James Walsh (b. 1954) is an American painter known for works that merge tactility of relief with the expansive possibilities of color and surface. He earned his BA from Rutgers in 1976 and an MFA from Syracuse in 1980, where he was introduced to a lively community of artists and critics that helped shape his independent artistic path.

Over the course of four decades, Walsh has exhibited widely in the United States, Canada and Europe. His solo exhibitions include Galeria Joan Prats (New York, 1985 and 1988), Flowers East (London, 1991), Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon, 1997), Long Fine Art ( New York, 2001), Spanierman Modern ( New York, 2012), Baker Sponder (Florida, 2015) and Berry Campbell (New York, 2014 and 2020).

Walsh has also participated in group exhibitions beginning with the Newark Museum Biennial of New Jersey Artists (1977), and international surveys such as Five American Artists at Galeria Joan Prats (Barcelona, 1983).

For the past two decades Walsh has served as the Director of the Sam and Adele Golden Gallery and has written essays on Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Kikuo Saito and Susan Roth.

Central to his practice is an insistence on invention over repetition. Walsh describes his paintings as ‘one-off experiences’, the result of continually testing boundaries of material and form.  This search has defined an extensive body of work that remains rich in color, deeply textured, and uncompromising in its’ originality. Walsh is represented by Berry Campbell in New York.