Jim Waid’s work attempts to convey the fundamental process of nature: growth, decay, life, and death. While the paintings appear to be abstract at first, a closer look reveals them to be close-up views of nature, such as flora, insects, or a desert landscape. Rarely working in sketches, Waid paints directly onto the canvas and scrapes away layers to reveal what’s hidden underneath.
Jim Waid Paintings
- Twelve-inch hardcover publication showcases 140 full-page images of Waid’s work covering 50 years of his artistry.
- Foreword by Phoenix Art Museum Director Emeritus James Ballinger
- Essay by curator and arts writer MaLin Wilson-Powell
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Biography and Resume
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BORN
1942 Elgin, Oklahoma RESIDES Tucson, AZ |
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EDUCATION
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| 1971 | MFA University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona |
| 1965 | BFA University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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FELLOWSHIPS & COMMISSIONS
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| 1999 | Mural commissioned for the Federal Courthouse, Tucson, AZ |
| 1995 | Oklahoma Art Institute, Teaching Internship |
| 1985 | National Endowment for the Visual Arts Fellowship Grant |
| 1977 | Commissioned by the City of Tucson to paint a 5 ft. x 59 ft. mural for the Columbus Branch Library, Tucson, Arizona |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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| 2015 2014 2013 2013 2012 2012 |
Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL “Threshold: New Works by Jim Waid” Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ “Full Spectrum,” William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO “Altered Scapes: Paintings by Jim Waid,” Prescott College Art Gallery at Sam Hill Warehouse, Prescott, AZ Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL “Songlines” Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ |
| 2010 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2008 | “Botanical Improvisations: Jim Waid Works on Paper,” Temple of Music and Art, Tucson, AZ |
| 2008 | “Natural Selections: Jim Waid Paintings,” Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ |
| 2008 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2008 | Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ |
| 2006 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2006 | “The View From Here,” Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2005 | Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ |
| 2004 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2003 | In Full Spectrum,” Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM “Jim Waid: Work on Paper,” Terry Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
| 2002 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 2001 | Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ “Groundwork: Drawings by Jim Waid,” University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson |
| 2001 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2000 | Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
| 2000 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago |
| 2000 | Benice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL |
| 1999 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1999 | Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1999 | Organic Tapestries, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM |
| 1999 | Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1998 | Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho |
| 1998 | Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1996 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1996 | “Paintings of the 90’s”, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona |
| 1996 | “Pastels & Monotypes”, The Temple of Music and Art, Tucson, Arizona |
| 1995 | Milagros Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas |
| 1995 | Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 1994 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1994 | Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1993 | Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1992 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1992 | Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1991 | Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1991 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1991 | Mitchell, Brown Gallery, Yucson, Arizona |
| 1990 | Boulder Visual Arts Center, Boulder, Colorado |
| 1990 | Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 1990 | Prescott Fine Arts Gallery, Prescott, Arizona |
| 1989 | Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1988 | Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California |
| 1987 | Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 1987 | Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas |
| 1986 | Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1986 | Wright Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
| 1985 | Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 1985 | University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona |
| 1983 | Adam L. Gimbel Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1983 | Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1982 | Adam L. Gimbel Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1981 | Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona |
| 1980 | Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1978 | Maggie Kress Gallery, Taos, New Mexico |
| 1978 | Cochise Fine Arts Center, Bisbee, Arizona |
| 1977 | “Arizona Artists Series: Jim Waid, Paintings and Drawings”, Sponsored by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and Humanities (This exhibit toured Arizona) |
| 1977 | Harlan Gallery, Tucson, Arizona |
| 1975 | Limner Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1974 | University of Montana, Missoula, Montana |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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“Livin’ Large” Works from the 1980’s,” The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ “Abstraction.” Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ “An Unfolding Legacy”, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ “Paperworks” Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ Summer Group Show, Jean Albano Gallery, IL “Winter Blues”, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL “Art and Environment,” Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM “Natural Seductions: Paintings by Jim Waid, Jane Abrams, and Robert Cocke,” Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ “Western, Not Western, William Havu Gallery, Denver, AZ Wild, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2012 | Objects Extraordinaire, Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, IL |
| 2011 | “The Paper Show”, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL”Limited Editions: Prints by Artists-Collectors”, Luis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona”Songlines”, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona”The Art of Collecting,” Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI”Family Ties,” Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, Arizona |
| 2010 2010 |
“Into the Void: Abstract Art 1944-2008,” Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ “Check Up 1: Recent Additions to the MOTU Art Collection, 2005-2010” Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX |
| 2009 2009 2009 2009 |
Cool! Cool! Cool! Cool!, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL “Entering the Mainstream: Lithography in the 20th Century,” University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ “Art + Design, Etherton Invites,” Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ “Paintings at Large,” Phoenix Airport Museum, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Tucson, AZ |
| 2008 2008 |
“Pushing Paint Around: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ “Big Stuuf: Works form the Permanent Collection.” University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM |
| 2007-8 | “An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection,” Tucson Museum of Art, AZ |
| 2007 | “Arts Botanica,” Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL |
