Sammy Bennett

Based in Brooklyn, New York

EDUCATION

2016           Masters of Fine Arts, Painting, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI                

2012           Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI      

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 

2023             Out of Business, Lagoon, Brooklyn, NY

2022             A View with a Room, All Street Gallery, New York, NY

2021             As if Eternity Cared, Incubator Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2020            Eat Them, Eat Them, Deer Studios, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 More! Embracing Excess, Ann Marie Sculpture Garden, Solomon, MD

Anything and Everything the Color Red, ABC No Rio, New York, NY

Inner Sanctuaries: Exploring Domestic Space, Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2023            Trading Cards, Field of Play, Brooklyn, NY

            Currents, Morris Adjmi Architects, New York, NY

            Lullabies for a Daydream, Online group show-Uprise/Paradise Palace

                     Big Reveal, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2022            The Vessel, Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL

                     The Male Nude, Turning the Gaze, Equity Gallery, New York, NY

                     I’ll Be there, Ann Marie Sculpture Garden, Solomon, MD

                     Patriot Act, O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY 

                     House of Yes, Commissioned Mural, New York, NY

2021             Anywhere but Here, Slowburn, New York, NY

2020             A Romantic Comedy, 25 Kent Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

2019             Spring Break Art Fair, Union Nations Plaza, New York, NY

                     Terrible Gardens, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, NY

                     Vacwu, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

2018             Mode RN, East Village Art View, New York, NY

2017             Domestic Encounters, Image Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

                     You Are One of A Kind, K&P Gallery, New York, NY

2016             Paper Fete: Works on Paper, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

                     Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition, Eli and Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2015   Stanley and Selma Hollander Graduate Fellowship in Studio Art, College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

2015   Summer Research Development Fellowship, Michigan State, East Lansing, MI 2014   Summer Research Development Fellowship, Michigan State, East Lansing, MI

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2023               Nothing But Trouble, AllStreet, Co- Curator, New York, NY

2022-?            Bob’s Gallery, Founder & Director, Brooklyn, NY

2019               Terrible Gardens, Apartment Show, Co- Curator, Brooklyn NY 

2018               Hokey Pokey Group Show, Image Gallery, Brooklyn NY

2016               Commissioned Mural for MSU FCU, East Lansing, MI

RESIDENCIES

2022                 ChaNorth, Pine Plains, NY, Summer Residency

2018                 TESTT Space, Durham, UK, Independent Artist Residency 

2016                 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, Printmaking Residency

2012                 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, Printmaking Residency

email- samfrancisbennett4@gmail.com

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