James Carl is a sculptor. He received his MFA from Rutgers University in New Jersey and his BFA from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. He earned a BA in East Asian Studies from McGill University, Montreal, and has also studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China. He has exhibited on an international scale and his work is included in many public and private collections, nationally and internationally. He is a professor of Studio Art at the University of Guelph.