Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen / Education

Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen / Selected Exhibitions, Performances & Video works

Jimmie Durham

Early 1960s, active in theater, performance, and literature in the United States' Civil Rights Movement. First solo art exhibit in Austin, Texas, USA in 1965. Moved to Geneva, Switzerland in 1969, returned to the US in 1973. Political organizer in the American Indian Movement (1973-80). Director of the International Indian Treaty Council and representative at the United Nations. Director of the Foundation for the Community of Artists (FCA), New York City, USA (1981-83). 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. Books of poems, Columbus Day, Minneapolis: West End Press, 1983. Essay and articles published in Los Angeles Times, Art Forum, Black Scholar, and Third Text among others. Exhibited in Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium; ICA, London, United Kingdom; Documenta, Kassel, Germany; Hamburg Kunstverein, Germany; FRAC, Reims, France; Wittgenstein Haus, Vienna, Austria; Whitney Biennial, New York, USA; Kunstverein, Munich, Germany; and Venice Biennale, Italy, among others. Other books: The East London Coelecanth, London: Bookworks, 1992; A Certain Lack of Coherence, London: Kala Press, 1994; Der Verführer und der Steinerne Gast, Vienna: Springer, 1996; Between the Furniture and the Building, Cologne: Walter König, 1998; and Stoneheart, Kitakyushyu: CCA, 2001. A comprehensive survey, Jimmie Durham, has been published by Phaidon Press, London, 1995.