1937 Born, Bloxwich, Staffs
1956 Walsall College of Art
1957-1958 Wolverhampton College of Art, Graphic Design with Honours
1960 Founds Jackson, Bird & Partners with Ian Jackson
1961 Marrie Dorothy Cater
1968 Emigration to Majorca
1970 Galería Baroc, Sitges, España.
1972 Galería Vandres, Madrid, España.
Galería Salom, Valencia, España.
Galería Crecelius, Tarragona, España.
Contracted by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain to print a series of 15 lithographs, Reflections
1973 Compendium Gallery, Birmingham, Inglaterra.
1975 Galería Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, España.
Galería Punto, Valencia, España.
Participated in the inaugoral years of the establishment of the Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
1976 Opening of Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
1977 Galería Bonanova, Barcelona, España.
Commissioned by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain to print a series of 10 lithographs.
1978 The Art Package, Chicago, USA.
Galería Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, España.
Caixa de Estalvis de Manacor, Manacor, España.
1979 Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, España.
Commissioned by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain to print a series of 10 lithographs.
1980 The Art Package, Chicago, USA.
Spends 6 months living and working in New York City. USA.
1981 The Redfern Gallery, Londres, Inglaterra.
H Gallery, Knocke, Bélgica.
Galería Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, España.
Galería Joan Prats - Guild Gallery, Nueva York, USA.
With wife, Dorothy moves to live in New York City. Dorothy is appointed director of Galería Joan Prats, New York. Establishes home and studio in Brooklyn, N. Y. Continues to maintain a residence in Mallorca and returns for summer months dividing the time between Mallorca and La Mancha. Continues to live and work in New York City until 1997.
1982 River Gallery, Westport ( Connecticut ), USA.
Arthur Charles Gallery, Washington D.C., USA.
1983 Galería Joan Prats, Nueva York, USA (Britain salutes N.Y programe )
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, España. ( Jim Bird, Kenneth Noland, Secunda)
Galería Altair, Palma de Mallorca, España.
Galería Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, España.
River Gallery, Westport ( Connecticut ), USA.
Spaightwood Gallery, Madison ( Wisconsin ), USA.
1984 Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, USA.
Goldman - Kraft Gallery, Chicago, USA.
Spaightwood Gallery, Madison ( Wisconsin ), USA.
Kingsborough College City University of New York, Nueva York, USA.
Returns in November to Barcelona, Spain, to complete a series of 5 lithographs for Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona.
Also completes a collection of monotypes, Landscapes of the Mind.
1985 Galería Joan Prats, Nueva York, USA.
Artist in Residence, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburg Pa, U.S.A.
1986 Goldman - Kraft Gallery, Chicago, USA.
Obra, Letters to Spain, Galería Artgràfic, Barcelona, España.
Obra, Letters to Spain, Galería Altair, Palma de Mallorca, España.
Obra, Portraits, Renate Ponsold - Jim Bird, Galería Altair, Palma de Mallorca, España.
Obra, Obras damunt paper, Robert Motherwell - Jim Bird, Galería Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, España.
Galería Joan Prats, Nueva York, USA.
1987 Renate Ponsold - Jim Bird, Galería Línea, Madrid, España.
Robert Motherwell - Jim Bird, Galería Machon, Madrid, España.
Galería Palau, Valencia, España.
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, España.
Artist in Residence, University of Wisconsin at Madison, U.S.A.
1988 Smith - Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto ( California ), USA.
Waddington - Schiell Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Goldman - Kraft Gallery, Chicago, USA.
Chicago International Art Exhibiton, Chicago, USA.
Flanders Contemporary Art Gallery, Minneapolis ( Minnesota ), USA.
Valldemossa - Chopin Festival, Valldemossa, España.
Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto ( California ), USA.( The Valldemosa Suite)
Galería Altair, Palma de Mallorca, España.
