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Sam King (b. 1995)
My practice explores embodied subjectivity in the digital age. I’m interested in the contradictions of contemporary experience, in particular the dispersion of our identities between physical and digital realms.
Juxtaposing chiaroscuro techniques inspired by the Old Masters with smooth fades reminiscent of the digital screen as well as distortions and repetitions of the figure, the works traverse the boundary between the embodied and the simulated.
My work acts as a proxy for my own experience: flicking between emotional states, desires for embodied agency and systemisation of human life within capitalist and consumerist systems.
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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
2016
Boom Festival, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
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.
2018
Presence, Digitas, London
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