Sam Shoemaker

B. 1991, Lives and works in Los Angeles

 

EDUCATION:

  • M.F.A. Yale University (sculpture), 2020

  • B.F.A. California Institute of the Arts, 2014.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

  • Solo Exhibition ‘More Permanent Than Snow’ Ochi, Los Angeles, CA/ July-August 2022

  • Solo Exhibition ‘Walking’ Cafe Quoi Sculpture Garden, Los Angeles, CA/ August 2021

  • Solo Exhibition 'Play Pen', Nous Tous Gallery, Los Angeles, CA/ June-July 2018

  • Solo Exhibition 'Hobby Room', House Guest, Los Angeles, CA/ September 2017

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

  • ‘GODMODADOGGEREL’, Los Angeles, CA/ November 2024

  • ‘World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project’, California African American

    Museum (CAAM), Los Angeles, CA/ Sep 2024-March 2025

  • ‘Unseen Orchestra’, Make Room, Los Angeles, CA/ February-March 2024

  • ‘David Hammons’, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA/ February-March 2024

  • ‘Cardinal Index’, House of Seiko, San Francisco, CA/ January-February 2023

  • ‘Until All is Resolved’, Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles, CA/ December-January 2023

  • ‘Burning The Wheel of the Year’, Species, Atlanda, GA/ August-September 2022

  • ‘Plants Now!’, Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA/ July-August 2022

  • ‘Salon’, Armor Corp, Venice, CA/ January-February 2022

  • ‘Expanded Field’, OCHI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA/ October-November 2021

  • ‘Jupiter Finger’, Harkawik, Los Angeles, CA/ July 2021

  • ‘No Deep Kissing’, Yale thesis exhibition, New Haven, CT/ March 2020

  • ‘Banquet’, In Lieu Gallery, Los Angeles/ December 2019- January 2020

  • ‘In zwei- oder dreihundert Jahren wird das Leben auf der Erde unvorstellbar schön sein (In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful)’, Espace Nalon, Esslingen, Germany/ July-August 2019

  • ‘On The Homefront’, Lubov Gallery, New York, NY/ August 2018

  • ‘Sub Terrain’, Figures on a Landscape, Los Angeles, CA/ November 2017

  • ‘Selected Works’, Page N.Y.C., New York, NY/ Aug 2016

  • ‘Polymorphic material fog rolls over their morning pathway’, Two-Person Exhibition with William Shea, Human Interest Group, Dallas, TX/ July 2016

  • ‘Stitch, Woven, Interlocking’, Kunstverein Letschebach. Karlsruhe, Germany/ 2015

  • Stitch, Driveway 327, Venice, CA/ Aug 2015Group exhibition "The Armory Show and Tell" Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA. Collaboration with Shirley Tse / 2013

PRESS

  • “Planting for the Future: The Artists Pushing Ecological Art Forward” W Magazine, Jori Finkel, December 2024

  • “The Art of Growing Your Own Mushrooms” LA Times Today, May 2024

  • “Celebratory and Mournful Clay Biennial at Craft Contemporary” Artillery, July 2023

  • “L.A. Harvest featuring Sam Shoemaker” CARLA (Contempoary Art Review Los Angeles), June 2023

  • “Editor’s Pick’s” CARLA (Contempoary Art Review Los Angeles)/ August 2022

  • Must See Exhibitions in Los Angeles, Artforum/ August 2022

  • “Art and Mycology with Sam Shoemaker” Mushroom Hour Podcast/ June 2022

  • “9 Emerging Artists to Discover at NADA Miami 2021”, Galarie Magazine/ December 2021

  • “Art as A Vessel for Mycology” Mushroom Magazine/ Autumn 2021

  • “Fungal Forms & Basement Cultivation with Artist Sam Shoemaker” North Spore, Black Trumpet journal/ June 2021

AWARDS

  • Dean’s Critical Practice Research Grant, Yale University/ 2020

  • George R. Bunker Honorary Award, Yale University/ 2020

CURATORIAL:

  • Jace Space

    • Solo exhibition and performance 'ENDBRINGER / HEAVEN AS HIGH AS THIS / PRESSING A FLOWER BETWEEN PLANES /', Patrick Michael Ballard/ July 2018

    • Two Person Exhibition 'Moss and Well', Tasha Romano and Vanessa Shih/ July 2018

    • Solo Exhibition 'Proposal for a Self Referential Book', Dennis Buck/ July 2018

    • Solo Exhibition 'Dim Beam Simulcast', Amia Yokoyama/ June 2018

    • Solo Exhibition at House Guest co-curated with Patrick Michael Ballard 'Rule of a High Priest Volume II', Anne Guro Larsmon/ May 2018

    • Solo Exhibition co-curated with Patrick Michael Ballard 'Rule of a High Priest Volume I', Anne Guro Larsmon/ May 2018

    • Screening 'Resonance', a collaboration between Jesse Matthew Clark and Elias Pack/ May 2018

    • Solo Exhibition 'Dora Drawings', Andre Filipek/ November 2017

    • Solo Exhibition 'Feeding Time', Evans Wittenberg/ August 2017

    • Group Exhibition 'Hgggggggggggh', Emmanuella Soria Ruiz, Ananya Ramanan, Sascha Yurchak and Jon Merritt/ June-July 2017

    • Group Exhibition 'Mindsculptor', Bryan Morello, Rebecca Lieb, Paul J. McKee and Will Shea/ December 2016

    • Group Exhibition 'Domestic Observations', Kate Mosher Hall, Monika Uchiyama, Alice Lang, Winnie Herbstein, and Magnus Flowers / November 2016