Jim Lambie was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1964, where he lives and works. A Scottish visual artist, he is known for immersive installations, sculpture, painting, objects, and spatial interventions combining color, rhythm, music, pop culture, and geometric abstraction.

A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, Lambie works with everyday and found materials including colored tape, records, clothing, furniture, mirrors, and objects linked to music and urban culture. Since the late 1990s, his vinyl floor installations—especially the Zobop series—have transformed architectural spaces into vibrant chromatic fields through pattern, repetition, and optical displacement. Influenced by punk, club culture, graphic design, and the history of abstraction, his work blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting, and architecture.

He has participated in major international exhibitions, including the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, representing Scotland; Liverpool Biennial; Carnegie International; and the Biennale of Sydney, as well as exhibitions at Tate Britain, Dallas Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Modern Art Oxford, and Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2005.

His work is held in major collections including Tate, London; The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; and the National Galleries of Scotland.