James Gregory Atkinson is a graduate of the Städelschule and an artist who works with film, photography, and performance. His multimedia exhibition and archive 6 Friedberg-Chicago is currently on view at Dortmunder Kunstverein until March 13, 2022. In 2018, he curated "Re:Re: Black Macho. Unleash the Queen" (Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt).

Currently a recipient of the Basis e.V. Frankfurt’s HAP Studio-Program (2021–2025), Atkinson has participated in the artist-in-residence programs of the Villa Aurora in 2016 (Los Angeles) and the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in 2017 (Maastricht), and was awarded a studio grant in New York from the Hessische Kulturstiftung in 2018. His film "The Day I stopped kissing my Father", featuring a performance from the harpist Ahya Simone, was part of the exhibition "Show Me Your Shelves!", curated by Contemporary And (C&) at the Detroit Public Library in 2019.

Source: 72. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)