Jimmie Durham
Biography
Jimmie Durham (1940-2021).
Born in USA, 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).
Jimmie Durham has participated to major international events including Documenta : 1992, 2012, 2022 and the Venice Biennal : 1999, 2001, 2003, 2013, 2019 during which he received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
Jimmie Durham's work has been exhibited at Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) ; Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) ; Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) ; MoMA - Museum of Modern Art (New York) ; 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 Antwerp ; Musée d'art moderne 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 Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) ; Musée d'art moderne de Paris ; MoMA - Museum of Modern Art (New York) ; SMAK - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent ; Tate Modern (London) ; Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) ; Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) ; Denver Art Museum ; M HKA Antwerp ; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego ; SMAK (Ghent)...
Selected works
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Gallery exhibitions
Museum exhibitions
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Videos
Klash ! L'art en acte - Jimmie Durham
KLASH - Jimmie Durham by Frank Perrin
CONVERSATION
Jimmie Durham in conversation with Dirk Snauwaert I Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst
INTERVIEW
Jimmie Durham winner of the Golden Lion I Biennale Arte 2019
Press
Spike
There is no there there
2012
Art Actuel
La Documenta (13) selon Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
2012
Bomb
Jimmie Durham
2011
Artpress
Une ballade avec Jimmie Durham
2009
Art 21
Distant Drums
2009
Art Forum
Jimmie Durham
2009
Publications
Jimmie Durham
Publisher: Phaidon
2017
Jimmie Durham: At the center of the world
Publisher: Prestel
2017
Sound and Silliness
Publisher: MAXXI ; Nero
2016
Jimmie Durham : Venice, work and tourism
Publisher: Mousse Publishing
2015
Talking Art 1, Art Monthly interviews with artists since 1976
Publisher: Patricia Bickers and Andrew Wilson
2013
A Matter of Life and Death and Singing
Publisher: Anders Kreuger
2012
Amoxohtli, Libro de carretera, A road book
Publisher:
2011
Rejected Stones
Publisher:
2009
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