1899
Born  Garden Valley, ID

1977
Died Boise, ID

Selected solo exhibitions
 

2018  
James Castle: People, Places, and Things, New York Studio School, Boise, ID
Between Board and Batten: Works from the James Castle House, James Castle House, Boise, ID
The Material Life of James Castle, James Castle House, Boise, ID

2016   
James Castle Landscapes, Lawrence Markey, Inc., San Antonio, TX
James Castle: The Experience of Every Day, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
 
2015    
James Castle: Ask and Learn, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
James Castle, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2014   
Untitled: The Art of James Castle, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

2013   
Constructing James Castle, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
James Castle Selections, Boise Art Museum, ID

2012   
James Castle: An Absence of There, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
James Castle, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

2011   
James Castle, Show and Store, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
James Castle, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2010   
James Castle: Books, Lawrence Markey Gallery, San Antonio, TX
James Castle: A Retrospective, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA
James Castle, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
James Castle, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2009   
James Castle Drawings: Vision and Touch, Knoedler & Co., New York, NY
James Castle: A Retrospective, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Tying it Together, Boise Art Museum, ID

2008   
James Castle: A Retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
James Castle: Works in Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007   
James Castle, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
James Castle, Lawrence Markey Gallery, San Antonio, TX
James Castle: A Solitary Vison, Portland Art Museum, OR
James Castle: Drawings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2006   
Silent Satire: The Political Cartoon Appropriations of James Castle, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2005   
One Man’s Vocabulary, JH Muse Gallery (now Tayloe Piggott Gallery), Jackson, WY
James Castle: Drawings, Constructions and Books, Boise Art Museum, ID
Icehouse unto Attic: Books & Art, Boise State Student Union Gallery, Boise, ID

2002   
James Castle: Structures, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
James Castle: Works on Paper, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Reputedly Illiterate: The Art Books of James Castle, Library at the Faculty of Art, Media and Design, University of West England, Bristol, UK

2001  
James Castle, James Mayor Gallery, London, UK
James Castle: Drawings, J Crist Gallery, Boise, ID
James Castle: Drawings and Works on Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2000   
James Castle, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
James Castle: The Common Place, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
An Individual Approach: The Art of James Castle, Boise Art Museum, ID
James Castle: House Drawings, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
A Room of His Own, J Crist Gallery, Boise, ID
Reputedly Illiterate: The Art Books of James Castle, American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, NY

1998   
A Silent Voice: Drawings & Constructions of James Castle, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1997  
Images in a Silent World:  The Art of James Castle, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL
James Castle, Salt Lake Art Center [Utah Museum of Contemporary Art], Salt Lake City, UT

1996   
James Castle, Boise Art Museum, ID
An Amazing Luminous Fountain:  The Work of James Castle, J Crist Gallery, Boise, ID

1994   
James Castle, Idaho Center for the Book, Boise State University, ID
James Castle: Idaho Grass Roots Artist, Albertson College, Caldwell, ID

1989   
Works by James Castle, Boise Art Museum, ID

1987   
A Voice of Silence: A Retrospective of Works by James Castle, Missoula Museum, MT

1984   
A Voice of Silence: A Retrospective of Works by James Castle, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
A Voice of Silence: A Retrospective of Works by James Castle, Paris Gibson Square Gallery, Great Falls, MT
A Voice of Silence: A Retrospective of Works by James Castle, Montana State University, Fine Arts Gallery, Bozeman, MT    

1983   
James Castle Retrospective: A Voice of Silence, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA

1982   
A Voice of Silence: A Retrospective of Works by James Castle, Boise Gallery of Art, ID.

1981   
Permanent Collection: Recent Acquisitions, Boise Gallery of Art [Boise Art Museum], ID
A Voice of Silence: A Retrospective of Works by James Castle, Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, AK
James Castle: A Primitive Artist, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

1980   
A World Without Words, Los Tres Gallery, Longview, WA

1976   
James Castle’s Drawings, Boise Gallery of Art [Boise Art Museum], ID

1974   
James Castle, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA

1967   
The Gallery, Seattle, WA

1965   
A Voice of Silence: Drawings by James Castle, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1963   
James Castle, Boise Gallery of Art, [Boise Art Museum], ID

1962   
A Voice of Silence: Drawings by James Castle, Image Gallery, Portland, OR
James Castle, Bush House Museum, Salem Art, Salem, Or

1951   
James Castle, Museum Art School, Portland, OR