Jim Dine is an American pop artist. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up in what he described as "the beautiful landscape of the Midwest". He often returned to this vision in his works. He studied at night at the Cincinnati Art Academy during his senior year of high school and then attended the University of Cincinnati, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Ohio University, Athens, from which he received his B.F.A. in 1957.

He moved to New York in 1959 and first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings. Together with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow,  he staged his first Happenings, which were chaotic performance art, at the Judson Gallery, New York and his first solo show took place at the Reuben Gallery in 1960.

In the early 1960s Dine created pop art with items from everyday life. His personal possessions such as tools, rope, various clothing items (shoes, neckties) became the subjects of his canvases.  From the early 1970s Dine's oil paintings, prints and drawings became increasingly figurative. In 1967 he moved to London, England where he spent the next four years developing his art. In the early 1980s, Dine's attention turned to sculptural work, when he created sculptures based on Venus de Milo. In the time since then, there has been an apparent shift in the subject of his art from man-made objects to nature.

Dine has been widely exhibited in solo shows in museums throughout Europe and the United States. In 1970, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, organized a major retrospective of his work, and in 1978 the Museum of Modern Art, New York, presented a retrospective of his etchings. Today Jim Dine lives in New York and in Vermont.