James Osher

Pennsylvania based artist James Osher attended Carnegie Mellon University, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Cooper Union.  Studying with John Baldessari and Alan Kaprow, Osher received his Masters of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.  Osher's career evolved from painting to conceptually focused work, creating a large-scale urban environmental sculpture for Cleveland State University and The New Gallery.  In 1979, he stopped making art objects, and for two years, as a performance artist, became a stockbroker, which metamorphosed into a non-artist thirteen year career in the investment industry.  In the early nineties, recognizing his inherent desire to create objects, and his physical and spiritual need to communicate through artwork, Osher retired from the investment industry and refocused his lifework on art making.

Osher has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, D.C., Cleveland, and Pittsburgh, including a site-specific exhibition of Three Seconds With the Masters, based on the collection of the West Moreland Museum of American Art, Greensberg, PA.