James (Jim) Dine

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A leader of the Pop Art Movement, Jim Dine first studied at the University of Cincinnati, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and the University of Ohio. His first exhibition was with fellow artist and co-collaborator, Claes Oldenburg in 1959. In the Dadaist style, Dine used mixed media and the ready-made to produce his paintings. He began experimenting with performance art in the 1950's. His later work is a return to traditional painting techniques incorporated with collage, printing, etching, and paper-making.

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• 1957 - BFA, Ohio University, Athens, OH
• 1957 - Marries Nancy Minto
• 1958 - Enrolls in graduate study at Ohio University
• 1961 - First Solo exhibition at Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York
• 1962 - Begins fourteen-year association with Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Paris, France and Geneva, Switzerland
• 1959 - 1965 - Participates in Happenings in New York City
• 1965 - Guest Lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
• 1965 - Artist-in-residence, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
• 1966 - Visiting critic, Colege of Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• 1966 - Moves to London, England
• 1970 - Retrospective at Whitney Museum of American Art New York
• 1970 - Returns to the United States and settles in Putney, Vermont
• 1975 - Designs interior of Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California
• 1976 - Artists-in-residence, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, at the invitation of Thomas Krens
• 1976 - Begins association with The Pace Gallery, New York
• 1977 - First one-man show at The Pace Gallery, New York
• 1977 - 1980 - Serves on Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum selection committee
• 1980 - Elected to American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
• 1982 - Lessons in Nuclear Peace commissioned for library at Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
• 1984 - 1985 - Travels to Phoenix, Arizona; Saint Louis, Missouri; Akron, Ohio; Buffalo, New York; Washington D.C.
• 1985 - Moves from Vermont to New York, NY
• 1985 - Paint large mural for John Nuveen & Co. in Chicago, Illinois
• 1985 - Participates in Sculpture Chicago International, Chicago, Illinois
• 1986 - Designs sets and costumes for Houston Grand Opera' s 1986-87 season presentation of Richard Strauss's Salome
• 1987 - Double Boston Venus installed at Centennial Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1989 - A three-part sculpture installed outside 1301 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
• 1992 - Receives the Pyramid Atlantic Award of Distinction in Washington, D.C.
• 1993 - Teaches at the Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kuns, Salzburg, Austria

Select Exhibitions

• 2004 - Drawings of Jim Dine, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
• 2004 - New Paintings, Photographs and a Sculpture, Pace Wildenstein, New York.
• 2003 - Jim Dine, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona.
• 2003 - Jim Dine: Recent Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Gottingen - Paris, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago(solo)
• 2003 - Drawings of Jim Dine, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
• 2003 - New Paintings, Photographs and a Sculpture, Pace Wildenstein, New York.Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm.
• 2003 - Jim Dine: Photography Exhibition, Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris
• 2003 - Jim Dine Drawing, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
• 2002 - Print Retrospective, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
• 2002 - Photographs and Paintings, Pace Prints, New York
• 2002 - Drawings, National Gallery, Washington D.C.
• 2002 - Prints, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
• 2001 - Galerie Daniel Templon
• 2001 - Wildenstein, Tokyo, Japan
• 2000 - Galerie Daniel Templon
• 2000 - Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2000 - Subjects, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
• 1999 - Photographs: PaceWildenstein, New York
• 1998 - Dine and Picasso prints, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
• 1997 - Photographs, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
• 1996 - Didier Imbert, Paris, France
• 1996 - Art Life Ltd: Touring to Tokyo, Miyagi, Hokkaido, Kagawa, Fukushima, Gifu
• 1995 - Pace Editions, New York
• 1995 - Winter Dream, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
• 1995 - Gerhard Wurzer Gallery, Texas
• 1995 - Civico Museo Revoltella, Trieste, Italy
• 1994 - Jim Dine: Wall drawings, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany
• 1994 - Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
• 1994 - Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Zurich, Germany
• 1994 - Salzburg Residenz-galerie, Salzburg, Austria
• 1994 - Pace Gallery, New York
• 1993 - Exhibition of Glyptothek drawings, Madison Art Center Madison, WI; Traveled
• 1993 - Jim Dine: Paintings, Sculpture, Galleri Haaken, Oslo
• 1993 - Jim Dine: New Paintings, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• 1993 - Jim Dine: Ten Winter Tools, Associated American Artists, New York
• 1993 - Jim Dine: Drawings from the Glyptotek, Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
• 1992 - Jim Dine, Gallerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 1992 - Important Sculpture by Jim Dine, Avenue Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida; Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone-machi, Japan
• 1992 - Jim Dine: Recent Prints, Pace Editions, New York
• 1991 - Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France
• 1991 - Jim Dine: New Paintings and Sculpture, The Pace Gallery, New York
• 1990 - Jim Dine: Drawing, The Pace Gallery, New York
• 1990 - In Der Glyptotek. Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptotek, Munich Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Nelson-Atkins
• 1990 - Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• 1989 - Jim Dine: Youth and the Maiden and Related Works, Graphicsche sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria
• 1989 - Jim Dine: New Paintings, Sculpture and Graphic Work, Waddington Galleries, London, UK
• 1988 - Jim Dine: New Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York
• 1988 - Jim Dine: Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings, Prints, 1959-1987, Galleria d'Art Moderna Ca'Pesaro, Venice, Italy
• 1988 - Drawings Jim Dine 1973-87, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1986 - Jim Dine: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, The Pace Gallery, New York
• 1986 - Jim Dine: Mono-prints and Sculptures, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland; Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 1986 - Jim Dine: Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 1979 - Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France
• 1979 - Jim Dine: Oeuvre sur papier 1978-79, Galerie Alice Paulie, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 1978 - Jim Dine: New Paintings. The Pace Gallery, New York
• 1978 - The Pace Gallery, Colombus, Ohio
• 1978 - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 1977 - Jim Dine: Paintings, Drawings, Etchings, 1976, The Pace Gallery, New York
• 1977 - Jim Dine: Works on Paper 1975-76, Waddington and Tooth Galleries II, London, UK
• 1976 - Jim Dine Prints 1970-1977, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
• 1976 - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• 1975 - Centre Cultural Americain, Paris, France
• 1975 - Centre des Arts Plastiques Contemporains, Bordeaux, France
• 1974 - Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Geneva, Switzerland
• 1974 - Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
• 1974 - La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
• 1974 - Sonnabend Gallery, New York
• 1973 - Galerie Gerald Cramer, Geneva, Switzerland
• 1973 - Sonnabend Gallery, New York
• 1972 - Galerie Gimpel & Hanover, Zurich, Germany
• 1972 - Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
• 1971 - Stadtishe Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
• 1971 - Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne, Germany
• 1971 - Gallerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
• 1971 - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
• 1971 - Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• 1971 - Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
• 1971 - Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany
• 1970 - Whitney Musem of American Art, New York
• 1970 - Galerie Mikro, Berlin, Germany
• 1970 - Kestner-Gessellschaft, Hannover, Germany
• 1970 - Museo Civico, Galleria d'Art Moderna, Turin, Italy
• 1970 - Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Wolfgang-Gurlitt-museum, Linz, Austria
• 1970 - Palais des Beaux-Arts, Burssels, Belgium
• 1970 - Jim Dine, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
• 1970 - Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
• 1969 - Reuben Gallery New York, NY
• 1969 - Galerie Ileasna Sonnabend, Paris, France
• 1969 - Kunstverein Munchen, Munich, Germany
• 1969 - Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
• 1969 - Robert Fraser Gallery, London, UK
• 1967 - Galerie Ricke, Kassel, Germany
• 1967 - Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
• 1967 - Harcus/Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
• 1967 - Jim Dine: Designs for A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 1967 - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 1967 - Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
• 1967 - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 1967 - Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• 1966 - Robert Faser Gallery, London
• 1965 - Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin, Italy
• 1965 - Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
• 1965 - Robert Faser Gallery, London
• 1964 - Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
• 1963 - Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
• 1963 - Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
• 1963 - Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
• 1963 - Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
• 1962 - Galleria dell'Areite, Milan, Italy
• 1961 - Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Select Artwork

• Green Suit - 1959 - Mixed-media assemblage
• Bedspring - 1960 - Mixed-media assemblage
• The Red Bandana - 1961 - Oil on canvas
• Double Red Bathroom - 1962 - Mixed-media assemblage
• Owl in the Kitchen - 1996
• Ex-Voto - 1996
• Technicolor II - 1996
• Saint Anne - 1996
• The Issue of Spring - 2004
• Woodcut Heart - 1993
• Astra Tool - 1985
• Photogravure - 1997
• The Wolf-Man's Dream - 1993
• A Thicket - 1983
• Twin Blue Venuses - 2002 - sculpture
• A Beautiful Heart - 1996
• Sitting with Me - 1996
• Bouquet - 1987 - sculpture

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Quick Facts

• Dine first came to prominence as a Pop artist in the early 1960s with the bathrobe and tools as his characteristic subjects
• Dine's work pertains more to his lifelong search for meaning and insight.
• Many of Dine's mixed-media assemblages, such as Untitled (Winged Victory) (1959) and Bedspring (1960), draw on the grit of the everyday for their impact, incorporating discarded clothing, bedsprings, and other trash salvaged from the city's streets.
• Emotional distress resulted in Dine's withdrawal from the social scene of the New York art world for a few years during the early 1960s.

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