ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2009 Helen Sumpter, Time Out London, The Joy of Sects, 19-25 February, pp. 45-48
Sophie Bishop, New Age For Art, Mayfair Times, February, p. 16
Doug Harvey, Artists Collection, Prop Department, Jim Shaw, Modern Painters, February, pp. 22-23
 
2008 Claire Barliant, The Artless Dodger: Jim Shaw and His Endless Compendium, Doug Harvey, Jim Shaw’s Real Mirage: A Partial Inventory, Afterall, Issue 19, Autumn/Winter pp. 90 – 106
Doug Harvey, Aspects of Mel’s Hole, Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occuring in Radiospace,
Grand Central Press, Santa Ana, 2008, p. 28.
 
2007 Knight, Christopher. “'Eden's Edge: Fifteen L.A. Artists': an L.A. art history exhibit that twists, turns and looks back,” LA Times, 23 May
“Jim Shaw talks with Dani Tull about his paintings,” New York, Arts Magazine, November/December
2006 “The Artists’ Artists: Jim Shaw,” Artforum, December, pp. 111
Danby, Charles. “Jim Shaw,” Frieze, June/July/August, pp. 275
Michael Duncan, “Opening Salvos in L.A.,” Art in America, November, pp. 76-83
No. 1, Francesca Richer and Matthew Rosenzweig (ed.), D.A.P., New York, pp. 342
Aura Satz, Tema Celeste, July/August, p. 79
Superstars: von Warhol bis Madonna, Kunsthalle Wien & BA-CA Kunstforum, pp. 123
2005 “Jim Shaw: The Inky Depths/The Woman in the Wilderness,” Time Out New York, 13 - 19 October 2005
2004 Purcell, Greg. “Unpopular Authorship: The Drawings of Jim Shaw,” NY Arts, January/February, pp. 62
Dee Michell, Charles. “Report From Santa Fe–Everything in Excess,” Art in America, November, pp. 84–91
Tumlir, Jan. “Destroy All Monsters – Jan Tummlir on Motor City Madness,” ArtForum, October, pp. 85-86, 276-278
2003 Harvey, Doug. “Craked Abstraction: The Geometrical Designs of Alfred Jensen, the ‘O-ist’ Discoveries of
Jim Shaw,” LA Weekly, February 7-13
Pagel, David. “Eye-to-eye with Forgotten Codgers,” Los Angeles Times, January 17, pp. E39
Levine, Carey. “Jim Shaw at Metro Pictures and the Swiss Institute,” Art in America, March, pp. 126-7
Magnuson, Ann. “L.A. Woman: new World ‘O’ rder,” Paper, February, pp. 53
Tavee, Art. “Between Rock and a Hard Place,” Contemporary, Issue 55, pp. 96–99
Falconer, Morgan. “Interview with Jim Shaw,” Contemporary, Issue 55, pp. 78-83
Church, Amanda. “Jim Shaw, Metro Pictures,” Flash Art, November/ December, pp. 54
Pollack, Barbara. “The New Visionaries,” ARTnews, December, pp. 92-97
2002 Saltz, Jerry. "A World Apart," The Village Voice, May 8-14
Stern, Steven. "Sweet Charity," frieze, June/ July/ August, pp. 94-7
Douglas, Sarah. “Jim Shaw: the Goodman Image File and Study,” The Art Newspaper, September, pp. 2
Burnett, Craig. “Praise the Big ‘O’,” Modern Painters, Autumn, pp. 153
Stern, Steven. “Shaggy Dogma Stories,” Time Out New York, October 3-10, pp. 58
Wilson, Michael. “New York Critics’ Picks– Jim Shaw,” Artforum.com, September
Kimmelman, Michael. “Jim Shaw,” The New York Times, October 4, pp. E33
Williams, Gregory. “Jim Shaw– Swiss Institute,” Artforum, December, pp. 137-8
Leith, Anne. “Jim Shaw,” Modern Painters, Winter, pp. 148-150
2001 Brown, Neal. “A Noble Art/ Jim Shaw,” Frieze, March, pp. 104-5
Dannatt, Adrian. “It Is All Just A Dream,” The Art Newspaper, No. 113, April, pp. 77
Klein, Mason. “Jim Shaw- Metro Pictures,” Artforum, Summer, pp. 184
The Artist’s World, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, California
Oursler, Tony. “Jim Shaw,” ITS, November/December, issue 3, pp. 54-63
2000 Clarinval, France. "tout se joue en trois jours," Nightlife.lu, Luxemburg, May 26, pp. 34-7
"personaLIST", LIST, Spring/Summer, pp. 124
Trembly, Nicolas. "Jim Shaw: MAMCO," Flash Art, Summer, pp.120-1
Behrman, Pryle. "Jim Shaw: 'Everything Must Go!'", Contemporary Visual Arts, June/July/Aug, pp. 43
Minh-ha, Trinh T. "L'innécriture: Inescriptura," El Poder de Narrar, September, pp. 192, 256, 260, 282-5
Viladas, Pilar. "Barn Again," The New York Times Magazine, Aug. 27, pp. 50-1
Claydon, Paul. “Jim Shaw: Thrift Store Paintings,” ICA, London, Untitled, no. 23, Autumn/Winter, pp. 37
Falconer, Morgan. “Priceless,” Art Review, v 52, October, pp. 44–45
"Jim, the Obscure," Wrong, Volume 1, Number 2, Pasadena, California, pp. 2-13
Kushner, Rachel. "A Thousand Words: Jim Shaw Talks About His Dream Project," Artforum, November, pp.
128-9
Farquharson, Alex. “Inside Art,” Art Monthly, December-January, pp. 242
Duncan, Michael. “Shaw’s Carnival of the Mind,” Art in America, December 2000, pp. 86-91, 134
1999 "Time After Time' at Tsingou", Flash Art, January/February, pp. 39
Rugoff, Ralph. "Rules of the Game," Frieze, January/February, pp. 46-9
Angus, Denis. "Jim Shaw: Respect Pop Culture," Omnibus, January, pp. 12-3
Johnson, Ken. "Art In Review: Jim Shaw," The New York Times, March 19, pp. E 39
Clarinval, France. "Expos & Autres Culturiosités," Nightlife.lu, May, Luxembourg, pp. cover, 35-7
Schneider, Caroline. "Jim Shaw-Everything Must Go-1974-1999," Artforum, May, pp. 80
Pollack, Barbara. "Jim Shaw: Review," Artnews, June, pp. 128
Leydier, Richard. “Jim Shaw: Casino Luxembourg,” Art Press, no. 249, September, pp. 76-78
Grabner, Michele. “Jim Shaw,” New Art Examiner, v 27, no. 3, November, pp. 68
Verwoert, Jan. "Jim Shaw: Casino Luxembourg," Frieze, Nov/Dec., pp. 99
1998 "Forward/Slash: Bits From the Web," The Web Magazine, January, pp. 12
Gerstler, Amy. "Jim Shaw: Rosamund Felsen," Artforum, April, pp. 112
Duncan, Michael. "Variations in Noir," Art in America, April, pp. 57-61
Harvey, Doug. "Jim Shaw at Rosamund Felsen," Art in America, May, pp. 134
Rian, Jeff. "‘Sunshine & Noir’ and 'LA Times,’" Flash Art, October, pp. 61, 67
Drolet, Owen. "Pop Surrealism," Flash Art, Summer, pp. 61
McCormick, Carlo. "Surrealism Goes Pop," Juxtapoz, Winter
Zimmer, William. "Recipe for a Good Time: Surrealism and Pop Culture," The New York Times
(Connecticut section), August 2
Kimmelman, Michael. "How the Tame Can Suddenly See Wild," The New York Times, (Arts and Leisure
section) August 2
Steven Madoff, Steven. "Pop Surrealism," Artforum, October, pp. 120
Shaw, Jim. “Jim Shaw’s Top Ten,” Artforum, v 37, no. 3, November, pp. 44
Kimmelman, Michael. "In Connecticut Where Caravaggio First Landed," The New York Times, (Arts &
Leisure section) July 17
Lombardi, Dominick. "An Art Lover's Candy Store at the Aldrich Museum," The Record Review, June 26
Dietsch, Scott. "The New Surrealism Gets Real," The Villager, New York, November 4, pp. 1 (Arts &
Entertainment section)
1997 Diehl, Carroll. "Jim Shaw," ARTnews, January, pp. 118
Van de Walle, Mark. "Jim Shaw: Metro Pictures," Artforum, March, pp. 90-1
Reisman, David. "The Sleep of Reason," Texte zur Kunst, March, pp. 117-9
