Naomi Sam is a transmedia 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 cyber-feminist methods of worlding, exploring relationships between bodies, environments, landscapes, nature, and technology in times of hypercapitalism.
Her work reflects on relics of the Anthropocene, posthumanism, environmentalism, digital alchemy, and spirituality in times of hypercapitalism. It investigates the narrative qualities of symbols, landscapes, and characters through multilayered multimedia processes, translating theoretical thought into fragmented, poetic forms of storytelling. Her projects encourage attentiveness to nonhuman voices and alternative temporalities, treating the planet as an active participant in alignment with contemporary posthuman feminist theory. Central to her practice is a material process that reimagines the context and purpose of materials and techniques, interweaving contemporary technologies with traditional methods of art making and fabrication.
Through this synthesis of methods and themes, Naomi’s practice shifts perspectives of scale, space, and time, serving as a catalyst for collective imagination beyond the dominant logics of social and economic systems.
Naomi holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Scenic Design from HFBK Hamburg and an MFA in Art and Technology with an Integrated Media specialization from the California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at Smart Objects, Human Resources, and RIP Space in Los Angeles, as well as in San Francisco, Vienna, and Hamburg.
CONTACT
naomisam.xyz@gmail.com
RESUME
PAST SHOWS
2025 Aftermath of Disiullusion at Automata, 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
2023 This is not a Place of Honor, at Calarts Art & Technology Midresidency Show, 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
2022 Desertgame, at LUPERCALIA festival, Mojave Desert
2021 (Young) Burning Issues at Kampnagel Hamburg
2019 schatten (eurydike sagt), Scene Design at Kampnagel, Hamburg
2018 Hills, at Isola Alicudi Group Show at Galerie Westwerk, Hamburg
