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SAM HEYDT artist/ designer/ photographer / film-maker
HEYDT PHOTOGRAPHY email. heydt.photography@gmail.com web. www.samheydt.com
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ABOUT
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STUDIO
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Biography
Technic Skills
Jane Street Studio Studio
Education
Administrative
MissionStatement
Marketing
Services
Design
Clients
Honors & Awards Languages
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FINE ART
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FREELANCE
Contributor | Consultant Commercial Photography Travel Editorials Art Associate
PRESS
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Interior Design Art Direction P.R. & Marketing Sales Associate
NON-PROFIT
Exhibition History
Publications
Artist Residencies
Interviews
Exhibition Press
Bulbul: Song of the Nightingale
Artist Statement
Editorials
Televised Media
Fine Art Series
Features
Honorary Mention
Press Releases
Non-Profit Work Documentary on caste based child prostitution in Rajasthan, India
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ABOU T Artist, designer, film-maker and founder of Jane Street Studio
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am HEYDT is a New York based artist, filmmaker, photographer, and founder of Jane Street Studio, a boutique photo studio in Manhattan. She completed her studies across a spectrum of international universities including the Parsons School of Design, Universidad de Buenos Aires, La Sorbonne and the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands, and has been artist in residence in Iceland, Australia and New Zealand. Heydt’s work speaks to the disenchantment of the social psyche at the hands of the media and the desolation of the natural world. Over the last decade, Heydt has lived and worked in Paris, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Venice, Vilnius, Udaipur and Sydney. Commercially, she has shot with many publications, her bevy of clients include Aesthetica Magazine, W Magazine, Visionaire and Vice. HEYDT’s work has been exhibited in a constellation of galleries, museums and art fairs throughout Europe, Australia, the United States, UK and Russia. His industry recognition is as follows: HeadOn Photo Festival (2013/2014), Aesthetica Art Prize (2014), Florence Festival of Arts (2014), Art Basel (2012/2013), Fountain Art Fair (2012), Verge Art Fair (2012), The State Hermitage Museum (2010/2011). She has undertaken a range of non-profit work for developing countries, her most recent project being in Rajasthan, India where she helped produce a documentary on child prostitution.
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New York City, Paris, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Venice, Udaipur, Istanbul, Sydney
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Commercially, HEYDT has shot for a multitude of publications, her bevy of clients includes but is not limited to: W Magazine, VMag, Aesthetica, NoWhere and Vice. In 2012, she launched Jane Street Studio, a boutique photostudio & production house (www.jane-street-studio.com)
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY HEYDT’s work has been internationally exhibited in a constellation of galleries & museums throughout Europe, Iceland, Australia, UK, US and Russia. Her work is concerned with absence of destiny, beauty in banality and the role of semiology in commodification & consumerism. (www.samheydt.com)
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ACADEMIC BFA Photography | BA Communicatioms & Media Studies Graduated Magna Cum laude in both Degrees
Parsons New School for Design, NY (Magna Cum Laude)
01/06
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05/11
Eugene Lang College, NY: (Magna Cum Laude)
01/05
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05/10
SACI: Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy |
01/09
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05/09
Center of Culture & Society, Bangalore, India
06/08
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
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01/08
Cooper Union, New York, NY
01/06
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06/06
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
09/05
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01/06
La Escuela del Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
10/05 –
La Sorbonne, Paris, France
09/04
AWARDS Aesthetica Art Prize: 2014 | ‘Best in Show’, Parsons the New School for Design: 2011 | Art Director Club, Henry Wolf Award: 2009
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HONORS Contemporaries Foundation: 2012 Magna Cum Laude, The New School: 2011 | Dean’s List: Parsons: 2005-2011 | BAFA Merit Award: 2008-11
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SKILLS Skillsets across disciplines and fields
TECHNIC SKILLS Audio-Visual Production, Digital & Analog Photography, Studio Lighting, Post-production: Retouching, Editing, Archiving | Software: Mac/PC , Adobe Suite CS6, Final Cut Pro,MS Office (Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint), iWork (Pages, Numbers, Elements) | Web/Multimedia: Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, EMC Documentum, SEO search optimization, Web server administration, content management systems A D M I N I S T R AT I V E Founder and studio manager of Jane Street Studio in New York City. MARKETING Brand Management, Project Management, Competitive Analysis, E-Commerse (Magento, Ebay, Etsy), Social Media Strategist, Advanced Research & Writing, Public and Media Relations, Creative Consulting
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Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Storyboarding, Styling & Staging, Art Direction
Fluent in French and English, Comprehensive in Italian, as well as Dutch and Spanish.
