Born 1952 in Midland, Michigan

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

 

 

Grants & Awards

 

2004

Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

1989

Foundation Grant, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation

1988

Fellowship Grant, Art Matters Inc.

1987

Open Channels Grant, Long Beach Museum of Art

1986

Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Thinking the Unthinkable. Gagosian, Los Angeles

2021

Before and AfterMath. Metro Pictures, New York, NY.

2020

Hope Against Hope, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

 

2019

The Family Romance, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Strange Beautiful, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France

 

2018

Jim Shaw, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
Jim Shaw: Drawings, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
Michigan Stories: Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw, The Broad Art Museum at MSU, Michigan, MI

 

2017

Jim Shaw/Mike Kelley, The Broad Art Museum at MSU, Michigan, MI
Jim Shaw, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Jim Shaw, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Jim Shaw, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy Jim Shaw: The Wig Museum, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

 

2016

Rather Fear God, Praz Delevallade & Vedovi, Brussels, Belgium. This exhibition travelled to Paris, France (exh. cat)

 

2015

Jim Shaw, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK The End is Here, New Museum, New York, NY (exh. cat) Entertaining Doubts, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

 

2014

I Only Wanted You to Love Me, Metro Pictures, New York, NY The Hidden World: Jim Shaw – Didactic Art Collection, Centre Dürrenmatt, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Jim Shaw: OEuvres choisies : dessins – peintures – sculptures – video, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland

 

2013

Jim Shaw, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
Jim Shaw, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
The Hidden World: Jim Shaw – Didactic Art Collection, Chalet Society, Paris, France (exh. cat)
Jim Shaw, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

 

2012

Jim Shaw: The Rinse Cycle, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (exh. cat)
Jim Shaw’s Dream Drawings, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Dreams, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
Jim Shaw, Metro Pictures, New York, NY

 

2011

Jim Shaw: Fumetto, International Comix-Festival Luzern, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Cakes, Men in Pain, White Rectangles, Devil in the Details, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Thrilling Stories from the Book of “O”, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France

 

2010

Jim Shaw: New Works, The Bernier-Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
Left Behind, CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

 

2009

Labyrinth: I Dreamed I Was Taller Than Jonathan Borofsky, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
Wet Dreams, Erotic Dream Drawings by Jim Shaw, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
The Whole: A Study in Oist Integrated Movement, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

 

2008

Jim Shaw: New Arrivals, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
The Third LA Weekly Biennial: Some Paintings, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Extraordinary Rendition, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Dr. Goldfoot and His Bikini Bombs, Metro Pictures, New York, NY

2007

2012 – Montezuma’s Revenge, Praz-Delavallade, Berlin, Germany
The Hole, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Jim Shaw: The Donner Party, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Into the Vacuum, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Jim Shaw: Distorted Faces & Portraits, 1978-2006, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland (exh. cat)
Jim Shaw, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy (exh. cat)

 

2006

Left Behind #8, 9, 10, Patrick Painter West, Santa Monica, CA
Dream Object (I was in my Japanese Gallery…), Patrick Painter East, Santa Monica, CA
Vise Head, Patrick Painter East, Santa Monica, CA
Jim Shaw, My Mirage, 1986-91, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY
Jim Shaw, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece
Jim Shaw: New Works, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK

 

2005

Jim Shaw, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
The Inky Depths/The Woman in the Wilderness, Metro Pictures, New York, NY The Dream That Was No More A Dream, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA Jim Shaw, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland

 

2004

Jim Shaw, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK

 

2003

Kill Your Darlings, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Kill Your Darlings, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece
Jim Shaw: Drawings, Studies, O-ism, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
“O” Oist Inspired Works, MAGASIN, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France. This exhibition travelled to Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (2004)

 

2002

The Goodman Image File and Study, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
The Rite of the 360°, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Jim Shaw, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
O-ist Thrift Store Paintings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY

 

2001

Dreamt of Drawings, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
Jim Shaw, Metro Pictures, New York, NY Jim Shaw, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy Jim Shaw, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Jim Shaw: Thrift Store Paintings (Tableaux de Brocante), 1974-2000, Mamco, Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

