Sam Durant (b. 1961, Seattle) lives in Los Angeles, California. Current and recent solo exhibitions include those of Scaffold at Jupiter Artland, Scotland, and Stroom Den Haag, The Hague; La stessa storia, MACRO, Rome (until 01 September); and major group exhibitions include dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, 2012; The Air We Breathe, curated by Apsara DiQuinzio, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), 2011; the 2006 Busan Biennial, Korea; the 2004 Whitney Museum of American Art Biennal, New York; and the 2002 Venice Biennale, Italy. In 2009 he curated Emory Douglas: Black Panther at the New Museum, New York.

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