Kim Jones
- Introduction
- Kim Jones (born 1944, San Bernardino, California) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. Kim Jones began his career in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s as a performance artist, and became primarily known for his alter ego, Mudman—a shaman-like itinerant caked in mud and other organic substances who appeared on city streets, subways, galleries, and museums wearing a cumbersome lattice structure of sticks on his back. In the 1980s Jones moved to New York, where his work (including performance, sculpture, drawings, and writing) has continued to address the themes of war, healing, and destruction.
- Wikidata
- Q6408927
- Introduction
- Best known for his performance persona called "Mudman."
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Performing Artist, Artiste, Installation Artist
- Name
- Kim Jones
- Ulan
- 500194076
Exhibitions
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Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
April 22, 2009–
January 4, 2010 MoMA
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Orpheus Selection: In Search of Darkness
June 24–
September 24, 2007 MoMA PS1
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Live/Work: Performance into Drawing
January 31–
May 21, 2007 MoMA
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A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing
September 8, 1997–
January 20, 1998 MoMA
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Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection
October 12, 1995–
January 23, 1996 MoMA
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Kim Jones has 12 exhibitionsonline.
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