Jim Waid

Artist bio:

Jim Waid has lived and worked in Tucson for over 40 years. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the country, and is in the collection of museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tucson Museum of Art, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, The Phoenix Art Museum, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Smith College Museum of Art, and San Antonio Museum of Art.. He received a BFA from the University of New Mexico and a MFA from the University of Arizona. From 1971-1980 he taught art at Pima Community College. In 1985 he received a National Endowment for the Visual Arts Fellowship.

He has been a "Visiting Artist" at the University of Idaho, Arizona State University, The University of Texas at San San Antonio, and the University of Oklahoma. He was the recipient of the 2013 Arizona Governor's Individual Artist Award. He is represented by the Bentley Gallery in Phoenix, the Jean Albano Gallery in Chicago, and the William Havu Gallery in Denver.