Sam Samore

BIOGRAPHY

Born in New York, NY USA

Lives and works in New York, NY USA

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2015

Accumulation of Shapes (Part Two), Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany

2014

Accumulation of Shapes (Part One), Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

2012

1973, Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

Library of Appearances, Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany

2011

The Dark Suspicion, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY USA

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2009

Schizophrenic Portrait, 1973-2009, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

2008

Scenarios, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2007

Scenarios, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY USA

The Suicidist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, germany

2006

The Suicidist, P.S.I/MOMA, New York, NY USA (cat.)

Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

2005

Sam Samore and Lorena Toledo, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico

Stories (incomplete), Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany

Galeria Graca Brandao, Porto, Portugal

Gray Kapernekas Gallery [Project], New York, NY USA

2004

In the Eye of the Beholder, Vous êtes ici, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2003

White Dahlia, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Art & Public, Genève, Switzerland

2002

Centre National de la Photographie [Billboard], Paris, France

The Clairvoyant, The Irrational, and the Desperate, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

Love Death Beauty, Curated by Michelle Nicol, Performance at the Windsor Collection exhibition, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy (cat.)

The Somnambulant, The Reckless and the Desolate, Galeria Graca Brandao, Porto, Portugal (cat.)

Schizophrenic Beauty/Dominating the Monster, Giorgio Armani Rive Gauche, Paris, France

2001

Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY USA

Life and Death (Incomplete), Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany

2000

Pathological Tales/Schizophrenic Stories, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (cat.)

The Sirens, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

1999

The Killers, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy

The Secret Island, The Secret Island, Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, New York, NY USA

Sam Samore, CCC, Tours, France (cat.)

Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY USA

The Sorcerers, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

Art & Public, Genève, Switzerland

1997

Scenarios, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany

Allegories of Beauty (Incomplete), Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (cat.)

Fictions, L’Atelier, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France (cat.)

1996

Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, France (cat.)

Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, NY USA

Allegories of Beauty (Incomplete), Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

Allegories of Beauty (Incomplete), Galeria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy

Allegories of Beauty (Incomplete), DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany(cat.)

Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

1995

Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, NY USA

Allegories of Beauty (Incomplete), Galerie Borgmann Capitain, Cologne, Germany

Kunstverein Elsterpark, Leipzig, Germany

1994

Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, france

Situations, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (and Harald Müller) (cat.)

Galerie Marc Jancou, London, UK

De Appel Stitching, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1992

Galerie Marc Jancou, Zurich, Switzerland

Galeria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy

1991

Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany

Nordanstad-Skarstedt Galerie, Stockholm, Sweden

Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, CA USA

1990

Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz, Austria

American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY USA

Standart Graphik, Cologne, Germany

Galerie Air de Paris, Nice, France

1988

American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY USA (cat.)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015

Expériences #9, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Musée des Beaux Arts de Tour, France

2014

The Marseillaise(s), curated by Els Barents, Museum Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2013

Une affaire de famille: La photographie dans les collections de Stéphane, Rodolphe et Sébastien Janssen, Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium

The White Album,curated by David Fierman and Amie Scally, Louis B. James, New York, NY USA

2012

Art Video Nights – Love, Time & Decorum (screening of Compendium of Perplexities), Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL USA

2011

Sam Samore, Tobjorn Rodland Ryan McGinley, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

DEAD_Lines Todesbilder in Kunst – Medien – Alltag, Von der Heydt Kunsthalle, Wuppertal, Germany

Spectrums of Light – Screening Room: Cologne (curated by Regina Barunke and Caroline Nathusius), Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany

Art Film (Film program of Art Basel curated by This Brunner and Marc Glöde), Stadtkino Basel, Switzerland

2010

The Recession, a Crash Magazine Project, curated by Hou Hanru, Art Paris By Day, By Night, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China

By Day, By Night, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China curated by Hou Hanru

2009

A House is Not a Home, La Calmeleterie, Nazelles-Négron, France

1992009, D'Amelio Terras, New York, New York, NY USA

Phot(o)bjects, curated by Bob Nickas, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; travels to Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA USA

2008

Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York, NY USA

Kunst im Heim, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Signs of the Times, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY USA

The Object is the Mirror (Part II), Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK

Call it what you Like!, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark

Regarde de toutes tes yeux, regarde, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France

2007

10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

The loss of history makes them constantly curious and continuously horny... Vito Acconci, John M Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Chuck Nanney, Steven Parrino, Sam Samore, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY USA

Inside the Pale, Benjamin Butler, David Humphreys, Paul Pagk, R.H. Quaytman, Sam Samore, and Frank Schroder, curated by Frank Schroder, Thrust Projects, New York, NY USA

2006

Dark Places, Curated by Joshua Decter, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA USA (cat.)

Dormir, Rever…et autres nuits, CAPC Bordeaux, France (cat.)

Parcours St. Germain, Curated by Anne-Pierre D’Albis, Paris (cat.)

2005

Tirana Biennale: Go Inside (Episode 5), curated by Hou Hanru, Tirana, Albania (cat.)

Sky shout: a pintura despois da pinura, Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (cat.)

Blumenstuck. Kunstler’s Gluck, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

2004

Je t’en visage: La disparition du portrait, Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (cat.)

Rimbaud, I-20 Gallery, New York. curated by Max Henry

Strategies of Desire, curated by Sabine Schaschl-Cooper, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland

2003

Double vision, Fabrique de Tabac, Madrid, Spain (cat.)

Something About Love, Casino Luxembourg, Luxemburg

Galerie Mirko Meyer, Cologne, Germany

Odorama, (As part of les Soirees Nomads), curated by Hervé Mikaeloff, Fondation Cartier pour l´art contemporain, Paris, France

2002

From the Observatory, curated by Robert Nickas, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY USA

Marking Time, curated by Linda Norden, Sert Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA

Art Downtown, curated by Richard Marshall, Wall St Rising, New York, NY USA

Das zweite Gesicht, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany

Hingeschaut - zeitgenössische Fotografie, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany

2001

Les Voluptes Borusan: Culture & Art Center, curated by Elga Wimmer, Istanbul, Turkey

The Beauty of Intimacy, Lens and Paper, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

Ohne Zögern – Without Hesitation (Views of the Sammlung Olbricht), Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany

Project 1, PCC-Elga Wimmer, New York, NY USA

The Overexcited Body, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg,Museum of the Arengario and Vigorelli Velodrome, Milan, Italy; SESC, Sao Paulo, Brazil; The Queens Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA

Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now, curated by Deborah Wye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA

Traveling exhibition, curated by Blind Spot Magazine, USA

2000

Figures Libres, Fondation Guerlain, Les Mesnuls, France

The Go-Between, Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg

Emerveille Moderne, Red District, Marseille, France

All you need is love, curated by Aneta Szylak, Laznia: Centre of Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland (cat.)

The look behind, Portfolio Kunst AG, Wien, Austria

Cross Female, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD USA

Leaving the Island, curated by Hou Hanru, Pusan Biennale, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pusan, Korea (cat.)

Interplay, Museet For Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway

Pause/Pose, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

Byron Kim, Eva Lundsager, Sam Samore, Sylvia Heisel, New York, NY USA

1999

Expander 1.0, plate-forme d'exposition proposée par Blocnotes, Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, France

Transosphère, Frac Poitou-Charente, Poitiers, France

A Girl Like You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France

Transmute, curated by Joshua Decter, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL USA

Hitchcock, Kunsthalle Tirol, Hall in Tirol, Austria

The Power of Beauty, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, The Netherlands (cat.)

