JIM SHAW

BOOKS

2011 L. Bovier and F. Stroun (ed), My Mirage, JRP Ringier, Zurich.
J. Shaw, Dream Object Book by Jim Shaw, MFC-Michéle Didier, Brussels.
2008 J. Shaw, Jim Shaw: Long Drawing, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan.
2007 J. Bernstein, The UBS Art Collection: Drawings, UBS AG, Zurich, pp. 230-233.
2006 D. Harvey, Jim Shaw: Selected Dream Drawings, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles.
F. Richter and M. Rosenzweig (ed), No. 1, D.A.P., New York, p. 342.
2005 J. Kantor, Drawing from the Modern: After the Endgames, Museum of Modern Art, New York, p. 122.
E. Hamilton (ed), The Blake Byrne Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, p. 87.
M. Kelley, Mike Kelley : Interviews, Conversations and Chit-Chat (1986-2004), JRP Ringier, Zurich.
C. Kraus (ed), LA Artland, Black Dog Publishing, London, pp. 92-95, 213.
1999 J. Shaw, Thrift Store Paintings, Heavy Industry Publications, Los Angeles.
1998 D. Price, The New Neurotic Realism, The Saatchi Gallery, London.
1996 P. Werner, Society on the Run: A European View of Life in America, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., New York.
1995 J. Shaw and M. Weber, Jim Shaw: Dreams, Smart Art Press, Los Angeles.
1994 P. Schjeldahl, Columns & Catalogues, The Figures, Great Barrington, pp. 45-47.
1993 J. Kissick, Context and Criticism, Wm. C. Brown Communications, Inc., Bristol.

 

CATALOGUES

2011 Secret Societies: to know, to dare, to will, to keep silence (Snoek, Cologne, in association with Schirn
Kunsthalle, Frankfurt).
Echoes (Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris).
The Spectacular Vernacular (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis).
The Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters, 1973-1977 (PRISM Gallery, Los Angeles).
2010 Move: Choreographing You (Hayward Gallery, London).
Rive Gauche/Rive Droite (JRP Ringier, Zurich, in association with Breton and Blondeau Associates, Paris, pp. 84-85).
BigMinis: Fetishes of crisis (CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux).
2008 In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream (Blondeau Fine Art Services, Zurich).
Sonic Youth etc.: Senational Fix, (Lieu International des Formes Emergentes, St. Nazaire, pp.664-667)
Blasted Allegories: Works from the Ringier Collection (JRP Ringier, Zurich, in association with Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, pp. 170-171, 277).
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, pp. 92-93).
2007 Jim Shaw (Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan).
Jim Shaw: Distorted Faces & Portraits, 1978-2006, (Blondeau Fine Art Services, Zurich).
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1976 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, pp. 228-231).
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhbition (Tate St. Ives, Cornwall).
Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists (The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, pp. 34-41).
2006 Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images (LACMA, Los Angeles).
Multiplicity: Prints and Multiples from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art and the University of Wollongong (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney).
Red Eye: Artists from the Rubell Family Collection (Rubell Family Collection, Miami, pp. 202-203).
2004 Jim Shaw : O (JRP Ringier, Zurich, in association with MAGASIN, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble).
Disparaties & Deformations (SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe).
Diaries and Dreams – Contemporary Drawings (Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna).
100 Artists See Satan (Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana). 
100 Artists See God (Naples Museum of Art, Naples, in association with Independent Curators International, p. 115).
2003 Une Collection Pour Une Région, 1982 – 2002 (FRAC – Haute Normandie, Sottesville-lés-Rouen, p. 8, 263).
Extra (The Swiss Institute, New York).
2002 L.A. Post-Cool (San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose).
2002 Biennale Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York).
Video Acts (P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, pp. 189-91, 197
(The World May Be) Fantastic (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, pp. 189-192).
2001 The Artist’s World (CCAC Institute, San Francisco, p. 25).
Painting at the Edge of the World (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, pp. 149-50).
1999 Everything Must Go: Jim Shaw 1974-1999 (Casino-Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg).
1998 From Head to Toe: Concepts of the Body in 20th Century Art (LACMA, Los Angeles).
Pop Surrealism (Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield).
Educating Barbie (Trans Hudson Gallery, New York).
1997 Sunshine & Noir (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek).
Angel: Angel (Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna).
Display (The Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, pp. 62-63).
1995 Art on Paper (Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro).
It's Only Rock and Roll (Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati).
1994 Arrested Childhood (Center of Contemporary Art, Miami).
1993 Der Zerbrochene Spiegel (Thrift Store Painting Collection) (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Vienna).
1992 Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles).
American Art of the 80's (Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento, Trento).
True Stories (Institute of Contemporary Art, London).
1991 1991 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York).
The Store Show (Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles).
No Man’s Time (Villa Arson, Nice).