S T UD I O Founder and CEO of JANE STREET STUDIO, a boutique design firm and photo studio in the heart of the Meatpacking district of Manhattan.
2012
JANE STREET STUDIO is a professional boutique photo-studio available for daily rental in the heart of the Meatpacking District. With over 500 square feet of total floor space, JANE STREET STUDIO is a cost-effective solution for shoots. Its fourteen-foot ceilings are complimented by towering south facing windows. The vast open spaced area allows for extensive transformations to suit whatever needs the client may have. The open loft features a separate client area and stylist/makeup room that allows the photographer to focus on the shoot with fewer distractions. The studio is private, secure, quiet and clean. Aside from equipment rental and digital packages, we can provide casting, production, digital tech and photo assistants upon request.
CEO, STUDIO MANAGER, PHOTOGRAPHER
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CLIENTS Jane Street Studio has worked with designers, photographers, publications, advertising agencies and production companies
W MAGAZINE
AESTHETICA
VISIONAIRE
VICE MAGAZINE
GETTY IMAGES
SUPERIOR MAGAZINE
MILK GALLERY
NOWHERE MAGAZINE
MERCEDES BENZ
P L AY B OY
I-D MAGAZINE
SCUOLA GRAFICA
FOR A FULL CLIENT LIST
www.jane-street-studio.com
FREEL ANCE CONTRIBUTOR
FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY Aest het ica Maga zi ne, UK
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T R AV E L E D I T O R I A L S Antigua,
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Aruba,
Australia,
Austria,
Barbados,
Brazil,
Belgium,
Bangladesh,
Canada,
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Curacao, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Morocco,
Nepal,
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Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, St. Croix, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Thomas, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, Uruguay.
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FINE AR T Heydt’s large and varied body of photographic work is united by its unconventional exploration of semiology and its role in cementing a cultural phenomenology of consumerism , corporal commodification and a mythology of a fictional past.
www.samheydt.com
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EXHIBITION HISTORY 2015 Festival Traverse Vidéo Art Basel, Private Collector’s Event, Miami, FL Splitgraphic International Graphic Art Biennial 28th Annual Instants Vidéo et Poétiques Festival Art Copenhagen, Denmark Venezia Art Project, Venice, Italy Electron Salon, LACDA, Los Angeles Consensus Revisited, Martha’s Vineyard Exp-Art Gallery, Art Monaco, Monaco Atmosfera, Kiev, Ukraine
06/16 - 06/16 12/15 - 12/15 11/15 - 12/15 10/15 - 12/15 09/15 - 09/15 09/15 - 09/15 07/15 - 08/15 07/15 - 08/15 08/15 - 08/15 05/15 - 06/15
2013 Unpainted Media Art Fair, Munich, Germany Art Basel Miami, Miami FL 145 Gallery, New York, NY Osso:Echoes: Lisbon, Portugal Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland HeadOn Photo Festival, Sydney, Australia
12/13 - 12/13 11/13 - 12/13 09/13 - 11/13 06/13 - 07/13 05/13 - 06/13 12/13 - 12/13
2012 Art Basel, w/ Domingo Zapata, Miami, FL Fountain Air Fair, Miami, FL Verge Art Fair, Miami, FL Broadway Gallery, New York, NY Gabarron Foundation,New York & Spain Cipriani Wall Street, New York, NY Loftwoods, New York, NY
2014 Fridge Art Fair, Art Basel, Miami SG Gallery, Venice, Italy Argentine Biennial of Contemporary Art Contemporary Visions Art Festival, Italy Havanna, Brooklyn, NY OECD Benefit, Château de la Muette, Paris, France Consensus, Martha’s Vineyard Red Cross Centenary Exhibition, Australia BigCi, Bilpin, Australia Queen Street Gallery, HeadOn, Sydney, Australia SG Gallery, Venice, Italy Aesthetica Prize Exhibition, St. Mary’s, York, UK Florence Festival of Arts, Florence, Italy Clio Art Project, Armory Show, New York, NY
