Samantha Nye

Overview
Courtesy of Candice Madey Gallery, Constance Mensh and Samantha Nye
Courtesy of Candice Madey Gallery, Constance Mensh and Samantha Nye
Working across painting, video, and installation, Nye has dedicated the last decade to creating compelling dialogues between queer identity, mid-century references, and camp sensibilities.

Nye’s paintings and video pieces are meant as love letters to queer spaces past and present, the thriving and the abandoned. In her attempt to image queer kinship, Nye acknowledges the beautiful parts, the prickly parts, the radical parts and the parts that have long needed fixing. With celebration and criticality Nye pulls references from lesbian legacies and failures. These works envision a fantasy history of both age and trans-inclusive lesbian spaces and mash-up incongruent queer references such as Slim Aarons photographs of the 1960s, lesbian separatist spaces of the 1970s, Bat Mitzvah parties from 1990s, and the Miami club scene of the early 2000’s.

 

Representing aging female and non-binary bodies, a subject long omitted from visual culture, as both sexy and sexual, Nye tackles the often-overlooked problematics of ageism that still dominate our society today. The artist’s interest in elders originates from her own Florida upbringing immersed in her mother and grandmother’s circle of friends and their romantic pursuits. Nye recalls helping her grandmother pick out lingerie in advance of a date and becoming acutely aware that there is no age bracket on sexual desire and satisfaction.

Works
  • Samantha Nye, Piss Pool, 2021
    Samantha Nye
    Piss Pool, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    167.6 x 160.7 cm
    66 x 63 1/4 in
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B. Sometime in the 80s, Hollywood,  lives and works in Philadelphia.

 

Solo Exhibitions
2022 Samantha Nye: Attractive People Doing Attractive Things in Attractive Places, Candice Madey, Lower East Side, New York, USA
2021 Samantha Nye: My Heart’s in a Whirl, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

Group Exhibitions

2023 Saints and Sinners, Guts Gallery, London, UK

2023 The Ripening, Pen + Brush, NY, NY
2023 Queer Love: Af ection and Romance In Contemporary Art, La MaMa Gallery, NY, NY
2023 20/92 Video Festival, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
2023 How Dare You Make Me Feel This Way, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2022 Grandma, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, South Korea
2022 COME ALIVE!, Het Nieuwe Muntgebouw, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2022 You Had Me At Hello, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston MA
2021 New Light: Encounters and Connections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2021 Abundance, Het HEM, Zaandam, The Netherlands
2020 Craft School, Shelter In Place Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 The Unspeakable, A Dark Show, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Intimacy, Yossi Milo Gallery, NY, NY
2018 Cast Of Characters, LGBTQ Community Center, NY, NY
2018 Columbia University MFA Thesis Show, Wallach Gallery, NY, NY
2018 Queering Space, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2018 LOVE 2018: Purple Hearts, Neiman Gallery, NY, NY
2017 Four or More or None, Schermerhorn, NY, NY
2017 Summer Shows, False Flag, Queens, NY
2017 1st Year Columbia MFA Show, Wallach Gallery, NY, NY
2015 Queer/ Art/ Mentorship Annual Exhibition, Leslie Lohman Project Space, NY, NY