Sam Durant

Biography

M.A./B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art
M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

Multimedia Artist.  Graduate Senior Critic. Selected Solo Exhibitions: Sadie Coles HQ, London (2010); This is Freedom?, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles & Paula Cooper Gallery, NY,NY. (2009); Sam Durant, Sadie Coles HQ (2008); Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France (2008); Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myths, Massacres and Monuments, Blum & Poe, LA, CA (2007); Echoplex, Paula Cooper Gallery, NY, NY (2007) Selected Group Exhibitions: Destroy Design, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, curated by Hilde Teerlinck (2009); Regift, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, NY, curated by John Miller (2009); Crossroads: Interfaces between rock and contemporary art, Domus Artium Museum / Center of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Spain (2008); Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, LA, CA (2008); Unmonumental, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, NY (2007); Modelers and Makers: Works in Ceramic, Gladstone Gallery, NY,NY (2007); Resistance is...,Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY (2007); Fallout, Cold War Culture, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY, NY(2006). Awards: Hugo Boss Finalist, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Hugo Boss Prize (2008);Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (2008); The Ordway Prize Finalist, Penny McCall Foundation, NY (2005); United States Artists Fellow, USA Foundation, NY (2006); Walker Art Center Artist in Residence, Minneapolis, MN (2003)