About James Veil

James Veil is an installation artist who uses digital tools to sculpt shape, color, light and sound. 

His artistic practice is rooted in the tradition of conceptual art and graphic design. His work considers with the contradiction between rational order and embodied experience, often blended together. Using creative constraints and grids to structure and unify the media–both visual and musical–Veil’s installations surprise and transport viewers out of an everyday mindset and into a place he calls obscured light.

He holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons The New School for Design, and a BA in Psychology from McGill University. His work in juried shows has included a video sculpture installation Traces and Ghostliness, a digital machinima installation Simfluence (reviewed in Art News) both at the Chelsea Art Museum in Manhattan, as well as a video portrait Taking Space at the BAG Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.  He has taught design at Parsons and City University of New York. 

James is a digital graphic designer by trade and regularly speaks and publishes on the topic of design. He is currently Creative Director of Design at Mayo Clinic.