Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable

About Jessica BeckJim Shaw

Jim Shaw (b. 1952) lives and works in Los Angeles. He has had exhibitions at museums including CAPC musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux France; MASS MoCA North Adams MA; and New Museum New York. His work is held in the collections of the Hammer Museum Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; Museum of Modern Art New York; Museo Jumex Mexico City; and Centre Pompidou Paris amongst others. Jessica Beck is a director at Gagosian. Formerly she was the Milton Fine curator of art at the Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh where she curated many projects most notably Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body (2016). Rachel Kushner is the author of Telex from Cuba (2008) The Flamethrowers (2013) and The Mars Room (2018). She won the Prix Medicis Etranger (2018) was a Guggenheim Fellow (2013) and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2016). Jonathan Lethem is a novelist essayist and short story writer. He is the author of The Fortress of Solitude (2003) Chronic City (2009) The Feral Detective (2018) and The Arrest (2020).