 

INTERVIEWS

2009 A. Holden, ‘Jim Shaw in Conversation with Andy Holden’, Turps Banana 6: 38-45.
2007 D. Tull, ‘Jim Shaw Talks with Dani Tull About his Paintings‘, Arts Magazine (November-December).

 

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2011 S. Maine, ‘Jim Shaw Publishes His Darkest American Artist Book’, Art in America Online (25 October).
M. Biro, ‘Reality Effects’, Artforum (Special Issue: ‘Art in LA’) (October): 259.
C. Taft, ‘Profession: Dilettante: Interview with Jim Shaw’, Metropolis M (June-July): 34-41.
S. Mizota, ‘Jim Shaw at Patrick Painter’, Los Angeles Times Online (22 May).
2010 E. Shad, ‘Jim Shaw’, Flaunt, no. 107: 98-101.
E. Bernard, ‘Jim Shaw’, 02, no. 55 (Autumn): 24-27.
J. Gallais, ‘Jim Shaw’, Kaleidoscope, no. 7 (Summer): 73.
J. Tumlir, ‘Previews: Jim Shaw – Left Behind’, Artforum (May): 143.
2009 Y. Tytelman, ‘Anima’, Radio Sick, no. 1: 8.
P. & G. Kollectiv, ‘Jim Shaw: London,’ Art Papers (June-July): 57.
S. Frenzel, ‘Drei Fragen an Jim Shaw’, MONOPOL, no. 3 (March): 17.
D. Harvey, ‘Artist’s Collection: Prop Department’, Modern Painters (February): 22-23.
S. Bishop, ‘New Age for Art’, Mayfair Times (February): 16.
H. Sumpter, ‘The Joy of Sects’, Time Out London (19-25 February): 45, 48.
2008 A. Buckley, ‘Los Angeles Jim Shaw’, Artforum Online (December).
C. Barliant, ‘The Artless Dodger: Jim Shaw and His Endless Compendium’, Afterall 19 (Autumn/Winter): 90-98.
D. Harvey, ‘Jim Shaw’s Real Mirage: A Partial Inventory’, Afterall 19 (Autumn/Winter): 99-106.
D. Harvey, ‘Jim Shaw: Hole’, Grand Central Press: 28.
J. Neil, ‘Special Focus: Reviews Marathon’, ArtReviews (February): 82.
2007 V. Damagnez, ‘Jim Shaw – Demolition Man’, Mixte: 275.
D. Hunter, ‘Reviews: Eden’s Edge’, Art News (October): 219-220.
M. Schwendener, ‘Jim Shaw: The Donne Party’, The New York Times (3 August): E31.
R. Wolff, ‘The Annotated Artwork: The Donner Party’, New York (28 May): 84.
C. Knight, ‘Eden's Edge: Fifteen L.A. Artists: an L.A. art history exhibit that twists, turns and looks back’, LA Times Online (23 May).
2006 C. Danby, ‘Jim Shaw’, Frieze (Summer): 275.
M. Duncan, ‘Opening Salvos in L.A.,’ Art in America (November): 76-83.
A. Satz, ‘Jim Shaw’, Tema Celeste (July/August): 79.
N. Roussel, ‘Los Angeles: Elsewhere is Everywhere’, Artpress, no. 322 (April): 34-44.
J. Lack, ‘Monsters In’, I-D, no. 264 (May): 110-111.
M. Darling, ‘Painting in Tongues’, Painting in Tongues (February): 6, 15-16.
A. Leventis, ‘London: Emily Tsingou Gallery, Jim Shaw’, Contemporary, no. 84: 68.
2005 D. Harvey, ‘Shawmix’, LA Weekly (February): 18-24.
D. Pagel, ‘Look what the Artist Dreamed Up’, Los Angeles Times (January): 23.
D. Harvey, ‘Night Vision: Jim Shaw’s, The Dream That Was No More a Dream’, LA Weekly, no. 9, (January): 38.
2004 C. Michell, ‘Report From Santa Fe–Everything in Excess’, Art in America (November): 84–91.
