Jim Shaw
Fumetto International Comix-Festival, 2010. Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Fumetto International Comix-Festival, 2010. Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
"Left Behind," 2010. CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux
"Left Behind," 2010. CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux
"Left Behind," 2010. CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux
"Left Behind," 2010. CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux
Rinse Cycle, 2012. Acrylic on muslin, 150 x 230 inches / 381 x 584.2 cm. (MP# 253)
Man with 4 heads drawing, 2011. Pencil on paper, 72 1/4 x 54 inches (image size), 183.5 x 137.2 cm; 75 1/4 x 57 inches (frame size), 191.1 x 144.8 cm. (MP# D-504)
Group ExhibitionMike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Louise Lawler, Robert Longo, John Miller, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Gary Simmons
June 4 – July 30, 2005
Metro Pictures
Group ShowCatherine Sullivan, Jim Shaw, Tony Oursler, Lucy McKenzie, Martin Kippenberger, Mike Kelley
March 5 – April 23, 2005
Metro Pictures
Poule!(group show)
Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City
April 20 - September 14, 2012
www.lacoleccionjumex.org
Bio Jim Shaw
Born in 1952 in Midland, Michigan, lives and works in Los Angeles. Attended University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1974, BFA; California Institute of the Arts, 1978, MFA
Metropolis M (2011)
New York (2007)
Afterall (2008)
Art in America (2000)
Jim ShawMy Mirage
JRP|Ringier
"My Mirage" is the title of the first major body of work Jim Shaw created between 1986 and 1991. The nearly 170 drawn, silk-screened, photographed, sculpted, filmed or painted pieces recount the wandering of Billy, a white, middle-class American sucked into the whirlwind of the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning with Billy's anxious childhood and later his psychotic hallucinations, "My Mirage" follows Billy through his transformation from pagan cult member to "reborn" Christian fundamentalist.
"My Mirage" provides a social and cultural image of an individual in the 1960s and 1970s, producing a sharp analysis of the evolution of the subject through the cultural and social history of that era.