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As a gay man, James Horner is a queer chronicler who educate the public and diverts discrimination from his tribe. He has been creating artworks for over 20 years; has an M.F.A. in painting from Lehman College, Bronx, NY; is a member artist and board member at the Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY; started a queer artist collective; and he is a member artist of the Teleportal artist collective, the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and the Scorchzine zine publisher.
Horner focuses on ordinary queer folk, their issues, and LGBTQ+ icons like Marsha P. Johnson and David Wojnarowicz (gay rights activists). Trying-on different mediums, he focuses on figurative painting, but also experiments with drawings, sculptures, and zines.
Artworks have been shown in “Magenta Lounge,” a public art show of his queer collective, with projections in a building’s windows in Chicago and regular exhibits in New York – The Bronx Museum (2024), The Painting Center, Studio 9D, and Satchel Projects (2023); Amos Eno Gallery (2023, 2019); and at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (2019, 2017, 2015, 2013).
Recent residencies include: Atelier Artist Residency, Dangue, France (2024); DNA Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA (2024 and 2023); Uncool Artist, Brooklyn, NY and Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY (2023) where his queer icons zine and prints were added to the museum’s permanent archive. And he received a scholarship at EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (2024), a grant from Visual AIDS (2023) and in 2011 he won the Out Magazine, Lights Out Sleepwear Challenge. Visit https://www.jameshornerart.com/ and follow @jamesandthelovelies
Living in New York, James Horner is a visual artist who attempts to educate the public and divert discrimination from his LGBTQ tribe. Influenced by a father who was a psychiatrist, his tales reflect the environmental psychology of the queer community such as social settings and natural environments. His subjects include LGBTQ icons and everyday folk.
Horner focuses on painting, but also explores drawing, sculpture, and most recently zines. In his revelations, figures are abstracted to the grotesque and overwhelmed by their environments expressing their world’s stressors. He develops four paintings at a time for creative learnings and takes from photographs and real life.
Horner starts his works with a line drawing, usually of figures in some kind of background. The composition can be based on images from photographs or real life. Next based on the drawing, he adds details with paint, marker, mica chip, glass beads, and graphite and keeps laying down more mediums; erasing and building up surfaces, until the painting is finished.
During Horner’s M.F.A. program at Lehman College (2011), he focused on abstract and grotesque works. In 2013 he exhibited at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art with a group of HIV artists from the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC). Horner continued exhibiting with the group at the museum in 2015, 2017, and 2019.
As his practice developed, he focused more on investigating queer lifestyles and issues. In 2019, he exhibited, “Village,” that questioned male/female personas in a policing gender show at the Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
In 2022, he moved to a full-time artist, making work on a regular basis, taking continuing education art classes, working in residencies, and joining art collectives like Teleportal, schorchzine (zine publisher), and starting a queer artist group with their first public art exhibit, "Magenta Lounge," in Chicago in 2025.
