Sam Vernon
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Sam Vernon (born 1987){{cite web |title=Sam Vernon |url=http://coneyartwalls.com/past-murals/sam-vernon |website=Coney Art Walls |access-date=2 August 2021}} is an installation and performance artist. She works in various media to create her artwork, including sculpture, paintings and photographs. She is interested in "honor[ing] the past while revising historical memory" through works that explore her own personal identity.{{Cite web|url=http://www.samvernon.com/artist-bio/|title=Artist Bio - sam vernon|website=www.samvernon.com|access-date=2018-05-02}} Several of her art pieces also convey a certain narrative, and this is done through Vernon's various Xerox drawings.
Early life
Sam Vernon was born in Brooklyn, NY and attended Suitland High School.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/arts/design/suitland-high-school-a-maryland-arts-crucible.html|title=Against Tough Odds, a High School Arts Program Fosters Success|last=Spivack|first=Miranda S.|date=May 3, 2016|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
Education
Sam Vernon earned her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2009 and her MFA in Painting/Printmaking at Yale School of Art in 2015.{{Cite news|url=http://upr.org/post/artist-sam-vernon-mondays-access-utah|title=Artist Sam Vernon on Monday's Access Utah|last=Williams|first=Tom|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en}}
Career
Vernon was included in the 2013 group exhibition Pattern Recognition at MoCADA.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/catie-keck/pattern-recognition-mocada_b_3661101.html|title=Pattern Recognition Opens at MoCADA|last=Keck|first=Catie|date=July 26, 2013|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-10}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/935268/looking-for-the-tradition-of-black-abstraction-at-mocada|title=Looking for the Tradition of Black Abstraction at MoCADA {{!}} Artinfo|work=Artinfo|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en}} In 2016 she presented the large installation How Ghosts Sleep (Seattle) at the Seattle Art Museum in 2016.{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/24/disguise-seattle-art-museum_n_7648248.html|title=Global African Artists Explore The Meaning of Disguise in the 21st Century|last=Frank|first=Priscilla|date=June 24, 2015|work=Huffington Post|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en-US}} She contributed to Jeffrey Deitch's 2016 Coney Art Walls project.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jaime-rojo-steven-harrington/coney-island-art-walls-2016_b_10465646.html|title=Artists Bring 22 New Murals To Coney Art Walls 2016|last=Harrington|first=Jaime Rojo & Steven|date=June 15, 2016|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-10}}
In September 2016, Vernon presented the installation Rage Wave in a partner program between Interstitial gallery in Georgetown and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.{{Cite web|url=http://artbeat.seattle.gov/2016/09/27/seattle-office-of-arts-culture-presents-rage-wave-by-sam-vernon/|title=Seattle Office of Arts & Culture presents Rage Wave by Sam Vernon|website=artbeat.seattle.gov|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-02}} The work was featured in both Interstitial and Seattle Presents gallery. The multimedia piece involved xerox copies of photographs, drawings and writings exploring themes of systematic racism and exploitation in African American history.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/09/19/24568262/the-crashing-of-sam-vernons-rage-wave-in-seattle|title=The Crashing of Sam Vernon's Rage Wave in Seattle|work=The Stranger|access-date=2018-05-02|language=en}}
Vernon's often large-scale work draws on themes of oppression, nightmares, and memories.{{Cite web|url=http://www.complex.com/style/2015/02/young-black-artists-to-watch/|title=15 Young Black Artists Making Waves in the Art World|website=Complex|language=en|access-date=2018-03-10}} Vernon makes drawings, installations, paintings and sculptural components. Her installation and performances evoke African-American history through her exploration of personal narrative and identity.{{Cite news|url=http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2575077/colonial-history-explored-in-rage-wave-by-sam-vernon-at|title=Colonial history explored in "Rage Wave" by Sam Vernon at Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography {{!}} Artinfo|work=Artinfo|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en}}
Vernon is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts, where she teaches printmaking.{{Cite web|url=https://portal.cca.edu/people/sam.vernon/|title=CCA Portal – Sam Vernon|website=portal.cca.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-03-10}}
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