Jim Dine was born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied contemporary art at Ohio State University (1953–1957). He settled in New York in 1958, where he held his first "happenings" that same year. His first solo exhibition took place two years later...
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Jim Dine was born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied contemporary art at Ohio State University (1953–1957). He settled in New York in 1958, where he held his first "happenings" that same year. His first solo exhibition took place two years later.
From the beginning of his artistic career, Jim Dine pursued recurring themes: self-portraiture, the body, and memory. The artist pursued this personal quest in painting, mixed media, sculpture, drawing, and other media. The artist's work is narrative and autobiographical.
In 1962, Jim Dine participated in “New Realism,” an exhibition that established Pop Art. In the 1960s, his work presented a mythology of the everyday with tools, clothes, and hearts, which were “like a vocabulary of feelings.”
Beginning in 1970, after settling for a time in London, he painted a series of canvases and works on paper on the theme of the heart, then bathrobes. In the 1980s, Dine combined faces, landscapes, skulls, and enormous red hearts on diptychs and triptychs. He made wooden statues of primitive figures, which he pierced with objects like voodoo witches do during witchcraft ceremonies. He created installations of Old Master statues that he painted as an ironic homage to the history of sculpture.
Over the past decade, Jim Dine has used photography to "access his unconscious immediately," experimenting with digital printing, heliogravure, and chromophotographic development. Jim Dine wants his compositions to be like "waking dreams."
He produces a significant graphic work: engravings, lithographs, silkscreens, monotypes, posters and drawings.
Jim Dine lives and works between Paris and New York.
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