Jim Drain

Jim Drain (b. 1975, Cleveland, OH) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice merges sculpture, performance, and installation. He received his BFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design (1998). From 1996–2002, Drain was a member of Forcefield, a groundbreaking collective that blended music, performance, film, and immersive installations. Notably, Forcefield was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Drain has held solo exhibitions at venues including the University of Florida, Locust Projects in Miami, and the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin. He has also participated in prominent group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; the Serpentine Gallery, London; the Depart Foundation, Rome; and the 7th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon.  His works are part of several esteemed permanent collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, MOCA Los Angeles, the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, the RISD Museum in Providence, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 2005, Drain was awarded the Baloise Prize, and in 2015, his public art projects with Bhakti Baxter were recognized by Americans for the Arts as among the “best public art projects in the nation.” He is currently represented by Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, and Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami.