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Born 1987 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Sam was raised in the American South in a small coastal Georgia town and then later in a midsized Florida city on the Gulf Coast.
Eventually relocating to Southern California 10 years ago.

Sam’s work is a response to personal inquiries in regard to the idea of the need for a “hero’s journey,” and explores social issues, systems of access/obstruction, physics, geology/geological time, symbology, mysticism, and other things seen and unseen. She has been a practicing artist and designer, chasing such inquiries since 2010.  

CV
2025 Shooting Stars, Struk Gallery, Lansing, MI
2024 PST Palm Springs Art Museum, Family+ Artists’ Workshop, Palm Springs, CA
Armory Arts Zine Fest, Pasadena, CA
2023 Obscured Messages, Group Exhibition, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2022 Creature Learning Brand Refresh, Los Angeles, CA
2022 OC Zine Fest, Orange County, CA
2019 Headspace Holiday Marketing Campaign, Production Assistant, Santa Monica, CA
2018-2019 Docuflorida II, Group Exhibition, TT Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum, Pensacola, Fl
2018 SXSW x Headspace Production Design Assistant, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Vagina Monologues, Communications & Set Design, Artel Gallery, Pensacola, FL
2015 POPRAGEOUS, Surface Pattern Designer & Communications Design, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Last Buffalo Art Show, Group Exhibition, Sluggo’s, Pensacola, FL
2012-2014 House Pencil Green, Production Artist, Pensacola, FL
2011 Nam June Psyche Archive by artist Valerie George, video editing & design, Pensacola, FL
2010 Diversionaries

RESIDENCIES
2024 High Desert Test Sites, A–Z West Work Trade Residency, Joshua Tree, CA

EDUCATION
2010 University of West Florida, BFA Digital Art with Graphic Design Concentration

CERTIFICATES
2018 Otis College of Art & Design, Typography

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Midnite Snack, Issue 1, featured photography
SGV 626 Zine
2020 The Uses of Anger visual adaptation of an essay by Audre Lorde (zine)

Samantha Axtell