Member, NASAD Commission on Accreditation
Relected October 2021, term ends October 2024
James Sullivan is Professor of Sculpture in the Division of Art at Southern Methodist University (SMU). At SMU, he has received three University awards for teaching, including the Altschuler Distinguished Teaching Professorship. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the Hochschule der Kunste Berlin and acted as a visiting critic in drawing at the Yale School of Architecture. He has lectured widely on sculpture, materiality, the locus of the body in material images, and the meaning of digital approaches to sculpture in relationship to haptic experience and the physical self.
Professor Sullivan’s sculpture is centered on the body, located in the figurative image itself as well as through objects that construct a more haptic abstraction of bodily forms, spaces and experiences. Much of his recent work has been developed in digital form, using haptic modeling and CAD systems coupled to 3-D printing and prototyping as well as industrial fabrication. He has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Meadows Museum of Art, Dallas; Amerika Haus, Berlin; Galerie Muhlenbusch, Düsseldorf; and the Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau. His work has appeared in over 50 group exhibitions, and he has been appointed to numerous residencies.
Professor Sullivan was first elected to the Commission on Accreditation in 2018. He served as a member of the Board of Directors from 2014 – 2018.
Professor Sullivan earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from California State University, Long Beach, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Yale University.
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Updated October 2021