 

2000

Thrift Store Paintings, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Jim Shaw, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA`
Jim Shaw, Johnen + Schottle, Cologne, Germany

 

1999

Jim Shaw, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Jim Shaw, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Jim Shaw Everything Must Go! 1976 -1999, Casino-Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (2000); and The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, US (2000)

 

1998

Drawings, curated by Peter Weiermair, Rupertinum – Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Salzburg, Austria
Eccentric Drawing, curated by Peter Weiermair, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

 

1997

Jim Shaw: DAM, Deep Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jim Shaw, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Jim Shaw, Bookbeat, Detroit, MI
Jim Shaw, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

1996

Jim Shaw, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy The Sleep of Reason, Metro Pictures, New York, NY Dreams, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK

 

1995

What Exactly is a Dream and What Exactly is a Joke…, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
I Dreamed I was performing in an Alternative Space w/ my Maidenform Bra, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

1994

Dreams That Money Can Buy, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

1993

Dreams That Money Can Buy, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Dreams That Money Can Buy, Metro Pictures, New York, NY

 

1992

Horror A Vacui, with Benjamin Weissman, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Jim Shaw, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Life and Death, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Jim Shaw, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy

 

1991

Thrift Store Paintings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY

 

1990

My Mirage, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Jim Shaw: My Mirage, Matrix Gallery, Berkeley, US. (exh. cat) This exhibition travelled to St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, US (1991); and Feature Inc., New York, NY (1991)

 

1986

The Nuclear Family¸EZTV, Los Angeles, CA 1981 Life and Death, Zero Zero Club, Los Angeles, CA

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2021

NGV Triennial

2020

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Drive-Thru Museum. Museum Beoijmans Van Beuningen at Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Energy in All Directions. Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
We Never Sleep. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Street Trash, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France

2020

Telling Stories: Changing the Narrative, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, NY
We Never Sleep, Schim Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

 

2019

Hate Speech. Aggression and Intimacy, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AZ
Psyche and Politics, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

 

2018

West by Midwest, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, Met Breuer, New York, NY
Always Different, Always the Same: An Essay on Art and Systems, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Double Lives: Visual Artists Making Music, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Unexhangeable, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, LA

 

2017

A New Ballardian Vision, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Wither the Winds, Lundskonsthall, Lund, Sweden
Screen Memory, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
I LOVE LA., Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
An Uncanny Likeness, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY

 

2016

Miracle Marathon, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, UK
Realisms, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia (exh. cat)
Nothing Compares to You, Works from the Collection of Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg, Riverview School, Cape Cod
On verra bien, galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, France
Maison de la poésie, galerie du jour agnes b., Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France

 

2015

Free Admission, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Drawing: The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K, Gent, Belgium
Better than de Kooning, Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany (exh. cat)
Faux Amis, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
Collecting Lines: Drawings from the Ringier Collection, Villa Flora, Winterthur, Switzerland (exh. cat)
Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK (exh. cat)
La La La Human Steps, Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, NL
The Making of Personal Theory: Mysticism and Metaphysics in the Work of Sara Kathryn Arledge, Charles Irvin, and Jim Shaw, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

 

2014

Ensemble, The Undercroft, Norwich, UK
Onetorino: Shit and Die, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy
Good Night Mister Procrustes, Galerie Steinek, The Century of the Bed festival, Vienna, Austria What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art from 1960 to the Present, Museum of Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Nothing Twice, Tadeusz Kantor Centre – Cricoteka, Krakow, Poland
Good Night Mister Procrustes , The Century of the Bed, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria
In the Crack of the Dawn: An exhibition by POOL, curated by Arthur Fink, LUMA/Westbau, Zurich
Veils, The Warehouse Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Grey Flags, Backslash Gallery, Paris, France
Hearsay: Contemporary Artists Reveal Urban Legends, Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA
New Pop: Illustrated Americana, Marc Jancou, New York, NY
A Speculum that Shines, Rowing Projects, London, UK
Selections from the Permanent Collection, MOCA, Los Angeles CA
The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This exhibition travelled to PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT
Do It (homage), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT. This exhibition travelled to Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa; Garage Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Cry Me A River, Etoile Polaire Lodge #1, New Orleans, LA

