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Sam Contis Awarded Grant by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Sam Contis has been named a recipient of the 2024 visual arts grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA). The FCA provides grants to artists acknowledged for their innovative and contemporary contributions across diverse fields.
Museum Exhibition
Sam Contis at the Victoria & Albert Museum
Sam Contis photographs from the series Overpass from the Victoria & Albert Museum's permanent collection are currently on view in Photography Now, an exhibition showcasing contemporary photography from around the globe. The exhibition will be up through the end of 2024.
Podcast
Podcast Featuring Mark Armijo McKnight and Sam Contis, Hosted by Venus Williams
Mark Armijo McKnight and Sam Contis are featured in a podcast published by The Carnegie Museum of Art in conjunction with Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape. Hosted by Venus Williams, episode four of the ongoing series deals with the "connections between myth-making and human cognition." Listen here.
museum exhibition
Mark Armijo McKnight and Sam Contis at the Carnegie Museum
Mark Armijo McKnight and Sam Contis are included in Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The exhibition opens May 11, 2024 and will run through January 12, 2025.
press
The Body on Camera
Sam Contis’ photographs are featured in the January 6/7 2024 FT Weekend Magazine, with writing by Baya Simons
Acquisition
Sam Contis Acquired by the Carnegie Museum of Art
The Carnegie Museum of Art has acquired five artworks from Sam Contis' photo series Overpass.
Acquisition
The Victoria and Albert Museum acquires Sam Contis
Eight photographs from Sam Contis' series Overpass were acquired by The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.
News
Sam Contis Awarded 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship
The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Sam Contis a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her achievement and promise in the field of photography.
Book
Sam Contis, "Overpass," 2022
"Overpass is about what it means to move through the landscape. Walking along a vast network of centuries-old footpaths through the English countryside, artist Sam Contis focuses on stiles, the simple structures that offer a means of passage over walls and fences and allow public access through privately owned land. In her immersive sequences of black-and-white photographs, they become repeating sculptural forms in the landscape, invitations to free movement on one hand and a reminder of the history of enclosure on the other. Made from wood and stone, each unique, they appear as markers pointing the way forward, or decaying and half-hidden by the undergrowth. An essay by writer Daisy Hildyard contextualizes this body of work within histories of the British landscape and contemporary ecological discourses. In an age of rising nationalism and a renewed insistence on borders, Overpass invites us to reflect on how we cross boundaries, who owns space, and the ways we have shaped the natural environment and how we might shape it in the future." (Text from aperture website)
Review
Sam Contis Reviewed in The New Yorker
Duet, Sam Contis's current solo show, was reviewed in The New Yorker by Andrea K. Scott. Scott traces the lineage present in Contis's work while celebrating the variety of formats on view.
Catalog
Duet
Catalog for Sam Contis’ 2022 solo show Duet. Includes an interview with the artist, vocalist Inbal Hever, and River Bullock. 8.5 x 5.5 inch, soft-cover, 8 pages (including cover) in black and white.
Acquisition
Sam Contis Works Acquired by The Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou has acquired the following artworks from Sam Contis's Deep Springs series: Untitled (Neck), 2015; Hold Down, 2014; Pulling Back the Skin, 2014; Eggs, 2015; Red Desert (Death Valley), 2014; Shoeing, 2013; Untitled (Sheet), 2016; Cover, 2013; Arbor, 2014; Untitled (Riding the Range, ca. 1920-24), 2016.
Outside Exhibition
Sam Contis at Carré d'Art Nîmes
For her first solo exhibition at a European institution, Sam Contis’s Transit presents new and recent works from three series, including large scale color photographs, intimately scaled gelatin silver prints, and a two-channel video projection. Contis’s recurring interest is in the body in flux – in motion through the landscape and through transitional states of identity. Transit is on view at Carré d'Art Nîmes July 5 through November 20, 2022.
Acquisition
MoMA Acquires Sam Contis Photographs
Six Sam Contis photographs were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, including Embrace (2015) and High Noon (2014).
Catalog
Sam Contis Day Sleeper, 2020
In this book Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the iconic American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Lange’s extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world centred around the figure of the day sleeper – at once a symbol of respite and oblivion.
Outside Exhibition
Sam Contis in Dorothea Lange exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art
San Contis has a selection of new photogravure works on view as a part of Dorothea Lange: Words and Pictures, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The show is on view February 9th - May 9th, 2020.
Outside Exhibition
Sam Contis at the Museum of Modern Art
Sam Contis has work in Being: New Photography 2018, curated by Lucy Gallun, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The show runs from March 8- August 19, 2018. 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY.
Acquisition
The Whitney Museum Acquires Sam Contis
The Whitney Museum has acquired 10 photographs from Sam Contis' Deep Springs series.
Outside Exhibition
Sam Contis at BAMPFA
Sam Contis is having a solo show at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California. The show runs from May 3–August 27, 2017. University of California, Berkeley, 2120 Oxford Street #2250, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Acquisition
Sam Contis Acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LACMA has acquired two photographs from Sam Contis' Deep Springs series.
