Sam Durant
1961
Born, Seattle, Washington
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, M.F.A.
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, B.F.A.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2010
History Never Ends, I Hate to Bother You, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Dead Labor Day, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (NY)
2009
(curator) Emory Douglas: Black Panther, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
This is Freedom?, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2008
End White Supremacy, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Death Penalty, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2007
Sam Durant, Sadie Coles HQ, London
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.
Echoplex Joseph Beuys Ideas/Crash, Fat, Felt, Amerika, Politics, Recovery, Monument,
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Goodbye Merry Mountt, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myth, Massacres and Monuments, Massachusetts
College of Art, Boston, MA (cat.)
2005
Color Pictures, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
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.)
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 House, 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 (cat.)
The Wrong Gallery, New York, NY
Sam Durant, Kunstverein für 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
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
2010
XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, (curated by Fabio Cavallucci) (CA), USA
Larger than Life, Stranger than Fiction: 11th Fellbach Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture, Fellbach, Germany
Kurt, (curated by Michael Darling), Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (WA), USA
Contemplating the Void, (curated by Nancy Spector and David van der Leer), Guggenheim Museum, New York (NY)
First Nations / Second Nature, (curated by Candice Hopkins), Audain Teaching Gallery, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Vancouver (CA), USAnada
Photography, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (NY)
2009
Inaugural exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Commentary, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (NY)
1999, China Art Objects, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Loaded (CA), USAtriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver (BC) Canada
Destroy Design, (curated by Hilde Teerlinck), FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, (cat.)
Regift, (curated by John Miller), Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York (NY)
Rock – Paper – Scissors, Pop Music as a Material for Visual Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
The Old, Weird America, (curated by Toby Camps), DeCordova Museum, Lincoln (MA), USA; Frye Art Museum, Seattle (WA), USA, (cat.)
Collection: MOCA’s First 30 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA
2008
Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, organized by Parsons The New School for Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics (cat.)
Zones of Conflict, Pratt Gallery
Crossroads: Interfaces between rock and contemporary art, Domus Artium Museum / Center of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Spain
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County (CA), USA (cat.).
Proyecto civico / Civic Project, (curated by Lucia Sanromán and Ruth Estévez), CECUT, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico, (cat.)
Since we last spoke about monuments, (curated by Mihnea Mircan Stroom den Haag), The Hague, Netherlands
The Art of the Real, 10 Oud Vliegveld, Oostende, Belgium, organized by Bob Nickas
Close Encounters, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington (DC)
Freedom, Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague, Netherlands (cat.)
Peripheral vision and collective body, MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy
Jeremy Deller: Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, and Me, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado (cat.).
8th Bienal de Panamá, curated by Magali Arriola
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Ohio, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, curated by Brad Killam and Barb Wiesen
The Old, Weird America, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
2007
8th Panama Biennial, curated by Magali Arriola
Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver,
Canada
Black Panther Rank and File, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem,
NC, travels to the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Darling, take Fountain, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, GREECE
Demolition, at Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Memorial to the Iraq War, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. (cat.)
MOCA Benefit Auction, Los Angeles, CA
Modelers and Makers: Works in Ceramic, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Panic Room - Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation
Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens Greece
Past Over, Steve Turner Contemporary, Beverly Hills, CA
Resistance is...,Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY
Sadie Coles, London, England
Sculptors?? Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Santa
Monica, CA
Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
NY
Unmonumental, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Words Fail Me, MoCAD, Detroit, Michigan, curated by Matthew Higgs
2006
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Busan Bienniale, Busan, Korea. (cat.)
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Drawing and Drawn, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
Fallout, Cold War Culture, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
Good Vibrations Le arti visive e il Rock, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
Monuments for the USA, White Columns, New York, NY (curated by Ralph Rugoff) (cat.)
Street Signs and Solar Ovens: Socialcraft in Los Angeles, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los
Angeles, CA
2005
Artists' Books Re-Visited, Printed Matter, New York, NY.
Interstate, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY (curated by Adam McEwen)
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, University Art Museum, CAL State University
Long Beach, Longbeach, CA (cat.)
Touch of Evil, Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
Think Blue, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
En/Of, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany (curated by Robert Meijer) (cat.)
Post No Bills, White Columns, New York, NY (curated by Matthew Higgs)
Faces in the Crowd -- Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Castello di Rivoli, Turin,
Italy
Echo/Anti Echo, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
Getting Emotional, ICA Boston, Boston, MA (cat.)
Moscow Biennale, former Lenin Museum, Moscow, Russia (cat.)
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, Logan Galleries, San
Francisco, CA (cat.)
Xiamen International Sculpture Exhibition 2005
Outpost, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
War is Over 1945-2005 La Libertà dell'arte, Galleria D??Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,
Bergamo, Italy (cat.)
2004
Rear View Mirror, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom (cat.)
Communaute, Institut d??Art Contemporain Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
Raume, Hausler Contemporary, Munchen, Germany, curated by Martin Beck
100 Artists See God (2004-2006), organized and circulated by iCI (Independent Curators
International), New York. Traveled to: The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco,
CA, March 7-June 27-2004; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA, July 31-October 3, 2004;
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, November 19, 2004-January 9, 2005; Contemporary
Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, June 9-September 4, 2005; Albright College Freedman
Art Gallery, Reading, PA, September 29-November 20, 2005; and Cheekwood Museum of
Art, Nashville, TN, February 4-April 16, 2006. (curated by John Baldessari and Meg
Cranston) (cat.)
Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Through the Gates: Brown vs. the Board of Education, California African American Museum, Los
Angeles, CA (cat.)
Baja to Vancouver, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (cat.)
2004 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (cat.)
The Space of Writing, The Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, TX
Faces in the Crowd, Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom (travels to Castello di Rivoli d??
Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy in 2005)
2003
Break it/Fix it, (with Monica Bonvicini), Secession, Vienna, Austria (cat.)
The Space of Writing, MKG Art Management, Houston, TX
Baja to Vancouver, Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA (traveling) (cat.)
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Dreams and Conflicts: The Viewer??s Dictatorship: Delays and Revolutions, The 50th
International Exhibition of Visual Arts of the Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (curated by
Francesci Bonami and Daniel Birnbaum)
Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of
Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (cat.)
2002
Rent-a-bench, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Jacob Fabricius) (cat.)
A Country Lane: Sam Durant, Tobias Hauser, Richard Hoeck, John
Miller, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music, Milton Keynes Gallery, United Kingdom (curated by
Emma Mahony) (travels to Cornerhouse, Manchester Angel Row, Nottingham/Tullie House,
Carlise, United Kingdom)
From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Robert Nickas) (cat.)
Artists Imagine Architecture, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (cat.)
Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the Architectural Uncanny, The Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago, IL (traveled to the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the
University of Florida) (cat.)
Prophets of Boom: Werke aus der Sammlung Schurmann, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-
Baden, Switzerland (cat.)
Rock My World, CCAC, San Francisco, CA (curated by Ralph Rugoff) (cat.)
Concepts on Nature, Hausler Contemporary, Munich, Germany
The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum, Works on Paper, Los Angeles, CA
2001
9th Biennial of Moving Images, Center for Contemporary Images, Saint-Gervais, Geneva,
Switzerland (cat.)
In Between: Art & Architecture, MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA (cat.)
Playing Amongst the Ruins, Royal College of Art Galleries, London, United Kingdom (cat.)
You Don??t Have to Have Cows to be a Cowboy, Galerie Parkhaus, Berlin, Germany
Superman in Bed, Kunst der Gegenwart und Fotografie Sammlung Schurmann, Museum am
Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
New Settlements, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Recent Acquisitions Featuring the Norton Gift, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
R. M. S., Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane, Australia
Record All-Over, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland
Extra Art: A Survey of Artists?? Ephemera 1960-1999, CCAC Institute, San Francisco, CA
(curated by Steven Leiber) (cat.)
Take Two/Reprise, The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada (cat.)
Hemorrhaging of States, TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands (cat.)
2000
All Things, Everything True, CRG, New York, NY (curated by Jessica Bronson)
ForwArt, L??Espace Cultural BBL, Brussels, Belgium (curated by Paul Schimmel) (cat.)
D, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Robert Nickas)
00: Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (cat.)
