James McGrath is one of the most popular and richest Reality Star who was born on November 26, 1986 in Seattle, Washington State, United States. Rose to prominence as a repeat competitor on the popular strength and endurance test American Ninja Warrior.
Both he and Drew Drechsel have been frequent competitors on American Ninja Warrior.
While a lecturer in design and communications at New South Wales University, he was awarded several prizes for architecture and art, including the 1998 National Digital Art Award, the Sculpture By the Sea Directors Award (video installation), the 1990 Bioloa International Design Award, the Australian Postgraduate Award and Moya Goring Paris Studio residency. He has produced acclaimed digital installations and videos commissioned by several Australian museums and subsequently presented at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2000. In 1999 and 2000 his work was included in the Sydney and New York film festivals.
In 2010, he was granted special access to the Strahov Baroque Monastic Library in Prague. Set within this notable historic building, the monastery’s libraries hold over 125,000 volumes of philosophical and theological texts which McGrath used as inspiration for his body of work Ex Libris. He was quoted in an article by The Australian Financial Review that his twin daughters motivated him to create the work; “I realised my children were not going to have a library like mine, so I painted them one.”
He hails from Seattle, Washington. He began dating fellow American Ninja Warrior Allyssa Beird.
