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LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
58TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION

JIMMIE DURHAM MUSK OX SKULL, MURANO GLASS,
JIMMIE DURHAM: MUSK OX 2017,
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement WOOD, STEEL SCAFFOLDING,
DIVERSE TEXTILE (COTTON, LEATHER,
of the Biennale Arte 2019 WOOL) 328 X 123 X 190 CM.
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND
KURIMANZUTTO, MEXICO CITY NEW
YORK. PHOTO: NICK ASH

Jimmie Durham is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime (2008, 2012), Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (1993), ICA in London -
Achievement of the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di retrospectives of his works were shown at Museum of Contemporary
Venezia - May You Live In Interesting Times. Art in Antwerp (2012), Musee d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (2009),
MAC in Marseille and Gemeentemuseum in The Hague (2003).
The decision was made by La Biennale’s Board of Directors chaired
by Paolo Baratta, upon recommendation of the Curator of the 58th In 2017 a new retrospective, covering the 70’s to today, was exhibited in
International Art Exhibition, Ralph Rugoff. the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,
Artist, performer, essayist and poet, Durham (USA, 1940) has taken part the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Remai
in numerous editions of Biennale Arte (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2013) Modern, Saskatoon.
and many other international exhibitions such as Documenta (1992, In 2016 Jimmie Durham received the emperor’s ring of the city of Goslar
2012), Whitney Biennial of New York (1993, 2003, 2014), the Istanbul (Goslarer Kaiserring) and in 2017 the Robert Rauschenberg Award.
Biennial (1997, 2013) and many other group shows.
Among his publications, two collected essays: A Certain Lack of
Besides multiple solo exhibitions at different museums - Hammer Coherence (1993, Kala Press, London) and Waiting To Be Interrupted,
Museum, Los Angeles (2017-2018), MAXXI Rome (2016), Serpentine (2014 Mousse Publishing, Milano); and two books of poems: Columbus
Gallery in London (2015), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) (2015), Day (1985, West End Press, Albuquerque) and Poems That Do Not Go
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (2015), Madre Museum in Naples Together (2012, Wiens Verlag and Edition Hansjörg Mayer).

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