Photo by Rémi Godin.
Bio
Sam Sundius (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist investigating the body and its relationship to memory. They received a B.A. from Hunter College in Drawing and English in 2014, and have studied at the Art Students League in New York and l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts in Paris. Sundius' work has been shown with Field Projects (curated by Home Gallery), the Governors Island Art Fair, and at the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art and has been written about in the Gothamist. They participated in residencies on Governors Island in 2020 and 2021 and are a fellow of the NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur program in 2022. Sam is also the recipient of the NYFA City Artist Corps Grant and the Queens Art Fund New Work Grant.
Sam Sundius lives and works in New York.
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EDUCATION:
2019 Art Students League, New York, NY
2017 New York University, Steinhardt, Master of Arts, New York, NY
2014 CUNY Hunter College, magna cum laude, Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art, Drawing, with Departmental Honors, New York, NY
2010 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (ENSBA), Exchange program: Ateliers of Dominique Gauthier (painting) and Wernher Bouwens (lithography), Paris, France
RESIDENCIES:
2021 4heads Governors Island. Governors Island, NY
2020 4heads Governors Island. Governors Island, NY
2020 AqTushetii (participation cancelled due to COVID-19). Lower Omalo, Tusheti, Georgia
2020 Byrdcliffe (postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19). Woodstock, NY
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2021 DOG PARK, Petty Cash (curated by Field Projects), Brooklyn, NY
2021 Portal: Governors Island, New York, NY (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2021 Emergence, Beacon Artists Union, Beacon, NY
2020 Writing on the Walls, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2019 Portal: Governors Island (formerly Governors Island Art Fair), New York, NY
2019 34th Chelsea International Fine Arts Show, New York, NY
2019 Art + Apéro: Open Studio, Vega Artists Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Office of the Manhattan Borough President “Small Works Show,” New York, NY
2018 New Sanctuary Coalition “Suitcase March,” New York, NY
2018 Art Students League “Holiday Show,” New York, NY
PUBLIC WORKS:
2021 “Moments II,” collaboration with Jiwon Rhie. Outdoor installation. Queens, NY (forthcoming)
2021 “Intervene,” collaboration with Jiwon Rhie. Outdoor installation. Governors Island, NY
2020 “Moments,” collaboration with Jiwon Rhie. Temporary outdoor installation. Governors Island, NY
2018 “Luggage Tags,” New Sanctuary Coalition Suitcase March (outdoor installation), New York, NY
2008 Mural for Fundação Bomfim, Braga, Portugal
GRANTS & AWARDS:
2021 City Artist Corps Grant, NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY
2021 Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Art Fund New Work Grant, Queens, NY
PUBLICATION:
2020 “Writing on the Walls 2020,” editors Mara Mills, Livia Straus, and Jo-Ann Brody. Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY
2020 Illustrations for “Theater of Disappearing” (working title) by M. Castaneda, Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming), Edinburgh, UK
2019 Catalog: Portal: Governors Island 2019, 4heads, New York, NY
2019 Catalog: Chelsea International Fine Arts Show, Agora Gallery, New York, NY