JEAN TOCHE | MEMO

Born in 1932, in Bruges, Belgian. Moved to New York in 1965. He is involved in New York's radical political art scene from the 1960s on and was associated with the New York Destructive Art movement, the Artist Workers' Coalition, the Guerrilla Art Action Group (1969-1976; co-founded with Jon Hendricks), organized actions and happenings directly attacking and provoking the New Yorker art-establishment. These groups expressed public consciousness through happenings, written manifestos, publications. Now Toche is working in political mail art under the title OF PISS@N'PUSS.—Lives in Staten Island.

2008  JEAN TOCHE — Weserburg - Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
THE IMPERTINENCE OF RAISING QUESTIONS — Kulturzentrum Faust, Hannover
2007  JEAN TOCHE — Kunstverein Neuhausen/Germany
JEAN TOCHE — Free Show, New York
2006  BURN, BABY, BURN — artandgallery, Milano/Italy
2003  NO!art in BUCHENWALD — Boris Lurie, Catalogbook, Stuttgart
Contribution: I am a human being
1997  CONFRONTATIONS — Printed Matter, New York
1970  TOWARDS A NEW HUMANISM — Essay
1968  I ACCUSE — dedicated to Marcel Broodthaers, Statement
THE DESTRUCTION ART GROUP — Judson Gallery, New York