About
Samuel Swope received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Missouri State University in 2007 and a Master of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. Merging multiple media and engineering practices, Swope constructs and controls aesthetic systems that work with air and are often themselves airborne. Throughout his research and studio practice he concerns the behavioral dimensions of control processes, and he often engages with issues on hybridity, atmosphere, autonomy, and the non-human. From 2018 - 2019 he was a Visiting Artist faculty member for the Art and Technology Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibition venues include de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong; Krupic Kersting Gallery, Cologne, Germany; Design Society, Shenzhen, China; Lotsremark, Basel, Switzerland; and Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China.
RESEARCH
Technology | Installation | Flight & Air as Medium
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Ready\Set\Fulfill. collaboration with Andrew Luk. de Sarthe Gallery. Hong Kong
2018 Ecotone. Design Society, Shenzhen, China
2017 Currents. Lotsremark. Basel, Switzerland
Dead Air. 100ft. Park. Hong Kong
2016 Hyperobject: Rendering the Non-human. duo-solo with Fito Segrera. Chronus Art Center. Shanghai, China
2012 ta-ta-ta-ta-ta->. Gallery Exit. Hong Kong
SELECT GROUP EXHIBTIONS
2020. Hunter/Killer. Krupic Kersting Gallery. Cologne, Germany
2019 On the Road. Sichuan Art Museum. Sichuan, China
2018 Conversations. Krupic Kersting Gallery. Cologne, Germany
2017 On the Road. Guan Shan Yue Museum. Shenzhen, China
The Garden. Chi Art Space. K11 Art Foundation. Hong Kong
[dis][locate]. Chronus Art Center. Shanghai, China
“Greater China - Here, There, and Everywhere.” LOOP Barcelona. Spain
Aspirations of Flight. Hong Kong Arts Centre. Hong Kong
2016 ➞. Blindspot Gallery. Hong Kong
2015 FILE 2015. Sao Paulo, Brazil