Time line

1.

JIM DINE
The Artist’s Donation to the Centre
1935
Born in Cincinnati
Ohio on June 16th.
1947
His mother dies,
he is 12 years old .
1950
Dine goes to live with his maternal
grandparents. His grandfather owns
a hardware store, for woodworking,
plumbing, and tools for building.
1952
While in high school at age 16 he
begins studies at the Cincinnati Art
Academy in the evening.
1955
Dine begins studying at the college of
Fine Arts at Ohio University in Athens. He
becomes acquainted with various
printmaking techniques. The following
September he studies for a few months at
the School of Fine Arts at the Museum of
Fine Arts in Boston.

2.

IM DINE
onation to the Centre Pompidou
1960
1957
He completes his
art studies at Ohio
University and that
same year marries
a fellow student,
Nancy Minto.
1958
Dine moves to New York City. Together
with Claes Oldenburg and Markus
Ratliff he founds the Judson Gallery in
Greenwich Village. At that time he also
met Allan Kaprow and Bob Whitman, as
a group they become pioneers in
happenings and performance.
First solo exhibition is held at the
Reuben Gallery in New York where
also he performs the Car Crash, his
most ambitious performance to
date.
Jim Dine with Ties at 4th Avenue Studio, NY
Photo : unknown
Page in Happening & Fluxus materialen, Köln,
Kunstverein, 1970 . Photo : unknown
1962
He has an exhibition of new paintings at the
Martha Jackson Gallery in New York. At that time
Mrs. Jackson produces a group show called “New
Forms, New Media” that includes Dine, Claes
Oldenburg, John Chamberlain, and Allan Kaprow.
Dine begins a 14-year long relationship with Ilena
Sonnabend who organizes a solo exhibition of his
paintings in Rome. In that year Jasper Johns takes
Jim Dine to meet Tatyana Grossman at ULAE and
Dine makes his first lithograph there with her.
Dine also participates in the group show, “New
Paintings of Common Objects” at the Norton
Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.

3.

1963
Dine shows with the
Galerie Ileana Sonnabend
in Paris. Later in that year
he has an exhibition at the
Palais des Beaux-Arts in
Brussels.
1964
He participates in the 23rd Venice
Biennale in the American pavilion.
The exhibition “Jim Dine” is
inaugurated at the Sidney Janis Gallery
in New York City. He paints the first
bathrobe
1965
Guest lecturer at Yale University and artist-inresidence at Oberlin College, Ohio where he
has his first solo museum show at the Allen
Memorial Art Museum. Dine is commissioned
by Actor’s workshop, San Francisco, California
for set and costume design for A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. He also shows with the Gallery
Gian Enzo Sperone in Turin as well as the
Gallery Robert Fraser in London.
Exbition in Sonnabend Gallery, 1963
Courtesy the Gallery
Jim Dine in front of Black Bathroom #2,
1962,teaching at Oberlin College, 1965
Photo: Unknown