Jim Shaw

Jim Shaw Portrait of @jimshawstudio by me

Opening this Friday - Terse Daniel Burley, Jessie Evans, Carlotta Roma, Jim Shaw, Sophie Spedding, Will Vetch Curated by Carlotta Roma & Will Vetch Private view: Friday 7 November, 6-9 pm 8 November 2025 - 10 January 2026 “I want there to be things in my work that people can access, but also hidden secrets.” - Jim Shaw Over the past three decades, Jim Shaw has responded to American cultural history through painting, drawing, and sculpture. He has found inspiration in comic books, pulp novels, rock albums, protest posters, and amateur paintings; his ever-growing collection of found artworks has also been the subject of several exhibitions in its own right. Often unfolding in extended narrative cycles marked by repetition and cross-reference, Shaw’s works juxtapose images of friends and family with those depicting world events, pop-cultural phenomena, and alternative realities, blending the personal, the commonplace, and the visionary. Committed to undoing any sense of aesthetic or ideological purity, Shaw has turned consistently to his own life—particularly his unconscious mind—as a source of inspiration. For more information please visit the exhibition page on the website. Link in bio. _____________ Image: Jim Shaw, Cake (Jim Bent), 2011, oil, acrylic, ink, and digital inkjet print on panel (detail), 100.3 x 95.3 cm (39 1/2 x 37 1/2 in.), unframed © Jim Shaw Courtesy the artist and Gagosian #inspectionpituk #artfoundation #supportingthearts #supportartists #terse #westsussex @daniel_burley @je_s_ie @jimshawstudio @speddingcamera @carlotta_roma_art @bitchvetch

Since the late 1970s, Jim Shaw (@jimshawstudio ) has developed a rich and multifaceted body of work that includes photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, films, and musical performances. The publication “The Ties That Bind” addresses the commitments, obsessions, and conceptual territories that drive Jim Shaw’s practice: morality, fictional narratives, conspiracy theories, power dynamics and patriarchy, hair, and forms of cultural production, to name a few. Conceived on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at @mhkamuseum , Antwerp, the publication collects 142 drawings realized between 2013 and 2023. The essays by Calla Henkel (@callahead_ ) and Mark von Schlegell accompany the images, projecting the reader into a fictional dimension interwined with Shaw’s practice, relying on his drawings as a backdrop of territories, scenes, characters, and ideas onto which they could project their own narrative. Copublished by Mousse Publishing and @mhkamuseum with a foreword by Anne-Claire Schmitz (@anneclaireschmitz ), “Jim Shaw: The Ties That Bind” is now available on Mousse’s online shop. — — Audio track by @congarou

Thursday May 1 @gagosian Jim Shaw Drawing Show. See you there!

Saturday May 3 at 3 pm @gagosian I will be talking with @tonyoursler about my work. Tony and I have been friends since college and it will be wild! Make a reservation.

I’m happy to invite you all to my drawing show @gagosian New York 821 Park ave. opening Thursday May 1st from 6-8. Drawings selected from the last 12 years. I’ll be there!

Unique opportunity to experience the conceptual land art installation “Desert Lighthouse” by my friend and esteemed colleague @danielhawkinsart . Tickets to the bus trip are available at desert lighthouse.org/fieldtrip. Link in my story. Posted @withregram • @danielhawkinsart Join me on Saturday, April 26 from 3–10PM on a bus trip from Los Angeles to the Mojave Desert to experience a sunset viewing of the Desert Lighthouse. Tickets at sertlighthouse.org/fieldtrip

I had a great evening at the opening of “Eye Contact” christieslosangeles curated by Jean Marie Gallais from the Pinault Collection. I was happy to have one of my distorted face paintings included in the exhibition. #Repost @mrstaschen ‘Eye Contact,’ an invitation to the Pinault Collection first time presented at christieslosangeles curated by the brilliant, Jean Marie Gallais from the Pinault Collection came in from Paris to present 16 works by 8 contemporary artists including @jimshawstudio @thomas_houseago_studio_ @williampopel1 , @lynfoulkes @marlenedumas @studioluctuymans @realcindysherman @lynetteyiadomboakye Thank you @jmg.jmg @guillaumecerutti @bbrennanchristies @sonyaroth @marshallart #francoispinault

We are delighted to feature two prints by Jim Shaw in our fundraiser in support of Grief and Hope and The Brick. Available now! 🖼️ Cash Register, 2025 Archival Pigment Print 24 x 18 in 🖼️ Refrigerator in Hell #1, 2025 Archival Pigment Print 24 x 18 in   Over the past three decades, Jim Shaw (born in 1952 in Midland, Michigan, and lives and works in Los Angeles) has responded to American cultural history through painting, drawing, and sculpture. He has found inspiration in comic books, pulp novels, rock albums, protest posters, and amateur paintings; his ever-growing collection of found artworks has also been the subject of several exhibitions in its own right. Often unfolding in extended narrative cycles marked by repetition and cross-reference, Shaw’s works juxtapose images of friends and family with those depicting world events, pop-cultural phenomena, and alternative realities, blending the personal, the commonplace, and the visionary. Committed to undoing any sense of aesthetic or ideological purity, Shaw has turned consistently to his own life—particularly his unconscious mind—as a source of inspiration. The prints are available on our website until February 24. Collect and support now. @jimshawstudio @gagosian @thebrick_la @griefxhope

I am pleased to have work included in the Pacific Standard Time exhibition “Digital Witness” on view now at @lacma #Repost @gagosian “Digital Witness,” an exhibition including work by Andreas Gursky, Jim Shaw (@jimshawstudio ), Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol, opens today, November 24, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (@lacma ). The exhibition examines the impact of digital manipulation tools from the 1980s to the present, and for the first time assesses simultaneous developments and debates in the fields of photography, graphic design, and visual effects. Featuring over 150 works by nearly two hundred artists, designers, and makers, the exhibition traces the emergence of distinctive digital aesthetic strategies, relationships to realism, and storytelling modes. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #JimShaw #Gagosian Jim Shaw, “Computer Degenerated Self-Portrait,” 1992, Los Angeles County Museum of Art © Jim Shaw

I am pleased to share that I have work currently on view at MAMCO Geneva (Musée d’art moderne et contemporain) in the group exhibition “MAMCO, from Memory” through December 22, 2024. @mamco_geneve Photo credit: @annikwetter

My exhibition “The Past Is Never Dead. It’s Not Even Past” at Kunsthaus Biel closes this Sunday, August 25. @kbcb_kunsthaus_centredart #repost @gagosian “The Past Is Never Dead. It’s Not Even Past.,” an exhibition focused primarily on Jim Shaw’s work from the last ten years, closes this Sunday, August 25, at Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne (@kbcb_kunsthaus_centredart ). In addition to twelve paintings, a selection of around 145 “Study Drawings” (2013–23) offers an overview of the artist’s mental landscape. The show, adapted from Shaw’s exhibition “The Ties That Bind,” recently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium, includes a new immersive installation entitled “The Electronic Monster and Thirteen Ghosts” (2024). Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #JimShaw #Gagosian @jimshawstudio Jim Shaw, “Religious Machine Man,” 2020 © Jim Shaw