Naomi Sam is an interdisciplinary artist from Vienna & Hamburg, based in Los Angeles. Her work spans installation, sculpture, painting, animation and video game, combining physical and digital elements into hybrid objects. Her practice creates speculative spheres for collective imagining of posthuman futures, through wordbuilding and play, exploring relationships between bodies, environments, landscapes, nature, technology, and hope in times of hypercapitalism.

Her work reflects on relics of the Anthropocene, posthumanism, environmentalism, digital alchemy, and spirituality. Her projects encourage attentiveness to nonhuman voices and alternative temporalities, treating the planet as an active participant in alignment with contemporary posthuman feminist theory. Working with metal, cables, screens, game systems, and fabricated environments, she reimagines the context and purpose of materials and techniques, interweaving contemporary technologies with traditional methods of art making and fabrication.

As a core member of RIP Space she leads technical production and design for exhibitions, public programming, and events. Her work has been shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vienna, and Hamburg. She holds a BFA in Scenic Design from HFBK Hamburg and an MFA in Art and Technology from the California Institute of the Arts, where she is currently teaching in the MFA Integrated Media concentration.

CONTACT
naomisam.xyz@gmail.com

education

2024 Master of Fine Arts in Art&Technology and Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts

2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Scenography/Scenic Design - Prof. Raimund Bauer, HFBK Hamburg

2017 Bachelor of Science, Urban Planning, HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany

2014 Bachelor of Arts (not completed), Theater- Film und Media Studies, University Vienna, Austria

2013 Carpentry Apprenticeship Diploma