PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Artist, printmaker, proprietor and printer,
Blue Moon Press, Glastonbury, CT
Associate Professor, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT: 1982–2020
SELECTED ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Narrative Images: Jim Lee & Blue Moon Press, Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI-2019
Goldman & Lee/Shadow & Color, Bromer Gallery, Boston, MA-2018
Stone, Water, Wood, Prints and Drawings by Jim Lee, Kimura Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK-2018
Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT—2014
UCONN Medical Center, Farmington, CT—2012
University of Maine-Machias—2007
Pine Manor College, Boston, MA—2006
Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT—2004
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA—1999
Northfield/Mt. Herman School, Northfield, MA—1997
Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT—1997
Central Connecticut State, New Britain, CT—1997
Promenade Gallery/The Bushnell, Hartford, CT—1995
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA—1989
Zone Art Center, Springfield, MA—1989
Smith College, Northampton, MA—1987
University of South Carolina, Conway, SC—1987
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA—1986
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Speaking of Book Arts: Oral Histories from UW-Madison, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 1-April 19, 2020. Group exhibition of book artists who studied in the book arts program at UW-Madison, and participated in a recent oral history project about this important program.
2019
Freed Formats: the Book Reconsidered, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
52nd Annual Open Juried Show, Canton Artists’ Guild, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT,
2018
Visions/Revisions, members of the Printmakers Network of Southern New England, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT
On Paper, Under Glass, Contemporary Prints from the collection of the Slater Museum by members of the Printmakers Network of southern New England, Norwich, CT
2017
The Boston Printmakers 2017 North American Print Biennial, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Boston, MA (Award)
Atlanta Print Biennial International Juried Exhibition,
Kai Lin Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Madison Mafia: Prints by Influential Alumni of the University of Wisconsin,
Georgia State University, SGCI Conference, Atlanta, GA
PrintAustin 2017, National Juried Print Exhibition, Flatbed Press Gallery, Austin, TX
Visions/Revisions: Printmakers’ Network of Southern New England,
Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
2016
Dialogue with Yinchuan: China-America International Printmaking Exhibition, Yinchuan Art Museum, Ningxia, China
Imprint One 2016, National Invitational Print Biennial, VAM Gallery, Austin, TX
Stand Out Prints 2016, International JuriedExhibition, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
The Art of the Book, National Juried Show, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA
Not your mother’s drawing show, invitational Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
Pressing On: Printmakers’ Network of Southern New England, University of Rhodes Island, South Kingston, RI
2015
Myths & Legends Biennial International Artist’s Book Show, A6 Gallery, Bend, OR
(Best in Show award)
Hand Pulled: The Current Practice in Printmaking, OnSite: Brooklyn, NY
Atlanta Print Biennial International Juried Exhibition, Kai Lin Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Printmaking Now, 10th Annual National Juried Exhibit, Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI (award)
2014
IPCNY New Prints/Summer—2014, Christie’s Auction House, NY, NY
Prints, Invitational Show, Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA
2013
New Prints/New Narratives—Summer–2013, International Print Center New York, NY
Boston Printmakers 2013 North American Print Biennial, Boston University
Printmakers Network of Southern New England, MCC Gallery, Manchester, CT
2012
Oso Bay North American Print Exhibition, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX
Artlink 32nd Annual Print Exhibit, Auer Center for Arts and Culture, Fort Wayne, IN
Current Trends in Print, Elon University, NC
2011
Oceans/Night: Hobson, Lee, Schanilec, Carlsten Gallery, UW-Stevens Point, WI
Micro/Macro: PNSNE, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2010
Artist’s Book Cornucopia, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO
Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, MO
2009
2nd Qijang International Print Festival, Chongqing, Peoples’ Republic of China
6th Triennial Print Americas, 2009 Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan. CT
2008
Paper In Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, MO
NE Impressions II: Woodcut, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2007
New England Now, Paper New England, Hartford, CT
2006
The Art of Printmaking, Spring Bull Gallery, Newport, RI
25th National Print Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
63rd Connecticut Artists Exhibition, Slater Museum, Norwich, CT
2005
Off the Press—10 Printmakers, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
PNSNE, Strathmore Hall Foundation, Bethesda, MD
Content Not Limited to Words, Artists’ Book Exhibition, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
2004
American Relief Prints, University Place Art Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
The Medium and the Message, City Gallery, New Haven, CT
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS PRIOR TO 2004
