 Artist's arttributes:
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Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 84 |
| Germany | 16 |
| France | 15 |
| Italy | 14 |
| United Kingdom | 12 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
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Paula Cooper Gallery, USA |
9 |
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Blum & Poe, USA |
7 |
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Galerie Praz-Delavallade - Paris, France |
6 |
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Galleria Emi Fontana, Italy |
4 |
Biography: 
1961 Born in Seattle, WA (US)
Lives and works in Los Angeles
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 180
Solo shows 26
2012
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| Radici - Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin |
2011
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| Sam Durant - Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin |
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| Sam Durant - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Sam Durant - Galerie Praz-Delavallade - Paris, Paris |
2010
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| Sam Durant: History Never Ends, I Hate to Bother You - Sadie Coles HQ, London (England) |
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| Dead Labor Day - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Sam Durant - This is freedom? - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
2008
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| Sam Durant - End White Supremacy - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Sam Durant - Galerie Praz-Delavallade - Paris, Paris |
2007
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| Sam Durant - Sadie Coles HQ, London (England) |
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| Sam Durant - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Sam Durant - Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myths, Massacres and Monuments - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
2006
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| Sam Durant - - Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan (closed) |
2005
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| Sam Durant - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Sam Durant - Galerie Praz-Delavallade - Paris, Paris |
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| Color Pictures - Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
2004
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| Sam Durant - Involved - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Sam Durant - We Are All Outlaws in the Eyes of Amerika - - Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan (closed) |
2003
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| SAM DURANT - Union Gallery, London (England) |
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| Sam Durant - Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf |
2002
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| Sam Durant - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Sam Durant - INOVA - Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI |
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| Sam Durant / Matrix 147 - The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT |
2000
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| Sam Durant - Tomio Koyama Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo |
1999
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| Sam Durant : Into the black - - Galerie Kapinos, Berlin (closed) |
Group shows 154
2013
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| Farbe bekennen – Was Kunst macht - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| Give Piece A Chance - Le Grand Café - Centre d'art contemporain de Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Nazaire |
2012
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| Seuls quelques fragments de nous toucheront quelques fragments d’autrui - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris |
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| Eight Sculptors 2012 - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| When Does Something Become Something Else? - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Documenta (13) - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Prospect 2012 - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Spelling The Image - Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York City, NY |
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| Shake 'n' Bake, A Group Show - Galerie Praz-Delavallade - Paris, Paris |
2011
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| The Walls That Divide Us - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| Da Cartografia do Poder aos Itinerários do Saber - Museu da Ciência, Coimbra |
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| Agitated Histories - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Mass Distractions and Cultural Decay - Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square, New Brunswick, NJ |
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| Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art from Alumni Collections - Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC |
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| The Object of Observation - Johnen Galerie, Berlin |
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| Pieces - Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna |
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| The Workers - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA |
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| Locations - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in 4 Acts: Act 4: Material Intelligence - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| The Smithson Effect - Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
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| Drawn from Photography - The Drawing Center, New York City, NY |
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| Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists - Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York City, NY |
2010
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| To the Arts, Citizens! - Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto |
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| James Ensor - Hareng Saur: Ensor et l'art contemporain - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| Inquiring Eyes: Greensboro Collects Art - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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| Destrøy Design - Aarhus Kunstbygning - Center for Contemporary Art, Aarhus |
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| Endless Bummer / Surf Elsewhere - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
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| XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara - Biennale di Sculture di Carrara, Carrara |
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| 11. Triennale Kleinplastik - Larger Than Life - Stranger Than Fiction - Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach |
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| Kurt - Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
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| Earthworks: Robert Smithson, Sam Durant, and Mary Brogger - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Destroy Design - MUDAC - Musée de design es d`arts appliques contemporains, Lausanne |
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| Neugierig? Kunst des 21. Jahrhunderts aus privaten Sammlungen - Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn |
2009
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| Photography - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Zwischenzonen - La Colección Jumex, Mexiko - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna |
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| The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art - Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
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| 15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
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| DRAWINGS - Galerie Praz-Delavallade - Paris, Paris |
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| The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art - DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
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| Schere - Stein - Papier - Kunsthaus Graz, Graz |
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| Loaded - Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Be sure to attend very carefully to what I have to say to you - Fri Art - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg |
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| La nada y el ser - Galeria de Fundaciíon/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City |
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| Selective Knowledge - ITYS - Institute of Contemporary Art and Thought, Athens |
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| 1999 - 10 Year Anniversary Show - China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Commentary - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Regift - SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY |
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| OFF THE WALL - Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Entropie zu Hause - Schürmann Berlin, Berlin |
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| La invención de lo cotidiano - Museo Nacional de Arte - MUNAL, Mexico City |
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| 2008 California Biennial - California Pacific Triennial, Newport Beach |
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| OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding - Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York City, NY |
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| Rock My Religion 1 - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| Signs Of The Time - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Since we last spoke about monuments - Stroom Den Haag, The Hague |
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| Close Encounters: Facing the Future - American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC |
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| 8 Bienal de Arte Panama 2008 - - Bienal de Arte Panama, Panama City (closed) |
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| A Sorry Kind of Wisdom - Perry Rubenstein Gallery - 527 West 23 Street, New York City, NY |
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| 16th Biennale of Sydney - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
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| Peripheral vision and collective body - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| The Old, Weird America - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| AFTERNOON OF A DUESSELDORF FAUN II - Galerie Andreas Brüning, Dusseldorf |
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| Selective Knowledge - The National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation - Eynard Mansion, Athens |
