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BIOGRAPHY
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am Heydt is a social practice and new media artist born/raised in NYC. She has lived and worked in Paris, Venice, Amsterdam, Athens, Sydney, Udaipur and Vienna. After completing her studies at Parsons School of Design (as well as Cooper Union, Universidad de Buenos Aires, La Sorbonne and the Universiteit van Amsterdam), she founded Jane Street Studio, L.L.C.. Since this entrepreneurial undertaking, she has attended artist residencies in Iceland, Australia and New Zealand; and, she has undertaken a range of altruistic, non-profit work for developing countries. As a fine art photographer, Heydt has exhibited in a constellation of galleries and museums throughout the world; and, her photography is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim and, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Heydt’s work speaks to the disenchantment of the social psyche at the hands of the media and the desolation of the natural world.
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L I V E D / W O R K E D
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New York City, Paris, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Venice, Udaipur, Istanbul, Sydney, Vienna (current)
C O M M E R C I A L
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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.janestreet-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 new media & social practice artist Designer | film-maker
JA N E- S T R E E T- S T U D I O . CO M
| founder of Jane Street Studio l.l.c.
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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 tabloids becomes history. Identities are no longer built, but bought into. 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.
EXHIBITION HISTORY 2016 39 th International Independent Film Fest. of Elche, Spain. Proceso de Error Film Festival, Valparaíso, Chile Das Weisse Haus: kunstschau #5, Vienna, Austria Harlem Art Salon, New York, NY NASA, Johnson Space Center, Houstan, Texas SXSW - South by Southwest, Austin, Texas Festival Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse, France Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI “Interpretation: the Best of” [traveling exhibition] The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia Arkhangelsk Museum, Arkhangelsk, Russia Museum of Petrozavodsk, Petrozavodsk, Russia
2013 o7/16- 07/16 o6/16- 06/16 05/16 - 06/16 o5/16- 05/16 o4/16 - 05/16 03/16 - 03/16 03/16 - 03/16 02/16 - 05/16 11/15 - 04/16
2015 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
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
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
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
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 Now & After: International Video Art Festival, Moscow, Russia. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Milk Gallery, NYC Aesthetica Anthology, UK Gabarron Foundation,New York & Spain
F I L M F E S T I VA L S Now & After: International Video Art Festival, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia November 2016. 39 International Independent Film Festival of Elche, Alicante, Spain. July 2016 [Semi-Finalist] Proceso de Error: Experimental International Video Festival, Valparaíso, Chile. June 2016 Festival Traverse Vidéo: : L’Atypique Trouble (19ème édition )Toulouse, France. March 2016
PRESS
INTERVIEWS World Photography Organization | Jan 2016 Aesthetica Magazine | Nov 2014 Hartiska Magazine | June 2013 Art Fuse | October 2012
N O M I N AT I O N S National Geographic Explorer 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
EXHIBITION PRESS Cultura (Chile) | June 2016 Vienna Inside | April 2016 Apple News | Feb. 2016 kunsten | Sept. 2015 Artslant | Aug. 2015 Boston Magazine | July 2015 Art Almanac | Feb. 2015 La Gazzetta, Italy | Sept. 2014 Haps-kyoto [ Japan] | Aug. 2014 We Are No One, UK | April 2013 Capture, Australia | May 2013 Sydney Herald | May 2013 Australian Photo | April 2013 Artist Home & Abroad | 2013 ‘iD’ Magazine | Jan 2013 Artslant | Dec. 2012 Artsy | Nov 2012 NYARTS | Dec 2012
AWARDS
Blouin Modern Painters Dec 2014 & Feb 2015 Artinfo | Jan 2015 Art & Ideas | Aug 2014
39th International Independent Film Festival of Elche, Alicante, Spain. July 2016 [Semi-Finalist] 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