P A U L A C O O P E R G A L L E R Y SAM DURANT Biography Born: Seattle, Washington, 1961 Education: California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, M.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, B.F.A. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany One-Person Exhibitions 2021 Proposal for Nonaligned Monuments, Free Movement, CC Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium (3/19—5/19/20) Untitled (Drone), curated by Cecilia Alemani, The High Line Plinth Commission, New York, NY (5/2021—8/2022) Iconoclasm, The Common Guild, presented as part of Glasgow International 2021, Glasgow, Scotland (5/17–7/11/21) 2020 Sam Durant, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (7/30–9/10/20) Iconoclasm, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA (10/1–11/7/20) 2019 Iconoclasm, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI (10/31/19–11/23/19) 2018 One Wall, One Work, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA (5/10—6/16/18) Sam Durant, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (5/18—7/27/18) 2017 Build Therefore Your Own World, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA (1/7-2/4/17) More Than ½ The World, Sadie Coles Gallery, London, England (3/15—4/13/17) Working Drawing for Nonaligned Research, Last Tango, Zurich (3/17—5/20/17) Like, Man, I’m Tired of Waiting, Waterloo Billboard, Hayward Gallery, London, England (9/4—11/27/17) 2016 The Meeting House, curated by Pedro Alonzo and presented by The Trustees, The Old Manse, Concord, MA (8/9—10/31/16) 2015 Borrowed Scenery, Blum and Poe, Tokyo, Japan (11/28/15 – 1/16/16) Open Source: Labyrinth, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA (October 2015) Sam Durant, Praz Delavallade, Brussels, Belgium (9/24 – 10/24/15) Sam Durant: Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C., Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (1/23 – 4/13/15) 2014 Sam Durant: Invisible Surrealists, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (9/12— 10/18/14) Sam Durant: Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (8/3—11/30/14) 2013 Proposal for Public Fountain, Sadie Coles, London, UK (5/16—6/29/13) Sam Durant: La stessa storia (The same history), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (MACRO), Rome, Italy (4/23—9/8/13) What #isamuseum?, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA 524 WEST 26TH STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10001 TELEPHONE 212.255.1105 FACSIMILE 212.255.5156 P A U L A C O O P E R G A L L E R Y 2011 Propaganda of the Deed, Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin, Italy (11/5/11— 1/28/12) Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui meme, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA (2/19- 3/26/11) Mirror Travels in Neoliberalism, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France (2/19—3/27/11) 2010 History Never Ends, I Hate to Bother You, Sadie Coles HQ, London, England (4/28—6/5/10) Dead Labor Day, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (3/13—4/17/10) 2009 This is Freedom?, Blum and Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, LA 2008 End White Supremacy, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Death Penalty, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France 2007 Sam Durant, Sadie Coles HQ, curated by Helen van der Meij-Tcheng, London, England (11/23/07 – 1/12/08) Echoplex, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myths, Massacres and Monuments, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Natural History, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. 2006 Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Goodbye Merry Mount, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myth, Massacres and Monuments, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA (cat.) 2005 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 (cat.) Color Pictures, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. 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 (cat.) We Are All Outlaws in the Eyes of Amerika, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy 2003 We Are the People, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX Walker Art Center Garden Project, Artist-in-Residence, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Union Projects, London, United Kingdom Entropy in Reverse, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand The Wrong Gallery, New York, NY Sam Durant, Kunstverein fr die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.) 2002 Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Sam Durant, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (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 524 WEST 26TH STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10001 TELEPHONE 212.255.1105 FACSIMILE 212.255.5156 P A U L A C O O P E R G A L L E R Y 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, FLA., Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA 1999 Into the Black, Kapinos Galerie, Berlin, Germany 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 Foodhouse, Santa Monica, CA 1992 Please Excuse Our Appearance..., Bliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA Right Now, Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Group Exhibitions 2021 Lost in America, curated by John Miller, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland (2/27—5/2/21) Ideas para Monumentos en homenaje a las heroínas y los héroes desconocidos, curated by Luis Camnitzer, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (online) Die Balkone 2: Scratching the Surface (with Ana Prvački), Berlin, Germany (4/30—5/2/21) Art Encounters: Community or Chaos, Cornell Museum of Fine Arts at Rollins College, Orlando, FL (2/2—5/9/21) 2020 Lost in America, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (9/10/20—1/17/21) Mythologies – The Beginning and End of Civilizations, ARos Aurhas Kunstmuseum, Denmark (4/4 – 10/18/20) The Gallery Is Closed, Blum & Poe (Online) (03/17/2020 – ongoing) 2019 Untold (Hi)stories, M. Bassy, Hamburg, Germany (11/9 – 11/29/19) Native Art Department International, Bureau of Aesthetics, KADIST San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (10/12/19 – 1/26/20) Le Magasin, Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA (11/16/19 – 12/7/19) Forgetting, Historisches Museum Frankfurt/Main, Frankfurt, Germany (3/7— 7/14/19) Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI (6/7—10/27/19) Non-Vicious Circle, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (7/8—8/16/19) 524 WEST 26TH STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10001 TELEPHONE 212.255.1105 FACSIMILE 212.255.5156 P A U L A C O O P E R G A L L E R Y 2018 Mirror, Mirror, Wadsworth Athenium Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (1/20—4/29/18) Break in Transmission, Holden Gallery, Manchester, England (1/22—3/16/18) Power To the People, Political Art Now, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (3/21—5/27/18) The Racial Imaginary Institute Biennial, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (6/28—8/10/18) Thrill of Deception: From Ancient Illusionistic Art to Virtual Reality, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany (9/17/18—1/13/19); Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany (2/22/19 – 6/30/19) The Street. Where the World Is Made, MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy (12/6/18—4/14/19) Mad World, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA (8/18/18—3/31/19) On longing and consolation, Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou Belgium (6/30 — 9/2/18) COPING MECHANISMS, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI (9/8 — 10/30/18) The Museum of Broken Windows, pop-up exhibition, 9 West 8th Street, New York, NY (9/20—9/30/18) 50 State Initiative, organized by For Freedoms, Cass & Amsterdam NW, Detroit, MI (10/10/18 - TBD) Expocision Inaugural, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Queretaro, Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico (11/8/18—3/3/19) Adam McEwen Selects: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY(11/29—12/15/18) “The STREET. Where the world is made,” MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy (12/7/18—4/28/19) “26 on 3rd,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (11/10—12/16/18) 2017 Yokohama Triennale 2017: Islands, Constellations & Galapagos, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (8/4-11/5/17) We Need to Talk, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY (1/7—2/11/17) Artists Need to Create at the Same Scale that Society has the Capacity to Destroy, curated by Phong Bui, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ (10/15—12/15/17) The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (11/4/17—4/22/18) 2016 Do You, Ms. Jones?, Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA (6/24-7/29/2016) Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker and Miranda Lash, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC (9/1/16 - 1/8/17) travels: Speed Art Museum, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (4/29 - 8/20/17) Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (4/12-7/11/16) The Natural Order of Things, curated by Julieta González, José Esparza, and Ixel Rion, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico (3/10-5/8/16) Parcours Art Basel, presented by Paula Cooper Gallery, Sadie Coles Gallery and Blum & Poe, Basel, Switzerland (6/16–6/19/16) Domaine de Muy Parc de Sculptures, Le Muy (Var), France L.A.