James Horner
235 Garth Road, Apt. A3B, Scarsdale, NY 10583
Contact: 646-764-2721 • jameshornerart@gmail.com
www.jameshornerart.com • Instagram: @jamesandthelovelies and #jameshornerart
Education
2023 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Fall/Spring Residency Alumni Network Courses
2021 – 2022 Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY, Two Beginning Hand Building Courses
2013 – 2017 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, CE Studio Art Coursework
2011 Lehman College, Bronx, NY, M.F.A., Painting
2004 – 2009 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY; School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, CE Studio Art Coursework
1990 Pace University, White Plains, NY, M.B.A., Marketing
1987 SUNY Albany, Albany, NY, B.A., Communications, Minors: Business and Art
Group Exhibitions/Events
2023
"BLINK" Projection Exhibit, Building on Corner of Grand/State
Streets, Chicago, IL
"Yonder Crush," Satchel Projects, New York, NY
2022 "SVA’s Artist Residency Programs Open Studios," School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
"GHP Artists Exhibition," Greenwich House Pottery, New
York, NY
2021 "Beach Ball Art Auction," Boys and Girls Club of Bellport, Bellport, NY
2019 "Art and AIDS: Allegria," Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
"CRIMINALIZE THIS! The Social Policing of Gender and the Criminalization
of Queerness," Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 "The Same River Twice," Lehman College, Bronx, NY
2017 "Art & AIDS: Soldiers of Survival," Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
"GMHC Gala Art Auction," Cipriani, New York, NY
2015 "Inspire, Collaborate, Create," Variety New York, NY
"Art and AIDS: Amore y Passion," Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
"Nova Illa," Dacia Gallery, New York, NY
2014 "Masquerade" (Solo Show), Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
"Lehman College Faculty/MFA Students Exhibition," Krasdale Foods Gallery, Bronx, NY
"The Housingworks' Design on a Dime," Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY
2013 "What They Were Thinking," Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
"Art and AIDS: Perceptions of Life," Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
2012 "Fall Open Studios and Community Conversations," Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
"Days of our Lives," (solo show) The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2011 "Tylenol PM Awards Fashion Show - James Horner's Sleepwear Designs," New York, NY
2010 "The Wicked Twins: Fame and Notoriety," Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Residencies
2022 School of Visual Arts Summer Residency Program, Fine Arts: Painting and Mixed Media, New York, NY
2015 Dacia Gallery, Winter Study of the Figure Residency, New York, NY
2012 – 2013 Gallery Aferro Studio Residency, Newark, NJ
Art Writing
2010 Bronx Art Guide, Contributing Writer (no longer published)
2009 – 2016 Examiner.com, Manhattan Fine Arts Examiner, (no longer published)
Publications
2012 “The Wicked Twins: Fame and Notoriety,” Catalogue, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University
2011 “The Beach Ball Art Auction Catalogue,” The Boys and Girls Club of the Bellport Area
“The Urban Situation,” Catalogue, Educational Alliance, New York, NY
“Housing Works Design on a Dime Auction Catalogue,” Housing Works
2009 “Exquisite Corpse: Paul Robeson Galleries 30th Anniversary,” Catalogue,
Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
Press
2013 “In the Galleries: Art & AIDS: Perceptions of Life,” Advocate, December 17, 2013
“ART & AIDS: Perceptions of Life, An Exhibition of the Humanity, Spirit, and
Love of Artists Living with HIV & AIDS Dec. 19, 2013 – Jan. 5, 2014 Leslie-Lohman Museum,” The Journal 48, The Journal of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Winter 2013
Leroux-Lindsey, Angela, “Perception as Muse In Anticipation of an "Upcoming, Art & AIDS, Exhibit, Participants Share Their Perspectives
About Creative Inspirations," A&U America’s AIDS Magazine, December 2013
2011 “Tylenol PM Lights Out Sleepwear Design Challenge Winner: James Horner,” Out Magazine, September 2011
“Tylenol PM Lights Out Sleepwear Design Challenge, Congratulations James Horner,” Out Magazine Website, June 2011
“Scene + Heard: Sleepwear Takes The Stage At Out’s Pride Party,” Next Magazine.com, June 27, 2011
2010 “Off the Wall Part 1: Thirty Performance Actions, John Baldessari’s I will never make boring art again,” Whitney Museum of American Art website, July 2010
Salerno, Dominic, “They See Differently,” Bronx Art Guide, June 2, 2010,
Figueroa, Xavier, “Lehman Opens its Studios,” Bronx Art Guide, June 2, 2010
2009 Feit, Tiehla, “Student Artists Portray Anxiety,” Lehman College's The Meridian, March 2, 2009
Experience
2010 Graduate Painting, Fall Semester, Teacher Assistant for Dannielle Tegeder, Lehman College, Bronx, NY
2010 Artist talk in conjunction with The Wicked Twins: Fame and Notoriety, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University – Newark, NJ
Awards
2011 Winner - OUT Magazine, Tylenol PM, Lights Out Sleepwear Design Challenge. Spread in Out Magazine and fashion Show with sleepwear designs.
Permanent Collections
Paul Robeson Galleries Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Shah Alam Gallery, Malaysia