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Sam King’s (b. 1995) practice explores diverse issues including subjective experience and human relationships in the digital age, transhumanism, and the utopian and dystopian potentialities of technological progress.
Technically, his work combines traditional and ‘virtual’ registers of paint to obscure the boundary between organic and technologized life. The artist montages heterogeneous references drawn from art history, computer generated software and internet imagery, to explore the hybrid nature of contemporary experience.
King’s latest work grows out of a recent diagnosis with an autoimmune condition. Confronted with the organic limitations of his body and its reliance on synthetic enhancements to maintain function, he questions the implications of technological integration and augmentation to the self.
Often he depict proxies of his own body, exploring the emotional implications of bodily failure, and expectations of virility surrounding masculinity and youth.
Ultimately, King’s work speaks to a moment in time where through technology our bodies and selves are continually reimagined, transcending previous limitations in both our individual function and cultural norms, yet also liquidating previously integral parts of our human nature.
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Education.
Turps Off Site Course 2021-2022
The Art Academy, Fine Art Diploma, 2015-2018
Prizes and Awards.
2020 – ACS Studio Prize - Shortlisted
2018 - Jorge Aguilar-Agon Student Artist Award - Winner
LSM Art Award – Winner of Popular Vote
Residencies.
2020
PADA studios, Lisbon, Portugal
2019
Art House Holland, Holland
Auc Art Lab, London
2017
Jardin Orange Artist Residency, Shenzhen, China
Selected Press.
2021 – ‘Both Sides of Here: Artistic Encounters at the Threshold’ Magazine
2020 – The Flux Review Issue 4
Art Hole Issue 4
2019 – Veneno Magazine Issue 1 (February) - Interview
2018 - Fine Art + Framing Today June Edition
Average Art Magazine May Edition
2016 - Inside Street Art Melbourne
2015 - Street Art: Australia
Solo Shows.
Selected Group exhibitions.
2021
'Permanent Temporary' London Design Week, The Bottle Factory, London
‘Pulp’ The Florence Trust, London
Rea Fair, Milan, Italy
Group Show, Electroworx, London
2020
'Not yet, No' PADA Studios, Portugal
2019
'Time and Space' The Old School Gallery, Leiden,
The End is Nigh, The Library, London.
'Secret Art Show' Milan.
Student Charity Auction, Sothebys Institute, London
End of Residency Show, Auc Art, London.
2018
Graduate Show, The Art Academy, London
Guild Artists Exhibition, Stratford-Upon Avon & London
2017
To be Continued, Menier Gallery, London
Wheel2Wall, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin
Summer Show, Jardin Orange Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2016
Boom Festival, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Art Lover Ground, Café 1001, London
2015
Temporary Autonomous Art, The Birds Nest, London