Biography
Born 1982 in Pittsburgh, PA
Lives and works in Oakland, CA
Education
2008
MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2004
BFA, New York University, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Sam Contis / Matrix 266, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Deep Springs, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2019
Character Study, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
The Second Body, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
2018
The Daegu Biennial, curated by Ami Barak, Daegu, South Korea
Earache, organized by Jordan Stein, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Being: New Photography 2018, curated by Lucy Gallun, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2017
Foam, Beaconsfield Vauxhall, London, UK
2016
Indivisible, Fotomuseum Antwerp, Belgium
Unseen Photography Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Fifteen Years, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
In the Cut, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA
Flames on the Side of My Face, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
Publications
2017
Deep Springs, published by MACK
2016
Foam Magazine, by Duncan Wooldridge, Issue #45
2014
Blind Spot, Issue 48, edited by Doug Aitken, Fall
Bibliography
2018
Greenberger, Alex, MoMA’s Gripping ‘New Photography’ Goes Behind the Lens, ArtNews, March 22, 2018
Lubow, Arthur, What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says, New York Times, March 9, 2018
2017
Cole, Teju, The Best Photo Books of 2017, New York Times, December 30, 2017
Schwabsky, Barry, Sam Contis, Artforum, September, 2017
Westin, Monica, Sam Contis, Artforum.com, June 18, 2017
Maddox, Amanda, Photographing the Body Electric, Aperture.com, June 17, 2017
McPhate, Mike, Scenes From an Unusual College in the High Desert, NewYorkTimes.com, June 8, 2017
Thackara, Tess, A Photographer Turns Her Lens on One of America’s Last All-Male Colleges, Arsty Editioral, May 11, 2017
Schuman, Aaron, Deep Springs by Sam Contis, FT Magazine, May 11, 2017
9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week, Artnews.com, May 8, 2017
Stewart, Ian. A, Higher Ed in the High Desert, San Francisco Magazine, May 2, 2017
2016
Weiss, Haley, Coffee Table Curator: April 2017, Interview Magazine, April 28, 2017 IMA, Vol. 18, 2016
Awards
2017
Nancy Graves Foundation Artist Grant
2016
Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship
Public Collections
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
KADIST, San Francisco, CA | Paris, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven