“I never stop looking. I never stop examining. I never stop inventing from what I see.”
Jim Dine
(b. Cincinnati, OH, 1935)
Jim Dine is a contemporary artist whose expansive multimedia practice has spanned painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, poetry, and performance. In the 1950s, Dine was among the group of artists who pioneered the first “Happenings” and was thereafter closely associated with the Pop Art movement. In the 1960s, the artist’s focus shifted to painting and his later work became associated with the Neo-Dada and Neo-Expressionist movements. At the core of his artistic practice, regardless of the medium of the specific work, lies intense autobiographical reflection. Dine engages in a relentless exploration and criticism of the self through a number of highly personal motifs which include: the heart, the bathrobe, tools, antique sculpture, and the character of Pinocchio.
Dine’s art has been the subject of more than 300 solo exhibitions. Major surveys and retrospectives of the artist’s work have been exhibited 11 times including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1970); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1978); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1984–85); Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2011); and Museum Folkwang, Essen (2015–16).
Dine lives and works between New York, New York and Walla Walla, Washington.
