Jimmie Durham

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Biography

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.