Jimmie Durham

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Born 1940, USA

Early 1960's, active in theater, performance, and literature in the U.S. Civil Rights movement. First solo art exhibit 1965 in Austin, Texas. Moved to Geneva, Switzerland in 1969, returned to U.S. in 1973.

Political organizer in the American Indian Movement, 1973 - 1980, Director of the International Indian Treaty Council and representative at the United Nations.

Moved to Mexico in 1987, returned to Europe in 1994.

Poetry published in Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry, various small magazines. Book of poems, Columbus Day, published in 1983, West End Press, Minneapolis. Essays and articles published in Los Angeles Times, Art Forum, Black Scholar, Third Text, among others.

Exhibited in ICA London, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Gent, FRAC in Reims, Wittgenstein Haus in Vienna, documenta IX in Kassel, Whitney Biennale, DAAD Gallery in Berlin, and Venice Biennale, among others.

Other Books:

The East London Coelecanth, Bookworks, London 1992; A Certain Lack of Coherence, Kala Press, London 1994; Der Verführer und der Steinerne Gast, Springer, Vienna 1996; Between the Furniture and the Building, Walter König, Cologne 1998.

A comprehensive survey, Jimmie Durham, has been published by Phaidon Press, London in 1995.

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