James Barth is a Meanjin/Brisbane-based artist whose practice is grounded in self-portraiture and transgender self-representation. Barth’s multidisciplinary practice draws on and complicates portraiture’s history, exploring digital identities, placeholders, and embodiment through various applications of painting, screen printing, CGI imagery, and video. Barth is the recipient of the Copyright Agency Partnerships (CAP) commission with the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), and she will be presenting the newly commissioned works in an exhibition, The Clumped Spirit, at IMA in late 2024. Barth’s solo exhibitions include Earthbound (2023) and The Placeholder, Milani Gallery, Brisbane/Meanjin (2021). Her group exhibitions include Inner Sanctum, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia (2023), Embodied Knowledge: Contemporary Queensland Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane/Meanjin (2021), and New Woman, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane/Meanjin (2019). Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra; Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm/Melbourne; and Griffith University Art Museum, Meanjin/Brisbane.