Sam Finkelstein (they/them) (b. 1992, New York) lives and works in Rockland, ME. Sam bought their first hammer and chisel on the way up to visit a friend in Thomaston five years ago and has been in Maine collaborating with rocks ever since. Sam's practice considers regenerative models for community, the power of ceremony, and interdisciplinary methods of looking / seeing. Sam’s budding interest in performance and public art is motivating new explorations in sculpting sound and circus.
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
rock land // Interloc // Thomaston, ME (November 2022)
Sam Finkelstein: The Early Years // Good Tern Gallery // Rockland, ME (May 2022)
Group Exhibitions
the House support itself // Fort Hall // Brunswick, ME (January 2024)
Landline // Personal Space // Vallejo, CA (September 2023)
Little Sparks // Lights Out // Norway, ME (August 2023)
The Art Show // Walpole Ontological Lab (and) Farm // Walpole, ME (July 2023)
In The Heat of the Night // Andrew Reed Gallery // New York, NY (July 2023)
This is Out of Hand // ICA at MECA&D // Portland, ME (July 2023)
Horizon Line // Andrew Reed Gallery // Miami, FL (March 2023)
The Soft Moon // Georgie’s // Brooklyn, NY (November 2022)
Group Show // Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture // Madison, ME (July 2022)
Art PM // Buoy Gallery // Kittery, ME (March 2022)
2020 CMCA Biennial // Center for Maine Contemporary Art // Rockland, ME (2020)
Menagerie // Duplex Gallery // New York, NY (2018)
826NYC, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY (2015)
Au revoir, mon petit List, Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY (2014)
Symposia
Boothbay Region Land Trust Symposium // Boothbay, ME (July 2023)
Andres Institute of Art Symposium // Brookline, NH (October 2022)
Hallowell Granite Symposium // Hallowell, ME (September 2021)
Nashua International Sculpture Symposium // Nashua, NH (May 2021)
Awards
Artist Springboard Grant // Maine Arts Commission (2024)
ARP Maine Project Grant // SPACE / National Endowment for the Arts // Portland (2023)
Education
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME (Summer 2022)
Hamilton College, B.A. in Sculpture, Clinton, NY (2010-2014)
Tyler School of Art Intensive, Philadelphia, PA (Summer 2013)
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy (Spring 2013)