James Corbett (born 1997) is an American artist living and working in Oakland, California. He began studying art as an undergraduate at Amherst College, and has been showing his work in the Bay Area since 2022. Before committing to drawing and painting, he experimented with various art forms, including ceramics, glassblowing, and photography. He also has a longstanding passion for music and literature, and he was once a handful of signatures away from enrolling in PhD programs in both English and philosophy. His reactions to music and literature sometimes influence his choice of subject-matter and his aims in particular paintings.

Corbett is passionate about art history, and has at times (to give just a few examples) tried in his own way to capture some of the tranquillity of a particular landscape by Corot, or some of the sombreness of a work by Edward Munch. Sometimes he has even attempted to replicate some of the impish humor that he finds in Degas' contorted figures, strong colors, and abrupt compositional breaks. But he is never content with imitation, and his goal is to make his own voice the strongest—if not the only—that comes through his paintings.