Headshot of Sam Contis

Sam Contis (b. 1982) has exhibited her work widely, including in a 2022 early-career survey at the Carré d’Art in Nîmes, France, and a recent two-person exhibition with Kahlil Robert Irving at Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, as well as 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 a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography, and a recipient of the Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists and an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship. Contis’s work is represented in collections including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Carré d’Art, Nîmes; Centre Pompidou, Paris; KADIST, Paris and San Francisco; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Contis has published three monographs: Deep Springs (Mack, 2017), Day Sleeper (Mack, 2020), and Overpass (Aperture, 2022). Contis received her BFA from New York University and her MFA from Yale University, where she is a Visiting Critic in Photography. A solo exhibition of her work is currently on view at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York.