Jim Dine

Jim Dine (born June 16, 1935) is an American visual artist. Dine's work includes painting, drawing, printmaking (in many forms including lithographs, etchings, gravure, intaglio, woodcuts, letterpress, and linocuts), sculpture, and photography.

Education Dine's first formal training took the form of night courses at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, in which he enrolled in 1952 at the age of 16, while attending Walnut Hills High School. In 1954, while still attending evening courses, Dine was inspired by a copy of Paul J. Sachs' Modern Prints and Drawings (1954), particularly by the German Expressionist woodcuts it reproduced, including work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), Emil Nolde (1867–1956) and Max Beckmann (1884–1950)—"I was shocked by them" — and began creating woodcuts in the basement of his maternal grandparents, with whom he was then living.

After high school, Dine enrolled at the University of Cincinnati. Under printmaking teacher Donald Roberts (1923–2015) Dine experimented in lithography, etching, intaglio, dry paint and woodcuts. At Roberts' suggestion, Dine subsequently studied for six months with Ture Bengtz (1907–1973) at the School of Fine Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, before returning to Ohio University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1957 (remaining for an additional year to make paintings and prints, with the permission of the faculty). In the same year he founded the Judson Gallery at the Judson Church in Greenwich Village with Claes Oldenburg and Marcus Ratliff, eventually meeting Allan Kaprow and Bob Whitman: together they became pioneers of happenings and performances, including Dine's The Smiling Workman of 1959. Dine's first exhibition was at the Reuben Gallery, where he also staged the elaborate performance Car Crash (1960), Another important early work was The House (1960), an environment incorporating found objects and street debris, installed at the Judson Gallery.

Dine continued to include everyday items (including personal possessions) in his work, which linked him to Pop Art—an affinity strengthened by his inclusion in the influential 1962 exhibition "New Painting of Common Objects" at the Pasadena Art Museum, curated by Walter Hopps and later cited as the first institutional survey of American Pop Art, including works by Robert Dowd, Joe Goode, Phillip Hefferton, Roy Lichtenstein, Edward Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud, and Andy Warhol.

Selected teaching positions 1965 – guest lecturer at Yale University and artist-in-residence, Oberlin College, Ohio 1966 – teaching residency at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 1993–1995 – Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg 1995–1996 – Hochschule der Künste, Berlin

Selected long-term collaborations

1962–1976: gallerist Ileana Sonnabend, New York 1975–2008: printmaker Aldo Crommelynck, Paris 1978–2016: Pace Gallery, New York 1979–present: gallerist Alan Cristea, London 1983–2018: gallerist Richard Gray, Chicago 1983–present: Walla Walla Foundry, Walla Walla, Washington 1987–2003: printmaker Kurt Zein, Vienna 1991–2016: Spring Street Workshop, New York, with printers including Julia D'Amario, Ruth Lingen, Katherine Kuehn, Bill Hall 1998–present: printer and publisher Gerhard Steidl, Göttingen 2000–present: gallerist Daniel Templon, Paris-Brussels 2003–2018: printmakers Atelier Michael Woolworth, Paris 2010–present: foundry Blue Mountain Fine Art, Baker City, Oregon 2016–present: printmakers Steindruck Chavanne Pechmann, Apetlon 2016–2021: Gray Gallery, Chicago

Selected permanent collections

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Israel Museum, Jerusalem Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humelbeak, Denmark Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Museum Folkwang, Essen Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Palm Springs Art Museum, CA Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Spencer Museum of Art Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Tate Gallery, London Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Selected poetry readings with Ted Berrigan, Arts Lab, Soho, London, 1969 Poetry Project, with Ted Berrigan, St. Mark's Church, New York, 1970 Segue Series, with Diana Michener and Vincent Katz, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, 2005 Tangent reading series with Diana Michener and Vincent Katz, Portland, 2008 Bastille reading with Marc Marder and Daniel Humair, Paris, 2010 Bastille reading with Marc Marder, Galerie Eof, Paris, 2014 Poetry Project, with Dorothea Lasky, St. Mark's Church, New York, 2015 with Karen Weiser, Dia Art Foundation, New York, 2016 with Vincent Broqua, University of Sussex, Brighton, 2017 Hauser & Wirth, New York, 2018 House of Words (ongoing) Günter Grass Archive, Göttingen, 2015 with Marc Marder, Galerie Eof, Paris, 2015 with Marc Marder, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, 2016 Ecrivains en bord de mer, La Baule, 2017 with Daniele Roccato and Fabrizio Ottaviucci, Chiesa dei Santi Luca e Martina, Rome, 2017 In Vivo, with Daniele Roccato and Fabrizio Ottaviucci, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2018