Jim Denomie Bio

Jim Denomie was born in Hayward, Wisconsin in 1955 and currently lives in Franconia, MN. Primarily a painter, he also works with ink, and oil pastel drawings and employs printmaking, photography, and found object sculpture.
In 1995, Denomie received a BFA degree from the University of Minnesota. Since then, he has shown extensively in the U.S. and in Germany in numerous group and solo exhibitions.

His work has been placed in the permanent collections of numerous museums as well as many other public and private collections. Also, Denomie’s work has been included in local and national publications and he is the recipient of several prestigious grants and awards.

In 2005, Denomie completed a task of painting at least one painting a day, for one year. Much of the work was showcased in the exhibition “New Skins” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 2007, and he was named one of City Pages Artist of the Year for 2007. In 2008, he was awarded a Bush Artist Fellowship and in 2009, an Eiteljorg Native American Fine Art Fellowship.