“Special Feature: Mike Kelley & the LA Art Scene," BT, February, pp. 16-80
Albretini, Rosanna. "Jim Shaw: Rêveries d'un Artiste Conceptual Artist," Art Press, April, pp. 47-51
Knight, Christopher. "Lots of 'Sunshine,' Little Light," Los Angeles Times (Arts section), July 27, pp. 4-5/85
Display, Lars Bang Larsen & Mikael Anderson, The Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
(September 12-October 19)
"Performance Anxiety," View, (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - newsletter), October-December,
pp. 2
Nilsson, Hakan. "Sunshine and Noir," Flash Art, November/December, pp. 74
Larsen, Lars-Bang. "Sunshine & Noir: Art in LA 1960-1997," Frieze, September/October, pp. 93-4
:Engel: Engel, forward by Cathrin Pichler, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Galerie Rudolfinum Prag
Max Kozloff, "Sunshine & Noir: Art in LA 1960-1997," Artforum, December, pp. 110-1
1996 "Dreams" (portfolio and back cover), Grand Street, vol. 14 #4, pp. 123-33
Peters, Werner. Society On the Run: A European View of Life in America. New York: M.E.Sharpe, Inc.
"Art," New York Magazine, September 9, pp. 102
Pedersen, Victoria. "Gallery Go 'Round," Paper, October, pp. 130
Killam, Brad. “L.A. Stories,” Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, New Art Examiner, v 24, October,
pp. 49
Saltz, Jerry. "Jim Shaw, ‘The Sleep of Reason’," Time Out New York, October 17-24
"Jim Shaw," New Yorker, October 7, pp. 24
Greene, David A. "California Dreaming," The Village Voice, pp. 95
Preston, Janet. "New York Letter Bomb," Coagula Art Journal, No. 24, pp. 18 (review of "Sleep of Reason"
show at Metro Pictures)
Johnson, Ken. "California Dreamer," Art in America, December, pp. 89
Koether, Jutta. "Unterhalb der Metaebenen," Spex, No. 12, December, pp. 52
1995 McKenna, Kristine. "The Night Watchman," Los Angeles Times Calendar, January 8, pp. 7, 84
Tumlir, Jan. “Jim Shaw at Rosamund Felsen and Steven Hurd at Dan Bernier,“ Artweek, v24, March, pp.37
Muchnic, Suzanne. “Jim Shaw,” Art News, v 94, April, pp. 154
Carducci, Vincent. “Destroy All Monsters,” New Art Examiner, v 22, April, pp. 46
Urban, Hope. "Jim Shaw," Juxtapoz (publ. by High Speed Productions), Summer, pp. 26-30
1994 Kohen, Helen L. "Art Review (Arrested Childhood)," The Herald, May 22, pp. 11
1993 Kandel, Susan. "Art Reviews: Jim Shaw at Linda Cathcart." Los Angeles Times, Thursday, May 6, pp. F12
Duncan, Michael. "L.A.: The Dark Side," Art in America, March, pp. 41-3
Heath, Chris. "Artful Dodgers," Details, November, pp. 119-23, 175, 176
Duncan, Michael. "Jim Shaw at Linda Cathcart," Art in America, December, pp. 110
1992 Liebman, Lisa. “Jim Shaw,” Metro Pictures, New York, New York, Artforum, v 30, January, pp. 101
Gardner, Colin. "Helter Skelter at the Temporary Contemporary," Artforum, April, pp. 103-4
Kutner, Janet. "An artist with a thirst for Pop," Dallas Morning News, June 12, pp. 1C-2C
Knight, Christopher. "An Art of Darkness at MoCA,” Los Angeles Times, January 28, pp. F1,4,5
Nesbitt, Lois. "Art's Bad Boys," Elle, March, pp. 91-3
Rugoff, Ralph. "Jim Shaw: Recycling the Subcultural Straightjacket," Flash Art, March/April, pp. 91-3
Whitington, G. Luther. "l.a.'s new look,” Art & Auction, Jan., pp. 83-5, 116
Yood, James. “Et in Arcadia Ego?,” New Art Examiner, v 19, April, pp. 24-26
