Red GROOMS

Born in 1937 at Nashville. He studied at the New School for Social Research, the Chicago Art Institute School and the Hans Hofmann School, Provincetown. In 1959 he staged a Happening in New York entitled The House That Burns, a mixture of Disneyland, vaudeville and Punch and Judy show situated somewhere between nostalgic melodrama and impassioned protest. He also collaborated with Claes Oldenburg. In 1961 he produced his first film. In 1966 he was represented at the Venice Biennale. In 1970 he was included in the exhibition Happening & Fluxus at the Kunstverein Cologne and at the Württemberischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart.