James Thacker is a New York City based artist with exhibitions
in New York, Philadelphia, Rome and Florence, Italy, and
Luxembourg; most recently at Patrick Fine Arts, New York.

Thacker is featured in the new book Powerfully Beautiful published
by Firehouse Studio Publications, 2009. He will also be featured in
the forthcoming book 100 Artists of the Male Nude published by
Schiffer Publications, 2010.

He received his BFA from the Cooper Union in New York and
has studied with the Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch at the
Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Frankfurt, Germany. Residencies include a two year term as Visiting Artist
at the American Academy in Rome, Italy.

His work is in numerous public and private collections including that of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and that of the Director of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.

Original paintings and drawings are available in the Gallery
and on Ebay; new work listed weekly.