Jimmie Durham
Biography
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Born in 1940 in U.S.A. Lives and works between Germany and Italy.
Jimmie Durham has worked as a visual artist, performer, essayist, and poet for more than forty-five years. Predominantly a sculptor, Durham often combines found objects and natural materials and incorporates text to expose Western-centric views and prejudices hidden in language, objects, and institutions. Calling himself an «interventionist,» Durham is oftentimes critical in his analysis of society but with a distinctive wit that is simultaneously generous and humorous.
In 2017-2018, Jimmie Durham has benefited from an itinerant retrospective at Remai Modern (Saskatoon), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Whitney Museum of American Art and The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis).
In 2019, he received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale.
Jimmie Durham’s work has been exhibited at Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Zürich), MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXIsecolo (Roma), Serpentine Gallery (London), Museo della Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Venice), Neuer Berliner Kunsteverein, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art (London), MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, MCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (The Hague), MIT Liste Visual Arts Center (Cambridge), Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris), SMAK - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent, Reykjavík Art Museum.
His work is part of prestigious collections as MoMA - Museum of Modern Art (New York), SMAK - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Hammer Museum (Loas Angeles), Denver Art Museum, Fondazione Morra Greco (Naples), Franco Soffiantino Contemporary Art Production (Milan), Hoche Partners (Luxembourg), Ministry of Culture (Lisbon), Johan Morace and Tom Kennedy (Los Angeles), M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, among others.
Selected press
Publications
Jimmie Durham
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN 9780714874012
Jimmie Durham: At the center of the world
Sound and Silliness
Publisher: MAXXI ; Nero
ISBN 978-88-97503-77-4
Jimmie Durham : Venice, work and tourism
Publisher: Mousse Publishing
ISBN 978-88-6749-134-6
Talking Art 1, Art Monthly interviews with artists since 1976
Publisher: Patricia Bickers and Andrew Wilson
ISBN 978-1954644562
A Matter of Life and Death and Singing
Publisher: Anders Kreuger32 €
Amoxohtli, Libro de carretera, A road book
ISBN 978-3-86560-920-5
Rejected Stones
Écrits et manifestes. Jimmie Durham
Publisher: Beaux-arts de Paris les éditions20 €