1998

Collection d’Hiver I, Fondation d’Art Contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Les Mesnuls, France

Photographies, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

4th International Foto-Triennale: Photographie as Concept, curated by Renate Wiehager, Esslingen, Germany

The Quiet in the Land, curated by France Morin, ICA Boston, MA USA

Gare de l'Est, curated by Hou Hanru & Enrico Lunghi, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (cat.)

Fast Forward: Body Check, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany

The Bird More Curious Than I, Exit Festival Cretail, curated by Antoine Guerrero, Paris, France

Ontom, curated by Jan Winkelmann, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (cat.)

At the Threshold of the Visible, curated by Ralph Rugoff, (Traveling Exhibition by Independent Curators Inc.), Santa Monica Museum of Art (cat.)

1997

You Can’t Get There From Here, Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, NY USA

Veronica’s Revenge, Oeuvres photographiques de la Lambert Collection, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

Fenêtre sur Cour / Rear Window, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France (cat.)

One Minute Scenarios, curated by Jérôme Sans, Le Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France (cat.)

Identité, Nouveau Musée/Institut, Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France (cat.)

619 KBB 75, exposition itinérante dans une mini austin, Paris, France

Visages, Fondation Guerlain, Les Mesnuls, France

Symposion über Fotographie XVII: Agents and Agencies, Marieninstitut, Kirchengasse 1, Graz, Austria

Heaven, curated by Josh Decter, P.S.1, New York, NY USA

The Quiet in the Land, curated by France Morin, ICA Portland, ME USA

Enjoy!, curated by Joachim Buttler & Nasim Weiler, Schloss Agathenburg, Hamburg, Germany

1996

Grande Galerie, Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France

C'est Arrivé Près de Chez Nous, Frac Haute Normandie, Rouen, France

Galerie Marcel Duchamp,Yvetot, France

Tableaux de la Vie Moderne, curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

The Quiet in the Land, curated by France Morin, The Sabbathday Lake, Shaker Village, ME USA

Modèles corrigés, Collège Marcel Duchamp, Châteauroux, France

The Shopping Exhibition, Curated by Jérôme Sans, Galerie Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY USA (cat.)

Les Contes de Fées se Terminent Bien, organisée par les Impénitents, Frac Haute Normandie, Château du Val Freneuse, Sotteville-sous-le-Val, France (cat.)

ID, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (cat.)

Alien Bodies, Icebox/Venetia Kapernakas, Athènes, Greece

Many True Stories, Bergkerk, Deventer, The Netherlands

Fast Nichts (almost invisible), curated by Jan Winkelmann, Ehemaliges Umspannwerk, Singen, Germany

Sugar Hiccup, Elizabeth Ballet, Sam Samore, Richard Wright, curated by Charles Esche, Tramway, Glasgow, UK

Fools Reign, curated by Max Wigram, ICA, London, UK

1995

The Peace Process, (The Magic Bed), curated by Paul Holloway, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK (cat.)

Tube, a TeleTube Video Fun Presentation, Hôpital Ephémère, Paris, France

Pièces Meublées, curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, France

Shopping, curated by Jérôme Sans, CAPC Musée, Bordeaux, France

Stoppage, curated by Liam Gillick, CCC Tours, France

On Board, curated by Jérôme Sans, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Campo, curated by Francesco Bonami, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (cat.)

26ème Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France

Infrasound, curated by Jérôme Sans, Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany (cat.)

Morceaux choisis, Le Magasin Centre d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France (cat.)

Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), curated by Bob Nickas, Galeria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy ; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Filmcuts, Galerie Neuger Riemschneider, Berlin, Germany

1994

Die zweite Wirklichkeit, curated by Michael Schill, Wilhelmspalast, Stuttgart, Germany

Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), curated by Bob Nickas, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY USA

F & S UNIVERSAL - Come Together Edition, Les Entrepôts Laydet, Paris, France

Nu et Habillé 2, Cabaret 'au Pigall's', Paris, France [Dr. Freud Cabaret]

PlayOff, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland

Rock my World, curated by Pauline Daly & Brendan Quick, Independant Artists’ Space, London, UK (cat.)

