| 1961 |
Born, Seattle WA, USA BFA., Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA, USA MFA., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA, USA |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 |
Nonaligned Echoes, Gifts and Returns, MCAM Museum of Contemporary Art, Podgorica, Montenegro |
| 2023 |
Iconoclasm, University of Essex, Colchester, England |
| 2022 |
L21 Gallery, Mallorca, Spain, curated by Francesco Giaveri |
| 2021 |
Iconoclasm, The Common Guild, part of Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland Untitled (Drone), The High Line Plinth Commission, New York NY, USA, curated by Cecilia Alemani (commission) Proposal for Non-Aligned Monuments, Free Movement, CC Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium |
| 2020 |
Iconoclasm, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2019 |
Iconoclasm, Library Street Collective, Detroit MI, USA, curated by Pedro Alonzo |
| 2018 |
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA One Wall, One Work, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston MA, USA |
| 2017 |
More Than ½ the World, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England Build Therefore Your Own World, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2016 |
The Meeting House, The Old Manse, Concord MA, USA, curated by Pedro Alonzo and presented by The Trustees What #isamuseum?, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA, USA Dreaming Mantas, Fundación Alumnos47, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2015 |
Spomenici revolucije, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles CA, USA Praz-Delavallade Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2014 |
Invisible Surrealists, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA Pigs and Gold, Eastern Star Gallery at The Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2013 | What #isamuseum?, 2013 Getty Artists Program, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles (CA), USA Propaganda of the Deed; Database 2nd Edition, Centro Arti Plastiche, Carrara, Italy Proposal for Public Fountain, Sadie Coles HQ, London La stessa storia, MACRO, Rome Scaffold, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh Scaffold, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2011 |
Propaganda of the Deed,Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin, Italy Laissez Faire et Laissez Passer, Le Monde Va De Lui Même, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2010 | History Never Ends, I Hate to Bother You, Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England Dead Labor Day, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2009 |
Emory Douglas: Black Panther, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York NY, USA, curated by Sam Durant This is Freedom?, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2008 |
End White Supremacy, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2007 |
Sadie Coles HQ off-site: 53 Central Street London, England, curated by Helen van der Meij-Tcheng |
| 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, USA |
| 2005 | Color Pictures, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada Presse Ne Pas Avaler, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France |
| 2004 |
Edward Said, The Suburban, Oak Park IL, USA We Are All Outlaws in the Eyes of Amerika, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy |
| 2003 |
We Are the People, Project Row House, Houston TX, USA Union Projects, London, England |
| 2002 |
Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI, USA |
| 2001 |
Southern Tree, Tree of Knowledge, Dead Tree (part one), Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy |
| 2000 | Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Proposal for Monument in Friendship Park, Jacksonville, FLA., Blum & Poe, Santa Monica CA, USA |
| 1999 | Into the Black, Kapinos Galerie, Berlin, Germany Altamont, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica CA, USA |
| 1998 | with Andrea Bowers, Ohio, Dogenhaus Projekte/ Kapinos, Berlin, Germany |
| 1997 |
California Displacement Project: You Project is What You Get, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 1995 | Blum & Poe, Santa Monica CA, USA Roger Merians Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 1994 |
Foodhouse, Santa Monica CA, USA |
| 1992 |
Please Excuse Our Appearance..., Bliss Gallery, Pasadena CA, USA Right Now, Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica CA, USA |
Group Exhibitions
| 2022 |
Keep on Movin': Stories from the Morra Greco Collection, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy Sign Systems, Unit London, London, England |
| 2021 |
Art Encounters: Community or Chaos, Rollins Museum of Art, Rollins College, Winter Park, Orlando FL, USA Scratching the Surface. An exhibition in Prenzlauer Berg windows and balconies, Die Balkone, Berlin, Germany Art Encounters: Community or Chaos, Cornell Fine Arts Museum off-site: Rollins College, Winter Park, Orlando FL, USA Ideas para Monumentos en homenaje a las heroínas y los héroes desconocidos, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes online, Buenos Aires, Argentina, curated by Luis Camnitzer |
| 2020 |
