Jim Shaw 

Unknown Monsters

Praz-Delavallade Paris is pleased to present Jim Shaw 's new solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from 24 February to 13 April.

Iconic figure of the Californian art scene, Jim Shaw shares with Mike Kelley, and later with Paul McCarthy, the same desire to produce art that explores American society. In 1973, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley formed the influential punk group Destroy all Monsters, aiming to produce art that explored the schizophrenic side of a society they saw as conformist, standardized and in decline. Early on, Jim Shaw's works were made of heterogeneous sources, of personal histories and collective cultural history. While many of them appear to be a result of dreamlike hallucinations, they remain far from European surrealism.