Sam Contis (b. 1982) received her MFA from Yale University in 2008 and BFA from New York University in 2004. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Barbican Art Gallery, London; the Gropius-Bau, Berlin; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2022-2023 her work was presented in solo and two-person exhibitions at Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles; Carré d’Art, Nîmes; and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. Contis’s work is in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the V&A, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. She is the author of Deep Springs (2017) and Day Sleeper (2020). Her new monograph, Overpass, was recently published by Aperture.

Image details: Sam Contis, Trust Exercise, 2018/2022, archival pigment print, 26x36 inches