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| Working History - The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, OR |
2007
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| XMAS HYSTERIA - - Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan (closed) |
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| Unmonumental: The Object In The 21st Century - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Ohio - Gahlberg Gallery at the McAninch Arts Center, Glen Ellyn, IL |
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| Words Fail Me - Museum of Contemporay Art Detroit, Detroit, MI |
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| Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me - Presentation House Gallery - PHG, North Vancouver, BC |
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| Makers and Modelers - Gladstone Gallery - New York - 21st Street, New York City, NY |
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| Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic - Gladstone Gallery - New York - 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Sculptors' Drawings - Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Black Panther Rank and File - Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC |
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| Visiones del paraiso - Utopias, Distopias, Heterotopias - Espacio 1414, Santurce |
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| Darling, take Fountain - Kalfayan Galleries - Athen, Athens |
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| Memorial to the Iraq War - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| Timer 01 - Triennale Bovisa, Milan |
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| White - Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Panic Room - Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens |
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| Sam Durant, Robert Heinecken, Lee Lozano, Cady Noland and Richard Prince - Rowley Kennerk Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2006
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| Demolition - Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna |
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| Busan Biennale 2006 - The Busan Biennale, Busan |
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| sali sulle montagne, ti dico, e mangia delle fragole - ARGE Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano |
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| Steig auf die Gebirge, sag ich dir, und iss Erdbeeren - Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg |
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| Harlem Postcards - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| Good Vibrations - Le arti visive e il Rock - SMS Contemporanea, ex Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena |
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| Made in USA - Galerie de multiples - GDM, Paris |
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| Fallout - Cold War Culture - Mitchell-Innes & Nash - West Street, New York City, NY |
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| Open-ended. The art of engagement - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Black Panther Rank and File - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Draft Deceit - Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo |
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| Dark Places - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
2005
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| War is over - 1945 - 2005 la libertá dell'arte da Picasso a Warhol a Cattelan - GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo |
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| Lynda Benglis, The Center For Land Use Interpretation, Dan Colen, Gino De Dominicis, Jeremy Deller, Sam Durant, Lucio F - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Interstate - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists - UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA |
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| Group Exhibition: Think Blue - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
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| EN/OF - Galerie de multiples - GDM, Paris |
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| Post no Bills - White Columns, New York City, NY |
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| 100 Artists See God - Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Virginia Beach, VA |
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| Getting Emotional - ICA - Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston, Boston, MA |
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| En/Of - Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve |
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| L.A. - - Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York City, NY (closed) |
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| Monuments to the USA - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| multiplo_1 - daily endless multiple made recyclable - N.O.Gallery, Milan |
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| Echo/Anti Echo - - Thumm - Dircksenstraße, Berlin (closed, 2009) |
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| 1 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow |
2004
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| 100 Artists See God - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| Central Station, Collection Harald Falckenberg - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| Upside Down - Neueingerichtete Räume zur Gegenwart - Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen |
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| Baja to Vancouver - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Rear View Mirror - historical memory and contemporary culture - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| Sign Language - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Communauté 2 - IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne |
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| 100 Mona Lisa valent mieux qu'une - Fondation d´entreprise Ricard, Paris |
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| Communauté 1 - IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne |
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| Drawings - Galerie Praz-Delavallade - Paris, Paris |
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| Räume - Arbeiten an einer Geschichte der Gegenwart - Häusler Contemporary - Munich, Munich |
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| 2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Likeness - Portraits of Artists by Other Artists - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Playlist - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| From House To Home - MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA |
2003
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| Monica Bonvicini / Sam Durant - Break it / Fix it - Wiener Secession, Vienna |
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| Rendered - Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Air Guitar - Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, Cumbria (England) |
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| 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Imperfect Marriages - - Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan (closed) |
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| Air Guitar - - Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (England) (closed) |
2002
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| A Country Lane - Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna |
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| Air Guitar - Cornerhouse, Manchester (England) |
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| Concepts on Nature - Häusler Contemporary - Munich, Munich |
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| Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the Architectural Uncanny - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| From The Observatory - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Air Guitar - Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (England) |
2001
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| Record All-Over - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| Take Two - Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON |
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| New Settlements - Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen |
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| After Effect - CAN - Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel |
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| Fresh - The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection 1998-2000 - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
2000
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| L.A. - Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens |
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| The Second Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection - The Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA |
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| All Things, Everything True - CRG Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| D - Gering & López Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| L.A. - - Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne (closed) |
1999
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| About Conceptualism - Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen |
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| i me mine - The Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Other Narratives - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1998
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| Summary - Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna |
1997
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| Places that are Elsewhere - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
1996
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| a/drift - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| All Work No Play - ACME, Los Angeles, CA |
| Dealer Directory 6 |
France
| | Galerie de multiples - GDM, Paris
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| | Galerie Praz-Delavallade - Paris, Paris
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Italy
| | Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin
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United Kingdom
| | Sadie Coles HQ, London (England)
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USA
| | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY
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Collections 4
France
| | FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
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Italy
| | Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples
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USA
| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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