MoMa Submission by Samantha Heydt

PORTFOLIO

2016/2017

MoMa

SAM HEYDT artist/ designer/ photographer / film-maker

HEYDT PHOTOGRAPHY email. heydt.photography@gmail.com web. www.samheydt.com

HEYDT email. web.

DESIGN

FIRM

heydt.photography@gmail.com www.jane-street-studio.com

JANE email. web.

STREET

STUDIO

mgmt@jane-street-studio.com www.jane-street-studio.com

PORTFOLIO

2015/2016

a brief history

SAM HEYDT artist/ designer/ photographer / film-maker

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Karlova srt.12, Prague 1 110 00 Czech Republic

PO BOX 2138, Clovelly West NSW, 2031, Australia

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ABOU T Artist, designer, film-maker and founder of Jane Street Studio

BIOGRAPHY

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.

WEB SITE S

SA M H E Y DT.CO M HEYDTSTUDIO.COM JA N E-S T R E E T-S T U D I O. CO M

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New York City, Paris, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Venice, Udaipur, Istanbul, Sydney

C O M M E R C I A L

S T U D I O

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

o1/07

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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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12/05 –

01/05

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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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

12/14 - 12/14 09/14 - 10/14 10/14 - 10/14 10/14 - 10/14 09/14 - 09/14 09/14 - 09/14 08/14 - 08/14 08/14 - 09/14 06/14 - 06/14 05/14 - 06/14 05/14 - 05/14 04/14 - 07/14 02/14 - 04/14 01/14 - 03/14

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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PRESS

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

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

FINE ART

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A R T I S T S TAT E M E N T

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

EVERYTHING’S BEEN DISCOVERED NOTHING

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2013

BIG-CI - AUSTRALIA

2013

NES- NORTH ICELAND

2013

EARTHSKIN-NEW ZEALAND

PORTFOLIO

2016/2017

submission

SAM HEYDT artist/ designer/ photographer / film-maker