Jim Dine, painter, printmaker, sculptor, photographer, performance artist, stage designer and poet, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on 16 June 1935. He studied at University of Cincinnati and the Boston Museum School, and in 1957 he earned his BFA at Ohio University, Athens. The following year he enrolled in graduate study at Ohio University. Dine moved to New York in 1958 and rose to prominence after staging performances with other artists at sites within the city that became known as Happenings. He became associated with many art movements including Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, and Neo-Dada. His creativity extended to painting, assemblage, drawing, lithography, intaglio, etching, woodcut, linocut, sculpture, and poetry.

Dine’s first solo exhibition was held in New York in 1960 and since then he has had more than 300 solo exhibitions, including retrospective exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. 

Jim Dine’s work is represented in numerous museum collections including but not limited to the Bilbao Museum, Spain; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana; and the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.