Jim Gaylord was born in Washington, North Carolina in 1974 and currently lives and works in New York. He received his MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005 and his BA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1997. Gaylord has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, including solo shows at Sperone Westwater (2024) and Deanna Evans Projects (2021 and 2023). His work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, among others. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and has completed residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program.