Jim Dine
American, 1935
Jim Dine is a multi-media artist from Cincinnati. After completing his B.F.A. at Ohio University in 1957, Dine moved to New York City. This initiated Dine’s involvement with the anti-narrative “Happenings” movement that foreshadowed modern performance art. Since then, Dine’s boundary-pushing choices in medium and representation continue to question viewer assumptions about language use, recognizable form and space. Dine’s work has also been linked to neo-Dada and Pop Art, though his often autobiographical tone and the incorporation of personal objects defy the detachment and critique of mass culture integral to Pop artworks.
His works have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
