James Nares was born in London in 1953 and currently lives and works in New York. In 2008, Anthology Film Archives hosted a complete retrospective of his films and videos.
Read MoreNares, film STREET was the centre piece of an exhibition of the same name at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013. STREET was also exhibited at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (2014); Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT (2014); Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, NE (2014); North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC (2014); and the Wadsworth Antheneum in Hartford, CT (2013) among others. His work is included in a number of public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
In Spring 2014, Rizzoli published the first monograph dedicated to James Nares’ work in all media over the last four decades.