Sam Contis
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To Exalt the Ephemeral
August 14, 2024–July 6, 2025
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley, CA
Photography Now
June 6, 2024–May 1, 2025
V&A South Kensington
London, UK
What Men Live By
June 6–September 15, 2024
Office Baroque
Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape
May 11, 2024–January 12, 2025
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA
Satoshi Kojima and Sam Contis
February 25–March 17, 2024
848 Sunset Court, Venice Beach, CA
Thursday-Sunday, 12–6pm
FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE
January 6, 2024
The Body on Camera
Cover Feature
OVERPASS
October 27–December 16, 2023
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
87 Franklin Street
New York, NY
Opening Friday, October 27, 2023, 6–8 pm
CAMERA AUSTRIA
Issue No. 162, 2023
Cover Feature
Essay By Lauren O’Neill Butler
Curriculum
Aperture Magazine
Winter 2022
Overpass
Artbook, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
Sam Contis and Geoff Dyer in conversation
Sunday, November 20, 2pm
917 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA
Pitch
November 19, 2022–January 21, 2023
Kristina Kite Gallery
3400 W Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
Opening Saturday, November 19, 4–6 pm
Conversation with Kahlil Robert Irving, Darby English,
and Sam Contis at 3pm
Overpass
Claire de Rouen Books
Monday, November 7, 2022
Overpass
Published by Aperture
Transit
July 5–November 20, 2022
Carré d’Art
Nîmes, France
Public walkthrough with Sam Contis and curator, Jean-Marc Prevost
July 5, 3pm
THE NEW YORKER
Goings On About Town
by Andrea K. Scott
May 23, 2022
Duet
May 13–June 18, 2022
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
87 Franklin Street
New York, NY
Opening Reception: May 13, 2022 6–8 pm
Performance at 7 pm
Touch
April 10–June 5, 2021
curated by Augusto Arbizo
Rachel Uffner Gallery
New York, NY
La-Boîte-En-Valise
January 9–February 20, 2021
Office Baroque
Antwerp, Belgium
The Brooklyn Rail
20 Best Art Books of 2020
by Phillip Griffith
December 2020
CONTROLLING THE CHAOS
November 20, 2020–June 27, 2021
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography
October 16, 2020–March 17, 2021
Gropius Bau
Berlin, Germany
London Review of Books
On Dorothea Lange
by Joanna Biggs
Vol. 42 No. 14
July 16, 2020
Aperture
In London, an Exhibition Provokes Questions about Masculinity
by Lou Stoppard
July 14, 2020
Bookforum
Artful Volumes
by Zack Hatfield
Summer 2020
MOMA MAGAZINE
A Portfolio of Photographs
by Sam Contis and Sarah Meister
April 29, 2020
The New Yorker
A Different Side to Dorothea Lange
by Johanna Fateman
April 12, 2020
Day Sleeper at London Review Bookshop
Sam Contis and Joanna Biggs in conversation
Friday, February 21, 7pm
London Review Bookshop
14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography
February 20—Aug 23, 2020
Barbican Art Gallery
Barbican Centre, London
Cultured Magazine
Way Out West
by Ted Loos
February/March 2020
THE FINANCIAL TIMES MAGAZINE
Up Close and Personal
by Griselda Murray Brown
February 15, 2020
The Guardian
Landscapes, languor and limbs: the other side of Dorothea Lange
by Sean O’Hagan
February 14, 2020
The WSJ MAGAZINE
What’s News
Inside the Unseen Archives of Dorothea Lange
by Fanny Singer
February 2020
Dorothea Lange: Words and Pictures
February 9–May 9, 2020
The Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
DAY SLEEPER
Sam Contis and Fanny Singer in conversation
Tuesday, February 4, 7pm
Mast Books
72 Avenue A
New York, NY
DAY SLEEPER
Published by MACK
CHARACTER STUDY
June 28–August 19, 2019
Ratio 3
2831 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA
The Second Body
June 21–July 27, 2019
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
54 Ludlow Street
New York, NY
Opening Friday, June 21, 6–8pm
Earache
July 12–August 18, 2018
organized by Jordan Stein
Fraenkel Gallery
San Francisco, CA
BEING: NEW PHOTOGRAPHY
March 18–August 19, 2018
The Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY