in the permanent collections of the V&A Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts, and numerous private collections worldwide.
Recent highlights include a large-scale photographic artwork in the permanent collection of the Herst headquarters in Seoul and a bronze and ancient oak sculpture currently exhibited at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hanover Square, Mayfair, London.
2025 Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, Hanover Square, London. Elemental Resonance - Nature Reimagined. Centrafugally cast bronze with 5000 year old Fenland black oak.
2024 Herst Headquarters, Seoul, Korea. Large scale photographic artwork acquired for the permanent collection.
2023 Duson Gallery, Seoul, South Korea. Harper’s Bazaar Art, Korea. 10th Anniversary Exhibition. Multiple large scale photographic artworks
2022 SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea. MOM MAM exhibition. Large scale photographic artwork
2020 Photographic and artwork commissions. Developing new photographic and 3D artwork techniques
2019 American Irish Historical Society, 991 Fifth Avenue, New York. Canto XIX, Group Exhibition
2017 Royal Academy of Arts, commission to create a set of images to represent 250 Years of the Royal Academy
2016 Pace Gallery, 537 West 24th Street, New York, large, framed photographic artwork. In conjunction with the Random International, On the Body, exhibition
2016 René Barownick, Marylebone, London, solo show, " Leafscapes ", 4 November 2016 - 30 January 2017
2013 London Design Museum, collaboration with Random International, to create a large scale photographic artwork, representing the Rain Room installation, for the Designer of the Year Awards
2012 Barbican Curve Gallery, framed photographic prints, representing the Random International Rain Room
2012 Gabrielle Ammann Gallery, DC Open Exhibition, framed photographic artwork
2011 Domaine de Boisbuchet ( Vitra / Centre Pompidou ) collaboration with Moritz Waldemeyer
2009 Gohan and Sabuk, Gangwon-Do, South Korea, Artist in Residence
2004 Victoria and Albert Museum, London, photographic print in the permanent collection
1997 London, creating photographic artworks and working on commissioned projects
1996 Hong Kong and China, commissioned projects and photographic art projects
1995 University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Graduated, BA Hons, Fine Art