Biography
1957 Born in Spokane,
WA
Lives and works in New York, NY
Education
1986
Master of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1980
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Fort Wright College, Spokane, WA
Grants
and Awards
2006
AICA, Association Internationale des Critiques d'art
2001
Albert Ucross Prize
2000
California College of Arts and Crafts, Capp Street Project Artist in Residence,
Oakland, CA
1999
Washington State Arts Commission
1995
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
1994
Penny McCall Foundation Grant
1992
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, NEA; Paintings and Works on paper Regional
Fellowship
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France touring to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland and Camden Art Centre, London, UK
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2008
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
CRG Gallery, NY
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2005
Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, continues at Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Jim Hodges: this line to you, Santiago de Compostello, Spain
2004
Don't Be Afraid, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2003
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Returning, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
Colorsound, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Jim Hodges, Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA
2002
Jim Hodges: Constellation of an Ordinary Day, Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
this and this, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
like this, Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY
Subway Music Box, Eastern Washington State Historical Society /Cheney Cowle Museum, Spokane, WA
Subway Music Box, The CCAC Institute, Capp Street Project, Oakland, CA
2001
Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2000
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1999
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
every way, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, continues to
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1998
CRG Art, Inc., New York, NY
Jim Hodges: Welcome, The Kempner Museum of Contemporary
Art, Kansas City, MO
1997
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
1996
yes, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, CA
States, The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1995
CRG Art, Inc., New York, NY
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1994
Everything For You, Interim Art, London, England
A Diary Of Flowers, CRG Art, Inc., New York, NY
1992
New Aids Drug, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Holland
1991
White Room, White Columns, New York, NY
1989
Historia Abscondita, Gonzaga University Gallery, Spokane, WA
1986
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Pratt Institute, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2009
Floating a Boulder: Works by Felix Gonzalez Torres and Jim Hodges, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
2008
New Prints 2008/Spring, International Print Center, NY
New Prints 2008/Spring, New York School of Interior Design Gallery, NY
2007
Ensemble, curated by Christian Marclay, ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philidelphia, PA
Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
New Prints 2007, IPCNY, New york, NY
PURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
Like color in pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
I Remember Heaven: Jim Hodges and Andy Warhol, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2006
Out of Line: Drawings from the Collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
SHINY, Wexner Center for the arts, Columbus, OH
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA
GAY ART NOW, Curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
The Last Time They Met, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Artpeace at the Schoolhouse: For Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2005
Art inside the Park, curated by Atelier CMS Inc., Memorial Park, Jefferson City, MO
Suspended Narratives, Lora Reynolds Gallery (curated by Maureen Mahony), Austin, TX
Landscape Confection, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (publication)
Universal Experience: Art, Life , and the Tourists' Eye, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Visual Music: 1905-2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Shelly Hirsch & Jim Hodges, Roulette at Location One, New York, NY
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Treble, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York
Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Off the Wall: Works from the JPMorgan Chase Collection, Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences, Greenwich, CT
Mad About the Boy, The New Gallery, Walsall, England
2003
Fast Forward: 20 Years of White Rooms, White Columns, New York, NY
In Full View, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Legacy: A Benefit Exhibition of Works by Capp Street Project Alumnae, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Site and Insight: an Assemblage of Artists, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2002
Sugar and Cream, Triple Candie, New York, NY
Mirror Mirror, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
Contemporary American Paper Artists: An Invitational Exhibition, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
Arte Povera American Style: Funk, Play, Poetry & Labor, Reinberger Galleries, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Life Death Love Hate Pleasure Pain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Miami Currents: Linking Collection and Community, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Chapter V, Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY
All the Way with Jim + Shel, Jim Hodges and Shelley Hirsch, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits, Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA
Linger, Artimes, Greenberg, Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Group Exhibition, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pretty, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Uncommon threads, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
