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Sam Contis is showing work in “12 Photographers”, a group show at Kerry Schuss Gallery in New York. The show up until March 22, 2025.

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.

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.

Sam Contis is included in What Men Live By, an online exhibition by Office Baroque.

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.

Sam Contis has artworks included in Satoshi Kojima & Sam Contis, a two person show at Sunset Court in Venice Beach, California. The exhibition is on view February 25 through March 17, 2024.

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.

Sam Contis’ 2022 book and 2023 solo show Overpass were reviewed by Josh Lustig for the Financial Times Magazine. Lustig explores the concept of walking in relation to the photographs, among other things. Read the interview here.

Sam Contis and designer Julian Bittiner will be in conversation at the gallery to discuss their collaboration on the monograph Overpass. The event will take place on Saturday, November 11 from 2-4PM.  Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Eight photographs from Sam Contis’ series Overpass were acquired by The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.

The Carnegie Museum of Art has acquired five artworks from Sam Contis’ photo series Overpass.

Sam Contis will be giving a talk at the California College of the Arts as part of their Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Lecture series. The talk will be held Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 7:30PM – 9PM and is open to the public.

Sam Contis has an artwork included in Basic Fit, a group show at Office Baroque gallery. Previously a gym, the exhibition space has been turned into a facsimile of a gym club. The show is on view February 10 through April 8, 2023.

Sam Contis has work from her new series “Overpass” included in a two person show, Pitch, alongside Kahlil Robert Irving at Kristina Kite Gallery in Los Angeles. The unifying theme for this exhibition is the landscape, which both artists approach in their own distinct way. The show is on view November 19, 2022 to January 21, 2023.

Aperture has released Overpass, a new monograph consisting of photographs taken by Sam Contis between 2020 and 2022 in Northern England. Available here. Specs: 9.75 x 6.75 inch, 224 pages, soft cover.

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.

Duet, Sam Contis’ 2022 solo show, was reviewed in Musée Magazine by Lia Jung. Jung finds similarities between vocalist Inbal Hever’s body movements and the camera itself.

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.

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.

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.

Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography, originally at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, has opened at its fourth venue, the FOMU Fotomuseum in Antwerp, Belgium.

Sam Contis’ artwork, Grain Elevators, is featured in On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, a group show at Yale University Art Gallery. The show is up from September 10th, 2021 – January 9th, 2022.

Sam Contis has a selection of works on view as a part of Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, a group exhibition that has travelled to Les Rencontres d’Arles in Arles, France after being on view at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, UK. July 4 – September 26, 2021.

Sam Contis has work in a group show called Touch, curated by Augusto Arbizo, at Rachel Uffner Gallery. The show is up from April 10 – June 5. 170 Suffolk Street New York

Sam Contis has work in La Boîte-en-Valise, an online exhibition at la-boite-en-valise.com that takes place in a reconstruction by a Dutch carpenter, of Marcel Duchamp’s 1941 famous mini retrospective work “Boite-en-Valise.” The exhibition features the work of 39 artists and will run from January 9th thru February 28th, 2021. La Boîte-en-Valise is a project by Office Baroque and was curated by Wim Peeters and Marie Denkens.

Sam Contis has a selection of works on view as a part of Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, a group exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery in London, UK. 20 February –17 May 2020.

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.

Sam Contis will be exhibiting new work in Character Study, a group show at Ratio 3 in San Francisco. The show runs from June 28 – August 16, 2019. 2831A Mission Street, San Francisco

Sam Contis is showing a photograph in Earache, curated by Jordan Stein, at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, CA. 49 Geary Blvd suite 450. The show is up through August 18.

Six Sam Contis photographs were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, including Embrace (2015) and High Noon (2014).