James Hull

James Hull is an artist, a critic and independent curator. He currently teaches in the Sculpture department at RISD. He founded the Artist-run, non-profit, Green Street Gallery in Jamaica Plain, Boston in January of 1998 after moving to Boston from Atlanta Georgia in 1996.

Hull has worked as art handler and installer at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, The List Visual Art Center at MIT, for three years at The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), and founded and ran the Boston Drawing Project at the Bernard Toale Gallery ( which features works on paper by over 200 artists) for over two years. Hull has written critical articles and art reviews for Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Art Papers Magazine and ArtsMedia, Big Red and Shiny. Hull has taught at Boston University, The Art Institute of Boston and the Rhode Island School of Design. He has lectured at The Museum of Fine Arts, Cranbrook, The ICA, The List Visual Art Center at MIT, The High Museum of Art , MassArt and Juried many regional exhibitions.

James Hull was born in 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia. Drawing and painting interests in high school led to a combination of science and artistic studies in college where in 1984 he graduated from the University of Georgia, in Athens with an interdisciplinary BA degree in Biomedical Illustration. After studying bronze casting in Italy, working in a commercial gallery and frame shop and the Atlanta Design Center he enrolled in Graduate School at Georgia State University in Sculpture. He graduated with an MFA in Sculpture in 1994.