Jim Drain


Jim Drain is an American mixed media artist. Drain often makes work collaboratively, first within the collective, Forcefield and also with artists Elyse Allen, Ara Peterson, and Ben Russell, respectively.

Life and work

Drain graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1998 with a B.F.A. in Sculpture.
He is a former member of Forcefield, who was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. His solo exhibition I Wish I Had a Beak and I Would Gnaw On My Hand were presented at Greene Naftali Gallery in New York. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
He was the 2005 recipient of the Bâloise Prize.