Billboard Series #21: Sam Durant. Like, man, I’m tired (of waiting), artlead, Ghent, Belgium Visionary New England, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln MA, USA This is America, KUNSTHAL KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands Lost in America, NBK Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany, curated by John Miller; Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland; Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland (cat.) (touring) STUDIO BERLIN, Boros Foundation and Berghain, Berlin, Germany Semblance | Sunshine, TAM Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA, USA, co-curated by Josh Hashemzadeh and TAM Torrance Art Museum 5,471 miles, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA and Tokyo, Japan local talent, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany, curated by Thomas Demand In Focus: Statements, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark Mythologies – The Beginning and End of Civilizations, ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark The Gallery Is Closed, Blum & Poe online |
| 2019 |
Le Magasin, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles CA, USA Untold (Hi)stories, M.Bassy, Hamburg, Germany Native Art Department International, Bureau of Aesthetics, KADIST, San Francisco CA, USA Non-Vicious Circle, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee WI, USA Political Affairs. Language Is Not Innocent, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Forgetting. Why We Don't Remember Everything, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Thrill of Deception: From Ancient Art to Virtual Reality, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (touring) Populism and Brexit, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board CPPIB office, London, England |
| 2018 |
The Street. Where the World Is Made, MAXXI National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy Adam McEwen Selects: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA 26 on 3rd, LBMA Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA, USA Exposición Inaugural, MACQ El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Querétaro, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico Museum of Broken Windows, NYCLU New York Civil Liberties Union, New York NY, USA COPING MECHANISMS, Library Street Collective, Detroit MI, USA 50 State Initiative, Cass & Amsterdam NW, Detroit MI, USA,organised by For Freedoms Thrill of Deception: From Ancient Illusionistic Art to Virtual Reality, Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany (touring) Mad World, MAF Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles CA, USA Give a damn., The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, USA On longing and consolation, Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou, Belgium Orientation, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York NY, USA, part of TRII The Racial Imaginary Institute Biennial Sharing Heritage: Labyrinths in Europe, Das Europäische Kulturerbejahr, Vienna, Austria Power to the People: Political Art Now, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany Break in Transmission, Holden Gallery, Manchester, England |
| 2017 |
Mirror, Mirror, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT, USA The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA Islands, Constellations and Galapagos, Yokahama Triennale 2017, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA We need to talk…, Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA Last Tango, Zurich, Switzerland I LOVE L.A., Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles CA, USA Hand-Painted Pop! Art and Appropriation, 1961 to Now, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT, USA |
| 2016 |
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY, USA (touring) L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA Art and The Landscape, Concord MA, USA Parcours: Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland Domaine de Muy, Le Muy, France Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection, Drawing Center, New York NY, USA The Natural Order of Things, curated by Julieta González, José Esparza, and Ixel Rion, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2015 |
A Voice Remains, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, England Dissolving Margins, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2014 |
A Perpetual Journey, Parse Gallery, New Orleans LA, USA Da Cartografia do Poder aos Itinerários do Saber, Museu Afro Brasil, São Paolo, Brasil Illustrating Anarchy and Revolution, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin TX, USA Border Cultures: Part 2 (Work, Labour), Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada Mound City, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis MO, USA Selections from the Collection of Black Byrne, Patrick Painter, Santa Monica CA, USA The Classic in Art, Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina IK-00. The Spaces of Confinement, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England Secret Passions: Private Flemish Collections, Tripostal, Lille, France Lustwarande ’14 – Rapture & Pain, Tilburg, The Netherlands |
| 2013 |
Jonathan Borofsky, Sam Durant, Charles Gaines, Liz Glynn, Wayne Gonzales, Hans Haacke, Walid Raad, Andres Serrano, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA Beer Show, Green Gallery, Milwaukee WI, USA Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg, and Universalmuseum Joanneum / Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria (touring) The Hunter and the Factory, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City Turn off the Sun: Selections from la Colección Jumex, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe AZ, USA Give Piece A Chance, Le Grand Café - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Saint Nazaire, France The Wall, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris, France Farbe Bekennen (Showing Its Colors), MARTa Herford Museum, Herford, Germany |
| 2012 |