Galería Sebastià Jane, Gerona, España.(Jim Bird, Kenneth Noland, Tom Carr) Commissioned by Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto ( California ), U.S.A, to print a collection of monotypes.
Chicago Art Exposition, U.S.A
Commissioned to do the Highsmith Collection catalog 1988/1989, U.S.A.
1989 Galería Joan Prats, Nueva York, USA.
Karl Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Galería Artgràfic, Barcelona, España. ( Vida )
Spaightwood Gallery, Madison ( Wisconsin ), USA.
Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, USA.( Cerramec Abstraction)
River Gallery, Westport ( Connecticut ), USA.
Galería Espais, Gerona, España. ( Jim Bird, Alfons Borrell )
Visits Madrid in March to complete a suite of etchings for Línea-Círculo de grabado.
1990 Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto ( California ), USA.
Buschlen - Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, Canadá.
Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh Pa., USA.
Galería Simonne Stern, New Orleans, USA.
Galería Altxerri, San Sebastián, España.
Made a collection of clay works at the workshop of Ed Eboli and Jim Shipman in Pittsburg, P.A, U.S.A.
1991 Francis Graham - Dixon Gallery, Londres, Inglaterra.
Galería Línea, Madrid, España.
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, España.
Art Alpha Gallery, Tokio, Japón.
Charlotte Jackson Fine Arts, Santa Fe ( New Mexico ), U.S.A.
Flanders Contemporany Art, Mineapolis ( Minesota ), U.S.A.
Galleria Art Levante, Son Servera ( Mallorca ), Spain.
1992 Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto ( California ), USA.
McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta Ga., USA.
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe ( Nuevo Méjico ), USA.
1993 Galería Altair, Palma de Mallorca, España.
Art Alpha Gallery, Tokio, Japón.
1994 Takei Gallery, Numazu City, Japón.
Galería Joan Prats, Nueva York, USA. (Ancho por dentro )
Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto ( California ), USA.
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe ( Nuevo Méjico ), USA.
Spanish poet Francesc Verdu joins Jim Bird in New York city for exhibition ( Ancho por dentro, 15 poems and 15 paintings). The start of an on going and continuing collaboration and deep friendship between poet and painter.
1995 McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta Ga., USA.
Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland ( Ohio ), USA.
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, España.
Galería Artgràfic, Barcelona, España.
Art Alpha Gallery, Tokio, Japón.
1996 Galería Joan Prats, Nueva York, USA.
Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland ( Ohio ), USA.
Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh Pa., USA.
Cover for London Magazine, London, England.
1997 McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta Ga., USA.
Flanders Contemporary Art Gallery, Minneapolis ( Minnesota ), USA.
Closes studio in New York City and returns to live permanently in his home in Mallorca. Establishes studio in Santa Maria del Cami.
1998 Obra, Poesía Pintada, Museo Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, España.
Obra, Obra Gráfica Reciente, Casa de Cultura, Alpera ( Albacete ), España.
Obra, Páginas, Galería Altair, Palma de Mallorca, España.
Obra, Pensando en Círculos, Ca N' Apol.lònia ( Centre Cultural Son Carrió ), Mallorca, España.
The exhibition Poesia Pintada at the Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca was the culmination of books calligraphed and painted on which he had worked during the previous 5 years in his studio in Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Commissioned to paint mural for the Auditorium Sa Maniga Cala Millor ( Mallorca), Spain.
Completes a series of sugar lift etchings for Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain.
1998 / 1999 :
Obra Pensando en Círculos, expuesta en:
Diputación de Albacete, España.
Ayuntamiento de Almansa, España.
Ayuntamiento de Requena, España.
Ayuntamiento de Alzira, España.
1999 Galería Bennassar, Pollensa ( Mallorca ), España.
2000 Robert Green Fine Arts. San Francisco, USA.
2001 Centro Cultural Muro de Alcoy, Alicante , España.
Galería Joan Prats- Artgrafic, Barcelona, España.
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