Sam Durant is an artist and Lecturer at the California Institute of the Arts, United States. 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. Between July and August 2014, Durant was Artist-in-Residence at NTU CCA Singapore where he researched into the 1955 Bandung conference and its subsequent non-aligned movement.