The work of James Fotopoulos has shown internationally at many festivals and sites
including International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Underground Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Walker Art Center, and the Andy Warhol Museum, among others. In 2002 he had a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives and was exhibited in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. In 2005 he received a Creative Capital Grant for his video on the life of Richard Nixon, published a book of drawings, The Lime Book and completed
an installation for the 2005 Contour Biennial for Video Art. The Hard- Boiled Egg,
produced from an unpublished screenplay by Eugène Ionesco, premiered at the New
York Museum of Modern Art in 2006.