Jim Roche (artist)


Jim Roche is an American contemporary artist, known for his "outsider art" chronicling Southern culture in sculptures, graphics, and performance art since the 1960s. His work, which often adopts the folk motifs of contemporary Southern culture, has occasioned descriptions as both "standing for the far right" and... "confront hypocrisy and social injustice... aligned with the downtrodden, disenfranchised and working class populations."
Roche graduated from the University of Dallas in 1970, and taught at Florida State University from 1973 to 2011. Roche was part of the "Oak Cliff Four", a group of artists from Dallas.
He has been an avid motorcycle racer, and has performed small roles in a number of films—for instance, as a televangelist in "The Silence of the Lambs". He is married to fellow artist Alexa Kleinbard.

Selected and major works

; Selected Solo Exhibitions