Curriculum Vitae of Sam Samiee
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Education & Residencies
- 2016–present — member of the Freudian Group of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
- 2021–2023 — CertHE Psychodynamic Counseling, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
- 2014–2015 — Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2013 — BFA Painting, AKI ArtEZ Academy of Art & Design, Enschede, Netherlands.
- 2006–2010 — Painting, Art University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran (did not graduate).
- 2005–2006 — Industrial Design, Art University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran (did not graduate).
Awards & Grants
- 2025 — Mondriaan Fonds, Ontwikkeling.
- 2024 — Mondriaan Fonds, Kunstenaar Project.
- 2023 — Mondriaan Fonds, Kunstenaar Project.
- 2020 — Mondriaan Fonds Stipendium for Established Talent, Netherlands.
- 2019 — Mondriaan Fonds Bijdrage Publicaties, Netherlands.
- 2018 — Wolvecamp Prize for Painting, HeArtPool Foundation, Netherlands.
- 2016 — Royal Award for Modern Painting, Netherlands.
- 2016 — Werkbijdrage Jong Talent, Mondriaan Fonds voor Kunstenaars.
- 2014 — Buning Brongers Prize, Netherlands.
- 2013–2014 — Mondriaan Fonds Grant for Residency at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Netherlands.
- 2012–2013 — ArtEZ Scholarship for Non-European Students.
- 2020 — The Best Dutch Book Designs (De Best Verzorgde Boeken) selectionfor the monograph Footnotes to Life.
Selected Exhibitions
- 2025 — Wolvecamp 100 × Sam Samiee, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Netherlands — 22 Mar–15 Jun 2025.
- 2025 — New New Babylon: Visions for Another Tomorrow, group exhibition, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands — 29 Mar–31 Aug 2025.
- 2024 — Neither Here ~ Nor Elsewhere, group exhibition, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE — 14 Dec 2024–24 Jan 2025.
- 2024 — True Colors, group exhibition (AkzoNobel Art Foundation at Kunstmuseum Den Haag), The Hague, Netherlands — 31 May–29 Sep 2024.
- 2024 — Can’t We All Just Get Along?, group exhibition, STEVENSON, Amsterdam, Netherlands — 10 Feb–16 Mar 2024.
- 2023 — When Hell Breaks Loose I’ll Tell You Your Legs Were Always on My Mind, solo exhibition, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2023 — 175 Trials & Errors, solo exhibition, Dastan’s Basement, Tehran, Iran.
- 2023 — Prospect, group exhibition, The Parallel Circuit of Dastan Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
- 2023 — Earth—A Collective Landscape, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2022 — A Garden of Clouds, solo exhibition curated by Vivian Ziherl, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, Netherlands — 9 Sep–31 Dec 2022.
- 2022 — A Bit of Unruly Complexity, group exhibition curated by Misal Adnan Yıldız, SANATORIUM, Istanbul, Turkey — 9 Sep–12 Nov 2022.
- 2022 — Sites of Ruin, group exhibition curated by Atif Sheikh, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, USA — 4 Nov 2022–21 Jan 2023.
- 2022 — Minefield Playground, duo exhibition with Fereydoun Ave curated by Sam Samiee, Hamzianpour & Kia, Los Angeles, USA.
- 2022 — The Soft Edge of the Blade, group exhibition, Dastan Gallery at No.9 Cork Street, London, UK.
- 2022 — Queen’s Substance, group exhibition, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2021 — All Eyes, group exhibition, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2021 — The Two-Headed Horse, duo exhibition with Agnieszka Polska, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.
- 2021 — Here Comes Everybody, duo exhibition with Narcisse Tordoir, Emergent, Veurne, Belgium.
- 2020 — Blush of the Soil, solo exhibition, Dastan Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
- 2020 — Collector’s Item, group exhibition, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands.
- 2020 — Artissima Unplugged, group exhibition, GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy.
- 2019–2020 — Ampersands, group exhibition, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2019 — The Spark Is You, group exhibition curated by Ziba Ardalan, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK.
- 2019 — On Shahrzad and the Eternal Feminine, artist talk, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK.
- 2019 — Le Gymnasium Sacré, solo exhibition, Concordia, Enschede, Netherlands.
- 2019 — LISTE Art Fair, duo presentation, Dastan’s Basement, Basel, Switzerland.
- 2019 — West of Where the Sun Goes Down, group exhibition, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2019 — Feast of Fools, group exhibition, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Lennik, Belgium.
- 2018 — Adab: Collection Through Chaos, lecture at Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAF), Dubai, UAE.
- 2018 — Love Gone Vagabond, the Intellect in Search of It, solo exhibition curated by Benno Tempel, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (now Kunstmuseum Den Haag), The Hague, Netherlands.
- 2018 — We Don’t Need Another Hero (10th Berlin Biennale), project The Unfinished Copernican Revolution, ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, Germany.
- 2018 — Casino Copernicus, solo exhibition, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2017 — The Painted Bird: Dreams and Nightmares of Europe, group exhibition curated by Gijs Frieling, Marres – House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands.
- 2017 — A Camp, curated by Sam Samiee, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2017 — A Camp, curated by Sam Samiee, Dastan’s Basement, Tehran, Iran.
- 2017 — Oracles and Obsessions, group exhibition, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
- 2017 — A Universal Pink, open studio, Dastan Gallery Electric Room, Tehran, Iran.
- 2016 — Bedroom Posters, solo exhibition, Witteveen Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2016 — Dore-hami, group exhibition, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2016 — Exhibition of the Royal Award for Modern Painting (winner), Royal Palace, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2016 — Premio Combat Prize, group exhibition, Livorno, Italy.
- 2014–2015 — Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2015 — Hybrids, group exhibition, Galerie Helder, The Hague, Netherlands.
- 2014 — The Sensory War: 100th Anniversary of WWI, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.
- 2014 — Buning Brongers Prijswinnaars 1966–2014, group exhibition, Stedelijk Museum Zutphen / Museum Henriette Polak, Zutphen, Netherlands.
- 2014 — We Are a Happy Family, group exhibition, Provinciehuis Haarlem, Haarlem, Netherlands.
- 2013 — Exhibition of the Shortlisted Sketches for the Official Royal Portrait, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Selected Curated Projects
- 2022 — Farideh Lashai: Afloat Over Undulations, curated by Sam Samiee, Abu Dhabi Art, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- 2020 — Le Gymnasium Sacré, group exhibition curated by Sam Samiee, Dastan’s Basement, Art Dubai, UAE.
- 2017 — A Camp, group exhibition curated by Sam Samiee, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2016 — Artificial Cinema, group exhibition at Display(formerly tranzitdisplay), Prague, Czech Republic.
Selected Publications
- 2020 — Footnotes to Life: Sam Samiee, with texts by Benno Tempel, Dr. Gohar Homayounpour, Dr. Sumayya Kassamali, and Sam Samiee; monograph for the Wolvecamp Prize for Painting 2018; selected for The Best Dutch Book Designs 2020.
- 2019 — The Spark Is You, catalogue of Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, with texts by Dr. Ziba Ardalan, Oliver Basciano, Dr. Narguess Farzad, London, UK.
- 2017 — The Painted Bird: Dreams and Nightmares of Europe, Valiz / Marres (book accompanying the Marres exhibition).
- 2014 — The Sensory War, catalogue for the exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of World War I, Manchester Art Gallery.