Upcoming Exhibition
2024 "Mighty Real Queer Detroit"
Kayrod Gallery - Detroit, MI; Hatch Gallery - Hamtramack, MI
Solo Exhibitions
2015 "Improvisations" -- ArtNxt Gallery,
Birmingham, MI
2009 “Short Stories” -- Lemberg Gallery,
Ferndale, MI
2007 “James Stephens, A Mid-Career Retrospective”
Oakland University Art Gallery,
Rochester, MI
2005 “Ecotone” – Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
1996 “Fiction” - Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1995 “Recent Paintings” - Bunting Gallery,
Royal Oak, MI
1992 “New Paintings” – Feigenson Preston Gallery,
Birmingham, MI
1990 “New Paintings” – Feigenson Preston Gallery,
Birmingham, MI
1988 “New Work” – Broadway Gallery, Detroit, MI
Group Exhibitions
2022 "Mighty Real Queer Detroit"
Various Galleries - Detroit, MI
2018 "Annual Competition"
Beverly Art Center - Chicago, IL
2018 "Evanston and Vicinity Biennial"
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2013 "Annual Competition" -- Beverly Art Center,
Chicago, IL
2012 "Apocalypse" -- University of Wisconsin,
Whitewater, WI
2011 “Forty for Forty”
Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2011 “Meticulous Detail: Conservators’ Paintings”
Architrouve Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 “Ten Years of Contemporary Art” – Oakland University, Rochester Hills, MI
2008 “Spirit” – Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2006 “Summer Group Show” – Lemberg Gallery,
Ferndale, MI
2005 “Summer Group Show” – Lemberg Gallery,
Ferndale, MI
2004 “Gallery Artists” – Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
1998 “Three Painters” – Detroit Contemporary
Gallery, Detroit, MI
1996 “Male Nude: A contemporary perspective” – Artswatch, Louisville, KY
1996 “Goddesses” – Center Gallery, Detroit, MI
1996 “Movable Feast” – Bunting Gallery,
Royal Oak, MI
1995 “Visions America” – Gallery Ten, Ft. Worth, TX
1994 “Is There Still Life In Chicago?” –
Hinsdale Center for the Arts, Hinsdale, IL
1994 “Figurative Exhibit” –
Buckingham Fine Art Project, Flint, MI
1993 “Group Show” – Feigensen Preston Gallery,
Birmingham, MI
1992 “Provocative” – Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 “Recession Proof Art” – Peter Miller Gallery,
Chicago, IL
1990 “Gallery Selections” – Feigenson Preston,
Birmingham, MI
1990 “New Work” – Feigenson Preston Gallery,
Birmingham, MI
1989 “New Work” – Feigenson Preston Gallery,
Birmingham, MI
1988 “Bye” – Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1987 “Choices: Twenty Painters from the Midwest”
MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN, & Evanston Art Center,
Evanston, IL
1987 “Invitational” – Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1986 “Apocalypse” – Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI
1986 “Detroit and Vicinity” – Detroit Focus Gallery,
Detroit, MI
1984 “Slide Review Committee Selections”
Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1983 “Painting and Drawing” – Detroit Focus Gallery,
Detroit, MI
Selected Bibliography
Sharp, Sarah Rose, Hyperallergic, Surreal Still Lifes of Objects and Their Memories, November 30, 2015
Hodges, Michael, The Detroit News, "Brash Stephens at ArtNxT" October 29. 2015
Hodges, Michael, The Detroit News, “Two shows offer playful, abstract art” July 22, 2010
Carducci, Vincent, Art In America, “James Stephens at Oakland University Art Gallery” April, 2008, p 172 .
Manisto, Glenn, Metro Times, “A Lost City,” November 18, 2005, p 30
Provenzano, Frank, The Detroit Free Press, “Stephens Sees a World,” December 15, 1996, p 4J
Colby, Joy, The Detroit News, “His Work is Fiction,” November 21, 1996, p 8H
Colby, Joy, The Detroit News, “Stephens New Exhibit,” September 12, 1992, p 3C
Pasfield, Veronica, Detroit Monthly, “Urban Visions,” September 1990 p 12A
Colby, Joy, The Detroit News, September 21, 1990,
p 4C
Collections
Detroit Institute of Arts - Detroit, MI
Wayne State University - Detroit, MI
University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, WI
Little Caesar's Inc. - Detroit, MI