GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT

‘Sam Contis’ has been named a 2024 Grant Recipient by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery congratulates Sam Contis on being named a 2024 grant recipient in the visual arts by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Since its inception in 1963, the mission of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts has been to encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations.

My practice is rooted in photography and moving image. I work in close proximity to my subjects over extended periods of time, with the aim of making images and films that express possibility, intimacy, movement, and transformation. Among my central concerns are the figure and the landscape and their interconnectedness. I am interested in the capacity of images both to reinforce and to destabilize individual and collective beliefs about gender, identity, and place.

My current work focuses on the physicality of the female body. I am working in tandem on two projects that chronicle the passage of time while exploring physical exertion, artistic and athletic practice and repetition, collaboration, perception, and sustained attention.

– Sam Contis, January 2024.

Visit the FCA website to see all the grant recipients.

For more information about Sam Contis's work please email [email protected] or visit our website