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Jim Shaw
(
American
, born 1952)
Jim Shaw
Dream Object (I was Showing Marnie a Drawing...),
2000
Price on Request
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Timeline
1974
Attended University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, B.F.A.
1978
California Institute of the Arts, M.F.A.
1986
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship Grant
1988
Art Matters Inc.
1989
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
2004
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundatioin Fellowship
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Exhibitions
2013
55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Jim Shaw, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Jim Shaw, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
2012 - 2013
Jim Shaw's Retrospective, Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (solo)
2012
Jim Shaw’s Dream Drawings, LACMA, Los Angeles, US
Dreams, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Servvices, Geneva, Switzerland
Jim Shaw, Metro Pictures, New York, US
Incongogru: Quand l‟art fait rire, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
“The Artist’s Museum: Los Angeles, Artists 1980 – 2010”, The Geffen Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“BigMinis. Fetishes of crisis”, CAPC, Musée d‟Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
“Move: Choreographing You”, Hayward Gallery, London, Haus der Kunst, Munich and K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
“The Spectacular of Vernacular”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Montclair Art Museum, NJ
Interchange, Exchange LA, Los Angeles
“California Dreamin: Myths and legends of Los Angeles”, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
“Fumetto, Lucerne”, International Comix – Festival Luzern, Museum of Art, Lucerne, Switzerland
2011
“Secret Societes”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; CAPC Musée d‟Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
“All That Is Unseen”, Allan Nederpelt Gallery, Greenpoint, NY
All of the above (carte blache á John Armleder), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
CAPC, Musée d‟Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (solo)
2010
Jim Shaw: New Works, The Bernier-Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece (solo)
2009
I DREAMED I WAS TALLER THAN JONATHAN BOROFSKY, Printemps de Septembre, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, FR (solo)
Wet Dreams, Erotic Dream Drawings by Jim Shaw, Praz-Delavallade (space II), Paris, FR (solo)
Bernier/Eliades, Athens, GR (solo)
The Whole: A Study in Oist Integrated Movement, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (solo)
“Regift”, SI Swiss Institute, New York, US
CAPC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
The Third (2007) LA Weekly Biennial: Some Paintings, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Extraordinary Rendition”, Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica, US (solo)
“The Third (2007) LA Weekly Biennial: Some Paintings”, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, US
“In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream”, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland (cat.) (solo)
2008
Jim Shaw: New Arrivals, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva (catalogue)
Amateurs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
“THE WHOLE: A STUDY IN OIST INTEGRATED MOVEMENT”, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Middle School: Smart Art Press, The First Thirteen Years, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
Olaf Breuning, Mike Kelley, Louise Lawler, John Miller, Tony Oursler, Sterling Ruby, Jim Shaw & Andreas Slominski, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Group Show: Peter Callesen, Karen Kilimnik, Jim Shaw, Marnie Weber, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
Hammer Contemporary Collection, The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
The Hole, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France (solo)
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
Jim Shaw, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy (solo)
Jim Shaw: Distorted Faces & Portraits, 1978-2006, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland (catalogue) (solo)
Jim Shaw: The Donner Party, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (solo)
2012 - Montezuma’s Revenge, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2007
Jim Shaw: Dr. Goldfoot and His Bikini Bombs, Metro Pictures, New York, NY (solo)
If Everybody Had an Ocean - Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England; traveling to CAPC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (catalogue)
Masters of American Comics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
JSA, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Olaf Breuning, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Metro Pictres, New York, NY
Los Angeles 1955-1985, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Aesthetics of Art and Music: Punk, Magasin, Grenoble, France
Slow Burn, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland
Chain Letter, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
A Selected State, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
Twice Drawn, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
Works on Paper, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece (solo)
Jim Shaw, My Mirage 1986-91, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
Vise Head, Patrick Painter East, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Dream Object (I was in my Japanese gallery / museum in Japan…), Patrick Painter East, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Left Behind #8, 9, 10, Patrick Painter West, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Red Eye: Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL (catalogue)
Multiplicity: Prints and Multiples from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art and the University of Wollongong, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (catalogue)
2006
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England (solo)
2005
Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France (solo)
The Inky Depths / The Woman in the Wilderness, Metro Pictures, New York, NY (solo)
The Dream That Was No More A Dream, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA (solo)
2004
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England (solo)
Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY (solo)
Jim Shaw, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece (solo)
2003
Kill Your Darlings, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
Jim Shaw: O, Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France; Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland (catalogue) (solo)
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Public Collections
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Fri-Art Museum, Switzerland
Galleria d‟Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Italy
FRAC Dijon, France
FRAC Bordeaux, France
FRAC Angouleme, France
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, US
FRAC Normandie, France
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
Los Angles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Fond National d‟Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris, France
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, US
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Literature
2007
Jim Shaw: Distorted Faces & Portraits, 1978-2006, Blondeau Fine Art Services, JRP/Ringier, Zurich,