 

2013

XXXL Painting, Submarine Wharf, in association with Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (exh. cat)
Untitled: Works on Paper, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France
Xerography, Firstsite, Colchester, UK (exh. cat)
do it: Manchester International Festival, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
The Encyclopedic Palace, Arsenale, 55. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (cat)
Ensemble, Backlit, Nottingham, UK
I’m dreaming about a reality, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Peter Saul/Jim Shaw: Drawings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

 

2012

Group Face: John Baldessari, Liz Craft, Jim Shaw, Liz Larner, Paradise Garage, Venice, CA
Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Poule!, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico (exh. cat)
Shake and Bake, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
LOST (in LA), curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles

 

2011

The Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters, 1973-1977, PRISM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (exh. cat)
Incongogru: Quand l’art fait rire, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Interchange, Exchange LA, Los Angeles, CA
All of the above (carte blache á John Armleder), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Frankce
Secret Societes: to know, to dare, to will, to keep silence, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (2011-2012)
California Dreamin: Myths and legends of Los Angeles, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
All That Is Unseen, Allan Nederpelt Gallery, Greenpoint, NY
Echoes, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France (exh. cat)
The Archaic Revival, curated by Dani Tull, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Musique plastique, Galerie du jour Agnes B, Paris, France
Citysonic – Festival des Arts sonores, Grande Halle, Mons, Belgium
The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ (2011-2012)

 

2010

Insiders: pratiques, usages, savoir-faire, CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux,
France
The Artist’s Museum: Los Angeles, Artists 1980 – 2010, The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Move: Choreographing You, curated by Ralph Rugoff, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to Haus der Kunst, Munich (2011); and K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany (2011)
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeff Koons, New Museum, New York, NY
Animal Politique, FRAC Poitou Charentes, Angoulême, Frances
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Rive Gauche/Rive Droite, curated by Marc Jancou Contemporary & Azzedine Alaia, Breton & Blondeau Associates, Paris, France (exh. cat)
BigMinis: Fetishes of crisis, CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (exh. cat)

 

2009

Les Années 80 – Second volent: Images & (re)présentation, MAGASIN, Centre National d’Art
Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Spy Numbers, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Auto: Sueño y material: Automobile culture as critical and creative territory, LABoral – Centro de Arte y Creacíon Industrial, Gijon, Spain. This exhibition travelled to CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain (2009-2010)
Les Enfants Terribles, Fundacion/Colleccion Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico
Why Painting Now?, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
Los Angeles, Aspects of the Archaic Revival, Galerie Haus Schneider Uschi Kolb, Karlsruhe, Germany
You Can’t Expect to Get Back to Normal, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA
The Sculpture Show, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Depression, Marres – Centre of Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Regift, curated by John Miller, The Swiss Institute, New York, NY

 

2008

Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Lieu International des Formes Emergentes, St Nazaire, France (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to Museion Bolzano, Italy; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (2009); and Konsthall Mälmo, Mälmo, Sweden (2009)
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Amateurs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (exh. cat)
Less is less and more is more, CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Unruly and the Humorous: Imagery from Inner Consciousness, curated by Thomas Kidd, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland (exh. cat)
Political Correct, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland Hommage to Modern Art, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy Zuordnungsprobleme, Johann König Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Mel’s Hole, curated by Doug Harvey, CFSU Grant Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Blasted Allegories – Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland (exh. cat)
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Center, London, UK
Nobody Puts Baby in a Row, curated by S. Campagnolla and I. Bortolozzi, Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Brotherhood of Subterranea, curated by Ben Judd, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany
In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Kuxtapoz Factor, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Dreaming/Sleeping, Passage de Retz, Paris, France. This exhibition travelled to the Petah Tivka Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Animation/Fictions: Works from the FNAC Collection, FNAC, Paris, France. This exhibition travelled to MNAC, Bucarest, Romania
Faces and Figures (Revisited), Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY
It’s A Celebration, curated by Sarah Cromarty, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Some Paintings in the 2007 LA Weekly Annual Biennial, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes, Villa Arson, Nice, France Experimental: Folklore, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany Heroes and Villains, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY
Hotel California, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France

