Jim Dine

Jim Dine (Cincinnati, 1935) is a seminal figure in contemporary American art, with a career spanning more than six decades and encompassing painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, poetry, and performance. Emerging in late 1950s New York as a leading voice of the Happenings movement alongside Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, Dine redefined the boundaries between visual art, performance, and writing.

Though often linked to Neo-Dada, Pop Art, and Neo-Expressionism, his practice is deeply autobiographical and infused with recurring personal symbols: tools, brushes, hearts, clothing, and classical figures all serve as emblems of memory, identity, and desire. Poetry has remained a constant thread throughout his career, enriching a body of work that powerfully combines word and image.

Dine’s work is represented in the permanent collections of major museums worldwide, including MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Guggenheim, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Tate Britain in London. An unceasing innovator, Jim Dine continues to be recognized as one of the most influential and enduring voices in international contemporary art.