James Huctwith lives and work in Kitchener, Ontario.

 

Born in 1967, he was raised in rural Southern Ontario. He attended Cayuga Secondary School from 1981 until 1986, graduating with honours from Grade Thirteen. Afterwards, he studied fine art for three years at the University of Guelph, primarily interested in theory, history and architecture - citing professors Suzy Lake and Margaret Priest as influences.

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After this, he lived in Vancouver in the early ‘90’s where he first began to paint and exhibit. Returning to Toronto in 1995, he began producing and exhibiting professionally with the O’Connor Gallery. He was with the gallery for a decade, crediting the encouragement and support of the then proprietor, Dennis O'Connor, as "rare, invaluable and crucial to my ability to develop."

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The next three years were marked by changes of venue, and new subjects for painting.

In the spring of 2005, Huctwith joined Gallery Jones in Vancouver for two years, and produced a run of 'cooled-out' architectural works, primarily elevations, in contrast to the O’Connor shows which had been physically and emotionally explicit.

Huctwith left O'Connor and joined Galerie Harwood near Montreal, also for two years, starting in 2006.  The work produced for this gallery was marked primarily by considered re-interpretations of the still life genre.

 

Feeling it was time to regroup and rediscover where he wanted to go with the work, Huctwith moved all his work back to Ontario, placing past work with Galerie La Petite Mort in Ottawa. His first show there, in the fall of 2009, was a success. He signed on with XeXe gallery  - renamed KWT Contemporary - in Toronto in the summer of 2010.

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In May, 2012, James decided to make a change in his method of working, from being signed to a full-time galleries and began to work independently.

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James began showing again with the O'Connor Gallery, in 2023

His next solo show is scheduled to be at the O'Connor Gallery in October 2025

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Both published and regularly reviewed, his work is collected both nationally and internationally.