James Pustorino is an artist, curator, and arts organizer and is Director of DRAWING ROOMS, an art-space in Jersey City exhibiting artists from the NY/NJ area. As Executive Director of Victory Hall Inc. a Jersey City based non-profit arts organization, he has produced exhibitions and public art projects in Jersey City and lower Manhattan as well as directing projects for students and classes for developmentally disabled artists.Pustorino received a 2019 Fellowship in Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and has exhibited in venues throughout the U.S., including Odetta Gallery, NYC, the Columbus Museum, The Butler Institute of American Art, and the Jersey City Museum, and has had solo exhibitions with Chambers 916 Gallery in Portland, OR.He has organized and curated or co-curated over 90 exhibitions in Jersey City, Manhattan and in Pittsburgh, where he began organizing exhibitions involving over 50 artists in public spaces and small museums in the 1990s. More recently, working with Victory Hall’s Victory Arts Projects, he has organized large scale exhibitions at MANA Fine Arts 2011 and the Jersey City Art Fair 2009/2010, a summer gallery at South Street Seaport, NYC 2009, and a display of 50 artwork banners encircling a city block at the 77 Hudson/70 Greene Building, JC. In 2012, working with the staff and board of DRAWING ROOMS, he began renovating an unused convent building in the Paulus Hook area of Jersey City for use as an art center. The building suffered damage byHurricane Sandy two weeks after its initial opening and after more work was finally re-opened in May 2013. He and curator Anne Trauben and their team produced exhibits and events in the ten room space for five years including an annual small works exhibit featuring over 100 area artists. In 2018, they moved the gallery to the present Journal Square, Jersey City location.Pustorino received his BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983, and has been involved in developing and teaching art educational programs throughout his career including a high school student mural program at the Jersey City Museum 2010, student public art projects with Jersey City Redevelopment Agency at MLK HUB, JC 2010, the Jersey City Museum's Saturday Art Program 2007-09, Victory Hall's after-school and weekend programs 2001-7. Previously he was manager of the City of Pittsburgh's Summer Art Cart Program.