Ruby, Dan. SoHo 1991, South Atlantic Quarterly, Summer, # 3, pp. 662-4
Kalil, Susie. "Schlock Value," Houston Press, Nov. 26, pp. 31-4
Plagens, Peter. "Welcome to Manson High," Newsweek, March 2, pp. 65-6
1991 Kandel, Susan. "New York in Review: Jim Shaw," Arts Magazine, March, pp. 106-7
Shaw, Jim. "Project for Artforum" (insert), Artforum, March, pp. 81
Heyler, Joanne. "Jim Shaw: Nostalgia of Wow," Flash Art, March/April, pp. 135
Aletti, Vince. "Thrift Store Paintings," The Village Voice Literary Supplement, February
Pagel, David. "Jim Shaw at Linda Cathcart," Art Issues, April/May, pp. 33
Nesbitt, Lois S. "Books," Arts, Summer, pp. 106
Walsh, Kelly. Interview, September, pp. 68
Smith, Roberta. "’Outsider Art’ Goes Beyond the Fringe," The New York Times, September 15, Section 2
Homes, A.M. "Jim Shaw at Feature," Artforum, September, pp. 132
Nesbitt, Lois E. "American Psycho," Artscribe, September, No. 88, pp. 44-7
Cameron, Dan. "Not-Quite-Art," Art & Auction, November, pp. 84-90
Johnson, Ken. "Generational Saga," Art in America, pp. 45-50
Kandel, Susan. "Teen Trauma," Los Angeles Times, November 28, pp. F5
Kimmelman, Michael. "At the Whitney , a Biennial That's Eager to Please, The New York Times, Friday,
April 19
Knight, Christopher. "Four Floors of Evolution," Los Angeles Times, Calendar, April 28, pp. 3
Larson, Kay. "A Shock to the System," New York Magazine, April 20, pp. 86-7
Troncy, Eric. "No Man's Time," Flash Art, November/December, pp. 121-2
D’ Amato, Brian. “Thrift Store Paintings: Jim Shaw Recruits the Salvation Army,” Flash Art, no. 161,
November/December, pp. 126
Decter, Joshua. “ Jim Shaw,” Arts Magazine, v 66, December, pp. 80
Ramirez, Yasmin. “Jim Shaw’s “Thrift Store Paintings” at Metro Pictures,” New York, New York, Art in
America, v 79, December, pp. 120
1990 Helfand, Glen. "Boy's Life," SF Weekly, November 14, pp. 11
Knight, Christopher. "Thrift Store Show: It's Priceless," Los Angeles Times, March 28, pp. F1, F8
Saltz, Jerry. "Lost in Translation: Jim Shaw's Frontispieces," Arts Magazine, Summer
Knight, Christopher. "Shaw's Wildly Funny Narrative Saga," Los Angeles Times, December 7
Nyo, Paul Tin. "Jim Shaw," Artweek, December 13
Baker, Kenneth. "Datebook Galleries," San Francisco Chronicle, December 8
Rinder, Lawrence. "Interview with Jim Shaw," Matrix, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Low Cal," The Village Voice, December
Bonetti,David. "My Mirage reflects new image," San Francisco Examiner," November 23, pp. C-2
1989 Curtis, Cathy. "Galleries," Los Angeles Times, December 29, pp. F24
Hickey, Dave. "Jim Shaw, Stopping the Image Wheel," Visions, vol. 4, pp. 6-9
Gerstler, Amy. "Jim Shaw," Dennis Anderson Gallery, Artforum, Summer, pp. 151
Knight, Christopher. "Recycling Art from a Heap of History," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, March 31, pp. 4
Weissman, Benjamin. "Reviews: Jim Shaw at Saxon-Lee," Art Issues, January, pp. 23
Clothier, Peter. "The Next Wave," Artnews, December, pp. 113-7

 

CATALOGUES

2007 Jim Shaw: Distorted Faces & Portraits, 1978-2006, Blondeau Fine Art Services, JRP/Ringier, Zurich,
Switzerland
2006 Barkley, Glenn; Macgregor, Elizabeth Ann; Sutton, Gerard. 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, Museum of Contemporary Art Limited, October 12, 2006 - March 25, 2007.
