Jim Dine

Jim Dine (born June 16, 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American performer whose œuvre extends over sixty years. Dine’s take action includes painting, drawing, printmaking (in many forms including lithographs, etchings, gravure, intaglio, woodcuts, letterpress and linocuts), sculpture and photography; his further on works encompassed assemblage and happenings, while in recent years his poetry output, both in publications and readings, has increased.

Dine has been allied with numerous art movements throughout his career including Neo-Dada (use of collage and found objects), Abstract Expressionism (the gestural nature of his painting), and Pop Art (affixing run of the mill objects including tools, rope, articles of clothing and even a bathroom sink) to his canvases, yet he has actively avoided such classifications. At the core of his art, regardless of the medium of the specific work, lies an intense process of autobiographical reflection, a relentless exploration and criticism of the self through a number of severely personal motifs which include: the heart, the bathrobe, tools, antique sculpture, and the quality of Pinocchio (among flora, skulls, birds and symbolic self-portraits). Dine’s get into is all-encompassing, incorporating his entire lived experience: "Dine’s art has a stream of consciousness air to its evolution, and is based on all aspects of his life—what he is reading, objects he comes upon in souvenir shops concerning the world, a loud study of art from all time and place that he understands as creature useful to his own practice."

Dine’s art has been the subject of higher than 300 solo exhibitions, including retrospectives 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). His sham is held in remaining collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Gallery, London; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

Dine’s distinctions tote up his nomination as a aficionado of the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York (1980), Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2003), the British Museum Medal (2015) following his donation of 234 prints to the museum in 2014, membership of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome (2017), and Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur (2018).