Through the Lens of Rauschenberg: Sam Contis

Discover a new perspective on Robert Rauschenberg in this engaging talk and tour led by contemporary photographer Sam Contis. Best known for his mixed-media works, Rauschenberg also had a deep relationship with photography. Through the Lens of Rauschenberg invites visiting photographers to lead thoughtful conversations that explore their perspectives on his work. Light bites will be provided, and drinks will be available at our Park View Bar. 

About the Speaker: 

Sam Contis (b. 1982) is an artist working with photography and moving image. Solo museum exhibitions of her work have been held at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Carré d’Art in Nîmes, France. Contis's work is currently on view in Phases at Arts and Letters in New York and in the survey exhibition Sam Contis: Moving Landscape at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Contis has participated in group exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Barbican Art Gallery, London; the Gropius-Bau, Berlin; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2024), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2022), a Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2016), and an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship (2016). Her work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Contis has published three monographs: Deep Springs (Mack, 2017), Day Sleeper (Mack, 2020), and Overpass (Aperture, 2022). She is a Senior Critic in Photography at the Yale School of Art, and is based in New York.
 

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.