LAEX, Ileana Tounta, Athens, Greece
1999 What Your Children Should Know About Conceptualism, Neueraachenerkunst- verein,
Aachen, Germany (cat.)
i me mine, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA (curated
by Julie Joyce and Mike Mehring)
Matthew Antezzo, Sam Durant, Dave Muller, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
The Living Theatre, Salzburger Kunstverein, Germany (curated by Diana Thater) (cat.)
Other Narratives: Fifteen Years, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (curated by Dana
Friis-Hansen) (cat.)
1999
COLA Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (cat.)
Making History, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,
New York, NY
The Perfect Life, Artifice in L.A.1999, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC (cat.)
Conceptual Art as Neurobiological Praxis, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (curated by
Warren Neidich)
Proliferation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Russell Ferguson)
1998
Obviously 5 Believers, Action: Space, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Brian Olson)
L.A. or Lilliput?, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (curated by Michael Darling)
(cat.)
Angels Gate 8.16.98 dusk, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Summary, Galerie Hoffman & Senn, Vienna, Austria
Fantastic Matter of Fact: L.A. On Paper 2, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien, Austria
Trash, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Slipstream, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Urban Romantics, Lombard Freid, New York, NY
Entropy at Home, Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany (curated by Wilhelm
Schurmann) (cat.)
Architecture & Inside, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Kenneth L. Freed)
Family Viewing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Russell
Ferguson)
1997
Chill, University of California Irvine, The Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
(curated by Brad Spence)
Sam Durant & Anne Walsh, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
Quartzose: 20 Los Angeles Artists, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark (curated by
Michael Darling)
Blind Date, Ellen Birrell Studio, Los Angeles, CA, (curated by Steven Hull)
Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
(curated by Ralph Rugoff) (cat.)
Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles, Three Day Weekend, Malmø, Sweden
(curated by Dave Muller) (travels to Jason & Rhodes, London, England & Three
Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA)
Summer of Love, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, NY
Places that are elsewhere, David Zwirner, New York, NY (curated by Diana
Thater)
Next, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art From the Permanent Collection, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1996
TRUE.BLISS., Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (cat.)
The Power of Suggestion: Narrative and Notation in Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Cornelia H. Butler) (cat.)
Open House, (with Andrea Bowers) Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of
Art and Design, Pasadena, CA (organized by John O??Brien) (cat.)
a/drift: Scenes from the Penetrable Culture, Center for Curatorial Studies
Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY (curated by
Joshua Decter) (cat.)
Just Past: The Contemporary in the Permanent Collection, 1975 - 96, The
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Ann Goldstein)
The Palace of Good Luck, Burnett Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
All Work - No Play, Acme, Santa Monica, CA
Modsquad, Spanish Box, Santa Barbara, CA
Real Goods, Manhattan Village Shopping Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
1995
Couldn??t Get Ahead, Independent Art Space, London, United Kingdom (cat.)
The Friendly Village, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
1994
Gone, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
Constructed Views, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
Thanks, Three-Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
Thanks Again FOODHOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
The Game Show, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Le Temps d??un Dessin, Galerie de L??Ecole des Beaux Arts de Lorient, Paris, France
Utter Realities, Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA
1993
Germinal Notations, FOODHOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
Loose Slots, Temporary Contemporary Las Vegas, NV (organized by Richard Kuhlenschmidt)
Newport Harbor Biennial, Newport Beach Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (cat.)
Heaven Missing, Jose Freire Gallery, New York, NY
Melancholic Consolation and Cynicism, Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin, Germany and Ruth
Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
FOODHOUSE visits the Art Store, West Los Angeles, CA (organized by Randy Sommer)
Thank You, FOODHOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
1992
FAR Bazaar, Foundation for Art Resources, Federal Reserve Building, Los
Angeles, CA (with Michael Coughlin, Kent Young and Andrea Bowers)
Good Design, Nomadic Site, Pasadena, CA
Afterthought, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1991
Window on LA, LA Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA, (organized by David Pagel)
4 Person Show, Parker Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Absentbury Show, Bliss Annex, Pasadena, CA (organized by Kent Riddle and Adam
Ross)
Art Center, Pasadena, CA (organized by Pae White and Jennifer Steinkamp)