Visiting Artist Lecture with Sam Durant

Join the School of Art + Art History for a Visiting Artist Lecture with Sam Durant.

Free and open to the public.

Sam Durant is an interdisciplinary artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. He received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1987 and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1991. He has recently done major public art projects, Labyrinth (2015) in Philadelphia which addressed mass incarceration and The Meeting House (2016) in Concord, MA that took up the subject of race in colonial and contemporary New England. In 2007 Durant compiled and edited the monograph, Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas (Rizzoli Intl.) and curated the exhibition of the same name at MOCA, Los Angeles and the New Museum, New York. He has had solo museum exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium, MOCA, Los Angeles and Kunstverein Dusseldorf.  His work has been included in Documenta 13, the Yokohama Triennial and the Venice Biennial. 

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