Eight Sculptors 2012, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA Only Parts of Us Will Ever Touch Parts of Others, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France ROOTS. Memory, identity and change in the art of today, Malvina Menegaz Foundation for Arts and Culture, Castelbasso, Italy The Living Years: Art after 1989, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany,curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Collage, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France, curated by Timothée Chaillou Sweethearts: Artist Couples, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, England Spelling the Image, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York NY, USA Shake and Bake, Praz-Delavallad, Paris, France, curated by Hard Hat Da Cartografia do Poder aos Itineráros do Saber, National Museum of Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 2011 |
The Walls That Divide Us, apexart, New York NY, USA, curated by Miguel Amado The Air We Breathe, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA, curated by Apsara DiQuinzio Agitated Histories, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM, USA Da Cartografia do Poder aos Itineráros do Saber, Museum of Science, University of Coimbra, Portugal, curated by Catarina Pires & Paulo Bernaschina Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada Incidentes de viaje espejo en Yucatán y otros lugares (Incidents of Travel mirroring the Yucatan and elsewhere), Museo Tamayo, Mexico, curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra The Object of Observation (Changes by Being Observed), Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany, curated by Tim Lee The Workers: Contemporary Representations of Labor, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams MA, USA, curated by Susan Cross and Carla Herrera-Prats I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA, curated by Christian Rattemeyer Locations, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA Mass Distractions and Cultural Decay, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Canada, curated by LaToya Ruby Frazier The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City UT, USA curated by Jill Dawsey Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in 4 Acts: Act 4: Material Intelligence, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England Drawn from Photography, Drawing Center, New York NY, USA, curated by Claire Gilman Elizabeth Catlett: Call and response, Bronx Museum, New York NY, USA, curated by Isolde Brielmaier |
| 2010 |
The Narcissism of Minor Differences, MICA Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD, USA To the Arts, Citizens!, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal The Artist’s Museum: Los Angeles, Artists 1980-2010, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA Inquiring Eyes: Greensboro Collects Art, Greensboro NC, USA Repetition Island, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Shut Your Eyes in Order to See, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, Carrara, Italy, curated by Fabio Cavallucci Larger than Life, Stranger than Fiction: 11th Fellbach Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture, Fellbach, Germany Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA, USA, curated by Michael Darling Contemplating the Void, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA curated by Nancy Spector and David van der Leer First Nations / Second Nature, Audain Teaching Gallery, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada, curated by Candice Hopkins Photography, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2009 |
Collection: MOCA’s First 30 Years, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA 15th Anniversary Inaugural exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA Commentary, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA Drawings By, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France Loaded, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada Destroy Design, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, France, curated by Hilde Teerlinck (cat.) Regift, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York NY, USA, curated by John Miller Rock – Paper – Scissors, Pop Music as a Subject of Visual Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria Be sure to attend very carefully to what I have to say to you, FRI ART, Fribourg, Switzerland Off the Wall, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York NY, USA |
| 2008 |
Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York NY, USA, organised by Parsons The New School for Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics Zones of Conflict, Pratt Gallery, New York NY, USA Crossroads: Interfaces between rock and contemporary art, Domus Artium Museum / Center of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, MOCAMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County CA, USA (cat.). Proyecto civico / Civic Project, CECUT Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico, curated by Lucia Sanromán and Ruth Estévez Since we last spoke about monuments, Stroom den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands, curated by Mihnea Mircan The Art of the Real, 10 Oud Vliegveld, Oostende, Belgium, organised by Bob Nickas Close Encounters, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C., USA Freedom, Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague, The Netherlands (cat.) Peripheral vision and collective body, MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy Jeremy Deller: Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, and Me, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado CO, USA 8th Bienal de Panamá, Panama, curated by Magali Arriola The Old, Weird America, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX, USA, curated by Toby Camps (cat.) |
