Sam Heydt

Samantha "Sam" Heydt (born April 20, 1986) is an American social practice and new media artist born and raised in New York City. She has lived and worked in Amsterdam, Athens, Paris, Sydney, Udaipur, Venice, and Vienna. Her work addresses the disenchantment of the social psyche at the hands of the media and the desolation of the natural world.

Heydt was born and raised in New York City. As the daughter of the artist William Heydt, her interest and exposure to art started at an early age.

After attending La Sorbonne, Cooper Union, University of Amsterdam, and University of Buenos Aires, she earned a Bachelor's in Photography and Communications from Parsons New School for Design graduating Summa Cum Laude from both programs. Sam Heydt has attended a number of artist residencies: Nes, (Skagastrond, Iceland), BigCi (Bilpin, Australia) and Earthskin (Coromandel, New Zealand).

In 2012, Heydt launched Jane Street Studio, L.L.C. a photo-studio in the Meatpacking district of Manhattan. Since established, the company has expanded its focus from photography to design consultation and video work with clients in Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania.

Heydt has done travel essays on the following countries: Antigua, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Barbados, Brazil, Belgium, Bangladesh, Croatia, Canada, Canary Islands: Madeira, Tenerife, Lanzarote, Curaçao, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, United Kingdom, Uruguay, and United States.

Heydt has undertaken a range of altruistic and non-profit work for developing countries. Her most recent involvement was in the 2014 production, Bulbul: Song of the Nightingale, a feature-length documentary that sheds light on the longstanding tradition of child prostitution in the Banchara tribe of Madhya Pradesh, India.

As a fine art photographer, Heydt's work has been exhibited in a constellation of galleries and museums throughout the world; and sits in the permanent collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is represented by VIMM Gallery in Berlin, Germany as well as Noella Lopez Gallery in Sydney, Australia.

Sam Heydt, Chrysanthemums, 2012, C-print mounted to acrylic glass, 200 x 150 cm.

Heydt's work continuously examining different phenomenologies of our hyper-mediated society wherein tabloids become history. Heydt describes our time as one of continually deferred expectations and anxieties shaped by the media. Her interest lies in semiology's role in the mutability of history, disillusionment of the social psyche and exploitation of a world increasingly reduced to a bottom line. The mnemonic pretext of the photographic medium is also explored.

VIMM Gallery | Berlin, Germany

Noella Lopez Gallery | Sydney, Australia

Loupe Art | Apple TV

• Debating Disney, Scarecrow Press: 2015

Awards

2014 : The Aesthetica Art Prize

Featured

Aesthetica (Interview) Nov 2014

Hartiska Magazine (Interview) June 2013

Art Fuse (Interview) 2012

Selected exhibitions

2016 | 3rd International Festival of Experimental Video, Proceso de Error Film Festival, Valparaíso, Chile. May 31— June 4, 2016.

2016 | Verkaufs–kunstschau #5 , Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, Austria. June 2 — June 16, 2016.

2016 | Loupe Art, South by Southwest (SXSW), Austin, TX. March 12 — 19, 2016.

2016 | Newport Annual Members Juried Exhibition, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI. February 6 — May 22, 2016.

2016 | L'Atypique Trouble , Festival Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse, France. March 16 — 20, 2016.

2015 | Interpretation: the Best of, State Hermitage Museum,St. Petersburg, Russia, (Travels to Arkhangelsk & Petrozavodsk, Russia). November 6 — 18, 2015.

2015 | Art Session 2015: Annual International Festival of Young Artists, Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia. November 19 — December 1, 2015.

2015 | VIMM Gallery, Art Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. September 18— 20, 2015.

2015 | Electron Salon, Los Angeles Center For Digital Art (LACDA), Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CL. July 9 — August 1, 2015.

2015 | Venezia Project 2015: International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Art Studio, Venice Biennale and Expo 2015, San Donà di Piave, Italy. September 5 – 15, 2015.

2014 | Festival of the Senses, Consensus, Martha’s Vineyard, MA. August 18 — 20, 2014.

2015 | International Group Exhibition, Los Angeles Center For Digital Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, CL. October 17 - November 28, 2015.

2014 | Day One, Contemporary Visions Art Festival, Portovenere, Italy. September 28 — October 10, 2014.

2014 | Open Studio, BigCi, exhibition and screening. Bilpin, Australia. May 27, 2014.

2014 | A Desired Life, Queen Street Gallery, HeadOn Photo Festival, Sydney, Australia. May 26 — June 2, 2014.

2014 | Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition, York Art Gallery, York, UK. April 4 — June 22, 2014.

2013 | Group Exhibition VII, Splitgraphic 2015, Split, Croatia. October 6 – 30, 2015.

2013 | Being there, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland. May 13 - June 15, 2013.

2013 | Intermission: Audio Portraits of Place - Mapping The Air Space Between A-B, [a collaboration with Jennie Savage], Osso: Echoes, stress.fm, Lisbon, Portugal. September 20— 22, 2013.

2013 | Art for Tibet Benefit Auction, Art for Tibet, New York, NY. December 7–21, 2015.

2013 | Two Hemispheres, 10th anniversary of the Gabarron Foundation, Carriage House Center for the Arts, New York, NY & Valladolid, Spain. September 14 to November 2, 2012.

2013 | See More Jane, Queensland Centre for Photography, HeadOn Photo Festival, Sydney, Australia. June 8– July 7, 2013.

2012 | The love of my life is Paris, guest artist of Domingo Zapata, SLS South Beach, Miami Art Basel, Miami, FL. December 7, 2012.

2012 | Fountain Air Fair, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL. December 6 — 9, 2012.

2012 | Verge Art Fair, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL. December 3 — 10, 2012.

2012 | Global Projects: Artists at Home and Abroad, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY. September 28 — October 20, 2012.

2012 | MGU (Milk Gallery Underground), Kana Manglaplus Projects, Los Angeles, CL. December 9—20, 2012.

2011 | Contemporary Interpretations of Beauty in the Museum, State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia. June 9 — June 27, 2011.

2011 | Thesis Exhibition, Calumet Gallery, New York, NY. May 22 — June 8, 2011.

2011 | One Thousand Year Anniversary, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia. October 11 — November 2, 2011.

2011 | Krasnoyarsk Museum, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. January 1 — 20, 2011.

2010 | Museum of Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk, Russia. December 15 — 25, 2010.

2010 | Alisha Gorshok: A Contemporary Interpretation of Lev Tolstoy, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. November 23 — December 12, 2010.