Biography:

James Cox is an art dealer, appraiser and lecturer and currently resides in Woodstock, New York.

Cox is the owner and Director of the James Cox Gallery in Woodstock, New York, a gallery specializing in 20^th century American art. From 1976 to 1990, he served as Executive Director of the Grand Central Art Galleries in Manhattan, New York. In these capacities, for over 35 years, Cox has discovered and promoted new talent, written catalogues, organized shows and artists’ estates, as well as advised collectors and institutions on the acquisitions and sales of painting and sculpture. 

Alongside his specialization in American art, in 1985 Cox introduced the Western art world to five artists from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing—Chen Danqing, Wang Jida, Zhang Hongnian, Li Chuanwu and Jin Gao, and organized shows in New York for their works. In 1989, through the invitation of the then-Soviet government, Cox helped to establish the first Soviet-American art conference, Art Most, at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.