Jim Napierala was born in Buffalo, NY where he studied Art History and Sculpture at SUNY Buffalo. Moving to New York in his early twenties he studied Art History at Hunter College and turned to painting. He has exhibited extensively in New York and throughout the United States for the past forty years. Napierala works out of his studio in upstate New York.

Selected Exhibitions 2016-2025

2025

Contemporary Mapping Corners Gallery Ithaca,NY

Mail Art The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art Houston,TX

Tantra Word and Image Gallery at Bright Hill Press Treadwell,NY

2023

A Chorus of Angels Jane Street Art Center Saugerties, NY

Music as Image and Metaphor Kentler International Drawing Center Brooklyn,NY

Driven to Abstraction The Lockwood Gallery Kingston,NY

Home Jams Kipnz Gallery Walton,NY

In Pursuit of Color The Lockwood Gallery Kingston, NY

2022

Buffalonians NMBC Houston,TX

Cosmic Storm Lichtenfire New York, NY

The Forest for the Trees Hawk & Hive Andes, NY

2021

Music as Image and Metaphor George Ohr Museum Biloxi, MS

Jim Napierala/Lisa Pressman Susan Eley Gallery Hudson, NY

2019

Some Drawings Hastings Arts Council Hastings on Hudson,NY

2017

Aspects of Collage Gallery Protege New York, NY

2016

2 X 5 Susan Eley Gallery New York, NY