1980 BFA Photography, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1975 - 1977 Photographic studies, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC 1972 - 1975 Liberal Arts studies, St. Thomas University, Miami Gardens, FL
Awards/Grants/Fellowships
2018 Meyer Award for Contemporary Art, Venice Work, Main Line Art Center, Haverford,PA 2012 - 13 Independence Foundatioin Artist Fellowship, Berlin:Landscape of Memory Project 2011 Lishui International Photo Festival, Lishui, China, Honored Guest Photographer 2008 – 09 Artist Career Development Fellowship, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia 2002 SOS Grant for Exhibition Support, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts 2001 Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts 1983 Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts 1975 – 77 Core Scholarship Student, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 High Tide, Low Tide, High Tide, Windows on Latimer Street, The Print Center, Philadelphia,PA
2019 Florintina Photographs of Florence with Flowers by Clara Platter, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, Pa
2018 Bridge Works, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pa
2018 BridgeWorks, 1st Solo Exhibition at Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
2018 What IS & What IF 14th Annual Meyer Memorial Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA Selections from Venice: Where it was, as it was, Venezea: Com'era, dov'era, project 2015 The Landscape before Me: Cape Cod 2000 - 2012, Saint Joseph's University Gallery, Phila. PA 2013 Berlin Images for the performances of the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra Fall of the BerlinWall Concert, Ignat Solzhenitsyn conductor,
part of The Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts One person, Exhibition of Photographs, Berlin:Landscape of Memory, CFEVA Gallery PA 2012 Making Way:Defining the Urban Landscape of the Ben Franklin Bridge, Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Pictures Gallery 2011 The Landscape Before Me: Cape Cod 2000-2011, Lishui Photo Festival, Lishui China 2009 Cape Cod: Works in Progress, Photographs by James B. Abbott, Warwick, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Wellfleet Landscapes, Photographs by James B. Abbott, Wellfleet Public Library, Wellfleet, MA 2006 The Landscape Before Me: Cape Cod, Photographs by James B. Abbott, J. David Broudo Gallery of Art, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 2005 The Landscape: Photographs by James B. Abbott and Robert Asman, Art Works Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2004 Bridge Works, The University Gallery, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA 2002 Bridge Works: Constructed Photographs of the Ben Franklin Bridge, Exhibit 231 Gallery,Philadelphia, PA 2000 The Bridge on the Horizon, Exhibit 231 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1994 Jim Abbott: Berlin, 1988-1992, Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA 1987 Bridge Series Work, Gunn Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Unfolding, Group Exhibitionof Cherry Street Arts, Philadelphia Contemorary, Philadelpephia, PA
2019. Seeing Old City, 83 ON, Photographic Projects by James B Abbott and James Wasserman, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Made in Italy: Italy Intensives Exhibition, Wellington Gray Gallery, ECU, Greenville, NC. Principal exhibitor with 45 prints from Florence
and Venice projects. 2013 New England Photography Biennial, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA 2013 Philadelphia Open Studios with Bryon Wolfe, Exhibit 231 Gallery,Philadelphia, PA 2013 Community of Artists Show, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA 2013 Tyler School of Art Faculty Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA 2013 Galleries at the Chamber, CFEVA Selects, Bridge Work, Philadelphia, PA 2013 American Life, Shi Jia Art Museum, Shijihuang,China 2012 American Life, Group Exhibition of Twenty American Photographers to tour China Curator Yan Li, High Noon Art and Culture 2012 The Print Center: Four Photographers of the Landscape, Long Beach Island Foundation, LBI, NJ 2011 Documentary Pix: Philadelphia, A Century of Change, Free Library of Philadelphia 2010 Art of the State, Pennsylvania 2010, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA 2009 Streets of Philadelphia, Photography 1970 – 1985, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Perspectives, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA Sneak previews: CFEVA Presents, Philadelphia Foundation, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Selections, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 2007 Art of the State, Pennsylvania 2007, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA Perkins Center for the Arts, Morristown, NJ 2006 Works from the Dune Shack, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA Art of the State, Pennsylvania 2006, State Museum of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, PA (Third Place Award, Photography) Works on Paper, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA Print Center 80th Annual International Competition, Philadelphia, PA (Philadelphia Museum Purchase Award) 2004 Print Center 78th Annual Photography Competition, Philadelphia. PA Photography Now, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA Spectra ‘04: National Photography Triennial, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT 2002 Suspended in Time: The Ben Franklin Bridge, Rutgers Center for the Arts, Camden, NJ 2001 New. Land. Marks, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA 1992 20/20 Vision, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1991 Pennsylvania Photographers, Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA 1989 150 Years of Photography in Philadelphia, Museo Bardini ,Florence, Italy
