Gabbia Bongiorno - Agnellini Arte Moderna

Short Biography
1935
Born June 16 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1953-55
Studies at the University of Cincinnati and the
Boston Museum School.
1957
Receives B.F.A. from Ohio University, Athens.
Marries Nancy Minto.
1958
Enrolls in graduate study at Ohio University.
Moves to New York City. Teaches at the Rhodes
School.
1959-65
Participates in “Happenings” (performance
pieces) primarily at the Judson and Reuben
Galleries in New York.
1960
First solo exhibition at the Reuben Gallery,
New York.
1961-62
Solo exhibition of “ties” and objects at Martha
Jackson Gallery, New York.
1962
Meets Ileana Sonnabend and begins fourteenyear
association with the Sonnabend Gallery
1963
Begins to make “bathrobe” paintings.
1964
Participates in the Venice Biennale.
First solo exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery,
New York
1965
Guest lecturer, Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut.
Artist-in-residence, Oberlin College, Ohio.
Receives commission for set and costume
design for A Midsummer Night’s Dream from
Actor’s Workshop, San Francisco.
Begins to incorporate “heart” image in his
paintings.
1966
Visiting critic, College of Architecture, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York.
1967
Moves to London.
1970
Retrospective at the Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York.
1971
Returns to the United States and settles
in Putney, Vermont.
1975
Visiting printmaker, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, New Hampshire.
Designs interior of Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel.
1976
Artist-in-residence at Williams College,
Williamstown, Massachusetts at the invitation
of Thomas Krens.
Begins association with The Pace Gallery,
New York.
1977
First one-man show at The Pace Gallery, New
York; Jim Dine: Paintings, Drawings, Etchings,
1976.
1977-80
Serves on Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
selection committee.
1980
Elected to American Academy and Institute
of Arts and Letters, New York.
1982
Lessons in Nuclear Peace commissioned
for library at Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek,
Denmark.
1984
2 Big Black Hearts commissioned for Pappas
Companies’ building in White Plains, New York.
1984-85
Jim Dine: Five Themes retrospective at the
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Traveled to
Phoenix, Arizona; Saint Louis, Missouri; Akron,
Ohio; Buffalo, New York; and Washington, D.C.
1985
Moves from Vermont to New York.
Paints large mural for John Nuveen & Co.
in Chicago.
Howard Street Venus commissioned by the
Redevelopment Agency of San Francisco,
installed at Convention Plaza.
Participates in Sculpture Chicago International,
Chicago.
1986
Designs sets and costumes for Houston Grand
Opera’s 1986-87 season presentation of Richard
Strauss’s Salome.
1987
Double Boston Venus commissioned
by architect Graham Gund, installed at Bulfinch
Triangle in Boston.
1988
Jim Dine: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings,
Prints, 1959-1987, at Galleria d’Arte Moderna
Ca’Pesaro, Venice.
Cincinnati Venus commissioned by Tipton
Associates, installed at Centennial Plaza,
Cincinnati.
1988-90
Drawings Jim Dine, 1973–1987 at The
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Traveled to Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Santa
Barbara, California; Seattle, Washington; Fort
Worth, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Chicago,
Illinois; Omaha, Nebraska; and San Francisco,
California.
1989
Looking Toward the Avenue, a three-part
sculpture commissioned by Tishman Speyer
Trammell Crow Limited Partnership, installed
outside 1301 Avenue of the Americas in New
York City.
East End Venus commissioned by Rosehaugh
Stanhope Developments PLC for Broadgate,
London.
Completes painting commission At the
Wedding for Seibu Department Store in Tokyo.
1990
Traveling exhibition of drawings entitled
In Der Glyptothek presented by the Staatliche
Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich.
1990-91
Retrospective exhibition at the Isetan Museum
of Art, Tokyo and the Museum of Art, Osaka.
1992
“Jim Dine Childhood Stories”, a 30 minute film
about the artist’s formative years, is produced
by Outside in July, Inc.
Receives the Pyramid Atlantic Award
of Distinction in Washington, D.C.
1993
Black Venus is exhibited in Copier créer de
Turner à Picasso, 300 œuvres inspirées par les
maîtres du Louvre at the Musée du Louvre,
Paris.
Teaches at the Internationale Sommerakademie
für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria.
1993-94
Jim Dine: Drawing from the Glyptothek
organized by the Madison Art Center,
Wisconsin. Traveled to Salzburg, Cincinnati,
Honolulu, Montreal, and Miami.
Jim Dine: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1973-1993 is exhibited at Borås Konstmuseum,
Borås, Sweden. Traveled to Budapest and Nice.
1994
Jim Dine: Flowers and Plants, with an essay
by Marco Livingstone, is published by Harry
N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
1995
Jim Dine A Self Portrait on the Walls, a 30
minute film documenting the artist’s exhibition
of temporary wall drawings at the Kunstverein
Ludwigsburg, Germany, is produced by Outside
in July, Inc.
1996
Honored by Friends of the Bezalel Museum
on November 18.
1997
Awarded honorary doctorate from California
College of Arts and Crafts on May 24, 1997.
1998
Elected to the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin.
2000
Invited by the Mayor of Siena, Italy, to design
the banner for the Palio, July 2, 2000.
2003
Named Commandeur de l’ordre des Arts
et des Lettres (Commander, Order of Arts and
Letters) on June 25, 2003. Awarded for artistic
or literary contributions in France and around
the world.
2004
The Drawings of Jim Dine, a major
retrospective organized by the National Gallery
of Art, Washington, D.C. Travels: Hasselblad
Center at Goteborg Museum of Art, Goteborg,
Sweden; Die Photographische Summlung/SK
Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany; Davidson
Art Center & Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery,
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
Recipient of the School of the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, 10 th Annual Medal Award.
2007
In the summer participates in the Chicago
public art exhibition Cool Globes: Hot Ideas
for a Cooler Planet. Exhibits regularly with
the Alan Cristea Gallery in London.
“For me, drawing is everything – because
it informs everything. It even informs my
poetry. It’s the way I begin everything”
(Robert Ayers (May 23, 2006), Jim Dine, Artinfo,
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/16853/jimdine/,
retrieved 2008-04-21).
2008
On May 16, inaugurates a nine meter high
bronze statue depicting a walking Pinocchio,
named Walking to Borås. The statue is placed
in the city of Borås, Sweden. Dine previously
worked on a commercial book, paintings, and
sculptures that focused on Pinocchio.
2009
He exhibits Large Parrot Screams Color, 2007,
in Le Jardin des Tuileries in Paris.
2011
Works on Pinocchio, prints and book realized
in Atelier Michael Woolworth in Paris. His
poems-performance, in January, for the issue
of the book.
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