Oral history interview with Jim Hodges
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hodges, Jim, 1957-
label: Interviewer
content: Carr, C.
label: Names
content: Fort Wright College of the Holy Names
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content: Pratt Institute -- Students
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content: Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project
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content: Arning, Bill
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content: Chatham, Rhys
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content: Feher, Tony, 1956-
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content: Fuller, Marnie
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content: Gonzalez-Torres, Felix, 1957-1996
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content: Hoffman, Nancy, 1944-
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content: Kaiser, Karen
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content: McCarty, Lynn
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content: Montano, Linda, 1942-
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content: Morris, Bob
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content: Nechvatal, Joseph
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content: Nyzio, David, 1958-
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content: Reynolds, Hunter, 1959-
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content: Safranek, Doug, 1956-
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content: Smith, Scott
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content: Vallenciano, Robert
topic: label: Topic
content: AIDS (Disease)
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content: Art -- Exhibitions
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content: Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
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content: Installations (Art)
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content: Mixed media (Art)
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content: Artists (LGBTQ)
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content: Gay artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Hodges, Jim, 1957-
label: Interviewer
content: Carr, C.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jim Hodges (1957- ) is an installation artist in New York, New York. Cynthia Carr (1950- ) is a writer in New York, New York.
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content: 16 Items (Sound recording: 16 sound files (3 hr., 44 min.), digital, wav)
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content: 87 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2017 March 9-May 25
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.hodges17
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Oral history interview with Jim Hodges, conducted 2017 March 9 and May 25, by Cynthia Carr, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Hodges' studio in Queens, New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hodges speaks of his childhood in Spokane, Washington; exposure to art-making in high school and at Fort Wright College; attending Pratt Institute in 1983; his first New York gallery job in 1984; discovering his sexuality and becoming interested in queer life and history; the early years of the AIDS crisis; taking a studio with the Dannheisser Foundation; his body of work in mixed media; his gallery exhibitions in the late 1980s and early '90s; becoming sober in 1990; and the influence of the AIDS crisis on his artwork and art-making process. Hodges also recalls Karen Kaiser, Scott Smith, Marnie Fuller, Davie Nyzio, Lynn McCarty, Robert Vallenciano, Bob Morris, Linda Montano, Joseph Nechvatal, Rhys Chatham, Nancy Hoffman, Hunter Reynolds, Tony Feher, Bill Arning, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Doug Safranek, and others.