 

2007

Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1976, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, US (2008); and
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada (2008-2009)
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
If Everybody Had an Ocean – Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to CAPC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
Middle School: Smart Art Press, The First Thirteen Years, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (exh. cat)
Hammer Contemporary Collection, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Olaf Breuning, Mike Kelley, Louise Lawler, John Miller, Tony Oursler, Sterling Ruby, Jim Shaw & Andreas Slominski, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Group Show: Peter Callesen, Karen Kilimnik, Jim Shaw, Marnie Weber, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
Sound Art Limo, Melbourne, AC, New York, NY
Refugees Of Group Selection, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
A Fantasy for the Moment, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Art Projects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
De Leur Temps (2) Art Contemporain et Collections Privees, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK
945+11, FRAC-Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
L’Homme-Paysage, Villa Oppenheim, Berlin, Germany
Panic Room – Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
From Close To Home – recent Acquisition of Los Angeles Art, MOCA, Los Angeles, UK

 

2006

Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, UK (exh. cat)
Multiplicity: Prints and Multiples from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art and the University of Wollongong, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (exh. cat)
Red Eye: Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, US (exh. cat)
Works on Paper, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Twice Drawn, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
A Selected State, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
Chain Letter, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
Slow Burn, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland
The Aesthetics of Art and Music: Punk, Magasin, Grenoble, France
Los Angeles 1955-1985, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Olaf Breuning, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Metro Pictres, New York, NY
USA, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Masters of American Comics, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Faces, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
Somnanbulist/Fabulist, The France Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skimore College, Saratoga Spring, NY
Made in USA, Galerie Multiples, Paris, France
Noir c’est la Vie, Abbay St Andre – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
Hundert Kusse sind Besser als Einer (A Hundred Kisses are better than One), Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
Dormir, Rever…et d’autres nuits, CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

 

2005

Self Portraits, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY
Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Louise Lawler, Robert Longo, John Miller, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Gary Simmons, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Drunk vs. Stoned 2, Gavin Brown Enterprises, New York, NY
Catherine Sullivan, Jim Shaw, Tony Oursler, Lucy McKenzie, Martin Kippenberger, Mike Kelley, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
The Meeting, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
WivesHusbands, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
Superstars: Von Warhol bis Madonna, BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Closing Down, Bortolami, New York, NY
Boost in the Shell, AEROPLASTICS Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
L.A., Lucas Shoormans Gallery, New York, NY
Tauchfahrten Zeichnung als Reportage, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

2004

Walking on Elbows, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Information and the Mythological Machine, Mead Gallery, Coventry, UK Self Portraits, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Dogs, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paper, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
Disparities & Deformations, SITE Sante Fe, Santa Fe, NM (exh. cat)
100 Artists See Satan, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA (ext. cat)
Diaries and Dreams – Contemporary Drawings, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (exh. cat)
Selected Works…, Marc Jancou Fine Art, New York, NY
100 Artists See God, organized by Independent Curators International, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Italy (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to The Jewish Museum San Francisco, US; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, US; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (2004-2005); Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, US (2005); Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VI (2005); Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, US (2005-2006); Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN (2006)
Tauchfahrten – Zeichnung als Reportage, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Diaries and Dreams, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, Germany
SITE Santa Fe’s Fifth International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe Biennale, Santa Fe, NM
Drawings, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France

 

2003

Ivan Morley, Christian Schumann, Jim Shaw, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Variations on the Theme of Illusion, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Il Passato Non Esiste, Aurora, Rovereto, Italy
Extra, Swiss Institute, New York, US (exh. cat)
Group Show, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
LA Post Cool, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Still Waters, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
War (What Is It Good For?), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

