2009    “Short Stories” -- Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI

2007    “James Stephens, A Mid-Career Retrospective” 
            Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI


2005    “Ecotone” – Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI

1996    “Fiction” -  Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, MI


1995     “Recent Paintings” - Bunting Gallery,
              Royal Oak, MI

1992      “New Paintings” – Feigenson Preston Gallery,
              Birmingham, MI

1990      “New Paintings” – Feigenson Preston Gallery,  
               Birmingham, MI

1988    “New Work” – Broadway Gallery, Detroit, MI

Hodges, Michael, The Detroit News, “Two shows offer playful, abstract art” July 22, 2010

Carducci, Vincent, Art In America, “James Stephens at Oakland University Art Gallery” April, 2008,  p 172            

Manisto, Glenn, Metro Times, “A Lost City,” November 18, 2005, p 30

Provenzano, Frank, The Detroit Free Press, “Stephens Sees a World,” December 15, 1996, p 4J

Colby, Joy, The Detroit News, “His Work is Fiction,” November 21, 1996, p 8H

Colby, Joy, The Detroit News, “Stephens New Exhibit,” September 12, 1992, p 3C

Pasfield, Veronica, Detroit Monthly, “Urban Visions,” September 1990 p 12A

Colby, Joy, The Detroit News, September 21, 1990, 
p 4C

2011    “Meticulous Detail: Conservators’ Paintings” – Architrouve Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008    “Summer Mix” – Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI

2008    “Spirit” – Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI

2006    “Summer Group Show” – Lemberg Gallery,  
             Ferndale, MI

2005    “Summer Group Show” – Lemberg Gallery, 
            Ferndale, MI

2004    “Gallery Artists” – Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI

1998    “Three Painters” – Detroit Contemporary   
            Gallery, Detroit, MI

1996    “Goddesses” – Center Gallery, Detroit, MI

1992    “Movable Feast” – Bunting Gallery, 
            Royal Oak, MI

1995     “Visions America” – Gallery Ten, Ft. Worth, TX

1994    “Is There Still Life In Chicago?” –  
            Hinsdale Center for the Arts, Hinsdale, IL

1992    “Provocative” – Space Gallery, Chicago, IL

1993    “Group Show” – Feigensen Preston Gallery, 
            Birmingham, MI

1990    “Recession Proof Art” – Peter Miller Gallery,   
            Chicago, IL

1990     “Gallery Selections” – Feigenson Preston,  
            Birmingham, MI

1990    “New Work” – Feigenson Preston Gallery, 
            Birmingham, MI

1989    “New Work” – Feigenson Preston Gallery,  
            Birmingham, MI
               
1988    “Bye” – Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI

1986    “Apocalypse” – Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI

1987    “Choices: Twenty Painters from the Midwest”
              -- MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art           
            and Design  -- MN, & Evanston Art Center, 
            Evanston, IL

1987    “Invitational” – Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI

1986    “Detroit and Vicinity” – Detroit Focus Gallery, 
            Detroit, MI

1984    “Slide Review Committee Selections”
              – Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI

1982    “Painting and Drawing” – Detroit Focus Gallery, 
            Detroit, MI