Sam HEYDT

Light of Some Kind

@samheydt Sam HEYDT

Sam Heydt ( born April 20, 1986) is an American social practice and recycled media artist born/raised in New York City. Although currently residing in Vienna, Heydt has lived/ worked in Paris, Venice, Athens, Buenos Aires, Sydney, Reykjavik and Rajasthan. Her academic career traversed Parsons School of Design, The New School, Cooper Union, University of Amsterdam, Universitdad of Buenos Aires and La Sorbonne. In 2012, Heydt launched Jane Street Studio, L.L.C. in Manhattan. Since established, the photo studio has broadened its performance to provide both design and marketing consultation in addition to art direction. It’s growing roster of clients span Europe, North & South America, Asia and Oceania.In addition to this entrepreneurial undertaking, Heydt has attended artist residencies in Iceland, Australia and New Zealand; where she has documented different forms of environmental exploitation. A published author, producer and lifelong activist, Heydt has undertaken a range of altruistic, non- profit work. Her art, anchored in social advocacy, attempts to give a voice to the veiled, forgotten, exiled, and silenced. In her-practice, she

works across a spectrum of different media, film, video, installation, photography, sculpture sculpture, sound, merchandise, text – and employs a range of materials often reinventing or trespassing their associative use.

Purell (2020)

Size: 30” x 30”

Sane Inclinations That Are Fine (2020)

Size: 20” x 35”