| 2007 |
XMAS HYSTERIA, Galleria Emi Fonta, Milan, Italy Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York NY, USA Ohio, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn IL, USA; Milan, Italy, curated by Brad Killam and Barb Wiesen Words Fail Me, MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit MI, USA, curated by Matthew Higgs Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica CA, USA |
| 2006 |
Black Panther Rank and File, YBCA Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA, USA Dark Places, ICALA Institute of Contemporary Art, Santa Monica CA, USA |
| 2005 |
Artists’ Books Re-Visited, Printed Matter, New York NY, USA Long Beach, Longbeach CA, USA Touch of Evil, Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico Think Blue, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2004 |
Rear View Mirror, Kettle’s Yard CA, USA |
| 2003 |
with Monica Bonvicini, Break it/Fix it, Secession, Vienna, Austria Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2002 |
Rent-a-bench, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by Jacob Fabricius |
| 2001 |
9th Biennial of Moving Images, Center for Contemporary Images, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2000 |
All Things, Everything True, CRG, New York NY, USA, curated by Jessica Bronson D, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by Robert Nickas |
| 1999 |
What Your Children Should Know About Conceptualism, NAK Neuera Achener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany COLA Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA (cat.) |
| 1998 |
Obviously 5 Believers, Action: Space, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by Brian Olson Architecture & Inside, Paul Morris Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by Kenneth L. Freed |
| 1997 |
Chill, University of California Irvine, The Art Gallery, Irvine CA, USA, curated by Brad Spence Sam Durant & Anne Walsh, Four Walls, San Francisco CA, USA Scene of the Crime, Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by Ralph Rugoff Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles, Three Day Weekend, Malmø, Sweden, curated by Dave Muller; Jason & Rhodes, London, England and Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles CA, USA (touring) Summer of Love, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 1996 | TRUE.BLISS., LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA, USA (cat.) The Power of Suggestion: Narrative and Notation in Contemporary Drawing, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by Cornelia H. Butler with Andrea Bowers, Open House, Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena CA, USA, organised by John O’Brien a/drift: Scenes from the Penetrable Culture, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessell Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York NY, USA, curated by Joshua Decter Just Past: The Contemporary in the Permanent Collection, 1975 - 96, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by Ann Goldstein The Palace of Good Luck, Burnett Miller Gallery, Santa Monica CA, USA All Work - No Play, Acme, Santa Monica CA, USA Modsquad, Spanish Box, Santa Barbara CA, USA Real Goods, Manhattan Village Shopping Center, Manhattan Beach CA, USA |
| 1995 |
Couldn’t Get Ahead, Independent Art Space, London, England The Friendly Village, MIAD Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee WI, USA |
| 1994 |
Gone, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica CA, USA Constructed Views, Woodbury University, Burbank CA, USA Thanks, Three-Day Weekend, Los Angeles CA, USA Thanks Again, FOODHOUSE, Santa Monica CA, USA The Game Show, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA, USA Le Temps d’un Dessin, Galerie de L’ Ecole des Beaux Arts de Lorient, Paris, France Utter Realities, Cerritos College, Cerritos CA, USA |
| 1993 | Germinal Notations, FOODHOUSE, Santa Monica CA, USA Loose Slots, Temporary Contemporary Las Vegas NV, USA, organised by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Newport Harbor Biennial, Newport Beach Art Museum, Newport Beach CA, USA Heaven Missing, Jose Freire Gallery, New York NY, USA Melancholic Consolation and Cynicism, Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin, Germany and Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica CA, USA FOODHOUSE visits the Art Store, West Los Angeles CA, USA, organised by Randy Sommer Thank You, FOODHOUSE, Santa Monica CA, USA |
| 1992 | FAR Bazaar, Foundation for Art Resources, Federal Reserve Building, Los Angeles CA, USA, with Michael Coughlin, Kent Young and Andrea Bowers Good Design, Nomadic Site, Pasadena CA, USA Afterthought, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 1991 |
Window on LA, LA Art Fair, Los Angeles CA, USA, , organised by David Pagel |
Curatorial Projects
| 2009 |
Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, The New Museum, New York NY, USA The Permanent Record of Newjack Rasputin: the Work of Tucker Stilley, Monte Vista, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2008 | All Power to the People: The History and Legacy of the Black Panther Party Film Festival, Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater, Walt Disney Concert Hall, LosAngeles CA, USA |
| 2007 |
Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2006 | Eat the Market, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2005 | Touch of Evil, Estación Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico |
| 2004 |
Whitney Museum of Art, New York NY, USA, REDCAT/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles CA, USA, film series co-organised with Chrissie Isles |
| 1999 | Not Photography, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica CA, USA |
