Sam Contis (b. 1982) is an artist working with photography and moving image. Solo museum exhibitions of her work have been held at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Carré d’Art in Nîmes, France. The survey exhibition Sam Contis: Moving Landscape is currently on view at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Contis has participated in group exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Barbican Art Gallery, London; the Gropius-Bau, Berlin; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2024), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2022), a Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2016), and an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship (2016). Her work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Contis has published three monographs: Deep Springs (Mack, 2017), Day Sleeper (Mack, 2020), and Overpass (Aperture, 2022). This fall an exhibition of her work will open at Arts & Letters in New York. She is a Senior Critic in Photography at the Yale School of Art, and is based in New York.
Contact:
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York
Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles
samcontis.studio@gmail.com