Gaze: The Impossible Transparence, curated by Hou Hanru, Carré des Arts, Parc Floral de Vincennes, Paris, France (cat.)

The Use of Pleasure, curated by Robert Nickas, Terrain, San Francisco, CA USA

Heart of Darkness, curated by Marianne Brouwer, Kroeller- Mueller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands (cat.)

On the Road: Between Besançon et Belfort, curated by Jérôme Sans, Centre d’Art Mobile, Besançon, France

Tele Tube, curated by Michelle Nicol & Beat Huber for Women for Shopping, Zurich, Switzerland

1993

American Fine Arts Co., New York, NY USA

The Young Americans, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Köln, Germany

Live in Your Head, curated by Robert Nickas, Institut für Museologie, Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Wien, Austria (cat.)

Travelogue-Reisetagebuch, curated by Jackie Mc Allister, Institut für Museologie Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Wien, Austria (cat.)

Spielhölle, curated by Robert Fleck, Sylvana Lorenz Gallery, Paris, France

Entrevues, curated by France de Kinder et Michel Assenmacher, Ars Musica, Brussels, Belgium

Serial, curated by Michelle Nicol, Zurich, Switzerland (cat.)

Time and Tide, curated by Corinne Diserens, Tyne International 1993, Newcastle, UK (cat.)

The Stranger, S. Samore, K. Scharlin, J. & L. Wilson, David Zwirner, New York, NY USA

Restaurant, curated by Marc Jancou, La Bocca, Paris, France (cat.)

Centre Paris / Zentrum Paris, curated by Robert Fleck, Kunsthalle Ritter, Klagenfurt, Austria (cat.)

Viennese Story, curated by Jérôme Sans, Wiener Secession, Wien, Austria (cat.)

Before the Sound of the Beep, curated by Jérôme Sans, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

Open Ditch, curated by Frank Schroder, Hôpital Ephémère, Paris, France

1992

Paysages dans une Ruine Potentielle, curated by Hou Hanru & Evelyne Jouanno, Paris, France

1968, curated by Bob Nickas, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

Tableaux Volés, Curated by Frank Perrin, Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris, France

Anomie, Curated by Andrew Cross, Patent House, London, UK

Still, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY USA

The Big Nothing (Ou le Presque Rien), Curated by Kerri Scharlin, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY USA (cat.)

Through the View Finder, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (cat.)

Exhibit A, Curated by Henry Bond, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (cat.)

Writing on the Wall, 303 Gallery, New York, NY USA

Twenty Fragile Pieces, curated by Gianni Romano, Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland (cat.)

Spielhoelle, Curated by Robert Fleck, University of Franfurt Metro Station, Frankfurt, Germany

In Through the Out Door, Nordanstad Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY USA

1991

Kirsten Mosher, Sam Samore, Beat Streuli, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

La Revanche de l'Image, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland (cat.)

The Museum of Natural History, curated by Bob Nickas, Barbara Farbar Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (cat.)

1990

Stephen Prina, Sam Samore, Christopher Wool, Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany

Cady Noland, Sam Samore, Karen Sylvester, curated by Thea Westreich, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany (cat.)

Sam Samore, Lawrence Weiner, Galerie Air de Paris, Nice, France

Performances

2005

Invisible Paradise, Projekleitung WissensKunste, Berlin, Germany (02/24)

2003

Invisible Paradise, Les Soirées Nomades, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France (12/11)

2002

Love Death Beauty, Windsor Collection exhibition, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy (01/10)

1998

Sumptuous Fire of the Stars, [Fairy Tales], DAADgalerie, Berlin, Germany (05/10)

Fairy Tales, Les Soirées Nomades, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France (07/02)

1997

Fairy Tales, L’Usine, Nouvelles Scènes, Dijon, France (10/24)