Sam Samiee

Sam Samiee (1988, Tehran) is a painter, essayist, and psychoanalyst in training has finished the Rijksakademie residency in 2015 and ArtEZ AKI in 2013. His primary education in arts began at the University of Arts in Tehran, first in Industrial design and then painting. He is a jury member of the Dutch Royal Painting Prize from 2020 to 2024 and the Wolvecamp Prize in 2022. Respectively, he was the winner of those prizes in 2016 and 2018. He synthesizes his research on art history, Persian poetry, and psychoanalytic theories into studio practice that employs painting in multiple registers. The characteristic of his installations as extended paintings is the break from the tradition of flat painting and a return to the original question of how artists can represent the three-dimensional world in the space of painting as a metaphor for a set of ideas. He has exhibited his works at the 10th Berlin Biennale, Kunstmuseum, the Parasol unit Foundation, and Manchester Art Gallery. Footnotes to Life, a monograph on his work awarded as a part of the Wolvecamp Prize for painting in 2018, has won the Best Dutch Book Design in 2020.