American-born artist Jim Dine makes paintings, sculptures, photographs and writes poetry but is best known for his remarkable accomplishments as a printmaker. His career has spanned over six decades and he continues to work every day at his studio in Paris.

Dine is closely associated with the Pop Artists of the 1960s. His visual language was honed early through attaching everyday objects – often his own personal possessions – to his works; thus creating unique, multi-media pieces that had a strong sense of the autobiographical. Recurring themes in Dine’s practice include stylised hearts, self-portraits and the now iconic ‘bathrobe’  – a symbol of everyday American life in hotels and homes – whether a luxury provided for guests, or a well-worn personal belonging. Of the printmaking process Dine has said; ‘I have a real romance with printing. The passion I feel for the way printers can wipe a plate and use ink in the sensitive way to illuminate what I’ve drawn is really a privilege’.

Since Dine’s first solo exhibition in New York in 1960, his work has been the subject of over 300 solo exhibitions worldwide, most recently at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018). He has been the subject of major print retrospectives at the National Gallery, Victoria (2017); Albertina, Vienna (2016);  and Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (2015). He was elected an Honorary Royal Academician in 2014 and his work is collected by major museums all over the world including the British Museum, London, to which Dine donated over 200 prints. He lives and works in Paris.