Sam Sundius's practice investigates the body and its relationship to memory. They work across disciplines of sculpture, installation, drawing, and poetry to explore concepts of mortality, cognitive fidelity, craft, white patriarchal control, and the reliability of memory. Many of their sculptures and drawings integrate fiber and found objects; materials with their own histories and corporal ties. Sundius's works often indexes the body (using their own hair, empty clothing and wax extremities) without presenting it whole. This ambiguity creates a stronger connection to malaise, intergenerational trauma, and the unknown: a tool for inching in on repressed memory and the lingering effects of psycho-sexual abuse.
Sam Sundius is a multidisciplinary artist in New York City. They received a B.A. from Hunter College in Drawing and English in 2014, and have studied at the Art Students League in New York and l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts in Paris. Sundius' work has been shown around New York, including at the Governors Island Art Fair and at the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art and has been written about in the Gothamist and Textile Plus. They participated in residencies on Governors Island in 2020 and 2021 and are the recipient of the NYFA City Artist Corps Grant and the Queens Art Fund New Work Grant.
