Jim Dine is an American artist and poet known for his contributions to the formation of both Performance Art and Pop Art. Employing motifs which include Pinocchio, heart shapes, bathrobes, and tools, Dine produces colorful paintings, photographs, prints, and sculptures. Born on June 16, 1935 in Cincinnati, OH, he studied poetry at the University of Cincinnati before attending the University of Ohio where he received his BFA in 1957. After moving to New York in 1958, Dine became part of a milieu of artists which included Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg, with whom he began to stage performances at sites in the city, these later became known as “Happenings.” By the early 1960s, he had switched his focus towards painting, drawing on his interest in popular imagery and commercial objects. Though he was shown alongside Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, Dine never considered himself a member of the Pop Art movement. The artist currently lives and works between New York, NY and Walla Walla, WA. His works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others.

Individual exhibitions:
2009
Wetterling Gallery; Stockholm, Sweden

2008
YARGER/STRAUSS Contemporary; Beverly Hills, California
The Odyssey of Jim Dine, Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimee, La Louviere, Belgium
Thordén Wetterling Gallery; Gothenburg, Sweden
2007
Stopover, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
2005
Pinocchio as I Knew Him, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA

2004
Göttingen – Paris; Richard Gray Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
Drawings of Jim Dine, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Pace Wildenstein, New York

2003
Jim Dine, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, USA
Jim Dine: Recent Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Göttingen – Paris, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
Drawings of Jim Dine, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
New Paintings, Photographs and a Sculpture, Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Jim Dine: Photography Exhibition, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, France
Jim Dine Drawing, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

2002
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Pace Prints, New York
National Gallery; Washington D.C.
Alan Cristea Gallery; London, England

2001
Galerie Daniel Templon; Paris, France
Wildenstein; Tokyo, Japan

2000
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Wetterling Gallery; Stockholm, Sweden
Alan Cristea Gallery; London, England

1999
PaceWildenstein, New York

1998
Alan Cristea Gallery; London, England

1997
Photographs, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, England

1996
Didier Imbert; Paris, France
Art Life Ltd: Touring to Tokyo, Miyagi, Hokkaido, Kagawa, Fukushima, Gifu, Japan

1995
Pace Editions, New York
Alan Cristea Gallery; London, England
Gerhard Wurzer Gallery, Houston, USA (solo)
Civico Museo Revoltella, Trieste, Italy

1994
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany
Campbell Thiebaud Gallery; San Francisco, California
Galerie Kaj Forsblom; Zurich, Germany
Salzburg Residenz-galerie; Salzburg, Austria
Pace Gallery, New York
Retrospective, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden

1993
Galleri Haaken; Oslo, Norway
Richard Gray Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
Associated American Artists, New York
Jim Dine: Drawings from the Glyptotek, Madison Art Center, Madison, USA; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnait, USA;
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, USA;
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada;
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, USA (solo)
Exhibition of Glyptothek drawings, Madison Art Center Madison, USA

1992
Gallerie Alice Pauli; Lausanne, Switzerland
Important Sculpture by Jim Dine, Avenue Galleries, Palm Beach, USA
Hakone Open-Air Museum; Hakone-machi, Japan
Pace Editions, New York

1991
Galerie Beaubourg; Paris, France
The Pace Gallery, New York

1990–91
Isetan Museum of Art & Museum of Art Tokyo & Osaka, Japan
Jim Dine: Drawing, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
Retrospective of Drawings, The Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, USA

1989
Waddington Galleries; London, England
Jim Dine: Youth and the Maiden and Related Works,
Graphicsche sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria

1988
Drawings Jim Dine 1973-87, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, USA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA; Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, USA; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, USA (solo)
Jim Dine: New Paintings, Pace Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Jim Dine: Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings, Prints, 1959-1987, Galleria d’Art Moderna Ca’Pesaro, Venice, Italy (solo)

1986–1987
Jim Dine: Prints 1977-85, Davison Art Center and Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, USA; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, USA; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA (solo)
The University Gallery, Memphis State University, Memphis, USA; Williams College Museum of Modern Art, Williamstown, USA (solo)
Jim Dine: Peintures et Sculptures, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo)
Waddington Graphics, London, England (solo)
Fuji Television Gallery, Toyko, Japan (solo)

1986
Jim Dine: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Pace Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Jim Dine: Mono-prints and Sculptures, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland; Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo)
Jim Dine: Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1984–1985
Retrospective, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
1979–1980
Jim Dine: Figure Drawings 1975-79, The University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, USA; The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA; Reed College, Portland, USA; Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, USA; Springfield Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, USA (solo)
1979
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France (solo)
Jim Dine: Oeuvre sur papier 1978-79, Galerie Alice Paulie, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo)

1978
Jim Dine: New Paintings, Pace Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1977
Jim Dine: Paintings, Drawings, Etchings, 1976, Pace Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Jim Dine: Works on Paper 1975-76, Waddington and Tooth Galleries II, London, England (solo)
1976
Jim Dine Prints 1970-1977, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA; Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA; The Johnson Gallery, MIddlebury College, Middlebury, USA; University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, USA (solo)
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA (solo)
1975
Centre Cultural Americain, Paris, France (solo)
Centre des Arts Plastiques Contemporains, Bordeaux, France (solo)
1974
Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA (solo)
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA (solo)
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1973
Galerie Gerald Cramer, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1972
Galerie Gimpel & Hanover, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France (solo)
1971
Stadtishe Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Gallerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France (solo)
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany (solo)
Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1970
Whitney Musem of American Art, New York, USA
Galerie Mikro, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Kestner-Gessellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)
Museo Civico, Galleria d’Art Moderna, Turin, Italy (solo)
Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Wolfgang-Gurlitt-museum, Linz, Austria (solo)
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Jim Dine, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1969
Reuben Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Ileasna Sonnabend, Paris, France (solo)
Kunstverein Munchen, Munich, Germany (solo)
Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nuremberg, Germany (solo)
Robert Fraser Gallery, London, England (solo)
1967
Galerie Ricke, Kassel, Germany (solo)
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Harcus/Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA (solo)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (solo)
1966
Robert Faser Gallery, London, England (solo)
1965
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin, Italy (solo)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, USA (solo)
Robert Faser Gallery, London, England (solo)
1964
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1963
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France (solo)
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1962
Galleria dell’Areite, Milan, Italy (solo)

1961
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York