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Biography |
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1940 |
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Born in Washington, Arkansas |
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1960 |
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1960s active in theater, performance, and literature in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement |
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1964 |
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Since then performances, textpublications, exhibitions |
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1965 |
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First solo art exhibit in Austin, Texas |
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1969 - 1973 |
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Lived in Geneva, Switzerland (street actions in Geneva) |
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1975 - 1979 |
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Director of the International Indian Treaty Council, New York, representative of the American Indian Movement, United Nations, New York |
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1973 - 1980 |
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Political organizer in the American Indian Movement |
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1973 - 1980 |
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representative at the United Nations |
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1975 - 1980 |
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Co-editor of Treaty Council News, monthly journal of the International Indian Treaty Council, many international exhibitions, videos and films |
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1981 - 1983 |
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Director of the Foundation for the Community of Artists (FCA), N.Y.C. |
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1987 |
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Moved to Mexico |
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1994 |
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Returned to Europe |
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Lives in Berlin |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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Jimmie Durham retrospective, Musée d’ Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France |
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2008 |
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Manifesta 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary art, Trentino, Italy |
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2008 |
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Art Basel 39, Switzerland |
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2007 |
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Silvia Ocougne / Jimmie Durham, Metaphrase & Metathesis, Berlin, Germany |
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Exhibited in Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Gent, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, ICA London, Barbara Wien in Berlin, Documenta in Kassel, Hamburg Kunstverein, FRAC in Reims, Wittgenstein Haus in Vienna, Whitney Biennial, Kunstverein in Munich, Venice Biennale, among others. |
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Literature |
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Jimmie Durham, Phaidon Press, London 1995 |
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Jimmie Durham. Mäßige Materialfehler. 9 etchings (42x32) and a text in portfolio. Ed. of 6 arab. & 6 rom. num. & sign. copies. Wiens Verlag, Berlin 2000 |
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Jimmie Durham. (Stadtplan). Offsetprint on Tyvek, 175x119. ed. of 50 num. & sign. copies. Berlin 2000 |
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Jimmie Durham. Text by Laura Mulvay, interview with Dirk Snauwaert, texts by Durham. (= Contemporary Artists, Phaidon) London 1995 |
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Jimmie Durham. Between the furniture and the building / between a rock and a hard place. Cologne 1998 |
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Jimmie Durham. Der Verführer und der Steinerne Gast. Wien 1996 |
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Jimmie Durham. My Book, The East London Coelacanth ... . London 1993 |
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Jimmie Durham. A Certain Lack of Coherence. Writings on Art & Cultural Politics. 256 S., 21x14,5 brosch.. London 1993 |
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Jimmie Durham. Cat. (Engl./Ital.). Milano 2004 |
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