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Visiting Artist Lecture: Sam Moyer

Thu Nov 13
2025
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ET
Einstein Auditorium
34 Stuyvesant Street, New York, NY 10003

Sam Moyer (b. 1983, Chicago, Illinois) earned a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University. Her work has been featured in national and international exhibitions at the Bass Museum, Miami, Florida; the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri; the Drawing Center, New York; the FLAG Art Foundation, New York; the Hill Art Foundation, New York; LAND, Los Angeles; MoMA PS1, Queens; the Parrish Art Museum, New York; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; and White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri.

Recent one-person exhibitions include Subject to change (2025) at Sean Kelly, New York, Circle of Confusion (2023) at Blum & Poe, LA, Memory Mine (2023) at the Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, Relief (2022) at Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, and Good Friend (2021) at Kayne Griffin, Los Angeles. Her large-scale outdoor sculpture Doors for Doris (2020), commissioned by Public Art Fund, was on view in the Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park, New York from September 2020 - October 2021.

Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; the Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Massachusetts; the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX; the Morgan Library, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Moyer currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Visiting Artist Lectures

Every year, our MFA students organize a series of Visiting Artist Lectures.

2025-26 artists include Shu Lea Cheang, Lucas Blalock, Carlie Trosclair, Ho Jae Kim, Bosco Sodi, Anthony Akinbola, Aaron King, Emily Mae Smith, Elana Herzog, Sam Moyer, Gina Beavers, and R. H. Quaytman.

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