Artist CV

Artist's statement

(b 1992NL. Lives and works in London)

Van Strien uses two-dimensional media to examine the nature of three-dimensional spaces in the built environment. Combining charcoal rubbing, laser-cut engraving and drawing, he articulates the tactile and visual limits of the public experience of buildings in urban environments. “Architecture is a part of our lived reality: simultaneously experienced visually, by the body and through countless forms of representation,” says van Strien. “It is integral to our history and context: a form of production and sociability, of power and exploitation. The architecture of our environment speaks: it is not mute.”

Solo exhibitions

2021: [Forthcoming], Tiny Pedestal Project, Dream Clinic Project Space, Columbus, OH
2020: A Pattern Language, The Stone Space, London
2019: Contextures, Two-Person Exhibition with Kavan Balasuriya, A-side B-side Gallery, London
2016: AEP: Schematic & Surface, Collaboration with Diana Abells, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
2016: A Trace Unfulfilled, Pearl Conard Gallery, Mansfield, OH
2015: Everywhere Is Here, Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus, OH

Group exhibitions

2021: [Forthcoming], NARS Foundation, Brooklyn; Re:store Re:new Re:imagine, Willesden Gallery, London
2020: Urban Reckoning, The Koppel Project, London; Leeds Summer Group Show, Leeds, (online); The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2020, Mall Galleries, London
2019: Maybe Something Will Appear, PADA Studios, Lisbon; A Clueless Pedestrian, Green Lens Studios, London; ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2019, Mall Galleries, London
2018: Easter Video Screening Edition, Galleri Bokboden, Bergen; Salon CCC, The Church of Saint-Merri, Paris (catalogue); Open Yards, Yards Project Space at Worthington Yards, Cleveland
2017: Works on Paper 2017, 19th Annual National Juried Competition & Exhibition, LBIF, New Jersey; Thesis, Urban Arts Space, Columbus; 2017 25th Annual Fergus Scholarship Award Exhibition, Urban Arts Space, Columbus
2016: Walking Through Glue, The University of Montana, Missoula (online); Alter + Combine, (SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing (catalogue)
2015: Blick Von Außen, Skylab Gallery, Columbus; Department of Art: Student Video Screening, Gateway Film Centre, Columbus; Small Works Exhibition, Roy G Biv, Columbus; Everywhere is Here, Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus; The Appearance of the Visible, Millworks Studio Exhibition, Columbus; Auto Show, Temp Collective, Columbus; You Are Here, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
2014: Autumn Projections, Mirage Gallery, Columbus, OH; Clyde & Co Art 2014 Art Awards, exhibition collection (2014 – 2015), London; Degree Show One, Central Saint Martins Fine Art Degree Show, London; Big Space, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London
2013: Open Studio Pt.2, Central Saint Martins, London; Star Food & Wine, Old Street, London; Education Reversed, Fotogalleriet, Oslo; Hot-One-Hundred, Schwartz Gallery, London; The Shoe Show, Podium, Oslo
2012: Untitled, Galleriet Steenstrupsgate, National Academy of the Arts, Oslo; Parasite Project, Concourse Gallery, Byam Shaw School of Art, London

Awards & residencies

2021: Artist-in-Residence (July – September), NARS Foundation, Brooklyn

2020
2019: Netherland-America Foundation Cultural Grant, New York City; New Platform Art Lab: Sustaining Art Practices (with Alison Turnbull), London; Artist-in-Residence (November), PADA Studios, Lisbon
: Artist-in-Residence (August), Buinho Creative Hub, Messejena
2018: Artist-in-Residence (July – September), USF Arts Centre, Bergen

2017: Shortlisted for The Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting & Sculpture, British School at Rome; Artist-in-Residence (September – November), Kunstnerhuset Messen, Ålvik
: Fergus Scholarship Award, Ohio State University
2016: Alumni Grants for Graduate Research & Scholarship, Ohio State University
2015: Arts & Humanities Graduate Research Grants Program, Ohio State University
2014: Graduate Teaching Associate, Tuition Remission / Stipend (3-year award), Ohio State University, USA; Arts & Humanities Graduate Research Grants Program, Ohio State University, USA; Shortlisted for the Herbert Smith Freehills Works in Print 2014 Arts Graduate Prize, London, UK; Selected for inclusion in the Clyde & Co 2014 Art Awards, London
2013: Erasmus Scholarship, National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway; Exhibition Grant, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway; Exhibition Grant, Fritt Ord, Oslo

Press & publications

2021: Short Essay, Carlos Diniz and The World Trade Center, Drawing Matter, Online; Interview, NPA Lab 2020: Alison Turnbull x Sam van Strien, New Platform Art, Online
2020: Conversation with Sebastian Reis, Long Range Studio Visit, PADA Studios, Online; Artist Talk, The Stone Space, London, UK; Exhibition Review, A Pattern Language, Georgina May Saunders, Online; Conference Presentation, Medium Conference, London School of Mosaic, London, UK
2018: Interview, Norway: Arts and Education Exchange, British Council Norway, Online
2017: Newspaper Article, Ryktet Om Ålviks Død Er Betydelig Overdrevet, Bergens Tidende, Online; MFA Thesis, American Electric Power: Surface, Model, & Text. Ohio State University, Online; Video Interview, Interview with Sam van Strien, Urban Arts Space, Online
2016: Exhibition Catalogue, Alter + Combine, (SCENE) Metrospace, Michigan State University.
2015: Article, MFA Students’ Work Displayed Outside The Gallery, The Lantern, Online
2014: Article, Less Common, Issue 5, Zones 1-6: The Cities Issue, UAL, Online

Collections

Art Gazette Collection, London

The Fergus Fund Collection, Columbus, OH

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands, The Hague

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Worthington Yards Collection, The Dalad Group, Cleveland, OH

Teaching

2021: Filmmaking Workshop Assistant, Sparks Film & Media Arts, London
2020: Creative Wellbeing Commission (Children’s Workshop), Free Space Project, London
2019: Cover Supervisor, Our Lady’s Covent High School, London
2016: Intermediate Drawing, Instructor, Ohio State University
2015: Beginners Drawing, Instructor, Ohio State University; Holography, Teaching Assistant, Ohio State University
2014: Beginners Drawing, Teaching Assistant, Ohio State University

Education

2017: MFA Painting & Drawing, Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, Ohio
2014: BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London
2013: Erasmus Exchange, National Academy of the Arts, Oslo
2011: Diploma in Foundation Studies, Byam Shaw School of Art, London