Fifth Interpretation of the Collection, La Colección Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico, pp. 90-91
Jim Shaw: Selected Dream Drawings, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Jim Shaw, Jim Shaw: O, JRP/Ringier, Zurich, Switzerland
2005 Private View 1980 2000 Collection Pierre Huber, JRP/Ringier, Zurich, Switzerland p. 203-206
Hamilton, Elizabeth, ed. The Blake Byrne Collection, MOCA, Los Angeles, p. 87
Kantor, Jordan. Drawing from the Modern: After the Endgames, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp.
122
2003 Une Collection Pour Une Région, 1982 – 2002, Haute-Normandie, FRAC, pp. 8, 263
2002 Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, pp. 189-92
Video Acts, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, pp. 189-91, 197
2001 Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, pp. 149-50
1999 Everything Must Go: Jim Shaw 1974-1999, essays by Doug Harvey, Noelle Roussel, Fabrice Stroun, Amy
Gerstler; interview with Mike Kelly, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
1998 The New Neurotic Realism, essay by Dick Price, The Saatchi Gallery, London
Pop Surrealism, essays by Richard Klein, Dominique Nahas, Ingrid Schaffner, Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Educating Barbie, essays by David Burrows & Mark Harris, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York
1997 Sunshine & Noir, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,
Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contempotnae, Italy; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of
Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Larsen, Lars-Bang. “Jim Shaw,” Display: International Exhibition of Painting, Charlottenborg Exhibition
Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 62–63
1995 Dreams, Santa Monica, California: Smart Art Press
Art on Paper, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, "Otroci Los Angeles a jini: mladi umelci z Los Angeles," Weatherspoon
Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
It's Only Rock and Roll, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
1994 Schjeldahl, Peter. Columns & Catalogues, The Figures, Great Barrington, MA, pp. 45-7
1993 Thrift Store Paintings: Jim Shaw, Uta Nusser, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Deichtorhallen Hamburg,
Germany
Kissick, John. Art: Context and Criticism. Britol: Wm.C.Brown Communications, Inc.
1992 Gudis, Catherine, ed. Helter Skelter, LA Art in the 1990s. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
American Art of the 80's, essay by Jerry Saltz, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento, Italy
Shaw, Jim. True Stories, ICA, The Mall, London, England
1991 1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

 

PUBLICATIONS BY THE ARTIST

2002 The Very Best of. . .The Perfect Me [sound recording], The End is Here Publications, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Thrift Store Paintings, Heavy Industry Publications, Los Angeles, CA
1986 “New Abducted By To Lose,” Aioaeuie Ntnlnqrr, The End is Here Publications, Los Angeles, CA
“Secret Star-A Shocker Creating O,” Aioaeuie Ntnlnqrr, The End is Here Publications, Los Angeles,CA
1981 Life and Death, The End is Here Publications, Los Angeles, CA