Sam Samore

American | 1963

Sam Samore is an American photographer who was born in 1963. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum Brandhorst have featured Sam Samore's work in the past.Sam Samore's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 12 USD to 58,908 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 58,908 USD for Tower of Lips (7), sold at Phillips London in 2012. Sam Samore has been featured in articles for ArtLyst, ArtDaily and Art in America. The most recent article is Jerome Sans Shares His Venice Top 6: Julien Creuzet, Kapwani Kiwanga, and More written for WHITEWALL in April 2024.

Untitled (Betty Ford) , 1985

Gelatin silver print

image 180 x 91 cm frame 214 x 124.5 cm

Allegories of Beauty (Incomplete) #13 - Sam Samore

Allegories of Beauty (Incomplete) #13 , 1995

Gelatin silver print, flush-mounted

28 3/4 x 71 1/4 in. (73 x 181 cm)

'THE SORCERERS #33' , 1999

oversized chromogenic print on Fuji crystal archive paper

30 by 72 in. (76.2 by 182.9 cm.)

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

Situations #27

By Sam Samore

Lempertz, Cologne

"Untitled (Betty Ford)", 1985

By Sam Samore

Bukowskis, Stockholm

Untitled (from Allegories of Beauty Series), 1992

By Sam Samore

-37%

below mid-estimate

Christie's New York

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Past Exhibitions

This Is Me, This Is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection

Museum Brandhorst

Munich | Germany

Oct 19,2023 - Jan 07,2024

Supra Nature

Galerie Anne de Villepoix

11e | Paris | France

May 25,2023 - Jul 31,2023

On Everyone’s Lips. From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg | Germany

Oct 31,2020 - Jun 06,2021

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Articles

Jerome Sans Shares His Venice Top 6: Julien Creuzet, Kapwani Kiwanga, and More

WHITEWALL 19/04/2024

The dreamlike city of Venice will be particularly vibrant during the 60th Venice Biennale, and here Jerome Sans reflects on the unparalleled location, unfiltered encounters, and the most transformative pavilions yet.

Art Brussels 37th Edition What to See Guide

ArtLyst 23/04/2019

Since its inception, Art Brussels has evolved into one of the top European contemporary art fairs and is a must-see in the international art calendar.

Capitain Petzel presents Sam Samore in his first solo exhibition

ArtDaily 14/01/2012

Gisela Capitain and Friedrich Petzel announce the first solo exhibition by Sam Samore at Capitain Petzel, presenting a series of new pictures

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Coverage

“ ..Instead, this work reveals Samore’s recent interest in interrogating the multiplicity of genders: the assigning of roles, norms, behavior patterns, and structures of power relations... ”
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D'Amelio Terras

“ ..Printed on rag paper and exhibiting Samore’s signature treatment of photographic grain, these black and white images both adhere to and depart from the artist’s past works... ”
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Team Gallery, Grand Street

“ ..Fragmentation, both spatial and psychological, have been central themes in Samore’s practice since the nineties; however, in these portraits, the rupturing of the self is the primary focus... ”
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Team Gallery, Grand Street

“ .. While the texture and content are evocative of previous series – particularly his Situations – the artist in this instance offers a more complete visual scope of a singular subject... ”
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Team Gallery, Grand Street

“ ..By having the same individual in each photograph, he concentrates for the first time on manifestations of a re-inscribed discontinuity of personality... ”
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Galerie Gisela Capitain, St. Apern Str