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Jim Dine was born June 16,
1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied at night at the Cincinnati
Art Academy during his senior year of high school and then
attended the University of Cincinnati, the School of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Ohio University, Athens,
from which he received his B.F.A. in 1957. Dine moved to
New York in 1959 and soon became a pioneer creator of Happenings
[more] together with Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, and
Robert Whitman. He exhibited at the Judson Gallery, New
York, in 1958 and 1959, and his first solo show took place
at the Reuben Gallery, New York, in 1960.
Dine is closely associated with the development of Pop art
[more] in the early 1960s. Frequently he affixed everyday
objects, such as tools, rope, shoes, neckties, and other
articles of clothing, and even a bathroom sink, to his canvases.
Characteristically, these objects were Dine’s personal
possessions. This autobiographical content was evident in
Dine’s early Crash series of 1959–60 and appeared
as well in subsequent recurrent themes and images, such
as the Palettes, Hearts, and bathrobe Self-Portraits. Dine
has also made a number of three-dimensional works and environments,
and is well-known for his drawings and prints. He has written
and illustrated several books of poetry.
In 1965, Dine was a guest lecturer at Yale University, New
Haven, and artist-in-residence at Oberlin College, Oberlin,
Ohio. He was a visiting artist at Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York, in 1967. From 1967 to 1971, he and his family
lived in London. Dine has been given solo shows in museums
in Europe and the United States. In 1970, the Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York, organized a major retrospective
of his work, and in 1978 the Museum of Modern Art, New York,
presented a retrospective of his etchings. Dine lives in
New York and Putney, Vermont.
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