JIMMIE DURHAM

He 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.
He was involved in the civil rights movement and a political organizer for the American Indian Movement (AIM).
Durham has lived in Europe since 1994 where his work has been shown widely, featuring in the Venice Biennale in 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2013, and Documenta, Kassel in 1992 and 2012. In 2019, Jimmie Durham was the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 58th Venice Biennale – May You Live In Interesting Times. His solo exhibitions include Serpentine Gallery, London (2015) and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017), which was his first solo show in the United States for over two decades.
Durham received 2016 the emperor’s ring of the city of Goslar (Goslarer Kaiserring) (2016) and the Robert Rauschenberg Award (2017). He was awarded The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2019.