Education
1996 – 98 MFA, Cornell University, New York
1993 – 96 BA (Hons., Loughborough College of Art and Design
Residencies and Fellowships
2009 – 10 Artist in Resident, Irish Museum of Modern Art
2002 – 04 Fellow, Royal Academy Schools, London
Selected Exhibitions
2012
2011
- At Fifty: Krannert Art Museum, 1961-2011, Krannert Art Museum, USA
- One Hour Photo, Biel/Bienne
International Photography Festival, Switzerland
2009 - 10
- Still and Still Moving (solo), The Process Room at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- Forever is Never (solo), Herbert F Johnson Museum, NY, USA
- Unnatural Selection, Londonewcastle Project Space, Redchurch Street, London
- Nothing is Lost, (solo), Stephen Haller Gallery, New York
- Sihlhallenstrasse Neunzehn, Sihlhallenstrasse 19, Zurich, Switzerland
- Explum 2010, International Festival of Contemporary Art, Murcia, Spain
- Context, The Pingyao International Photography Festival, China
2008
- Invisible Rays - The Surrealism Legacy, curated by Michael Rush, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis, USA
- Destilando Territorios Comunes, Museum Palacio Consistorial, Cartegena, Spain
- Light Divided - Art After Dark, curated by Ben Austin, Louise Blouin Institute, London
- The Earth Eaters, Decasia, Late Night at the Whitechapel, Whitechapel Gallery, London
- All The Things Between, Photography and Video from Europe and North America, Inter Art Gallery, Beijing
2006 - 07
- Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde, Home House, London
- Color, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York
- We Are Just Watching, site responsive video and sound installation, Great Eastern Hotel, London
- A Woman on Paper, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York
- Field of Vision, Beijing New Art Projects, Beijing, (Curated by the Gao Brothers)
- Miss Mao, Blacklist Projects, London
- Disjecta Membra, Wyer Gallery, London
2000 - 03
- R A Schools and Sackler Wing Café Gallery, Royal Academy, London (solo)
- The Distance Between Us, Catto Contemporary, London (solo)
- Jumelage at the 4th Sharjah Biennale, U.A.E.
- ‘Housebound’: sound and digital installation, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
- Random Diversity’, Birmingham Art Festival
- Digital Print Portfolio, Premium,s Sackler Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Collections
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Krannert Art Museum, USA
Herbert F Johnson Museum, USA
Museum Palacio Consistorial, Cartagena, Spain
Rose Art Museum, USA
University of Hertfordshire, England
Awards
2011 Perlmutter Award, Rose Art Museum, USA
2009 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England
Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Institute Award
2008 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England
2007 Elephant Trust Grant for the Arts
2006 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England
Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Institute Award
2003 Research Grant, Research Board, University of Sharjah. U.A.E.
2000 Grants for Individual Artists, Arts Council Great Britain
1997 CCA Grant, USA
Recent Talks/Public Lectures
- Artist Lecture, Rose Art Museum, USA
- An Evening with Sam Jury, The International Center of Photography, New York
- Artist Lecture, Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
- Michael Rush speaks with Sam Jury, Rush Interactive on Art on Air (radio interview)
- IMMA Discussion Series - ‘From Process to Practice’ chaired by Valerie Connor
- Artist Talk, Feminine Research Group, Songzhuang, Beijing, China
- Sam Jury – Art Talk, University of Hertfordshire, England
Press and Publications
2010
'Sam Jury - Review', Edward Leffingwell, Art in America, Oct 2010, pg 128
‘Photographic Memory’, Barbara Harrison, NBC Washington, 5 May 2010
'One Hour Photo,' at the Katzen Arts Center, Jessica Dawson, The Washington Post, 7 May, 2010
Blurred and Renewed, Sam Jury speaks at the Johnson, Sarah Carpenter, Cornell Daily Sun, 13 April
Artistic video blurs reality into fantasy, Matthew Reis, The Ithacan, February 4th, 2010
The Blurring of Identity Sam Jury challenges the portrait, Emily Greenberg, Cornell Daily Sun, 26 January
2008 - 09
‘Sam Jury – Stasis’, Leslie Deere, Glass Magazine, Sept 2009
Catalogue, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Sept 2009
‘Who Are You Looking At?’, Michael Rush on Sam Jury, Michael Rush, Art on Paper Magazine, March/April,
'All The Things Between', Malcolm Ferris, Art Map Magazine, China, July, 2008
‘All The Things Between’, PICS Magazine, China, September 2008, pg 113 – 119
2007
‘Come Up and See My Etchings', Emily Crichton-Miller, How to Spend It, Financial Times
Magazine, Sat 01 Dec, 2007
'Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde',Theron Schmidt, The Artist's Newsletter,Dec, 2007
'Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde', Jessica Lack,
The Guardian, Sat Oct 20, 2007
We Are Just Watching’, Time Out, 7 May 2007
Celeste Art Prize, London, (catalogue)
‘Views of a Woman’, A Woman on Paper, New York Sun, 15 January 2007
2005- 06
‘Field of Vision’, David Drakeford, Beijing Today, 15 September 2006
‘Field of Vision’, Culture TV Gallery, 9 September 2006
‘Eastern Promise’, Miss Mao, Francesca Gavin, BBC Collective, 27 July 2006
'Zoo Art Fair 2005', Emerging Spaces, (catalogue)
2002 - 2003
‘Sam Jury, The Distance Between Us’, Creative Review, 22 September
‘Digital Imagery, Painting & Printmaking by Sam Jury’, Ambit Magazine, No. 167, 2002