About the artist:

1925 Born April 4th in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.A. Grew up in Newport News, Virginia 1943Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 1943-46U.S. Army 1946Trips to Poland and Greece on cattleboats 1947-49Kenyon College, B.A. 1949-66Lived and worked in France, Germany and Switzerland: Member of the “Darmstadt Circle” of concrete poetry, Dynamic theater, etc., with Claus Bremer and Daniel Spoerri Domaine Poétique in Paris with Robert Filliou, Bernard Heidsieck, François Dufrêne, Ghérasim Luca and Brion Gysin and the international Fluxus group since 1962 1966-70Editor-in-chief, The Something Else Press, New York 1969Artist-in-residence, University of Kentucky, Lexington 1970-72Professor of Art, School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts 1972-74Guest Professor, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax 1975-77Artist-in-residence, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts 1977Wanderings in Japan with Ay-O 1977-78Artist-in-residence, Research Fellow, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University 1978-80Artist-in-residence, Leverett House, Harvard University 1980Award-grant for work in Conceptual Art, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. 1980Artist-in-residence, Berliner Künstlerprogramm (DAAD) 1981-85Guest professor, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, and Hochschule der Künste, Berlin 1987Co-founder, International Symposium of the Arts, Warsaw Artist-in-residence, Machida-shi Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo 1988-89Barkenhoff-Stiftung, Arbeitsstipendium, Worpswede 1990Guest artist, Malindi Artists' Proof, Malindi, Kenya President, International Artists' Museum, Lodz, Poland 1991Guest artist, Malindi Artists' Proof, Malindi, Kenya 1996Hannah Höch Prize for “a lifetime of achievement in the arts”, Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 1997Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (honoris causa), Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Canada 2005Doctor honoris causa, Poznan Academy of fine Arts, Poland