Sam Hodge lives in East London and works from a studio at Chisenhale Art Place and at East London Printmakers. She studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University before training in painting conservation at The Courtauld Institute and working as a conservator for several years including at Tate. This background has encouraged her interest in materials and how they behave, create and change over time.
Sam Hodge was born and bought up on the Kent coast and is now engaged in a project to walk around the whole coastline of England and Wales, which she is documenting on Instagram. During lockdown, she has been focusing close to home, on the Thames Foreshore. The area where land and sea meet is a fruitful source of both inspiration and found objects for her. It is an edge, a border or skin of the country, what defines it, but also a porous site of exchange and flow, a place constantly in flux, changing from tide to tide and shifting over years. It is a place where human efforts to build, control and defend, but also the power of water and weather to transform are both very apparent.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Every Contact Leaves a Trace, 195 Mare Street, London
2019
Vital Matter, Muse Gallery, London
2015
A Catalogue of Misfortune, book launch and exhibition, Roz Barr Architect’s Gallery, London
2013
Repetition and Difference, Chisenhale Art Place, London
2009
By Accident and Design, Ada Street Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND OPENS
2024
Momentum, curated by White Noise collective, Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2023
The Ground Beneath Our Feet, curated by Veronica Sekules, GroundWork Gallery, Kings Lynn
Uncertain Edges, curated by Ground Collective at Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea
Post Petrochemical Practices, Cromer Art Space, Cromer
Out of Place, exhibition at 195 Mare Street open house, London
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, represented by East London Printmakers, Woolwich Arsenal, London,
Festival of Print, East London Printmakers Annual Show, The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London.
2022
RA Summer Exhibition, selected by David Mach, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Coal Tides, exhibition at Sentient Performativities Sympoisium organised by art.earth at The Garden Gallery, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon.
Once Upon an Instant, Curated by Ben Woodeson, Bildhauer Halle B1, HTW Berlin, Germany.
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, represented by East London Printmakers, Woolwich Arsenal, London,
2021
Ground Work, APT Gallery, Deptford, London
Radical Residency VI, Curated by Stacie McCormick, Unit 1 Gallery/Workshop, London W10
Maplective, Studio 4, Chisenhale Studios Programme
Festival of Print, East London Printmakers Annual Show, The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London.
2019
Doom and Bloom, curated by Jordan Kaplan, Contemporary Art Society, for a global asset manager’s London office.
As the Crow Flies, Bo.lee Gallery, Peckham, London
RA Summer Exhibition, Selected by Barbara Rae, Royal Academy of Arts, London
By the Way, curated by Ground Collective, Lewisham Arthouse, London
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, selected by Eileen Cooper and Peter Lloyd, Woolwich Arsenal (also selected in 2016, 2017, 2018)
2018
Wells Art Contemporary Open, selected by Peter Randall-Page, Donald Smith and Caroline Walker, The Bishop’s Palace, Wells, Somerset
Neo:Proof Print Exchange box set, Neo Gallery, Bolton
Surface Tension, The Stone Space, Leytonstone, London
Between the Lines, Gerald Moore Gallery, Eltham, London.
A Festival of Print, East London Printmakers, The Art Pavilion, Mile End, London (also in 2017, 2016)
2017
In Residence, curated by Karen David and Matthew Gibson, Griffin Gallery, London
White Noise, The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras, London
The Story so Far, Snap Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
2016
International Print Biennale, selected by Sune Nordgren, David Cleaton-Jones and Christiane Baumgartner at Northern Print, Newcastle
Kaleid editions, artists books, selected by Victoria Browne, exhibited at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway and Offprint, Tate Modern, London
Neo:PrintPrize, selected by Gill Saunders, Jo Stockam, Rachel Gladfelter and Nancy Campbell, Neo Gallery, Bolton.
The Masters, selected by Norman Ackroyd, Bankside Gallery, London
A Lot of Things Have Happened, curated by Denise Hawrysio, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver.
The Other Art Fair, (Represented by NOA), London
2015
Creekside Open, selected by Richard Deacon, APT Gallery, Deptford, London
Griffin Open, Selected by Nigel Hurst, Ian Davenport and Becca Pelly-Fry, Griffin Gallery, London
RA Summer Exhibition, selected by David Remfry and Michael Craig-Martin, Royal Academy, London
Things That Are There, curated by Matthew Swift, Pie Factory, Margate.
Fingers Crossed, The Engine Room and Rogue Gallery, Manchester.
East London Printmakers Summer Show (Lawrence King Prize winner), Embassy Tea Gallery, Bermondsey
2014
MANPOWER (curated by Cosmic Megabrain), Rua Poco dos Negros, Lisbon
2013
Pushing Print (selected by Oona Grimes and Katherine Jones), The Pie Factory, Margate.
2011
Please Write, curated by Julia Royse at Posted Gallery, London
RESIDENCEIS AND ARTISTS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
2021
Radical Residency VI, Unit 1 Gallery/Workshop.
2020
Selected for Mycolective artist development programme engaging with ecological thinking,
climate change and multi species futures (Chisenhale Studios Programme).
GroundWork Residency at APT Gallery, Deptford, London.
2019
Merchant House Residency (invited by Jessica Carlisle and Rob Dalziel), Symi, Greece.
2017
Griffin project-based residency, Colart, London.
Investigating artist at Wellcome Collection Reading Room.
2013
Studio 4 Residency, Chisenhale Art Place.
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Hack the Barbican, Barbican Centre, London.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Artist’s book A Catalogue of Misfortune (published 2015) acquired by:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016
The Metropolitan Museum, New York, 2016
SAIC Joan Flash Artist’s Book Collection, Chicago, 2016
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway 2016
Chelsea UAL, London, 2017
PUBLICATIONS
Ground Work, publication to accompany exhibition at APT Gallery 2021
Salon for a Speculative Future, edited by Monika Oechsler with Sharon Kivland MA Bibliotheque, 2020
A Catalogue of Misfortune limited edition artist’s book by Sam Hodge, Accidental Press, 2015