1927
Born in Amarillo, Texas. Currently resides in Houston, Texas.

EDUCATION:

1952
B.B.A., Baylor University, Waco, Texas.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2000
New Bronze, New Steel, New Paper, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1997
Retreads Flowers, The Second Time Around, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1995
Jim Love: Selected sculpture from the last few years, and the years before that, and the years before that, etc., etc., etc., Allen Center Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1994
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1992
Recent Sculpture, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1988
Recent Sculpture, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1984
Tomorrow is No Solution, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1981
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1980
Jim Love Up To Now, Rice Museum, The Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas. Traveled to: Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; and Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York.
1976
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas (with David McManaway).
1973
Jim Love: In Pursuit of the Bear, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; organized in collaboration with Fort Worth Art Center and Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas.
1971
Louise Ferrari, Houston, Texas.
1965
Studio Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
1964
Alexander Ioilas Gallery, New York, New York.
1961
New Arts Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1959
Rosalie Berkowitz, New York, New York (private exhibition). New Arts Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1958
New Arts Gallery, Houston, Texas.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2002
"one i at a time" revisited: Jim Love and David McManaway, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas.
2000
Group Exhibition, Pillsbury & Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas.
1999
Personal Visions & Universal Themes: Aspects of American Sculpture Since 1945, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (catalogue).
1998
Bound, Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Texas. Works on Paper, Mulcahy Modern Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
1997
Our Crowd Collects, Margolis Gallery, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, Texas.
Finders/Keepers, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas.
Flora Bella, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas.
1996
Charles T. Williams Retrospective, with Friends, University of North Texas, University Art Gallery, Denton, Texas.
Contemporary Lights: A Celebration of Chanukah, The Margolis Gallery of Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, Texas.
Convergence, Barbara Davis Gallery, Pennzoil Place, Houston, Texas.
Contemporary Art in Public Places, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas.
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art '96, Cullen Center, Houston, Texas.
Texas Modern and Post-Modern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
1995
Texas Myths and Realities, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
Altered and Irrational: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, New York.
Selections from The Barrett Collection, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, Texas.
Convergence, Davis/McClain Gallery Pennzoil Place, Houston, Texas.
Changing Perspectives, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas.
1994
Uncommon Objects, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas. Stories, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas.
Miniatures, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1993
Observations/Notations, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas.
Gimme Shelter, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas.
Exploring Scale in Contemporary Art, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas.
1992
New Texas Art, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho.
1990
Tradition and Innovation: A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
1989
A Century of Sculpture in Texas, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas, Austin. Traveled to: Amarillo Art Center, San Angelo Museum of Art, El Paso Museum of Art, and Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas.
1988
The Poetic Object, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas. Traveled to: Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; and Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas.
Texas Art, Richmond Hall of the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.
One Plus One: Collaboration by Artists and Writers, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
Houston '88, 1600 Smith in Cullen Center, Houston, Texas.
1987
Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado. Traveled to: Boulder and Fort Collins, Colorado and San Antonio, Texas.
The Menil Collection Inaugural Exhibition, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.
True Wit, 1600 Smith in Cullen Center, Houston, Texas.
Found, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas.
1986
Outdoor Sculpture by Texas Artists, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas. Traveled to: Lubbock, College Station, Amarillo, and Texarkana.
Adjustments Must Be Made Continually, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas. Traveled to: Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas and Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California.
The Texas Landscape: 1900 - 1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
Inaugural Exhibition: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1985
Comic Relief, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Crescent Exhibit III, Crescent Marketing Center, Dallas, Texas.
1984
A Museum of Fun, Part II, organized by the Asahi Shimbun, directed by Itsuo Sakane, Tokyo.
La rime et la raison (les collections Menil, Houston - New York), Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France.
Contemporary Art in Public Places, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas.
1983
Sculpture, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas.
A Century of Modern Sculpture: 1882 - 1982, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
Inaugural Exhibition, Gateway Gallery, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas.
1979
Made in Texas, Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
Fire: An Exhibition of 100 Texas Artists, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas.
1975
Monumental Sculpture, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas.
1974
Modern Sculpture from Houston Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
1972
Invitational Exhibition, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Texas.
1971
"one i at a time," Pollock Galleries, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
1968
Jermayne MacAgy, A Life Illustrated by an Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas.
Industrial Sculpture Park, Great Southwest Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia.
Annual Exhibition - Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.
Three Man Exhibition, Atelier Chapman Kelley, Dallas, Texas.
Hemisphere, San Antonio, Texas.
Permanent Collection of the University of St. Thomas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
1967
Four Man Show, Louise Ferrari, Houston, Texas.
Mixed Masters, Fine Arts Gallery, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas.
1966
Made of Iron, Fine Arts Gallery, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas.
Exhibition for the Benefit of the Marcel Duchamp Chess Foundation, Cordier Eckstrom Gallery, New York, New York.
1965
Unromantic Agony, Fine Arts Gallery, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas.
Through the Porthole, Fine Arts Gallery, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas.
1963
Sculpture from the Museum of Modern Art, with Additional Loans and Exhibits, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
Gallery Group, Haydon Calhoun Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Art Has Many Facets, Fine Arts Gallery, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas.
Some Recent Acquisitions, '61-'63, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
1962
The Age of the Thousand Flowers, University of St. Thomas. Eight Sculptors, Haydon Calhoun Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
1961
The Art of Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.
Three Southwest Sculptors, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas.
1960
Dallas Collects, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas.
1958
Islands Beyond, Fine Arts Gallery, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas.
1957
Humor in Art, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas.

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Alley Theater, Houston, Texas.
City of Houston.
Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas.
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.
Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Rice University, Houston, Texas.
University of Houston, University Park, Houston, Texas.
University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas.
University of Houston, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas.