• Sculpture
  • Form
    • Sculptural Landscapes
    • Bullets
    • Nipple Pots
  • Figurative
    • Great Horned Owl
    • Venetian Lions
    • The White Giraffe
  • Studio
  • About
  • Contact

James Salaiz

  • Sculpture
  • Form
    • Sculptural Landscapes
    • Bullets
    • Nipple Pots
  • Figurative
    • Great Horned Owl
    • Venetian Lions
    • The White Giraffe
  • Studio
  • About
  • Contact
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Exhibitions


2017  Collective Design Fair, New York

2017  Cristina Grajales Gallery, "Exhibitionist Group Show", New York

2016  Cristina Grajales Gallery, "Spring Group Show", New York

2015  Leslie Lohman Museum, "Interface", New York

2015  FOG Design + Art Fair, San Francisco

2014  Design Miami

2014  Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland

2014  Collective Design Fair, New York

2014  FOG Design + Art Fair, San Francisco

2013  Design Miami

2013  Expo Chicago

2013  Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland

2013  Collective Design Fair, New York

2013  Cristina Grajales Gallery, "Winter Group Exhibition", New York

2012  Portal + Gallery, Perth Australia

2012  Cristina Grajales Gallery, "Pegasus", New York

2012  Design Miami

2012  Cristina Grajales Gallery, "New York, New York", New York

2011  Design Miami

2011  Pavilion of Art and Design, New York

2011  Comme des Garcons Trading Museum, Tokyo

2011  Comme des Garcons Trading Museum, Paris

2011  Dover Street Market, London

James Salaiz is a sculptor and ceramicist based in New York City.  He first experienced clay as a young child in San Antonio, Texas.  Here he took ceramic classes and was immediately drawn to the material’s malleability, elasticity and ability to take on any form.  This early obsession eventually led James to the ceramic program at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa.
There he spent 4 years mastering his craft and learning how to make clay, mix his own glazes, and build raku and fire salt kilns.  He also experimented with thrown and hand-built forms and graduated with honors from Cornell College with a Bachelor's of Special Studies in ceramics and photography. He worked for ceramic artists in Boulder, Colorado and San Francisco and in 2002 moved to New York.  There he found work in the studio of iconic potter Jonathan Adler. In 2011, James's sculpture was introduced to the avant- garde Japanese designer, Rei Kawakubo. Following a studio visit from Adrian Joffee, President of their conceptual fashion brand Comme des Garcons, Rei invited James to exhibit his sculptures at Comme des Garcons' Trading Museums in Paris and Tokyo and at her London design outpost, Dover Street Market. New York gallerist Cristina Grajales discovered James’s work at the London exhibition and has represented him and exhibited his work worldwide for 6 years. His work spans thrown forms (the “Bullet” series), realism (the “Horned Owl”), and abstract minimalism (“Architectural landscapes”.)