Sam Heydt

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Samantha 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 Paris, Venice, Amsterdam, Athens, Sydney, Udaipur and currently resides in Vienna. She is best known for work that speaks to the disenchantment of the social psyche at the hands of the media and the desolation of the natural world.[1]

Life and work

Heydt was born and raised in New York City. As the daughter of the artist William Heydt,[2] her interest and exposure to art started at an early age.

HEYDT's education was spent across a spectrum of universities including Parsons New School for Design, Cooper Union, University of Amsterdam, University of Buenos Aires & La Sorbonne. She has a degree in both Photography and Communications, graduating Summa Cum Laude from both programs. Sam Heydt has been awarded several domestic and international accolades and has attended a number of artist residencies: Nes, (Skagastrond, Iceland), BigCi (Bilpin, Australia) and Earthskin (Coromandel, New Zealand)

After completing her studies, she founded Jane Street Studio, L.L.C.[3] Jane Street Studio was launched in 2012 as a boutique photo-studio in the Meatpacking district of Manhattan. Since established, the company has expanded its roster of clients to Europe, North & South America, Asia and Oceania.[4]

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[5] in Berlin, Germany as well as Noella Lopez Gallery[6] in Sydney, Australia.

Heydt's large and varied body of photographic work speaks to the disenchantment of the social psyche at the hands of the media apparatus and at the expense of the natural world. Heydt's work continuously examines different phenomenologies of our increasingly fractured social landscape. Her interest lies 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. The role of semiology is explored in relation to the decay of values, consumerism and the exploitation of a world reduced to the bottom line.[7]

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, Curacao, 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 Croix, Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Thomas, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, United Kingdom, Uruguay.[8]

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.[9]

Style and themes

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Heydt's work often explores what she calls "The Nightmare of Globalization". [4] She describes our time as one of continually deferred expectations and anxieties, suicide bombers and drones. The collateral damage of these new forms of political dissidence, she argues, are drowned by the constructed narratives put forth by the media wherein tabloids become history. [10] Her claim is that there is no truth to search for, but rather an illusion to deconstruct and that in it's endless representations of a single moment, the image is neither bound to truth nor objectivity. 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.[11] [1]

Representation

VIMM Gallery | Berlin, Germany [www.vimmgallery.com][12]

Noella Lopez Gallery | Sydney, Australia [www.noellalopezgallery.com][13]

Books with contributions by Samantha Heydt

• Debating Disney, Scarecrow Press: 2015[14]

Recognition

Awards

2014 : The Aesthetica Art Prize[15]

Featured

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. World Photography Organization | Dec 2015 [16]

Aesthetica (Interview) Nov 2014 [1]

Hartiska Magazine (Interview) June 2013 [17]

Art Fuse (Interview) 2012 [18]

Selected exhibitions

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 2016 | Proceso de Error Film Festival, Valparaíso, Chile[19]

2016 | Das Weisse Haus: kunstschau #5, Vienna, Austria[20]

2016 | SXSW (South by Southwest), screening. Austin, Texas.

2016 | Traverse Film Festival, screening. Toulouse, France.[21]

2015 | Art Copenhagen, exhibition. Copenhagen, Denmark.[22]

2015 | Electron Salon, LACDA, exhibition and screening. Los Angeles, CA[23]

2015 | Consensus, exhibition. Martha's Vineyard, MA [24]

2014 | Fridge Art Fair, Art Basel, exhibition and screening. Miami, FL[25]

2014 | Contemporary Visions Art Festival, exhibition. Portovenere, Italy[26]

2014 | OECD Benefit, Château de la Muette, exhibition. Paris, France

2014 | Red Cross Exhibition, exhibition. Bondi Beach, Australia

2014 | BigCi, exhibition and screening. Bilpin, Australia[27]

2014 | Queen Street Gallery, HeadOn, exhibition and screening. Sydney, Australia [28]

2014 | Aesthetica Prize Exhibition, St. Mary's, exhibition. York, UK[29]

2013 | Art Basel Miami, exhibition and screening. Miami FL

2013 | Six Foot Gallery, exhibition and screening. Glasgow, Scotland[30]

2013 | Gabarron Foundation, exhibition. New York City [31]

2013 | HeadOn Photo Festival, exhibition and screening. Sydney, Australia [28]

2012 | Art Basel, w/ Domingo Zapata, exhibition. Miami, FL

2012 | Fountain Air Fair, exhibition. Miami, FL[32]

2012 | Verge Art Fair, exhibition. Miami, FL [33]

2012 | Broadway Gallery, exhibition. New York, NY[34]

2012 | Cipriani Wall Street, exhibition. New York, NY[35]

2012 | Kana Manglaplus Projects, exhibition. Los Angeles, CL [36]

2011 | The State Hermitage Museum, exhibition. St.Petersburg, Russia

2011 | Calumet Gallery, exhibition. New York, NY [37]

2011 | Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, exhibition. Perm, Russia

2010 | Krasnoyarsk Museum, exhibition. Krasnoyarsk, Russia [38]

2010 | Museum of Novosibirsk, exhibition. Novosibirsk, Russia [39]

2010 | The State Hermitage Museum, exhibition. St. Petersburg, Russia

External links

• www.samheydt.com

• www.jane-street-studio.com

References

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