Early life
Lewitt was born August 30, 1981, in Venice Beach, CA. He received a BFA from School of Visual Arts, NY and was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP) in 2004/5.Career
Lewitt is represented by theSelected solo exhibitions
* ''CURE (the Work)'', Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, BE (2020) * ''DREAMBOAT DIRTBLOCK'', Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, US (2020) * ''COVER'', Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, US (2018) * ''CORE (the “Work”)'', Frieze/BMW Open Work commission, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK (2018) * ''FILLER'', Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, DE (2017) * ''More Heat Than Light,'' Kunsthalle Basel, CH (2016) * ''More Heat Than Light (Airbnb)'', New York, US (2016) * ''Less Light Warm Words'', Swiss Institute, New York, US (2016) * ''More Heat Than Light'', CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US (2015) * ''Vebrannte Erde: Second Salvage'', Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Düren, DE (2014) * ''Casual Encounters'', Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, US (2013) * ''International Corrosion Fatigue'', Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, DE (2013) * ''0110_Universal-City_1010'', Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, DE (2011) * ''Total Immersion Environment'', Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, US (2011) * ''From A to Z and Back'', Galleria Franco Soffiantino, Turin, IT (2010) * ''From A to Z and Back'', Gallery Taka Ishii, Kyoto, JP (2009) * ''I hereby promise… etc''., Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, US (2008) * ''Printer, Scriptor: Folios'', Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln, DE (2008) * ''Patience...Fortitude'', Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, US (2007)Selected group exhibitions
* ''The Poet Engineers'', Miguel Abreu Gallery, NY, US (2021) * ''St. Elmo’s Fire,'' Rodeo Gallery, Pireus, GR (2021) * ''New Order: Art and Technology in the 21st Century'', curated by Michelle Quo, MoMA, New York, US (2019) * ''YOU: Works Chosen from the Foundation Lafayette Anticipations Collection'', Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR (cat.) (2019) * ''On Circulation'', curated by Axel Wieder, Kunsthalle Bergen, NO (2018) * ''Crash Test: the Molecular Turn'', curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, MoCo, Montpelier, FR (cat.) (2018) * ''Andere Mechanismen'', curated by Anthony Huberman, Secession, Wien, AT (cat.) (2018) * ''Venice Beinnale 2017: VIVA ARTE VIVA'', curated by Christine Macel, Venice, IT (cat.) (2017) * ''Sam Lewitt/Cheyney Thompson'', curated by Karel Císar, The House of Arts, Brno, CZ (2017) * ''A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions'', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US (2016) * ''Nature After Nature'', curated by Susanne Pfeffer, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, DE (cat.) (2014) * ''and Materials and Money and Crisis'', curated by Richard Birkett in dialog with Sam Lewitt, Museum für Moderner Kunst Ludwig Stiftung (MUMOK) Vienna, AT (cat.) (2013) * ''Whitney Biennial: 2012'', curated by Jay Sanders and Elisabeth Sussman, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US (cat.) (2012) * ''Quodlibet III'': ''Alphabets and Instruments'', Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin, DE (2011) * ''Time Again: Novel'', Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, US (2011) * ''The Evryali Score'', curated by Olivia Shao, Gallery David Zwirner, New York, US (2010) * ''Greater New York: The Baghdad Batteries'', curated by Olivia Shao, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US (cat.) (2010) * ''Quod Libet II'', Galerie Buchholz, Köln, DE (2009) * ''Re-gift'', curated by John Miller, Swiss Institute, New York, US (cat.) (2009) In 2013, Richard Birkett invited Lewitt to co-curated ''And Materials and Money in Crisis'' at MUMOK (museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien)Monographs and artist books
* Sam LewittPublic Collections
* Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, LEBN (private collection open to public) * Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR * Fondazione Memmo, Rome, IT (private collection open to public) * Foundation Lafayette, Paris, FR (private collection open to public) * Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, US * Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, DE * Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna, AT * Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US * Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, US * Pinault Collection at theReferences
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