Director

James Elaine

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 0All crew credits: 4

TMDB ID: 3237860

Known for: Directing

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Career span: 2003 - 2022

Years active: 20

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Biography

James Elaine formally trained as a painter and later began experimenting with video. While he has worked as an artist for more than three decades, he is equally celebrated as a visionary curator who has discovered and championed many of the greatest artists of our times when they were just emerging. He worked as a curator at the Drawing Center in New York and later at the Hammer Museum at the University of Los Angeles before relocating to China. Most recently, Elaine curated the exhibition Unfinished Country: New Video from China at the CAMH (2012). He now lives and works in Beijing, China where he founded a non-profit gallery featuring emerging Chinese contemporary art called Telescope.

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