Born in Houston.
1972-73
School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
1972-74
Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Print Annex, Ignacio Ramirez Cultural Center, Instituto de Belles Artes, Universidad de Mexico, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
1974-77
BA Fine Arts, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee (Graduated Magna Cum Laude with departmental honors, Phi Beta Kappa).
1978-79
School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
1980-81
Training Program for Archivists and Field Collectors, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001
Casa de Chavon, Fundacion Centro Cultural, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Charles Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon, September.
2000
Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, September.
1999
Fissure, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
1998
Terrell James: Field Studies, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston.
1997
Terrell James, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (catalogue, essays by Alison de Lima Greene, and Daniel Stern).
1995
Shaker Rag Hollow and Other Perimeters, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston.
1993
Landscape with Memory of Bone, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston.
1992
The Quiet Birth of an Island, Loyola Gallery Downtown, New Orleans.
1991
The Lure of Things That are Seen and Heard, C.G. Jung Center, Houston.
Shroud of Field and Stone, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston (catalogue with dialogue with Edward Snow).
1989
Archaic Figures, Graham Gallery, Houston.
1985
Scarred Enclosures, Sacred Walls, Graham Gallery, Houston.
1982
Mixed Media on Paper & Wall Constructions, Graham Gallery, Houston.
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2000
Monoprints; John Calaway and Terrell James, Tembo Cerling Print Studio, Houston.
1997
With a Quiet Strength: Virgil Grotfeldt/Terrell James, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas (curated by Clint Willour).
1996
Anne Burke/Terrell James, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2000
Houston Sculpture 2000; Eighteenth International Sculpture Conference; group exhibition, Meredith Jack studio, Houston, May-June.
Leandro Erlich, Joseph Havel, Terrell James, Dean Ruck, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas, January 22-April 23. (Curated by Hiram Butler.)
Recent Works on Paper: Vernon Fisher, Joseph Havel, Terrell James, Dean Ruck, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, January 15 - February 15.
Winter Group Show, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, Oregon, January.
1999
Dutch Triodos Bank, Free International University World Art Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, permanent installation.
Shanghai Art Fair, represented by Mohseni Fine Arts, Limited, fall l999.
Between Image and Object, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, September 18-December 31, l999. (Curated by Tracy Hicks, catalogue.)
Twentieth Century American Women, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 19-August 8.
A New American Sublime: Contemporary Landscapes from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March-April.
Sensibilities: From Representation to Abstraction; Recent Paintings, Drawings & Prints By Terrell James, Caroline Jones, Michael Kennaugh, Bobby Mohseni at the HK Visual Arts Certre, Hong Kong,April l999.
U.S. Embassy residence, public rooms, Mexico City, Mexico.Rotating exhibition, Americans in the Collection, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo.
1998
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
1997
Coleccion Permanente, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City,District Federal.
1996
The Texas Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Texas Modern and Post Modern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (curated by Alison de Lima Greene).
1994
Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, D.F.
1993
Ink & Wash: Drawings by Moira Dryer, DeWitt Godfrey, Terrell James, Brice Marden and Robert Wilson, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston.
"Texas Contemporary" Acquisitions of the ‘90s, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Seeing the Forest Through the Trees, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (curated by Lynn M. Herbert).
1991
Texas Dialogues: Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, BlueStar Art Space, San Antonio, traveled to Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas (Houston segment curated by Diana Block).
Recent Acquisitions, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico, D.F.
1990
Direct References: Drawings by Texas Artists, Glassell School of Art, Houston (curated by Liz Ward).
1989
Another Reality, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston (traveled to McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; catalogue).
1988
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York.
1987
Small Wonders, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas.
1985
Art for Art’s Sake, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.
Poland/Houston Art Exchange, group of Houston work touring Poland (curated by Derek Boshier). Echo, DiverseWorks, Houston.
1984
On/Off the Wall: Six Artists, DiverseWorks, Houston.
1983
A Roster of Artists, Graham Gallery, Houston.
1979
Pow-Wow, Houston Area Miniature Show, Inaugural Lawndale Annex Exhibition, University of Houston (Organized by Bert Long and James Surls).
1976
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Barrett Collection, Dallas
Bering Realty Corporation, Houston
Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Christ Church Cathedral, Houston
El Paso Energy, Houston
Enron Corporation, Houston
Exxon Chemical, Darien, Connecticut
Free International University World Art Collection, Triodos Bank, Amsterdam
Fundacion Vergel, Cuernavaca
Frito Lay, Plano
Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Arts Collection, The Portland Art Museum, OR
Houston Lighting and Power Collection, Houston
Norman T. Reynolds, Houston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of the University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Rice University Print Collection, Houston
SBC Communication, Inc., San Antonio, TX and St. Louis, MI
Southern Crow Music, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Technical Risks, Inc., Houston
Texaco, Inc., Houston
Touche Ross and Company, Houston
University of St. Thomas, Houston
Vitol, Houston
Willamett Industries, Paper Group, Portland, OR
