Sam Price

Sam is an artist based in New York City. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Industrial Design at Parsons School of Design, with a BFA and Architecture Minor from Cornell. Sam uses paint, sculpture, and digital media to explore the relationship of perception and creation. By invoking the perpetual human experience of searching for clarity from ambiguity, he honors a universal struggle to build meaning.

Through closed eyes, one sees “eigengrau,” German for intrinsic grey. This color condition — a subtly shifting collage of faded hues overwhelmed by darkness — is an experience that is universal yet ineffable. It is out of this visual uncertainty that every dream and many great ideas emerge.

Sam has appropriated this paradoxical state as an underlying framework for the conceptual and physical development of his art. From drawing out spontaneous imagery in the black backgrounds of his paintings, to the uncanny forms that emerge to illuminate his sculptural projections, eigengrau is the nexus uniting Sam's practice.

Sam's art has been featured in Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Boston City Hall, Miami Art Week, and one of 1stDibs' first cryptoart exhibitions. Additionally, he was accepted into the 2020 Best of SUNY and SUNY Chanc...

August 2024 — May 2026: MFA ID, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

August 2016 — May 2021: BFA, Architecture Minor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

July 2025: Pop-Up Perspective: "Overview Effect" (in collaboration with Ôvae), New York City, NY

May 2025: Art Preview Night & Artist Talk with Ôvae, New York City, NY

March 2025: Discovery Market, 53AD, Brooklyn, NY

September — November 2024: Hero/Heroine Gallery Grand Opening, New York, NY

September 2024: Subjective Art Festival, Lume Studios, New York, NY

September 2024: Global Oneness Day: Impact Investor Soiree, New York, NY

July 2024 — Present: Featured Artist, Office of MA Senator Cynthia Creem, MA State House, Boston, MA

June 2024: Art in the Park, Norwood Art Association and ART!, Norwood, MA

June 2024: Speedway Night Bazaar, Charles River Speedway, Brighton, MA

June 2024: Cambridge Arts River Festival, Cambridge, MA

June — July 2024: This is America, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA

June 2024: Brighton Bazaar, Elks Lodge, Allston, MA

June — July 2024: Obsolescence, Overlook Gallery, Brighton, MA

May 2024: Brighton Bazaar, Charles River Speedway, Brighton, MA

May 2024: Cornell Tech Open Studios, Cornell Tech (XR Collaboratorium), New York, NY

May 2024: Entwined: Visual and Textual Narratives, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA

April 2024: A2 Makers Market, Artisans Asylum, Allston, MA

April 2024: ...