Sam Vernon
Alter-Reservoir
Exhibition film
2024
Curated by: Anna Nowak (Kunsthaus Hamburg) and Melanie Roumiguière (DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme)
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With her site-specific installations, Sam Vernon creates dynamic visual worlds. She explores questions of representation with regard to the issues of labour, gender and cultural diversity, turning a critical lens on institutional histories. The artist scans, prints and copies her own drawings and mixed media works on paper alongside found materials, which she assembles into large-format wall collages. In her first solo exhibition in Germany, Sam Vernon explores the impending relocation of the Kunsthaus.
Sam Vernon earned their MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University in 2015 and their BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2009. Sam has exhibited with many institutions including California African American Museum in Los Angeles; G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, Canada; Seattle Art Museum, Olympic Sculpture Park; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum and Queens Museum. Sam’s latest solo exhibition, Impasse of Desires, was on view at the Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco, California 2021 and 2022. Sam moved to Berlin, Germany in 2023 for a year-long residency with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.