J. Tumlir, ‘Destroy All Monsters – Jan Tummlir on Motor City Madness’, ArtForum (October): 85-86, 276-278.
G. Purcell, ‘Unpopular Authorship: The Drawings of Jim Shaw’, NY Arts (January-February): 62.
2003 A. Tavee, ‘Between Rock and a Hard Place’, Contemporary, no. 55: 96–99
B. Pollack, ‘The New Visionaries’, ARTnews (December): 92-97.
A. Church, ‘Jim Shaw, Metro Pictures’, Flash Art (November-December): 54.
A. Bonin, ‘Jim Shaw’, Art Press, no. 294 (October): 77-78.
C. Levine, ‘Jim Shaw at Metro Pictures and the Swiss Institute’, Art in America, no. 3 (March): 7-126.
A. Magnuson, ‘L.A. Woman: New World ‘O’ rder’, Paper (February): 53.
D. Harvey, ‘Cracked Abstraction: The Geometrical Designs of Alfred Jensen, the ‘O-ist’ Discoveries of
Jim Shaw’, LA Weekly Online (7-13 February).
D. Pagel, ‘Eye-to-eye with Forgotten Codgers’, Los Angeles Times (17 January): E34.
2002 G. Williams, ‘Jim Shaw– Swiss Institute’, Artforum (December): 137-8.
A. Leith, ‘Jim Shaw’, Modern Painters (Winter): 148-150.
S. Stern, ‘Shaggy Dogma Stories’, Time Out New York (3-10 October): 58.
M. Kimmelman, ‘Jim Shaw’, The New York Times (4 October): 33.
C. Burnett, ‘Praise the Big “O”’, Modern Painters (Autumn): 153.
S. Douglas, ‘Jim Shaw: the Goodman Image File and Study’, The Art Newspaper (September): 2.
M. Wilson, ‘New York Critics’ Picks– Jim Shaw’, Artforum Online (September).
S. Stern, ‘Sweet Charity’, Frieze (Summer): 94-7.
F. Summers, ‘Hungry for Death?’, Untitled, no. 28 (Summer): 16-19.
J. Saltz, ‘A World Apart’, The Village Voice Online (8-14 May).
2001 T. Oursler, ‘Jim Shaw’, ITS, no.3 (November-December): 54-63.
N. Brown, ‘A Noble Art/ Jim Shaw’, Frieze (March): 104-5.
A. Dannatt, ‘It Is All Just A Dream’, The Art Newspaper, no. 113 (April): 77.
M. Klein, ‘Jim Shaw- Metro Pictures’, Artforum (Summer): 184.
2000 M. Duncan, ‘Shaw’s Carnival of the Mind’, Art in America (December): 86-91, 134.
R. Kushner, ‘A Thousand Words: Jim Shaw Talks About His Dream Project’, Artforum (November): 128-9.
M. Falconer, ‘Priceless’, Art Review, no.52 (October): 44–45.
P. Claydon, ‘Jim Shaw: Thrift Store Paintings’, ICA, no. 23 (Autumn/Winter): 37.
P. Viladas, ‘Barn Again’, The New York Times Magazine (27 August): 50-1.
D. Harvey, ‘Crazy Summer’, LA Weekly (7 July): 43.
N. Trembly, ‘Jim Shaw: MAMCO’, Flash Art (Summer): 120-1.
P. Behrman, ‘Jim Shaw: 'Everything Must Go!'’, Contemporary Visual Arts (Summer): 43.
R. Rugoff, ‘Rules of the Game’, Frieze (January-February): 46-49.
1999 A. Farquharson, ‘Inside Art’, Art Monthly (December-January): 242.
J. Verwoert, ‘Jim Shaw: Casino Luxembourg’, Frieze, (November-December): 99.
M. Grabner, ‘Jim Shaw’, New Art Examiner, no. 3 (November): 68.
R. Leydier, ‘Jim Shaw: Casino Luxembourg’, Art Press, no. 249 (September): 76-78.
