Born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jim Dine completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Ohio University in 1957 and has since become one of the most profound and prolific contemporary artists. Dine's unparalleled career spans more than 70 years, and his work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and Tate Gallery, London. His books include Hot Dream (52 Books) (2008), A Printmaker's Document (2013), Paris Reconnaissance (2018), The Secret Drawings (2020), A Beautiful Day (2021), I print. Catalogue Raisonné of Prints, 2001-2020 (2021), Electrolyte in Blue (2021), Storm of Memory (2023), Last Year's Forgotten Harvest (2024), With Fragile Spirit (2025) and Elysian Fields (2025), all published by Steidl.