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.

Naomi holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Scenic Design from HFBK Hamburg and an MFA in Art and Technology from the California Institute of the Arts where she currently teaches in the Integrated Media specialization. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vienna, and Hamburg.

CONTACT
naomisam.xyz@gmail.com

RESUME


PAST SHOWS

2026 Earthbound Angel, in Earthbound, curated by Rip Space and Spectra Studio

2025 Aftermath of Disiullusion at Automata, Los Angeles

2025 s3r3nity_sp3llcast3rx2001 video,  in Embodied Frequencies at Smart Objects, Los Angeles

2024 s3r3nity_sp3llcast3rx2001 video, in Corporate Unwellness Group Show, curated by Schwindel LLC, Vienna, Austria

2024 The society of birds, in Birdculture, at Pallas Gallery, San Francisco

2024 s3r3nity_sp3llcast3erx2001, Thesis Show at Calarts, Los Angeles

2023 This is not a Place of Honor, at Calarts Art & Technology Midresidency Show, Los Angeles

2023 Looking for Evidence of the Virtual in a World that is disappointingly literal, at re:publica, Hamburg

2023 Opening of The Dirthole gallery project, Los Angeles

2023 Desert Interface, at Reimagining Art Institutions and Community at Human Resources, Los Angeles

2023 Desert Interface, at Speculum Fortunae at NonPlusUltra, Los Angeles

2023 Ancient Desert, for Punitive Worm Performance at 2220 Arts, Los Angeles

2022 Looking for Evidence of the Virtual in a World that is disappointingly Literal, at HfbK Grad Show, Hamburg

2022 Stuck in a bad Dream - Looking for Loopholes, at Center for Integrated Media, Calarts. Los Angeles

2022 Desertgame, at LUPERCALIA festival, Mojave Desert

2022 Fly on the Wings of Love, at HfbK Hamburg Show

2021 (Young) Burning Issues at Kampnagel Hamburg

2021 Video killed the Radio Star, at ASA Open Studios, Hamburg

2019 The Fetishization of the Wiener Schnitzel, at Anatolia Schnitzel, Vienna

2019 schatten (eurydike sagt), Scene Design at Kampnagel, Hamburg

2019 Baby don’t hurt me, at HfbK Hamburg Show

2018 Hills, at Isola Alicudi Group Show at Galerie Westwerk, Hamburg