Recent Acquisitions of Artists’ Books, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
Rare Books of the Future, Center for Book Arts, NY
Hand-pulled: The Contemporary Print, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA (award)
Turning the Page, International Book Arts Exhibit, Academy Art Center, Honolulu, HI
Emergence, Depot Gallery, Auckland, NZ
International Artists’ Book Exhibition, National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Diversity: Ten Years of Printmaking at Brandywine Workshop, USIA tour of Brazil and Argentina
Third and Fourth Annual International Biennial Print Exhibitions, Taipei Museum, Republic of China
International Artists’ Book/Print Fair, Leipzig, Germany
New American Woodcuts, Galerie Im Hollental, Buchenbach, Germany
Colorprint USA, National Print Invitational Portfolio, exhibited at venues in all 50 states
National Juried Small Works Show, Washington
Printmakers’ Gallery, Washington D.C. (award)
National Printmaking, 2003, College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
(purchase award)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Getty Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts—Boston, MA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Guangdong Museum of Fine Art, Chongqing, China
University City Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Bibliotheca Liborium Artificem, Sydney, Australia
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Boston Atheneum, Boston, MA
Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
New York Public Library, Special Collections, NY
Yale University, Art of the Book Collection, CT
Smith College Library, Northampton, MA
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, NH
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
UCONN, Storrs, CT
Swarthmore College, Special Collections, PA
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
University of Iowa Library, Iowa City, IA
Brown University, John Hay Library, Providence, RI
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Safeco Corporation, Farmington, CT
BLUE MOON PRESS—LIMITED EDITION BOOKS
Ragged Remains, Jim Lee, 2014
A’tugwawan: Three Mi’kmaq Indian Stories, Ruth Holmes Whitehead—2009
Lonesome Rows, Jim Lee—1999
Place of the Long River, A Connecticut River Anthology, poetry and prose by eight writers from the CT River Valley, edited by Jim Lee—1995
The Immigrants, Joe Napora—1992
Alchemical Lion, Jesse Glass—1991
Trouble Light, Jim Lee—1989
Candle in a Storm, Jim Lee—1986
A Calling Out, Jim Lee—1984
A Stitchin’ Time, Jim Lee—1981
The Seven Deadly Sins, Jim Lee—1980
The Illustrated Goose, Jim Lee—1979
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
Ballinglen Art Foundation Artist Fellowship Residency, Co. Mayo, Ireland—2013
University of Hartford Vincent Coffin Grants—2013, 1993, 1990, 1987
Connecticut Commission on the Arts Individual Artist Grants—1993, 1989
Brandywine Workshop Publishing Fellowship—1991
SELECTED PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATIONS
Depression Dog, Toby Olson, The Perishable Press, LTD, Mt. Horeb, WI—2003
Slurring at bottom, A Printer’s Book of Errors, Robin Price, Publisher, Middletown, CT—2002
Whitman’s Sampler, Richard Wiley, The Perishable Press, LTD, Mt. Horeb, WI—1999 (included in the AIGA 50 Best Books of 1999 exhibition, NY, NY)
The Everyday Magic of Walterlee Higgins, David Haynes, Minneapolis Center for Book Arts, MN—1998
The Sleeper, Tatlin Books, Bangor, ME—1986
Cap’n Jack’s Chaps, Ed Dorn, Black Mesa Press, Madison, WI—1983
The Hand Making of Paper, A Book of Suspicions, Walter Hamady, The Perishable Press, LTD, Mt. Horeb, WI—1980
In the Apartment, Jim Lee, Gardyloo Press, Madison, WI—1979
SELECTED PUBLISHED GROUP PORTFOLIOS
How do you get there from here?, SUNY-Plattsburgh—2014
Human Ingestion, Ohio University, Athens, OH—2012
Emergence, Amity Art Foundation, Woodbridge, CT—2004
Collective Independence, Printmakers’ Network of Southern New England—2003
Palimpsest, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE—2002
Colorprint, USA, 1998 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, (CT representative to this portfolio)
A Printers’ Exquisite Corpse, Silver Buckle Press, Madison, WI—1990
Point of Departure, University of WI-Madison—1982
SELECTED VISITING ARTIST LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, PANELS
Bernstein Book Arts Lecture, Kohler Art Library, UW-Madison-2019
Art New England Workshops,—2019, ‘18, ‘17, '15, '14, '13, '12, '08, '07, '06
University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI-2019
University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK-2018
Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR—2013
Colby College, Waterville, ME—2012
Hill-Stead Museum of Art, Farmington, CT—2012, 11
Montclair State University—2012, 2009
SUNY-Plattsburgh—2010
Trinity College, Hartford, CT—2005, 2003, 1994
Ball State University, Muncie, IN—2004
Southern Graphics Council Conference, Printing Demonstration, Rutgers University, NJ—2004
Connecticut College Books Arts Symposium, New London, CT—2002
Workshop in Assisi, Italy, pastel workshop—2002
Pyramid Atlantic Workshop, Riverdale, MD—2001
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA,—1998, 1987
Vermont College, Montpelier, VT—1996
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT—1995, 1989, 1986
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD—1986
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA—1986
Southern Graphics Council, panel, Rockville, MD—1983
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Society of Graphic Artists
Southern Graphics Council International
Printmakers’ Network of Southern New England