Jim Shaw

Jim Shaw è nato nel 1952 a Midland, nel Michigan. Vive e lavora a Los Angeles.


Negli ultimi trent'anni, Jim Shaw è diventato uno degli artisti più influenti degli Stati Uniti, rinomato per la sua pratica fantasiosa, inventiva e particolarmente varia, che comprende diversi media, dalla pittura alla scultura. Le creazioni di Jim Shaw sono caratterizzate dall'approccio idiosincratico dell'artista alla realtà che lo circonda: ogni opera sintetizza il vernacolare e l'eccezionale, il misticismo e il realismo, creando un'estetica visiva che sfida il ventre puritano e radicale dell'America. L'artista infonde nelle vignette americane il pathos di miti arcaici e un'inquietante energia semi-religiosa. Shaw estrae il suo immaginario dai rifiuti culturali del XX secolo, utilizzando fumetti, copertine di dischi, riviste di cospirazione e oscura iconografia religiosa per produrre un ritratto del subconscio della nazione. Il suo lavoro si distingue per le rigorose analisi formali e strutturali di forme trascurate di cultura vernacolare, informate dalle sue grandi collezioni di oggetti rappresentativi dei desideri dei consumatori, del fervore religioso e di una controcultura in costante evoluzione.

Le sue opere sono state presentate alla 55a Biennale di Venezia (2013) e alle Biennali Whitney di New York del 1991 e del 2002. Le sue opere sono presenti nelle collezioni permanenti del Centre Pompidou, Parigi; del Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Ginevra, Svizzera; del Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York; del Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; del Metropolitan Art Museum, New York; del Whitney Museum, New York, tra gli altri.

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Biografia

Mostre personali
Anno
Paese, Titolo mostra, Location
2024
B, The Ties That Bind, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp
2023
USA, Thinking the Unthinkable, Gagosian, Los Angeles
2021
USA, Before and AfterMath, Metro Pictures, New York
2020
UK, Hope Against Hope, Simon Lee Gallery, London
2019
F, Strange Beautiful, Praz-Delavallade, Paris
USA, The Family Romance, Metro Pictures, New York
2018
UK, Jim Shaw: Drawings, Simon Lee Gallery, London
HK, Jim Shaw, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
2017
I, Jim Shaw, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
USA, The Wig Museum, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
USA, Jim Shaw, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
2016
B, Rather Fear God, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, F; Bruxelles
2015
USA, Jim Shaw, Simon Lee Gallery, New York
USA, Entertaining Doubts, MASS MoCA, West Adams
USA, The End is Here, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2014
USA, I Only Wanted You To Love Me, Metro Pictures, New York
CH, Jim Shaw. Oeuvres choisies : dessins – peintures – sculptures – vidéo, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève
CH, The Hidden World. Jim Shaw / Didactic Art Collection, Centre Dürrenmatt, Neuchâtel
2013
UK, Jim Shaw, Simon Lee Gallery, London
HK, Jim Shaw, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
F, The Hidden World. Jim Shaw / Didactic Art Collection, Chalet Society, Paris
USA, Jim Shaw, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
USA, Peter Saul, Jim Shaw: Drawings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2012
USA, Jim Shaw, Metro Pictures, New York
UK, Jim Shaw: Rinse Cycle, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, Gateshead
2011
CH, Jim Shaw - Fumetto, International Comix-Festival Luzern, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
F, Jim Shaw, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
USA, Cakes, Men in Pain, White Rectangles, Devil in the Details, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica
2010
F, Jim Shaw Sélection d’oeuvres sur papier 1984 - 1997, Saint Honoré Art Consulting, Paris
GR, Jim Shaw. New Works, Bernier/Eliades, Athens
F, Jim Shaw. Left Behind A cura di Charlotte Laubard, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
2009
UK, The Whole: A Study in Oist Integrated Movement, Simon Lee Gallery, London
Mostre collettive
Anno
Paese, Titolo mostra, Location
2025
USA, Digital Witness. Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2024
I, JANUS, Berggruen Arts & Culture, Venice
2023
USA, Ecstatic: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2022
F, Des corps, des eìcritures: Regards sur l’art d’aujourd’hui, Museìe d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris
F, Hippydrome, Frac Normandie, Caen
2021
I, Stop Painting, Fondazione Prada, Venezia
D, We Never Sleep, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
F, Street Trash, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
USA, Energy in All Directions, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
NL, Drive-Thru Museum, Museum Beoijmans Van Beuningen at Rotterdam, Rotterdam
AUS, NGV Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2019
USA, Selections from the Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
USA, The Shape of the Future, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
A, Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover; traveled to Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
A, Hate Speech-Aggression and Intimacy, Kunstlerhaus-Halle fur Kunst & Medien, Graz
B, Habiter l’intime, Fondation Thalie, Brussels
USA, Inaugural Exhibition, Rubell Museum, Miami
USA, Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK; traveled to San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
D, Psyche and Politics, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
2018
F, La Tempete – Acte II, Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Occitane, Sete
USA, West By Midwest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
USA, Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, Met Breuer, New York
A, Double Lives, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
USA, Mad World, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
USA, 3D, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
USA, The Archival Impulse, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
B, Unexchangeable, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
USA, Prospect 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
NL, XL Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotteram
USA, Michigan Stories: Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw, The Broad Art Museum at MSU, Michigan
2017
USA, A New Ballardian Vision, Metro Pictures, New York
USA, University of Disasters A cura di Matthew Grumbach, Bortolami Gallery, New York

