Sam King
Sam King’s practice explores diverse issues such as transhumanism, masculinity and subjectivity in the digital age, as well as the utopian and dystopian potentialities of technological progress. Technically he combines traditional and ‘virtual’ registers of paint to obscure the boundary between organic and technologized life, to question the dispersion of our identities between physical and digital realms. Growing out of a period of recent illness, my latest series depict proxies of my own - male - bodily form in domestic spaces and intimate poses. It challenges social conceptions of ‘masculinity’ and its relation to emotions socialised as 'effeminate' such as vulnerability and fragility. Sam King (1995) is a British artist, living and working in London. He studied Fine Art at The Art Academy London, where he developed his technical skills and conceptual basis. Notably, he received The Jorge-Aguilar Artist Award and The Liberty Art Award (both 2018), and completed multiple artist residencies including PADA, Portugal, 2020 and Jardin Orange Artist Residency, China 2017. Recent exhibitions include The Artist’s Contemporary Atelier, Rea Fair, Pulp, The Florence Trust and London Design Week (2021).