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12/12 - 12/12 12/12 - 12/12 10/12 - 11/12 09/13 - 08/14 04/12 - 09/12 09/12 - 11/12 03/12 - 03/12
2 011 Armory Show, New York, NY Kana Manglaplus Projects, Los Angeles State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia Calumet Gallery, New York, NY Milk Gallery, New York, NY Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia
12/11 - 01/12 06/11 - 08/11 05/11 - 06/11 04/11 - 05/11 06/11 - 08/11 10/11 - 11/11
2010 Thomas Werner Gallery, New York, NY Krasnoyarsk Museum, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Museum of Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk, Russia State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia La Corte Gallery, Florence, Italy
11/10 - 12/10 10/10 - 11/10 09/10 - 10/10 06/10 - 08/10 04/09 - 06/09
PERMANENT COLLECTION The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Milk Gallery, NYC Aesthetica Anthology, UK Gabarron Foundation,New York & Spain Consensus, MV
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A R T I S T S TAT E M E N T
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emories of the past are dictated by the present. Globalization and technology go directly from obscurity to meaninglessness. As the myth of progress continues to perpetuate inequality, oppression and violence, the social landscape becomes increasingly fractured. We live in a time of
deferred expectations and anxieties, of Hollywood disaster movies and self-fulfilling religious prophecies, suicide bombers and drones. The collateral damage of these new forms of political dissidence is drowned out by the noise of the media. The sustained narrative of the tabloids takes form as the modern day “coliseum”. Identities are no longer built, but bought into a lifestyle in mimesis of a flickering media image. Advertising lures us in with its pornographic self-awareness and promises for the future it truncates. Relentless materialism, debt and a growing class disparity are symptoms of an invasive denial that the American dream is just that, a dream. There is no truth to search for, but an illusion to deconstruct. The Cartesian gap between desire, the locus of memory and reality reveals how the act of archiving is a result of the societal impulse to preserve the past and cement a coherent collective memory hinged on imagery. Heydt’s work continuously examines different phenomenologies of our increasingly fractured social landscape. Her interests lie in the mutability of history and the material inequalities of a world increasingly defined by patterns of peace and war, economic stratification and transnational divisions of labour handicapped by its own historical and institutional (dis)placement. Still lives on the verge of decay, delicate visual impressions evoking the feelings of memory, images that reflect changing interpretations and exploitations of women’s bodies, and epic representations of global waste – all ephemeral moments, captured in distinct and memorable images. The bold swathes of color and rich texture render her images of mines, industrial refineries, landfills, and other scarred landscapes, perversely beautiful and painterly. Blurring the boundaries between public and private, a complex narrative of Heydt’s personal experiences is illustrated swaying on the fault lines of unfixed identity, semantic plurality, sexuality, repressed memory, social transgressions and cultural polarities. Banal details of motel rooms, scarred landscapes, abandoned houses, still lives on the verge of decay, conspicuous consumption and socioeconomic polarities – ephemeral moments born of her experience and expressed through a pastiche of styles and mediums. The role of semiology is explored in relation to the decay of values, the disillusionment of the social psyche and the exploitation of a world reduced to the bottom line. Transcending their subjective and site-specific locations - the impact of the photographs becomes shockingly universal.
