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
2024. Courtesy of the Estate, Pokito’s Bar, Brooklyn, NY. curated by Watercolor Society
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 Aggregate, Studio 9D, Chelsea, NY.
Katz’s Bodega, All Street Gallery, New York, NY. curated by Spencer Katz
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
2024 Split Second, duo exhibition with Isaiah Gulino and Yuhan Hu, offsite show in Brooklyn, NY.
The Generations, solo exhibition by Jan Dickey, BOB’S Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. co-curated by Weihui Lu
My Eye is a Mouth, duo exhibition with Kalina Winters and Carl D’Alvia, BOB’S Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Spitting into the Wind, solo exhibition by Will Douglas, BOB’S Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. co curated with Will Kaplan
Interwoven, group exhibition, BOB’S Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. co-curated by Weihui Lu
2023 Nothing But Trouble, group exhibition, AllStreet, New York, NY. co curated with Kat Ryals
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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