Predominantly a printmaker, Jim Pavlidis has held 19 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Australia and the UK.

Career highlights include:

• Portraits of Greek migrants to Melbourne who decided to return to Greece was published as a book by Macmillan Publishing in 2010.
• Awarded the 2010 State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship.
• Travelled to Paris under a 2015 Churchill Fellowship to work in a lithography studio, and won the Rick Amor Print Prize.