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Sam Durant

Sam Durant (Born 1961) is active/lives in California.  Sam Durant is known for Surrealist themed assemblage, annotated drawing, sculpture, teaching.

Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism.

His work has been widely exhibited internationally and in the United States. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand. His work has been included in the Panamá, Sydney, Venice and Whitney Biennales.

His work has been extensively written about including seven monographic catalogs and books. In 2006 he compiled and edited a comprehensive monograph of Black Panther artist Emory Douglas' work. His recent curatorial credits include Eat the Market at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Black P   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7210 characters.]  Artist bio

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