Sam Samiee

Sam Samiee

BornNationalityBased In
1988IranianBerlin, Amsterdam, Tehrān
Biography

Sam Samiee synthesizes his heavy 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 employs a range of painterly attitudes from oil paintings to iPad paintings, figuration, abstraction, the break of the rectangular frame, and usage of text among other methods. ...

Selected Artworks
Untitled
Sam Samiee
Untitled, 2021
190 x 140cm
The Scent of Dawn
Sam Samiee
The Scent of Dawn, 2020
130 x 110cm
While the Cloudbursts at Nowruz Wash the Tulips Face
Sam Samiee
While the Cloudbursts at Nowruz Wash the Tulips Face, 2020
130 x 110cm
When Flowers Are Plenty the Elephants Might Stumble
Sam Samiee
When Flowers Are Plenty the Elephants Might Stumble, 2020
130 x 110cm
The Loom #2
Sam Samiee
The Loom #2, 2019
190 x 140cm
The Loom #1
Sam Samiee
The Loom #1, 2019
190 x 140cm
Untitled (Green on Pink)
Sam Samiee
Untitled (Green on Pink), 2019
205 x 168cm
Untitled (Green abstract)
Sam Samiee
Untitled (Green abstract), 2019
171.5 x 217cm
Gallery Representation
Biennals
Berlin Biennial2018 - Berlin
Berlin Biennial2018 - Berlin
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