| 2006 | “Painting, Alive and Well! Eight Master Artists,” University of New Mexico Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM “Loose Borders: Paintings Mediating Abstraction & Representation,” Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2005 | “Endless Summer,” Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO “Flora et Fauna,” University of New Mexico Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM |
| 2004-05 | “Painting the Town Red,” Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2004 2004 |
“Out of the Blues,” Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL “Making the Scene,” University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ |
| 2003 2003 2003 2003 |
“Scape of the Land”, Sisson Art Gallery, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI “January White Sale”, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL “Inflections of Illusion”, Etherton Gallery, AZ Theater of Art”, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ |
| 2002 | “Contemporary Visions of Nature”, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2001 2001 |
“Reflections: 15th Anniversary Show”, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL “Prints and Plants”, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
| 2000 2000 2000 |
“Inaugural Exposition”, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL “The First 35 Years”, Reva Yares Gallery, Seattle, WA and Santa Fe, NM “Images of Nature”, Phoenix Art Museum, Pheonix, AZ |
| 1999 1999 |
“American Landscape Survey,” Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK “Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition” Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK |
| 1998 1998 1998 |
“Tribute: 20th Anniversary Exhibition”, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ “A Theater of Art,” Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM “Silver and Gold,” Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1996 1996 |
“A Gift of Vision: The William A. and Susan S. Small Collection”, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona “Surfaces” Selected Gifts from the William A. and Susan Small Collection”, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL |
| 1995 1995 19951995 1995 |
“Paint and Paper,” Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, New York “Flora as Metaphor,” Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, Colorado “Creative Collecting: Gifts from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Small, Jr.,” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts University of West Florida Art Gallery, Pensacola, Florida “Four Aritsans in Monotype: Nick Dematties, Gladys Nilsson, Italo Scanga, and Jim Waid,” Quartet, Pensacola, FL University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona |
| 1994 | “Tucson Collects: 20th Century American Drawings and Watercolors,” Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona “Arizona on Paper,” Galleria Mesta Bratislvy, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| 1993 | “Fall Into the Abstract, ” Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois “Arizona Biennial”, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona “The Tenth Summer,” Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1992 | “Big Ideas — Large Scale Paintings”, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona “Abstraction”, Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia “Big Ideas–Large Scale Paintings,” Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona |
| 1991 19911991 |
“Landscapes,” Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois “75th Anniversary Rocky Mountain National Park Exhibition”, Boulder Visual Arts Center, Boulder, Colorado; University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming; Pueblo Art Center, Pueblo, Colorado “25th Annual Southwestern Invitational,” Yuma Fine Arts, Yuma, Arizona |
| 1990 | “Painting Divergence,” New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico |
| 1989 1989 |
“American Pastels – Recent Aquisitions”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York “Drawings,” Members Gallery, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
| 1988 1988 |
“Arizona Biennial,” Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona “Large Scale Paintings”, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1987 1987 |
“Pastel Anthology II”, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York “1987” Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona |
| 1986 | “Empowered Painting”, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 1984 | “Six Artists”, David Olenick Fine Arts, New York, New York |
| 1983-1984 | “Santa Fe Festival of the Arts — Four State Survey”, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 1983 | “Arizona’s Finest”, Fine Arts Center, Tempe, Arizona |
| 1982 | “Works on Paper”, Adam L. Gimbel Gallery, New York, New York “Paradigm: Eight Individual Views”, Phoenix Art Museum and Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona |
| 1981 | “1981 Four Corner States Biennial”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona |
| 1980 | “Westart 1980”, Harkness House, New York, New York |
| 1979 | “First Western States Biennial”, Sponsored by the Western States Arts Foundation. Selected exhibition itinerary: Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Newport Harbor Art Museum, California “New Artists in New York,” Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1978 | “20 Arizonans”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona “1978 Southwestern Biennial”, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1977 | “35th Corcoran Biennial of American Painting”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
| 1975 | “L.A. #1”, Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, California |
| 1973 | “Four Corner Annual”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona |
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COLLECTIONS
The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
American Embassy, Ecuador: Art in Embassies Program, US State Department Anderson, DeBartolo and Pan, Inc., Tucson, Arizona Arthur Anderson & Company, Chicago, Illinois Champion International Corporation, Stanford, Connecticut Charles B. Goodard Center for the Visual Arts, Ardmore, Oklahoma Chemical Bank, New York, New York Coca Cola Bottling Company, Atlanta, Georgia College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio Coopers & Lybrand, Seattle, Washington Denver Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado Dworsky & Associates, Los Angeles, California Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma IBM, Montvale, New Jersey J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky Johnson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico J.P. Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., New York, New York MacDonalds Corporation, Chicago, Illinois The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York MGM: Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico Museum of Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas Nelson Arts Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona New Mexico State University, New Mexico Oklahoma State Capitol Art Collection, Oklahoma City, OK Paine Webber, Tucson, Arizona Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California Peat, Marwick, Maine & Co., St. Paul, Minnesota Phelps Dodge Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Prudential Insurance Company, Chicago, Illinois Salt River Project, Phoenix, Arizona San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Arizona Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts Sprint USA, Kansas City, Missouri Supercuts, San Francisco, California Superior Court Art Trust, Washington, D.C. Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida Tucson Medical Center, Tuscon, AZ Tucson Hilton East, Tucson, Arizona Tucson International Airport, Tucson, Arizona Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona The University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, Arizona University of Indiana Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana University of New Mexico, Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Valley National Bank, Tucson, Arizona Ventana Canyon Loews Resort, Tucson, Arizona Western Savings, Phoenix, Arizona Westin La Paloma Resort, Tucson, Arizona Yuma Art Center, Yuma, Arizona |
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