With bold brushstrokes and a color palette that seems to vibrate, Denomie's paintings are teeming with sly humor,
gut-punching narrative details, animal imagery, pop culture allusions, and recognizable characters and archetypes.
MINNEAPOLIS- The McKnight Foundation
has selected visual artist Jim Denomie to receive the 2019 Distinguished Artist Award,
a $50,000 gift created to honor a Minnesota artist who has made significant contributions to the state's cultural life.
Born in 1955 on the
Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation in Hayward, Wisconsin, Denomie moved to Minneapolis as a young boy after his parents' divorce- a rupture caused
in part by the stress of forced government relocation programs during the 1960s.