2002

Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
L.A. Post-Cool, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (exh. cat)
2002 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (exh. cat) Amused, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia. This exhibition travelled to Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Super Heroes, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva, Switzerland
(The World May Be) Fantastic, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Shoot the Singer: Music on Video, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
French Connection, Mamco – Musee d’Art Contemporain et Moderne , Geneva, Switzerland
Doublures, FRAC – Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lés-Rouen, France (exh. cat)
Biennale of Sydney 2002, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Elvis has just Left the Building, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

 

2001

22nd Annual Benefit Art Auction, L.A.C.E, Los Angeles, CA
Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Magic Hour, Neue Galerie Graz im Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
The Artist’s World, Logan Galleries, CCAC Institute, San Francisco, CA (exh. cat)
All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw, John Miller, Mike Kelley, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
Pop & Post-Pop (On Paper), Texas Gallery, Houston, TX Comic Relief, Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA Heads or Tails, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Artists Take on detroit : Projects for the Tricentennial, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

 

2000

Jim Shaw, Yoshitomo Nara, Johnen + Shottle, Cologne, Germany
Destroy All Monsters, CoCa, Seattle, WA
La Bienniale de Montreal 2000, Montreal, Canada Made in California, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA Representing LA, Friart Museum, Seattle, WA
El Podar del Nar, MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Diary, Cornerhouse Gallery, Mangester, UK. This exhibition travelled to The Minoris, Colchester, UK
Projection 24/7, curated by Yvonne Force, The Standard, Hollywood, CA
The Power of Narration, Mapping Stories, EACC – Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Castellon de LaPlana, Spain
Projections, FRAC – Bourgogne, Dijon, France
L.A Art in the Early 90s ReCharge, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, France

 

1999

Drawn by…, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Basement Series #1, curated by N. Roussel and M. Corompt, Pasadena, CA
In Sickness and in Health: Jim Shaw and Marnie Weber, Recent Works, Project Gallery, Wichita, KS
Drawn from the Artist’s Collections, curated by Anne Philbin and Jack Shear, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
I, Me, Mine, Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles, CA
God Don’t Make No Junk, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX Videos of Artist Discussions, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Germany Pasadena Adjacent, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Anisi de Suite 3, Centre Regional d’art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
At Century’s End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
A Girl Like You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
On Paper, Stalke Gallerie, Kirke Saaby, Denmark

 

1998

Tell me a Story, MAGASIN, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Time After Time…, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (exh. cat)
I Rip You, You Rip Me (Honey, We’re Going Down in History), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Eccentric Drawing, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, GermanyEverybody Loves a Clown, Baby, Why Don’t You?, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, CA (exh. cat)
Night Vision, Junior Arts Center Gallery at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, UCA
Spread, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Bean Show, Dirt Gallery, Hollywood, CA
Slip Stream, Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Life Lessons: How Art Can Change Your Life: The Judy and Art Spence Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Affinities and Collections, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Fictional Biographies, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, AK
LA on Paper: Relax, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Educating Barbie, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY (exh. cat)
From Head to Toe: Concepts of the Body in 20th Century Art, LACMA, CA (exh. cat) Carte Blanche, Institut Français in association with Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Turin, Italy Graphic, Monash University Gallery, Victoria, Australia
The New Surrealism, Pamela Auchincloss, New York, NY
Performance Anxiety, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

 

1997

Slad, Apex Art, New York Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Angel: Angel, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to Galerie Rudolfinum Prague, Czech Republic (1997 – 1998)
Display, The Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark (exh. cat)
Drawings, Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, WA
Performance Anxiety, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Sunshine & Noir, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (1997-1998); Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy (1998); UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (1998)
I Have a Dream, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Kunstlerinnen, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
A Last Legacy : Selections From the Lannan Foundation Gift, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Bring your Own Walkman, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Now on View 2, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, NY

 

1996

Psy-Fi, Real Art Ways (RAW), Hartford, CT
Anomalies, The Contemporary Arts Collective, Charleston, Las Vegas, CA
The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art, Sabine Knust Gallery, Munich, Germany
Haus 19, Andreas Binder Gallery, Munich, Germany
Be Specific, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Popcultural, South London Gallery, London, UK. This exhibition travelled to Southhampton City Art Gallery, London, UK

 

