Jim Hodges
Jim Hodges was born in 1957 in Spokane Washington; lives and works between Milan and New York.
Known for his profound ability to infuse emotions and narratives into everyday objects, Hodges crafts poignant and delicate artworks centred around temporality, life, and love. Drawing inspiration from nature and its lexicon, his artistic practice spans from the initial delicate wall sculptures to expansive depictions of flourishing trees, as well as the incorporation of golden leaves and mirrored mosaics in the 2000s. Hodges transforms humble and simple materials through his artistic touch, uniting drawing and sculpture in the process. These acts of delicate transformation serve as evocative memories of desire and loss, contributing to the construction of a new identity.
Hodges’s work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Miami Art Museum; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C; Walker Art Centre, Minnesota and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Artworks
Exhibitions
Museums
Biography
Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2023
F, Jim Hodges, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique , Paris
USA, Jim Hodges: Craig's closet, New York City AIDS Memorial Park, New York
2022
USA, Location Proximity, Gladstone 64, New York
USA, Impossible Flower, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
2021
B, Jim Hodges, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
2020
PRC, LOVE POWER, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong
USA, I dreamed a world and called it Love, NYC Transit Grand Central-42 St Station, New York
2019
USA, Jim Hodges, Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
USA, Unearthed, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
2018
USA, Jim Hodges: silence stillness, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
2017
I, turning pages in the book of love, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
USA, Tracing the contour of our days, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
2016
USA, I dreamed a world and called it Love., Gladstone Gallery, New York
USA, With Liberty and Justice for All, The Contemporary, Austin
UK, Jim Hodges, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2015
B, Jim Hodges, Gladstone Gallery, Bruxelles
2014
USA, Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
USA, With Liberty and Justice For All (A Work in Progress), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
USA, Jim Hodges, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
2013
USA, Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
2012
USA, Jim Hodges: Drawings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
2011
USA, Jim Hodges, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2010
USA, Jim Hodges: New Work, Dieu Donné, New York
B, Jim Hodges, Gladstone Gallery, Bruxelles
2009
USA, Jim Hodges: you will see these things, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
F, Jim Hodges: Love Etc., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2008
USA, Jim Hodges, CRG Gallery, New York
UK, Jim Hodges, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
USA, Jim Hodges, Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco
2005
USA, Directions – Jim Hodges, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
USA, Look and See, Creative Time Commission at the Ritz Carlton Plaza, New York
E, Jim Hodges: this line to you, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2024
USA, The Swimmers, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
2023
USA, Together, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock
USA, Forest of Dreams: Contemporary Tree Sculpture, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids
USA, Water Ways, Ruby City, San Antonio
USA, A Mind of Winter, Gladstone Gallery, New York
UK, The Place I Am, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
MX, Everything Gets Lighter, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
USA, Forest of Dreams: Contemporary Tree Sculpture, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids
USA, Water Ways, Ruby City, San Antonio
2022
CDN, America: Between Dreams and Realities, Selections from the Hischhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Musée national des beaux-arts, Québec
F, In Bloom, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
USA, Like This, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York
USA, This and This, CRG Gallery, New York
USA, Jim Hodges: constellation of an ordinary day, Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington D.C
PRC, Multiple Sights—The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai
USA, Phraseology, The Bass Miami, Miami
USA, Jim Hodges: Subway Music Box, Day-Ellis Gallery, Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington, D.C.
2021
MEX, Ambient Temperature, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
UK, Group Show, Stephen Friedman Gallery at The London House of Modernity, London
USA, No Face, No Case: Portraiture's Breaking, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland
2020
PRC, Jinan Biennale, Shandong Museum, Jinan
UK, 25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2019
USA, From Day to Day, De La Cruz Collection, Miami
USA, With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst
USA, Drawn Together Again, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
2018
USA, On Reflection, UrbanGlass, New York
2017
USA, Deep Cuts: Contemporary Paper Cutting, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester
USA, Artists of Color, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
USA, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden: Grand Reopening, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
USA, YOU IN MIND, Converge 45, Portland
USA, Fall is Cancelled, Gladstone 64, New York
2016
USA, Identity Revisited, The Warehouse, Dallas
Bibliography
Year
Author, Publication Title, Date
2020
Hypebeast, December 31,
2018
De Simone, Anna Luigia, Arte, January
Art Research Map, February
Russ, Sabine, Bomb Magazine, January 4
Desmarais, Charles, San Francisco Chronicle, March 1
Lauren, Gilger, KJZZ, April 24
Sommer, Mark, Buffalo News, July 10
2016
Droitcour, Brian, Art in America, December
Masushio, Taro, Artforum, December
2015
Fialho, Alex, Visual AIDS, April 15
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Exhibition Catalogue. London, Stephen Friedman Gallery
BMW Art Guide, Exhibition Catalogue. Berlin, Hatje Cantz
Graves, Jen, The Stranger, July 15
2014
Passions Secretes: Collections Privées Flamandes, Exhibition Catalogue. Lille, Lille3000
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection, Exhibition Catalogue. Austin, The Contemporary Austin
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Cotter, Holland, The New York Times, August 18
2013
Duty, Michael, ART DESK, Winter
Grove, Jeffery e Olga Viso, Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take, Exhibition Catalogue. Dallas Museum of Art/Walker Art Center
Sheets, Hilarie M., ARTnews, January
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Associated Press, October 8
Petry, Michael, Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still-Life Tradition, Exhibition Catalogue. New York, Thames & Hudson
Public collections
Country
Location
France
Fonds Régional des Pays de la Loire, Nantes
Musée National, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
United States of America
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Collection, Buffalo
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
De La Cruz Collection, Miami
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
The Capital Research Group, Los Angeles
The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
The Grunwald Center, Hammer Museum at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
The Miami Art Museum, Miami
The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Whitney Museum, New York