Dine, Jim

* June 16, 1935

biography

Jim Dine was born on June 16, 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his education between 1954 and 1958 at the University of Cincinnati, the Boston Museum School and the Ohio University in Athens. In 1958 he moved to New York and taught at the Rhodes School. Together with Claes Oldenburg and Marc Ratliff he founded the Judson Gallery. From 1960 onwards his work was influenced by the appearance on the international art scene in the context of the emerging pop art. In 1962 he met Ileana Sonnabend, who organized a solo exhibition of his paintings in Rome. This was the beginning of a 14-year collaboration with Sonnabend, which included exhibitions in Paris every two years. In 1964, works by Jim Dine were represented in the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Between 1966 and 1967 he exhibited at the Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam and moved to London with his family. In the same year, the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed his set and costume design for "A Midsummer Night's Dream". In 1967 he was represented at documenta IV in Kassel. Inspired by contacts with poets of the "New York School", he began to write poems write. In 1970 the first retrospective took place at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. A year later, Dine and his family moved to Vermont. In 1975 he began years of intensive figurative drawings, often with his wife Nancy as a model. A solo exhibition took place at the Center des Arts Plastiques Contemporains in Bordeaux. In 1977, the Pace Gallery in New York showed the first solo exhibition of bathrobe paintings and figurative drawings. He was the first to use the "Venus of Milo" as a plaster figure in a still life. This year he is also represented at documenta VI in Kassel. A year later, an exhibition of his etchings followed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1980 he was appointed He was appointed a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1985 he moved back to New York. From 1986 to 1987, a traveling exhibition toured from the Pace Gallery in New York, including to the Fuji Television Gallery in Tokyo. In 1989, the Albertina showed in Vienna “Jim Dine: Youth and the Maiden and Related Works”. One of his most important exhibitions was a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1992, Dine was awarded the Pyramid Atlantic Award of Distinction in Washington. The following year, the Louvre in Paris presented his work "Black Venus" as part of the exhibition "Copier créer de Turner à Picasso, 300 oeuvres inspired by les maitres du Louvre". In 1993 he taught for the first time at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg and began a series of drawings of the Untersberg. Since then, Dine has come to Austria every year to teach at the summer academy.