Dine, Jim

Born on June 16.

Takes night classes at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Attends the College of Applied Arts at the University of Cincinnati and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Transfers to Ohio University in Athens, graduating with a fine arts degree in 1957.
Continues to study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston at the same time.

Moves to Patchogue, Long Island, and later to New York City.

Takes part in a group exhibition at Judson Gallery in New York.

With Claes Oldenburg, presents the exhibition Ray Gun at Judson Gallery in New York, which includes Dine’s first environment, The House.
Stages his first performance piece, The Smiling Workman, in conjunction with the exhibition.
Has his first solo exhibition, at Reuben Gallery in New York.
Takes part in his first museum show, Young Americans at the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Exhibits at Martha Jackson Gallery in New York and holds his first solo exhibition in Europe, at the Galleria dell’Ariete in Milan.

Exhibits at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

Takes part in the XXXII Biennale di Venezia.

Teaches as a guest professor at Yale University.
Works as an artist-in-residence at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin presents an exhibition of his work created during the residency.
Exhibits at Gian Enzo Sperone in Turin.

Exhibits at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Scotland Yard removes a series of Dine’s works from Robert Fraser Gallery in London on grounds of obscenity.

Works as a visiting critic at Cornell University.
Moves to London.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York presents Jim Dine: Designs for a Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Takes part in Documenta 4 in Kassel, Germany.

Exhibits at the Kunstverein München in Munich and the Kunsthalle Nürnberg in Nuremberg.

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York organizes a major retrospective exhibition of Dine’s work. Exhibits at the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna in Turin.

Moves back to the United States, settling in Putney, Vermont.
The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam presents a comprehensive exhibition of Dine’s work that later travels to the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.

Exhibits at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla, California.

Designs the interior of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

An exhibition of Dine’s prints from the early 1970s is presented at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and later travels to other museums in the United States.

Participates in Documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York organizes a retrospective of Dine’s etchings that later travels to other museums in the United States.

Exhibits recent works on paper at Galerie Claude Bernard in Paris.
An exhibition of Dine’s drawings opens at the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach, and later travels to several other museums in the United States.

Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The major retrospective Jim Dine: Five Themes is presented at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and later travels to several other museums in the United States.

Moves to New York. Creates a mural for John Nuveen & Co. in Chicago.

Designs the costumes and sets for the Richard Strauss opera Salomé at the Houston Grand Opera.
A retrospective of Dine’s graphic work is shown at the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and later travels to several other museums in the United States.

The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati organizes a retrospective of Dine’s drawings that later travels to other museums in the United States.
The Galleria d’Arte Moderna Ca’ Pesaro in Venice presents a retrospective of Dine’s drawings, paintings, and sculptures.

The Hakone Open-Air Museum in Hakone, Japan, presents an exhibition of Dine’s work.

Receives the Pyramid Atlantic Award of Distinction in Washington, D.C.

Teaches at the Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst in Salzburg.

The Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, presents Jim Dine: The Iconic Object.
The show Jim Dine: The Body and Its Metaphors travels to several museums in Japan.

Exhibits photographs at Alan Cristea Gallery in London.
Dine’s Three Red Spanish Venuses is included in The Guggenheim Museums and the Art of This Century, the inaugural exhibition of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York organizes Jim Dine: Walking Memory, 1959–1969, which later travels to the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Participates in the show 2000 ans de creation… d’après l’Antique at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts holds a retrospective of Dine’s graphic works.

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., presents a major exhibition of Dine’s drawings.

In honor of the dedication of its new sculpture garden, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, installs an exhibition of ten outdoor sculptures by Dine.

The exhibition Jim Dine: Pinocchio is shown at PaceWildenstein in New York.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen in Caen, France, presents the exhibition L’odyssée de Jim Dine.

The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore presents the exhibition Front Room: Jim Dine.
Installs a 33-foot-tall bronze sculpture of Pinocchio, commissioned by the city of Borås, Sweden.
Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris presents two exhibitions devoted to the artist’s work: Jim Dine: Pinocchio and Jim Dine: Pinocchio Prints.

The Borås Konstmuseum in Borås, Sweden, presents the exhibition Boy in the World (A Memoir): Jim Dine. Dine’s work is featured inStage Pictures: Drawing for Performance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in Made in USA: L’art américain dans les collections du Centre de la Gravure at the Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée in La Louvière, Belgium.

The Alan Cristea Gallery of London inaugurates Jim Dine: Hearts from New York, Goettingen, and New Delhi. His work is displayed, together with that of other artists, at the Black Cube Gallery in Barcelona; the Galerie Wolfgang Exner and the MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, both in Vienna; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte
Reina Sofía in Madrid; The Pace Gallery in New York; and the Musée Maillol – Fondation Dina Vierny in Paris.

The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Michigan inaugurates a retrospective of Dines sculptures, featuring 20 pieces dating from the 1950s to the present day. Gives a talk about the exhibition at the Park. The Pace Gallery, New York, and the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan, dedicate an exhibition each to the Dine.

Dine’s monumental sculpture Pinocchio (Emotional) is installed at the Cincinnati Museum of Art in Cincinnati, USA.

The Nassau County Museum of Art in New York organizes the exhibition Sculpture/Jim Dine/Pinocchio.

Dine’s work is included in Give me five! at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Alan Cristea Gallery in London presents the exhibitions Jim Dine: A History of Communism and Jim Dine: Printmaker.

A large exhibition of Dine’s prints opens at Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany.

Participates in the exhibition Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, USA.

The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA, holds an exhibition of Dine’s work titled Jim Dine: People, Places, Things.

To celebrate Dine’s 80th birthday, Galerie Templon in Paris hosts an exhibition dedicated to the American artist.

The Albertina Museum in Vienna organizes the exhibition Jim Dine. I Never Look Away.

The Antikenmuseum Basel hosts Dine’s installation Muscle and Salt.

Dine’s work forms part of Thom Browne Selects, an exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

Jim Dine: House of Words. The Muse and Seven Black Paintings is shown at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.

Gray Warehouse and Richard Gray Gallery, both in New York, organize exhibitions by the American artist.

The Centre Pompidou in Paris is home to a large exhibition that later travels to the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow.

Solo exhibitions held in Germany, the United States, and Spain: Jim Dine. I Never Look Away, at the Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung in Munich; Jim Dine: Pinocchio, Geppetto, and Other Personal Metaphors, at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art in Indiana; and Jim Dine, at the Centre Pompidou Málaga.

Solo exhibitions in Jerusalem and Rome: Jim Dine: Self-Portrait (Israel Museum) and Jim Dine (Palazzo delle Esposizioni).

Installs his ceramic ceiling Faire danser le plafond at Fondation GGL-HELENIS in Montpellier, France. An exhibition of his work is organized to mark the occasion.

Jim Dine. American Icon opens at the Snite Museum of Art on the University of Notre Dame campus in Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

The Jim Dine Pavillion opens at Kunsthaus Göttingen in Germany.

First exhibition of recent large-scale drawings: Jim Dine: The Secret Drawings at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA.

Stardust House pavilion inaugurated in Göttingen, Germany, and Electrolyte in Blue / Seeing Thru the Stardust, the Heat on the Lawn [Claude] in the same city.

Storm of Memory, held at the Kunsthaus, celebrates Jim Dine’s 25-year ongoing residency in Göttingen.

More exhibitions in the United States: Three Ships, at Templon, New York, and Jim Dine: Last Year’s Forgotten Harvest, at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine.

Jim Dine – Dog on the Forge held at the Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù, in the context of the 60^th Venice Biennale.