CAMERA WORKS: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art, Boesky
Gallery, New York, NY
Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik,
Odense, Denmark
2000
Gardens of Pleasure, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan,
WI
et comme l'esperance est violente.., Frac des Pays de la Loire,
Carquefou, France
Projects 70 - Jim Hodges, Beatriz Milhazes, Faith Ringgold, Museum
of Modern Art, New York, NY
Age of Influence:Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Outbound:Passages from the 90's, Contemporary Arts Musuem, Houston,
TX
ZONE F; An approach to the spaces inhabited by the feminist discourses
in contemporary art, EACC, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain
The Trunk Show, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, University
Park, PA
Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond,VA
Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection,
SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
1999
1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late 20th Century, Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000, Part II,
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Natural Dependency, Jerwood Gallery, London, England
Matter of Time, curated by Andrew Perchuk, Dorsky Gallery,
New York, NY
Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-1999, The Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Fresh Flowers, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1998
Let Freedom Ring, ICA/VITA BREVIS, Boston, MA
Abstract Painting Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,
TX, continues to Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Political Pictures: Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art,
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
AIDS WORLDS-Between Resignation and Hope, Centre d'Art Contemporain,
Geneva, Switzerland
1997
Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Hanging by a Thread, Hudson River Museum, Westchester, NY
7th Bienal Internacional de Esculturae Desenho des Caldas da
Rainha Bienal, Portugal
Longing and Memory, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, CA
Des Fleurs en Mai, FRAC, Nantes, France
Gothic, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Poetics of Obsession, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York,
NY
1996
Just Past: The Contemporary in MOCAâs Permanent Collection 1975-1996,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
UNIVERSALIS, The 23rd International Sao Paulo
Bienale, Brazil
Material
Matters, A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Masculine Measures, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan,
WI
Swag & Puddle, The Work Space, New York, NY
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
1995
New Works, Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL
Late Spring, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
Avant-Garde Walk a Venezia, curated by Marc Pottier in conjunction
with the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Mon Voyage ½ New York, Galerie Elizabeth Valleix, Paris, France
soucis de pensées, Art: Concept/Olivier Antoine, Nice, France
Material Dreams, Gallery Takashimaya, New York, NY
In a Different Light, University Art Museum, University of California
at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Sex Sells, Benefit for The University Art Museum and Pacific Film
Archive, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994
It's how you play the game, Exit Art/The First World, New York,
NY
Ethereal Materialism, curated by Susan Harris, Apex Art, New York,
NY
DYAD, curated by Annie Heron, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Les fleurs de mon jardin, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
Desire, benefit for DIFFA, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
A Bouquet for Juan (An exhibition in honor of Juan Gonzales), Nancy
Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
Who Chooses Who, Benefit Auction, The New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York, NY
A Garden, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1993
Jim Hodges and Bill Jacobson, Paul Morris Fine Art, New York, NY
Our Perfect World, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
Opening Exhibition, Rowles Studio, Hudson, NY
The Animal in Me, Amy Lipton, New York, NY
Arachnosphere, Ramnarine Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Beyond Attrition: Art in the Era of Aids, Washington Project for
the Arts, Washington, D.C.
The Eidetic Image: Contemporary Works on Paper, Krannert Art Museum,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, Urbana-Champain, IL
Museo Statale d'Arte Mediovale e Moderna, Arezzo, Italy
It's Really Hard, Momenta Art, New York, NY
Jim Hodges, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
Outside Possibilities, The Rushmore Festival, Woodbury, NY
Sculpture & Multiples, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
Selections/Spring '93, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1992
Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
Healing, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
An Ode to Gardens and Flowers, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn
Harbor, NY
The Temporary Image, S.S. White Building, Philadelphia, PA
Update 1992, White Columns, New York, NY
1991
Black and White, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
Lyric, Uses of Beauty at the End of the Century, White Columns,
NY
1990
Auction for Action, Act-Up Benefit, New York, NY
Jim Hodges, David Nyzio, Vincent Shine, Postmasters, New York,
NY
Partnership for the Homeless with Aids, Christie's, New York, NY
Reclamation, Momenta Art Alternatives, Philadelphia, PA
1989
Selections, Artist's Space, New York, NY
1988
Installation, Momenta Art Alternatives, Philadelphia, PA
Public Collections
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Capital Research Group, Los Angeles, CA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Fonds Régional des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museé National, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
The Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
The Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Guggenheim Musem, New York, NY
Selected Bibliography