Sam Spillman
b. 1977. Lives and works in and around New York City.
EDUCATION:
2016-2018 MFA, Fine Arts, SUNY Purchase College
2007-2008 M.Arch, Cornell University
1996-2000 BA, Warren Wilson College
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS:
2017-2018 Merit Scholarship: SUNY Purchase College, Purchase NY
2016-2017 Merit Scholarship: SUNY Purchase College, Purchase NY
RESIDENCIES:
2019 chaNorth Artist Residency, Pine Plains, NY
WORK EXPERIENCE:
2009-2016 BUILDlab LLC, Ithaca NY
Founded BUILDlab LLC in 2009, as a multidisciplinary residential building and design firm dedicated to innovative green building and design. Specialized in custom-built and designed homes, which utilized techniques in responsive technology as well as alternative energy practices.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2017-present Lecturer, Sculpture Department. School of Art + Design,
Purchase College, SUNY
2018-2019 3D Media Instructional Support Associate. School of Art + Design,
Purchase College, SUNY
Summer 2018, 2020
Precollege Visual Arts Institute: Foundations Sculpture Instructor.
School of Liberal Studies and Continuing Education,
Purchase College, SUNY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2022 In Case of Sam Spillman, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Owning Earth, Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY
Upstate Art Weekend, Amenia Road Studios, Amenia, NY
2020 Romancing Sustainability: Figuring Change, ChaShaMa, New York, NY
2019 Open Studio, chaNorth Artist Residency, Pine Plains, NY
2018 Beyond, 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Equity Gallery, New York NY
Beyond, 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Dolly Maas Gallery, Purchase NY
Made, re-made, made new, Purchase NY
2017 American G*rl, Dolly Maas Gallery, Purchase NY
2016 stolen/missing/disappeared, Dolly Maas Gallery, Purchase NY
Fresh Meet, Purchase NY
MFA National Competition, First Street Gallery, New York NY
2015 Open Show, Community School of Music and Art, Ithaca NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGROPHY:
2021 Bury, Louis. “Who Owns The Earth,” Hyperallergic, September 8th, 2021
2018 Hirsch, Faye. “Beyond... Complacency,” Beyond, exhibition catalogue, SUNY-Purchase College,
Purchase NY, p. 18