Sam Shoemaker
B. 1991, Lives and works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION:
M.F.A. Yale University (sculpture), 2020
B.F.A. California Institute of the Arts, 2014.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Solo Exhibition ‘More Permanent Than Snow’ Ochi, Los Angeles, CA/ July-August 2022
Solo Exhibition ‘Walking’ Cafe Quoi Sculpture Garden, Los Angeles, CA/ August 2021
Solo Exhibition 'Play Pen', Nous Tous Gallery, Los Angeles, CA/ June-July 2018
Solo Exhibition 'Hobby Room', House Guest, Los Angeles, CA/ September 2017
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
‘Unseen Orchestra’, Make Room, Los Angeles, CA/ February-March 2024
‘David Hammons’, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA/ February-March 2024
‘Cardinal Index’, House of Seiko, San Francisco, CA/ January-February 2023
‘Until All is Resolved’, Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles, CA/ December-January 2023
‘Burning The Wheel of the Year’, Species, Atlanda, GA/ August-September 2022
‘Plants Now!’, Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA/ July-August 2022
‘Salon’, Armor Corp, Venice, CA/ January-February 2022
‘Expanded Field’, OCHI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA/ October-November 2021
‘Jupiter Finger’, Harkawik, Los Angeles, CA/ July 2021
‘No Deep Kissing’, Yale thesis exhibition, New Haven, CT/ March 2020
‘Banquet’, In Lieu Gallery, Los Angeles/ December 2019- January 2020
‘In zwei- oder dreihundert Jahren wird das Leben auf der Erde unvorstellbar schön sein (In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful)’, Espace Nalon, Esslingen, Germany/ July-August 2019
‘On The Homefront’, Lubov Gallery, New York, NY/ August 2018
‘Sub Terrain’, Figures on a Landscape, Los Angeles, CA/ November 2017
‘Selected Works’, Page N.Y.C., New York, NY/ Aug 2016
‘Polymorphic material fog rolls over their morning pathway’, Two-Person Exhibition with William Shea, Human Interest Group, Dallas, TX/ July 2016
‘Stitch, Woven, Interlocking’, Kunstverein Letschebach. Karlsruhe, Germany/ 2015
Stitch, Driveway 327, Venice, CA/ Aug 2015Group exhibition "The Armory Show and Tell" Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA. Collaboration with Shirley Tse / 2013
PRESS
“Editor’s Pick’s” CARLA (Contempoary Art Review Los Angeles)/ August 2022
Must See Exhibitions in Los Angeles, Artforum/ August 2022
“Art and Mycology with Sam Shoemaker” Mushroom Hour Podcast/ June 2022
“9 Emerging Artists to Discover at NADA Miami 2021”, Galarie Magazine/ December 2021
“Art as A Vessel for Mycology” Mushroom Magazine/ Autumn 2021
“Fungal Forms & Basement Cultivation with Artist Sam Shoemaker” North Spore, Black Trumpet journal/ June 2021
AWARDS
Dean’s Critical Practice Research Grant, Yale University/ 2020
George R. Bunker Honorary Award, Yale University/ 2020
CURATORIAL:
Jace Space
Solo exhibition and performance 'ENDBRINGER / HEAVEN AS HIGH AS THIS / PRESSING A FLOWER BETWEEN PLANES /', Patrick Michael Ballard/ July 2018
Two Person Exhibition 'Moss and Well', Tasha Romano and Vanessa Shih/ July 2018
Solo Exhibition 'Proposal for a Self Referential Book', Dennis Buck/ July 2018
Solo Exhibition 'Dim Beam Simulcast', Amia Yokoyama/ June 2018
Solo Exhibition at House Guest co-curated with Patrick Michael Ballard 'Rule of a High Priest Volume II', Anne Guro Larsmon/ May 2018
Solo Exhibition co-curated with Patrick Michael Ballard 'Rule of a High Priest Volume I', Anne Guro Larsmon/ May 2018
Screening 'Resonance', a collaboration between Jesse Matthew Clark and Elias Pack/ May 2018
Solo Exhibition 'Dora Drawings', Andre Filipek/ November 2017
Solo Exhibition 'Feeding Time', Evans Wittenberg/ August 2017
Group Exhibition 'Hgggggggggggh', Emmanuella Soria Ruiz, Ananya Ramanan, Sascha Yurchak and Jon Merritt/ June-July 2017
Group Exhibition 'Mindsculptor', Bryan Morello, Rebecca Lieb, Paul J. McKee and Will Shea/ December 2016
Group Exhibition 'Domestic Observations', Kate Mosher Hall, Monika Uchiyama, Alice Lang, Winnie Herbstein, and Magnus Flowers / November 2016