Select Commissions
2001 – 2018 Architectural and Urban Street photography for Center City District/Central Philadelphia Development Corp, Annual reports, collateral, web 2016 - 2017 Curate and Install 30 photographic works from three bodies of work for permanent display in corporate offices of Paratek Pharmaceuticals 2011 Portraits of the Cultural Community, Greater Philadelphia, Cultural Alliance, Philadelphia,PA 2009 Large Scale Architectural/Urban Photographs of Philadelphia for public space in Philadelphia, PA 2003 – 04 Creating Sacred Places, Transcultural Initiative Project for Rutgers University and NJN Public TV, Site photography - architectural, interiors, portraits, of Under Ground Railroad Church and Buddhist Temple for exhibition, web, cd, catalog 2000 – 02 Landscape Photography for Laurie Olin of Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, PA Sites include: American Academy in Rome, National Gallery Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Bryant Park & Wagner Park, NYC 2000 New. Land. Marks. Site photographs for Fairmount Park Art Association,Book,Web,and Exhibition at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1998 Philadelphia Underground, Photographer for Philadelphia Magazine feature Text by Mark Bernstein 1983 – 84 Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Urban Photography for a Series of award winning posters
Designed by Willi Kunz of Willi Kunz and Associates, NY 1980 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Architecture Department, Photography for Daniel Libeskind Project: Symbol and Interpretation,
catalogue, poster and exhibition at Suomen Rakennustaiteen, Helsinki, Finland
Organized and Curator for
2002 Sandy Sorlien, Photographs from Fifty Houses: Images from the American Road, Oneperson exhibition and book signing, Exhibit 231 Gallery 2001 Geanna Merola; Poetic Transmissions: Hand altered photographs, One person show Exhibit 231 Gallery John Geard, System and Chaos, Paperworks and Artist Books, One person show, Exhibit 231 Gallery, show and lectures part of PPC Joel Katz: Paris Dreamwalk, Photographic Assemblages, One person show, Exhibit 231 2000
Carl Toth; Photo-Montages 1970-2000, The Eye Evolves, One Person show, Exhibit 231 2000 The Bridge on the Horizon Show, Exhibit231, Gallery Research and curate three part exhibition of the Ben Franklin Bridge;
Urban Landscape photographs 1982-2000 by James B. Abbott with drawings and photographs from the bridge archives of the
Delaware River Port Authority
Artist Residencies
2018-2021 Artist in Residence Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA 2007 C-Scape Dune Shack Residency, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown, MA 2003 Outer Cape Artist in Residency, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown, MA Visiting Artist Lectures 2018 East Carolina University, School of Art and Design,Greenville, NC 2014 Society of Photographic Educators, National Conference, Berlin: Landscape of Memory, Collaboration projectwith the Philadelphia Chamber Orgestra , Baltimore, MD 2010 Tyler School of Art,Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 2007 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA 2006 Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 2007 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Professional Experience 1983 - 2019 Freelance Photographer, National & International experience, Principal clients: Graphic Designers, Art Consultants, Architects, Curators, Landscape Architects, Non Profits, Corporations 2013 - 2018 Adjunct Professor, Italy Intensives Program,East Carolina University, Certaldo, Italy 2012 - 2013 Adjunct Professor, Tyler School of Art,Temple University, Philadelphia,PA 2012 Adjunct Professor, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia,PA 2003 – 04 Senior Lecturer, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1999 – 03 Founder/Director, Exhibit 231 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1993 Adjunct Professor, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1984 – 85 Assistant, Burk Uzzle, Photographer 1983 Gallery Director, Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY 1981 Art Reproduction Photographer, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1978 - 79 Teaching Assistant, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1977 Intern Light Gallery, New York, NY
Collections
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection, Philadelphia, PA Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia, PA Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Field, Philadelphia,PA