| In his paintings, Jim Waid attempts to convey the fundamental processes of nature: growth, decay, life, and death. Images that initially seem abstract slowly reveal themselves to be close-up views of various natural elements such as flora, insects and the desert landscape. Waid's intention is not to paint depictions of nature but rather to use his art to replicate nature's process, to create the way nature creates. For Waid, the creative process is a moment of discovery. Multiple layers of paint are thickly applied then selectively scraped away revealing hidden images. He rarely works with sketches, applying the paint directly onto the canvas and letting different forms and colors suggest new ones. The result is as much a surprise for him as it is for the viewer. |
 Curtain |
 Jitterbug |
 Moonrise |
 Summer Scent |
 Fire Pod |
 Mediterranean Breeze |
 Garden Life |
 Early Morn |
 Frozen Pond |
 Night Flight |
 Altissimo |
 Gala |
 Near Brown Mountain |
 Offering |
 Devil’s Hollow |
 Red Ramble |
 Honey Creek |
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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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| 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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| 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 | "Into the Void: Abstract Art 1944-2008," Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ |
| 2009 | Cool! Cool! Cool! Cool!, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2008 | “Pushing Paint Around: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ |
| 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 |
| 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 | “Out of the Blues,” Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 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 |
| 2002 | "Contemporary Visions of Nature", Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2001 | "Reflections: 15th Anniversary Show", Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 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 | "American Landscape Survey," Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK |
| 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 | "A Gift of Vision: The William A. and Susan S. Small Collection", Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona |
| 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 | "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 | "American Pastels - Recent Aquisitions", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York "Drawings," Members Gallery, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
| 1988 | "Arizona Biennial," Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona "Large Scale Paintings", Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 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 |
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