James Siena

American (born 1957)
Born in 1957, James Siena received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University. In 1977 he received an Edward Durrell Stone Award and in 1979, a Charles Goodwin Sands Medal, both from Cornell University. In 1994 he was the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting and, in 1999 he won a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award at the Invitational Exhibition. In 2000 Siena received an Award in Art from the 2000 Academy of Arts and Letters. Selected Exhibitions and Releases: 1995 “Wheel of Fortune”, Lombard/Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY 1997 “Current Undercurrent”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY 1999 “Invitational Exhibition”, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 2001 “Accumulations”, Kent State University, Kent, OH 2002 “New Editions: Monoprints”, Pace Prints, New York, NY 2003 Solo exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA