Monday, April 14, 6PM
Logan Center for the Arts, Penthouse Room 901
The Open Practice Committee invites you to join us for an artist talk with Sam Contis where she will screen an excerpt from Duet, as well as speak about her practice more broadly, including her Deep Springs work, Day Sleeper, and recent projects including Overpass and Cross Country.
Sam Contis (b. 1982) is a visual artist working in photography and moving image whose practice also encompasses sound, performance, installation, and book and print-making. Often drawing from archival materials, Contis’s work explores the evolution of place and identity over time and the body in movement.
Contis’s recent solo exhibitions include a 2022 early-career survey, Transit, at the Carré d’Art in Nîmes, France, and a collaboration, Duet, with the vocalist Inbal Hever at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Barbican Art Gallery, London; the Gropius-Bau, Berlin; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is the recipient of a 2024 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship (2022), the Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2016), and the Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship (2016). She has published three monographs: Deep Springs (Mack, 2017), Day Sleeper (Mack, 2020), and Overpass (Aperture, 2022). This spring, the survey exhibition Sam Contis: Moving Landscape, curated by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, will be on view at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Contis is a Senior Critic in Photography at the Yale School of Art.
This talk is presented by the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts alongside the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies and the Departments of Cinema and Media Studies, English Language and Literature, and Music