| 1994 |
The Power of Positive Thinking, FOODHOUSE, Santa Monica CA, USA Paranoid, M.Y.T.H. Series, Los Angeles CA, USA, co-organised with Andrea Bowers |
Commissions
| 2021 | Untitled (Drone), The High Line Plinth Commission, New York NY, USA, curated by Cecilia Alemani |
| 2017 | Like, Man, I’m Tired of Waiting, Waterloo Billboard Commissions, Hayward Gallery, London, England, 29 August – 27 November |
| 2015 | Labyrinth, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia PA, USA |
| 2005 | Public Prosecutors’ Office, City of Arnhem, the Netherlands |
| 2003
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Project Row Houses, Houston TX, USA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA |
Other Projects
| 2022 |
8X5, Art At A Time Like This x SaveArtSpace, Miami FL, USA |
| 2007-present |
Founding member of Transforma Projects, a cultural rebuilding collective in New Orleans |
| 2006 | Harlem Postcards Summer 2006, Studio Museum Harlem, New York NY, USA |
| 2005 | The Other Side/ El Otro Lado (Regionalism, Nationalism, Imperialism), artist multiple, Chinati Foundation, Marfa TX, USA |
Film Screenings
| 2021 | Trope, Glasgow International online, 11 June – 31 July |
Conferences, Talks, Panel Discussions, Workshops
| 2019 |
Library Street Collective, Detroit MI, USA, 30 October |
| 2018 |
Panel discussion as part of the 'Glasgow International Festival' and 'Nasher Dialogues’ programme, organised by The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland and Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas TX, USA KaleidoLA Speaker Series: Sam Durant, Loyolla Marymount Univeristy, Los Angeles CA, USA Who Can Speak for Whom? Artistic Freedom and the Challenges of Dealing with the Pain of Historical Trauma, College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2016 | Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO, USA |
| 2010 |
Hammer Conversations, Tom Morello and Sam Durant, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2009 |
Workshop: Art and Community Engagement, with Transforma Collective,UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA with Rick Lowe and Jessica Cusic |
| 2008 |
Word: Spoken, Sung, Seen, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Parsons New School for Social Research, New York NY, USA Proyecto Cívico, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Baja, Mexico Artist and Activist, OCMA Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA, USA University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, USA, with Rick Lowe In Dialogue with Emory Douglas, SFAI San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 2007 |
This Must Be The Place, National Museum of the American Indian, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Eat the Market, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles CA, USA Black Panther Rank and File, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD, USA |
| 2006 | Institutional Critique, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA |
| 2005 | InSite, University of California, San Diego CA, USA |
| 2004 |
NAFTA, MCASD Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA, USA War! Protest In America, 1965-2004, REDCAT/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2001 |
Wild Walls Symposium, Berlin, Germany/Los Angeles Film Festival of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, USA Take Two/Reprise: Symposium, The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada |
| 2000 |
Practical Criticism: Art and Theory in the 90s, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles CA, USA, organised by Charles Gaines and Russell Ferguson |
| 1997 | Fake Estate: Where Art and Architecture Meet, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles CA, USA, moderated by Cornelia H. Butler |
Public Collections
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AGWA Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia BAMPFA Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA, USA deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln MA, USA FNAC Fonds national d'art contemporain, Paris, France Guggenheim Museums and Foundation, New York NY, USA / Venice, Italy / Bilbao, Spain / Abu Dhabi, UAE Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA, USA Institut d'Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne, France LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA MAG Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester NY, USA MAM Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA MCASD Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego CA, USA MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham NC, USA Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada Project Row Houses, Houston TX, USA SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium Tate, London, England Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT, USA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA |
Grants and Awards
| 2018 | Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency, Bellagio, Italy |
| 2017 | Rappaport Prize, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln (MA), USA |
| 2008 | Hugo Boss Finalist, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Hugo Boss Prize, New York NY, USA Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA |
| 2006 | United States Artists Fellow, USArtists Foundation, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2005 | The Ordway Prize Finalist, Penny McCall Foundation, New York NY, USA |
| 2002-2003 | Walker Art Center Artist in Residence, Minneapolis MN, USA |
| 1999 | Individual Artist Grant, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles CA, USA |