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1925 Born April 4th in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.A.. Grew up in Newport News, Virginia
1943 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
1943-46 U.S. Army
1946 Trips to Poland and Greece on cattleboats
1947-49 Kenyon College, B.A.
1949-66 Lived 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
1966-70 Editor-in-chief, The Something Else Press, New York
1969 Artist-in-residence, University of Kentucky, Lexington
1970-72 Professor of Art, School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts
1972-74 Guest Professor, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax
1975-77 Artist-in-residence, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts
1977 Wanderings in Japan with Ay-O
1977-78 Artist-in-residence, Research Fellow, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
1978-80 Artist-in-residence, Leverett House, Harvard University
1980 Award-grant for work in Conceptual Art, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1980 Artist-in-residence, Berliner Künstlerprogramm (DAAD)
1981-85 Guest professor, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, and Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
1987 Co-founder, International Symposium of the Arts, Warsaw Artist-in-residence, Machida-shi Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo
1988-89 Barkenhoff-Stiftung, Arbeitsstipendium, Worpswede
1990 Guest artist, Malindi Artists’ Proof, Malindi, Kenya
1990— Director-President, Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland
1991 Guest artist, Malindi Artists’ Proof, Malindi, Kenya
1996 Hannah Höch Prize for “a lifetime of achievement in the arts”, Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
1997 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (honoris causa), Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax
Lives in Berlin