B. Pollack, ‘Jim Shaw: Review’, Artnews (June): 128.
C. Schneider, ‘Jim Shaw-Everything Must Go-1974-1999’, Artforum (May): 80.
K. Johnson, ‘Art In Review: Jim Shaw’, The New York Times (19 March): E39.
D. Angus, ‘Jim Shaw: Respect Pop Culture’, Omnibus, no. 27 (January): 12-3.
1998 S. Dietsch, ‘The New Surrealism Gets Real’, The Villager (November): 1.
J. Rian, ‘“Sunshine & Noir” and “LA Times”’, Flash Art (October): 61, 67.
S. Madoff, ‘Pop Surrealism’, Artforum 37, no. 3 (October): 120.
R. Zimmer, ‘Recipe for a Good Time: Surrealism and Pop Culture’, The New York Times Online (2 August).
O. Drolet, ‘Pop Surrealism’, Flash Art (Summer): 61.
D. Harvey, ‘Jim Shaw at Rosamund Felsen’, Art in America (May): 134.
A. Gerstler, ‘Jim Shaw: Rosamund Felsen’, Artforum (April): 112.
M. Duncan, ‘Variations in Noir’, Art in America (April): 57-61.
1997 M. Kozloff, ‘Sunshine & Noir: Art in LA 1960-1997’, Artforum (December): 110-111.
H. Nilsson, ‘Sunshine and Noir’, Flash Art (November-December): 74.
L. Larsen, ‘“Sunshine & Noir”: Art in LA 1960-1997’, Frieze (September-October): 93-4.
C. Knight, ‘“Lots of 'Sunshine,” Little Light’, Los Angeles Times (27 July): 4-5, 85.
R. Albretini, ‘Jim Shaw: Rêveries d'un Artiste Conceptual Artist’, Art Press, no. 233 (April): 47-51.
M. Van de Walle, ‘Jim Shaw: Metro Pictures’, Artforum (March): 90-1.
D. Reisman, ‘The Sleep of Reason’, Texte zur Kunst (March): 117-9.
‘Special Feature: Mike Kelley & the LA Art Scene’, BT (February): 16-80.
C. Dunham, ‘Jim Shaw’, ARTnews (January): 118.
1996 J. Preston, ‘New York Letter Bomb’, Coagula Art Journal, no. 24: 18.
K. Johnson, ‘California Dreamer’, Art in America (December): 89.
J. Saltz, ‘Jim Shaw – The Sleep of Reason’, Time Out New York (October): 17-24.
B. Killam, ‘L.A. Stories’, New Art Examiner 24 (October): 49.
V. Pedersen, ‘Gallery Go “Round”’, Paper (October): 130.
R. Albertini, ‘The Graphic Obsession – Remains of the Dreams’, Neue Bildende Kunst (February): 36-38.
1995 H. Urban, ‘Jim Shaw’, Juxtapoz (Summer): 26-30.
D. Greene, ‘Jim Shaw’s Dream Drawings’, Art Issues 38 (Summer): 20-21.
V. Carducci, ‘Destroy All Monsters’, New Art Examiner, no. 22 (April): 46.
S. Muchnic, ‘Jim Shaw’, Art News, no. 94 (April): 154.
J. Tumlir, ‘Jim Shaw at Rosamund Felsen and Steven Hurd at Dan Bernier’, Artweek, no. 24 (March): 37.
S. Kandel, ‘Art as Therapy’, LA Times (12 January): F10.
K. McKenna, ‘The Night Watchman’, Los Angeles Times Calendar (January): 7, 84.
1994 B. Clearwater, ‘Arrested Childhood’, Art Press (December): 33-40.
H. Kohen, ‘Art Review (Arrested Childhood)’, The Herald Tribune (22 May): 11.
1993 M. Duncan, ‘Jim Shaw at Linda Cathcart’, Art in America (December): 110.
C. Heath, ‘Artful Dodgers’, Details (November): 119-213, 175-176.
S. Kandel, ‘Art Reviews: Jim Shaw at Linda Cathcart’, Los Angeles Times (6 May): F12.
M. Duncan, ‘L.A.: The Dark Side’, Art in America (March): 41-43.
1992 S. Kallil, ‘Schlock Value’, Houston Press (26 November): 31-34.
J. Kutner, ‘An artist with a thirst for Pop’, Dallas Morning News (12 June): 1C-2C.
D. Ruby, ‘SoHo 1991’, South Atlantic Quarterly (Summer): 662-4.
C. Knight, ‘“Constellations”: Yearbook of Adolescent Yearnings’, LA Times (23 April): F4.
P. Kosenko, ‘Putting Disgust on Display: Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 90s’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles’, In These Times (April): 20 - 21.
J. Yood, ‘Et in Arcadia Ego’, New Art Examiner, no. 19 (April): 24-26.
C. Gardner, ‘Helter Skelter at the Temporary Contemporary’, Artforum (April): 103-104.
R. Rugoff, ‘Jim Shaw: Recycling the Subcultural Straitjacket’, Flash Art (March-April): 91-93.
P. Plagens, ‘Welcome to Manson High’, Newsweek (2 March): 65-66.
L. Nesbitt, ‘Art’s Bad Boys’, Elle (March): 91-93.
C. Knight, ‘An Art of Darkness at MoCA’, Los Angeles Times (28 January): 1-4-5.
G. Whitington, ‘L.A.’s new look’, Art & Auction (January): 83-85, 116.
L. Liebman, ‘Jim Shaw, Metro Pictures’, Artforum (January): 101.
1991 Y. Ramirez, ‘Jim Shaw’s “Thrift Store Paintings” at Metro Pictures’, Art in America 79 (December): 120.
J. Decter, ‘Jim Shaw’, Arts Magazine (December): 80.
E. Troncy, ‘No Man’s Time’, Flash Art, no. 161 (November/December): 121-122.
B. D’Amato, ‘Thrift Store Paintings: Jim Shaw Recruits the Salvation Army’, Flash Art, no. 161 (November/December): 126.
S. Kandel, ‘Teen Trauma’, LA Times (28 November): F5.
D. Cameron, ‘Not-Quite-Art’, Art & Auction (November): 84-90.
L. Nesbitt, ‘American Psycho’, Artscribe, no. 88 (September): 44-47.
A. Homes, ‘Jim Shaw at Feature’, Artforum (September): 132.
L. Nesbitt, ‘Books’, Arts (Summer): 106.
D. Pagel, ‘Jim Shaw at Linda Cathcart,’ Art Issues (April/May): 33.
C. Knight, ‘Four Floors of Evolution’, Los Angeles Times Calendar (28 April): 3.
K. Larson, ‘A Shock to the System’, New York Magazine (20 April): 86-87.
J. Heyler, ‘Jim Shaw: Nostalgia of Wow’, Flash Art (March-April): 135.
S. Kandel, ‘New York in Review: Jim Shaw’, Arts Magazine (March): 106-7.
1990 D. Bonetti, ‘My Mirage reflects new image,’ San Francisco Examiner (23 November): C2.
G. Helfand, ‘Boy's Life’, SF Weekly (14 November): 11.
C. Knight, ‘Thrift Store Show: It's Priceless,’ Los Angeles Times (28 March): F1, F8.
1989 D. Hickey, ‘Jim Shaw, Stopping the Image Wheel,’ Visions 4: 6-9
C. Curtin, ‘Galleries’, Los Angeles Times (29 December): F24.
P. Clothier, ‘The Next Wave,’ Artnews (December): 113-117.
A. Gerstler, ‘Jim Shaw, Dennis Anderson Gallery’, Artforum (Summer): 151.
C. Knight, ‘Recycling Art from a Heap of History,’ Los Angeles Herald Examiner (31 March): 4.
B. Weissman, ‘Reviews: Jim Shaw at Saxon-Lee,’ Art Issues (January): 23.