Jim Dine biography

Jim Dine is an American painter among the main exponents of American Pop Art and Neo-Dada. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1935. He attended the University of Cincinnati and the Boston Museum School. He earned a BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts, at the Ohio University in 1957.
In 1958 he moved to New York and came into contact with Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg, with whom he began staging 'disorderly exhibitions that took place around the city...later known as happening or environment.
From the 1960s onward, he shifted his focus to painting, with which he represents a mythology of the everyday using clothes, tools, hearts that become like 'a vocabulary of feelings'.
At the center of his artistic research, regardless of the expressive medium used, there is an intense autobiographical reflection, a relentless exploration and self-critique through a series of personal motifs and objects including the heart, the bathrobe, tools, ancient sculpture, and the character of Pinocchio.
Starting from 1970, he began to favor drawing and printmaking techniques, producing an important graphic output mostly consisting of engravings, lithographs, screen prints, monotypes, posters, and drawings.
Jim Dine has held more than 300 solo exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1970, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1978, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis between 1984 and 1985, at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2011, and at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany between 2015 and 2016.
Jim Dine today lives and works in New York and Vermont.