Sam Lewitt Explained

Sam Lewitt (born 1981 in Los Angeles, California) is an American contemporary artist living and working in Berlin. Lewitt “has long engaged questions of reading and legibility, systems of graphic and readerly notation, and technologies of communication old and new.”https://www.artforum.com/print/201207/media-specificities-31938

Early life

Lewitt was born August 30, 1981, in Venice Beach, CA. He received a BFA from School of Visual Arts, NY and was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP) in 2004/5.

Career

Lewitt is represented by the Miguel Abreu Gallery[1] in New York City and Galerie Buchholz[2] in Cologne and Berlin.

Art historian André Rottman writes: "Lewitt has developed a practice that deliberately collapses the physical aesthetic object into the placeless topologies of global production, exchange and distribution. Instead of simply occupying the supposedly stable perimeters of a given exhibition venue, Lewitt’s projects time and again signal and register, infiltrate and reroute the flow and movement of information and capital, of energy and heat that are operative, yet often concealed or hidden from view, in the standardized mechanisms, closed systems, and infrastructures supporting and shaping the sites of artistic work and public reception beyond the gallery or the museum."[3]

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

In 2013, Richard Birkett invited Lewitt to co-curated And Materials and Money in Crisis at MUMOK (museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien) Vienna, Austria, based on the themes of a symposium by the same name that Lewitt had organized at Artist Space the previous year.https://artistsspace.org/programs/materials-money-crisis-event#biographies he was one eleven artists whose work was displayed therein.[4]

Lewitt received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2018) and that same year was appointed Teiger Mentor in the Fine Arts at Cornell University, Department of Art, Architecture and Planning. In 2014 Lewitt was selected for the NRW Kunststiftung “25/25/25” Committee Exhibition Award.

Monographs and artist books

Public Collections

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sam Lewitt . 2022-10-22 . Miguel Abreu Gallery . en-US.
  2. Web site: Sam Lewitt — Galerie Buchholz . 2022-10-22 . www.galeriebuchholz.de.
  3. Web site: Compression and Circulation: Sam Lewitt’s CURE (the Work) . 2022-10-22 . Z33 . en-GB.
  4. Web site: and Materials and Money and Crisis . 2015-09-22 . mumok.at.