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SERIES ABSTRACT
CONCEPTUAL
D O C U M E N TA RY
PLACES NEVER VISITED
STUBBORN LIFE OF THINGS
PORCELAIN LONELY
SURFACE-TENSION
WORLD IS FLAT
MARROW
POST-MEMORY
STILL LIFE
SKIN DEEP
SEISMOGRAPHS
WHERE THERE’S NO PAIN THERE’S NO FEELING
STARING AT THE SUN
ILLUSION DOESN’T FREE US FROM REALITY
ANOTHER RESURREC TION
REALLY MATTERS
FILM STILLS
WRITING ON THE WALL
PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? GHOST TOWNS AND THE MINING INDUSTRY FORSAKEN NOT FORGOTTEN A DESIRABLE LIFE . FRESH KILLS SAW DUST
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EVERYTHING’S BEEN DISCOVERED NOTHING
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2013
BIG-CI - AUSTRALIA
2013
NES- NORTH ICELAND
2013
EARTHSKIN-NEW ZEALAND
PR ESS Interviews-Publications-Editorials
2012 - 2015
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INTERVIEWS World Photography Organization | Dec 2015 Aesthetica Magazine | Nov 2014 Hartiska Magazine | June 2013 Art Fuse | October 2012
TELEVISED MEDIA TEDTalks: Sally Taylor on ‘Consensus’ (collaborating artist in project) May 2015
“Working with a wide range of subjects all over the world, Sam Heydt (b. 1986) explores the visuals unique to different places in distinctive cultures. Bursting with color, vibrancy and intrigue Heydt’s images uncover spectacular moments of beauty within the landscape.” -Aesthetica Magazine P U B L I C AT I O N S Disney Dialogues Tekhnede, Turkey UNESCO Media Project Aesthetica Anthology Skin Deep (author)
2015 2014 2014 2014 2009
F E AT U R E D
N O M I N AT I O N S National Geographic Explorer 2015
EXHIBITION PRESS La Gazzetta, Italy | Sept. 2014 We Are No One, UK | April 2013 Capture, Australia | May 2013 Artist Home & Abroad | 2013 ‘iD’ Magazine | Jan 2013 New York Times | Dec. 2012 El Norte de Castilla | Nov 2012 NYARTS | Dec 2012
HONOR ARY MENTION
Blouin Modern Painters Dec 2014 & Feb 2015 Artinfo | Jan 2015 Art & Ideas | Aug 2014
Aesthetica Art Anthology, London, UK: March 2014
EDITORIALS Aesthetica Magazine (Cover & 10-page spread: Feb 2014 NoWhere Magazine June 2013 & Dec 2012
Superior Magazine Sept. & Oct. 2013
NON PRO FI T 2000 - 2015
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- ADVOCACY WORK Syrian Refugee Volunteer Work| Vienna, Austria: 2016 ▣ Nixus Foundation, Argentina: 2014 ▣ Art for Tibet, NY: 2012 ▣ Somaly Mam Foundation, NY: 2011 ▣ R.E.A.D. Auction, NY: 2011, 2012 ▣ Givology Auction, NY: 2011 ▣ Red Dot Relief, NY: 2011 ▣ English Teacher, Sikkim, India: 2004 ▣ Orphanage, Varanasi, India ▣ Pacific Village Institute, India, Nepal & Tibet:2004 ▣ Experiment in International Living, Switzerland: 2004 ▣ American University of Paris, France: 2002
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BULBUL: SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE
BULBUL: Song of the Nightingale IS A FEATURE LENGTH FILM THAT DOCUMENTS THE LIFE OF A TWELVE YEAR OLD GIRL WHOSE PARENTS MAY SOON SEND HER INTO PROSTITUTION AS IT IS THEIR TRADITION.
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Bulbul: Song of the Nightingale documents the life of a young Banchara girl living off National Highway 79 in Madhya Pradesh, India. Though only twelve years old, Bulbul already stands at a crossroads. The likelihood is high that her parents will soon force her into the longstanding community tradition of prostitution. Bulbul’s tribe, the Banchara, have existed at the bottom of Indian society for centuries, relying on prostitution as their economic lifeblood. A continued lack of options allows this practice to persist. The film traces the contours of Bulbul’s horizon through her relationships and encounters with the constellation of women in her immediate family and community, offering a glimpse of what might become her future.
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