SAM DURANT Born in Seattle, WA, 1961 Education MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA One-Person Exhibitions 2018 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY One Wall, One Work, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA 2017 Build Therefore Your Own World, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA More Than ½ the World, Sadie Coles, London, UK 2016 The Meeting House, curated by Pedro Alonzo and presented by The Trustees, The Old Manse, Concord, MA What #isamuseum?, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Dreaming Mantas, Fundación Alumnos47, Mexico City, Mexico 2015 Praz-Delavallade, Brussels, Belgium Borrowed Scenery, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C., Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 2014 Invisible Surrealists, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Pigs and Gold, The Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles, CA 2013 What #isamusuem, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA Propaganda of the Deed, Database 2nd Edition, Centro Arti Plastiche, Carrara, Italy Proposal for Public Fountain, Sadie Coles, London, UK La stessa storia, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy Scaffold, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK Scaffold, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands 2011 Propaganda of the Deed, Galleria Franco Soffiantino, Turin, Italy Laissez Faire et Laissez Passer, Le Monde Va De Lui Même, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Mirror Travels in Neoliberalism, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France 2010 Inquiring Eyes: Greensboro Collects Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, Carrara, Italy Larger than Life, Stranger than Fiction: 11th Fellbach Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture, Fellbach, Germany History Never Ends, I Hate to Bother You, Sadie Coles, London, UK Dead Labor Day, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY BLUM & POE LOS ANGELES NEW YORK TOKYO 2009 This is Freedom?, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Death Penalty, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France 2007 Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myths, Massacres and Monuments, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA (exh. cat.) Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Natural History, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Echoplex, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Sadie Coles, London, UK 2006 Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Goodbye Merry Mount, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myth, Massacres and Monuments, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA (exh. cat.) 2005 Color Pictures, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Presse Ne Pas Avaler, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monuments Transposition, Washington D.C., Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (exh. cat.) 2004 Edward Said, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL Involved, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA 12 Signs: transposed and illuminated (with various indexes), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (exh. cat.) We Are All Outlaws in the Eyes of Amerika, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy 2003 We Are the People, Project Row House, Houston, TX Walker Art Center Garden Project, Artist-in-Residence, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Union Projects, London, UK Entropy in Reverse, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (exh. cat.) The Wrong Gallery, New York, NY Sam Durant, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (exh. cat.) 2002 Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Sam Durant, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (exh. cat.) Color Pictures, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA Sam Durant: 7 Signs; removed, cropped, enlarged and illuminated (plus index), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT 2001 Southern Tree, Tree of Knowledge, Dead Tree (part one), Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy Consciousness Raising Historical Analysis, Pain plus Time Separated and Ordered with Emphasis on Reflection, Kunsthof Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 2000 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Proposal for Monument in Friendship Park, Jacksonville, FL, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA 1999 Into the Black, Kapinos Galerie, Berlin, Germany BLUM & POE LOS ANGELES NEW YORK TOKYO Altamont, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA 1998 Ohio, (with Andrea Bowers), Dogenhaus Projekte/ Kapinos, Berlin, Germany 1997 California Displacement Project: You Project is What You Get, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY MDF, Particle Board, Projection, Confusion, Grid-Like Structuring, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA 1995 Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA Sam Durant, Roger Merians Gallery, New York, NY 1994 FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA 1992 Please Excuse Our Appearance..., Bliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA Right Now, Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Group Exhibitions 2019 Forgetting, Historisches Museum Frankfurt/Main, Frankfurt, Germany Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 2018 Poder (2018), 50 State Initiative, organized by For Freedoms, Cass & Amsterdam NW, Detroit, MI Power to the People: Political Art Now, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany Break in Transmission, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK Orientation, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY In Thrill of Deception: From Ancient Illusionistic Art to Virtual Reality, Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany Mad World, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Coping Mechanisms, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI Give a damn., curated by Rebecca McNamara, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Museum of Broken Windows, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY The Street. Where the World is Made, Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy The Radical Imaginary Institute Biennial, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY On longing and consolation, Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou, Belgium Expocision Inaugural, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Queretaro, Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico 26 on 3rd, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 2017 We need to talk…, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY I LOVE L.A., Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA Last Tango, Zurich, Switzerland Yokohoma Triennale 2017: Islands, Constellations & Galapagos, Yokohama, Japan Hand-Painted Pop! Art and Appropriation, 1961 to Now, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Part I, curated by Phong Bui & Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ Mirror, Mirror, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA BLUM & POE LOS ANGELES NEW YORK TOKYO 2016 The Natural Order of Things, curated by Julieta González, José Esparza, and Ixel Rion, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Parcours Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland Domaine du Muy, Le Muy (Var), France Cause the Grass Don’t Grow and the Sky Ain’t Blue, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France Good Dreams, Bad Dreams - American Mythologies, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Istanbul Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; travels to Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY Do You, Ms. Jones?, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Three Day Weekend: Business in Front b/w Blue White Red, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Spomenici revolucije, with Marko Lulic, Mackey Garage, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Dissolving Margins, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY When Artists Speak the Truth, The 8th Floor, New York, NY Open Source: Engaging Audiences in Public Space, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA A Voice Remains, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK Station to Station, Barbican Centre, London, UK In the Lee of the In-Between, Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou, Belgium Chapter 2: Collecting Lines, Drawings from the Ringier Collection, Villa Flora, Winterthur, Switzerland 2014 A Perpetual Journey, Parse Gallery, New Orleans, LA Passions secrètes, Le Tripostal, Lille, France Da Cartografia do Poder aos Itinerários do Saber, Museu Afro Brasil, São Paolo, Brazil Illustrating Anarchy and Revolution, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX Border Cultures: Part Two (work, labour), Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada Mound City, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO Selections from the Collection of Black Byrne, Patrick Painter, Santa Monica, CA The Classic in Art, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK IK-00. The Spaces of Confinement, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy Lustwarande ’14 – Rapture & Pain, Tilburg, Netherlands 2013 Jonathan Borofsky, Sam Durant, Charles Gaines, Liz Glynn, Wayne Gonzales, Hans Haacke, Walid Raad, Andres Serrano, Paula Cooper, New York, NY Beer Show, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; traveled to Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg, France, and Universalmuseum Joanneum / Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria The Hunter and the Factory, Fundación/Colección