Jim Dine
“I was always an artist. I was born an artist. I couldn’t do anything else.”
Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Jim Dine (B. 1935) is celebrated for his significant influence on both Pop Art and Performance Art movements. Following his Fine Art studies at institutions such as the University of Cincinnati and Ohio University, Dine relocated to New York City in 1958. It was here that he debuted his inaugural group exhibition in 1959, followed by his first solo show in 1960. (Read More)
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Dine instantly became an active figure in the New York art scene, creating and staging many performances known as the “Happenings” along with artists Claes Oldenburg and Robert Whitman. Dine would carry the spontaneous energy of this movement throughout his style, emphasizing the exploration of everyday life. Significant personal objects were Dine’s primary motifs, as in his iconic series of hearts and robes. He championed a return to figuration after a period of more concept-dominated works and is considered an important figure in Neo-Dada and a forerunner of Neo-Expressionism. “The figure is still the only thing I have faith in terms of how much emotion it’s charged with and how much subject matter is there,” he once said.
Since 1960, Dine’s paintings, sculptures, photography, and prints have been the subject of nearly 300 solo exhibitions worldwide. His works are included in the collections of the Tate Modern in London; Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain; and The Museum of Modern Art in New York City; Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France; among others.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Important Exhibitions
2024 Dog on the Forge, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2018 Paris Reconnaissance, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
2016 Jim Dine: I Never Look Away, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Muscle and Salt, Art Basel Parcours, Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel, Switzerland
2015 About the Love of Printing, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2000 D’apres l’Antique, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Jim Dine: Walking Memory, 1959—1969, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1997 Grabados de Jim Dine, Museo Regional de Guanajuato, Mexico
1993 Jim Dine: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 1973—1993, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
1989 Jim Dine: Prints & Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1984 Jim Dine: Five Themes, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA
1976 Jim Dine: Prints, 1970—1977, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
1970 Jim Dine, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1967 Jim Dine: Designs for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Permanent Collections
Montreal Museum of Art, Montreal, Canada
British Museum, London, England
Tate Gallery, London, England
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
Harvard Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA