b. 1983, Cardiff, UK; lives and works in London, UK and Berlin, Germany.

James Richards’s practice explores the intersection of technology, identity, and human experience through a practice of expanded film, video, and installation. He examines themes of obsession and desire through archival research and by using found footage, diverse source materials, audio samples, and personal recordings to build immersive and multi-layered narratives. In its scope, his practice is able to address the relentless flow of imagery in the twenty-first century and yet simultaneously never shies away from creating a quite singular space where the personal, the political and the digital meet. These spaces become waypoints in a practice that more broadly navigates the complexities of contemporary culture, contending with themes such as memory, desire, sexuality, and the impact of digital technologies on our lives. His ability to merge disparate elements into cohesive and evocative compositions creates an arresting interlude in our otherwise saturated world, producing a strange signal within the noise, which leaves a lasting impact on those who encounter his work.

James Richards's recent solo exhibitions include Fevers , Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (2025); Our Friends in the Audience, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2024); Signals...Folds and Splits, Para Site, Hong Kong (2023); Full Burn: Video from The Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2023); When We Were Monsters, Haus Mödrath, Kerpen (2021); Alms For The Birds, Castello Di Rivoli, Turin (2020); Migratory Motor Complex, Collective, Edinburgh (2019); S, with Leslie Thornton, Kunstlerh Stuttgart, Stuttgart (2018); Crossing, with Leslie Thornton, Secession, Vienna (2018); Migratory Motor Complex, Chapter, Cardiff (2018) and Music for the Gift, CymYrun Fenis, Wales in Venice, Venice Biennale, Venice (2017). Group exhibitions include Focus: Recent Videos from the Museion Collection, Museion, Bolzano (2025); Preis Der Nationalgalerie 2024, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2024); THE FIRST FINGER, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2023); WORLD CLASSROOM: CONTEMPORARY ART THROUGH SCHOOL SUBJECTS, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2023); SIGNALS…FOLDS AND SPLITS, Para Site, Hong Kong (2023); WORKERS IN SONG, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2023); La Fabrique du Nous #1 / Des voix traversées, IAC, Villeurbanne (2022); Penumbra, Fondazione In Between Art Film, Complesso dell’ Ospedaletto, Venice (2022); Anathemata, mostyn, Wales (2021); Metabolic Rift, Kraftwerk Berlin, Berlin (2021); Techno, Museion, Bolzano (2021); The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree, Camden Arts Centre, London (2020); Time, Forward!, V-A-C Foundation, Venice (2019); Biennial of Moving Images 2018, The Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, Geneva (2018); Sixty Years, Tate Britain, London (2018); Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017); British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Talbot Rice Gallery (2015-2017); Less Than One, WalkerArtCenter, Minneapolis (2016); The Screen: Sounds of Light, CAPC, Bordeaux (2016); Biennale of Moving Images 2015, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia (2015); Cut to Swipe, MoMA, New York (2014); Burning Down the House, 10th Gwangju Bienniale, Gwangju, South Korea (2014); Turner Prize 2014, Tate Britain, London (2014); Meanwhile ... Suddenly and Then, 12th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon (2013); The Encyclopaedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice (2013) and Frozen Lakes, Artists Space, New York (2013).

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