Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture

Jim Osman

Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998

Jim Osman was born in New York City in 1956. He received B.A. and M.F.A. from Queens College, CUNY, in Flushing, N.Y. where he studied with Tom Doyle and Lawrence Fane.

He has had solo exhibitions at Lesley Heller Workspace, Long Island University’s Kumbal Gallery, and Dartmouth College. His work has been included in group shows at Metaphor Contemporary Art in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and most recently at Morris/Warren Gallery. He teaches courses in three-dimensional design and sculpture at Parsons School of Design.

His recent work considers new ways to look at objects and personal space. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Studios

Heinz

Jim Osman worked in the Heinz studio.

The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…

Learn more