Jim Gaylord (b. 1974, Washington, NC) lives and works in New York City. 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. He has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad; his most recent solo exhibition was at Sperone Westwater, New York, in 2024. Gaylord’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 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.