Jimmie Durham is an artist whose work is a caustically sharp yet playful critique of both Western colonial rationality and what can only be described as the tendency to universal stupidity. Durham’s practice incorporated a range of media and processes including sculptural assemblage, painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, photography, video, performance and poetry. His art and writing in the 1980s through to the 90s sought to undermine misrepresentative ideas of Native Americans through a damning ironic subversion, seeking to undermine hegemonic narratives. 

Durham’s work has been shown widely in Europe, as well as in numerous international exhibitions and biennials, including Gwangju Biennial, 2004, Venice Biennale in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2011, as well as a document in Kassel in 1992 and 2012.