1995

It’s Only Rock and Roll, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL (1996); Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VI (1996); Tacoma Art Museum, WA (1996); Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jackson, MS (1996); Bedford Gallery at the Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA (1996- 1997); The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (1997); North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (1997); Lowe Art Museum at University of Miami, Miami, FL (1997-1998); Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (1998); Arkansas Art Center, Arkansas, AR (1998); Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA (1998); Austin Museum of Art, TX (1999)
From L.A., With Love, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC (exh. cat)
Representation Drawings, Feature Inc., New York, NY

 

1994

Can You Always Believe Your Eyes? De Beyerd, Breda, The Netherlands
Jim Shaw, Tony Oursler, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Single-Cell Creatures: Cartoons and their Influence on the Contemporary Arts, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Arrested Childhood, Center of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (exh. cat)
Facts and Figures, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Academy I, PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, NY
The Return Of the Cadavre Exquis, Santa Monica Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

1993

Prospect ‘93, Frankfurter Kunstverein/Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Der Zerbrochene Spiegel (Thrift Store Painting Collection), Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Vienna (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (1993- 1994)
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Into the Lapse, Royal Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Four Centuries of Drawing: 1593-1993, Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SoHo at Duke IV, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Kustom Kultur, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA The Language of Art, Kunsthall Wien, Vienna, Austria Summer Reading, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Sampler: Southern California Video Tape Collection 1970-1993, organized by Paul McCarthy, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy. This exhibition travelled to David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY (1994)

 

1992

Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (exh. cat)
Songs of Innocence/Songs of Experience, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY
How It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY Drawings, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Just Pathetic, American Fine Arts Co., New York, NY
Re-Framing Cartoons, Wexner Art Center at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
True Stories, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (exh. cat)
Tattoo Collection: autour du tatouage, une collection de projets, photos et textes, Air de Paris, Nice, France and Urbi et Orbi, Paris. (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled ot Daniel Bucholz, Cologne, Germany
American Art of the 80’s, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento, Trento, Italy
The Day the Earth Stood Still, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LAX, Galerie Ursula Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Rosamund Felsen Clinic and Recovery Center, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Irony and Ecstasy: Contemporary American Drawings, Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

 

1991

1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (exh. cat)
Presenting Rearwards, Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles, CA
Ovarian Warriors vs. Knights of Crissum, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
HAH, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, NM
The Store Show, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (exh. cat)
The Kelly Family, Bucholz/Schipper, Cologne, Germany California North and South, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO No Man’s Time, Villa Arson, Nice, France (exh. cat)

 

1990

Video and Dream, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Berlin Film and Video Festival, Berlin, Germany
Recent Drawings: Roni Horn, Charles Ray, Jim Shaw, Michael Tetherow, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1989
Total Metal, Simon Watson, New York, NY
Boys will be boys, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, NM
Erotophobia, Simon Watson, New York, NY
L.A. Six, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Buttinsky, Feature Inc., New York, NY
ACCEPTABLE ENTERTAINMENT & ABOUT T.V.: Appropriation and Parody in Contemporary Video Art, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Thick and Thin, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
No Stomach, San Diego, CA
Romancing the Stone, Feature Inc., New York, NY
Amerikarma, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY

 

1988

In the Afterglow of TV Land, Infermental VIII, Tokyo, Japan
Telling Tales, Artists Space, New York, NY

 

1987

L.A. Hot and Cool: The Eighties, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
New California Video, A Survey of Open Channels: Open Channels III, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Cal Arts; Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Heterodoxy, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LA2DA, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

 

1986

Social Distortions, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Hang 12, Piezo Electric Gallery, Venice, FL

 

1985

B & W, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
TV Generations, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
The Magic Show, Atelier Gallery at University of Southern California, Santa Monica, CA

 

1984
The Floor Show, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

 

Works in Public Collections

 

National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Fond National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris
FRAC, Normandie
FRAC, Angouleme
FRAC, Bordeaux FRAC, Dijon
Palazzo Forti – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Verona
Fri-Art Museum, Fribourg
Fri-Art Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
Musée cantonnal des beaux-arts de Lausanne, Lausanne
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Pachett Collection, San Diego, CA