Jim Shaw 

Jim Shaw (Born 1952 Midland, Michigan) is an American artist based in Los Angeles. A graduate from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (BFA 1970-1974) and the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles (1975-1978 M.F.A).

 

His style is characterized by the use of a wide range of media and visual imagery. Since the 1970s, Shaw has mined the detritus of American culture, finding inspiration for his artworks in comic books, pulp novels, rock albums, protest posters, thrift store paintings, and advertisements. Shaw has also consistently turned to his own life and, in particular, his unconscious, as a source of artistic creativity. Providing a blend of the personal, the commonplace, and the uncanny, Shaw’s works frequently place in dialogue images of friends, family members, world events, pop culture, and alternate realities. 
 

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​Selected public collections:

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Centre  G. Pompidou, Paris

Palazzo Forti - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Verona

Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Ginevra

Musée cantonnal des beaux-arts de Lausanne, Losanna

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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