Bibliografia

Anno
Autore, Titolo pubblicazione, Data
2021
Artdaily, March
2018
Artforum, November
Mamco Journal
2017
, Jonathan Griffin, Frieze
2016
Walsh, Brienne, Ocula Conversation
Frieze, Jan/Feb
2015
Mousse, December
Arte, Octobre
Shaw, Jim, Artforum, March
2014
Artforum, summer issue
2012
Shaw, Jim, ARTFORUM, May
2011
Shaw, Jim, Artforum, October
Return of the Repressed: Destroy all Monsters, Catalogo della mostra. Los Angeles,, PRISM
Taft, Catherine, Metropolis M, June/July
2010
Rive gauche / Rive droite, Catalogo della mostra. Paris,, sedi varie
Tumlir, Jan, Artforum, May
Gallais, Jean-Marie, Kaleidoscope, Summer
Chateigné Tytelman, Yann, Kaleidoscope, Summer
Skin Fruit. Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Catalogo della mostra. New York, New Museum
2008
Blasted Allegories-Works from the Ringier Collection, Catalogo della mostra.
Amateurs, Catalogo della mostra. San Francisco, CCA Institute of Contemporary Arts, 'p' pp. 84-87
2007
Jim Shaw: Distorted Faces & Portraits, 1978-2006, Catalogo della mostra. Zurigo, Blondeau Fine Art Services
Long Drawing 2007, Catalogo della mostra. Milano, Galleria Massimo De Carlo
2006
Kunsthalle Wien & BA-CA Kunstforum, Catalogo della mostra. Vienna, 'p' p. 123
Private View / Collection Pierre Huber 1980-2000, Catalogo della mostra. Zurigo, RP/Ringier, 'p' pp. 203-206
Fifth Interpretation of the Collection, Catalogo della mostra. 'p' pp. 90-91
Barkley, Glenn, Macgregor Elizabeth Ann e Gerard Sutton, Multiplicity: Prints and Multiples from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art and the University of Wollongong, Catalogo della mostra. Sydney, The Museum of Contemporary Art
Danby, Charles, Frieze, June - August - September
Jim Shaw. Selected Dream Drawings, Catalogo della mostra.
Duncan, Michael, Art in America
Satz, Aura, Tema Celeste, Londra, Emily Tsingou Gallery, Tema Celeste, 'n' 116, 'p' p. 79
Artforum

Collezioni pubbliche

Paese
Location
France
Bruno and René-Julien Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Centre National d'Art et de la Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris
FNAC - Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
FRAC - Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Angouleme
FRAC - Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
FRAC - Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Dijon
FRAC - Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Normandie
Italy
Palazzo Forti - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Verona
Mexico
Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Ciudad de México
Switzerland
Fri-Art Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
Fri-Art Museum, Fribourg
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
Ringier Collection, Zürich
United States of America
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Contemporary Drawings Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Eileen Harris Norton Collection
The Judith Rothschild Foundation
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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