Background
Hodges, Jim was born in 1957 in Spokane, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Hodges, Jim was born in 1957 in Spokane, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Hodges, born October 16, 1957 in Spokane, Washington, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Fort Wright College in 1980 and his Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1986.
Since the late 1980s, Hodges has created a broad range of work exploring themes of fragility, temporality, love and death utilizing a highly original and poetic vocabulary. Charting both the overlooked and obvious touchstones of life with equal attention and poignancy, Hodges’ conceptual practice is as broad and expansive as the range of human experiences he captures. Hodges has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe and his work has been included in various group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
Hodges is currently a Senior Critic in the Sculpture Department at the Yale University School of Artist
"Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take" is a mid-career retrospective of Hodges’ work organized by the Walker Art Center and the Dallas Museum of Art, which opened at the Dallas Museum on October 6, 2013, then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to open at the Walker on February 15, 2014. The retrospective is currently at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston through September 1, 2014, when it will move to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles from October 5, 2014 until January 17, 2015.
A large format appraisal of Hodges" work edited by Jeffrey Grove and Olga Viso, Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take accompanies the retrospective. Hodges" piece "Don"t Be Afraid" was installed at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, District of Columbia in 2005.
A recent large-scale sculpture, "look and see" (a nine-ton stainless steel abstraction of camouflage) was purchased by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York in 2007.
Jim Hodges is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco.