Jimmie Durham, Contributor
Banff Centre Press

Jimmie Durham was born in Arkansas in 1940. In the 1960s he worked in Texas and was co-founder of a minority artists’ centre, Adept, in Houston. In 1964 he showed his first performance piece, along with Vivian Ayers and the boxer Mohammed Ali at the Alley Theater in Houston, soon followed by his first solo exhibition at the University of Texas in Austin in 1966. He graduated from the École des Beaux Arts at the University of Geneva in 1972 and became a founding member of the International Indian Treaty Council in 1974 where he remained executive director for five years. Until 1980, he was a member of the executive committee of the American Indian Movement and has served as the national organization throughout North America and in Europe, including Documenta. Also a writer, poet, political activist, critic, theoretical biologist and animal trainer, Durham currently lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

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