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Artists›Sam Moyer

Sam Moyer

1983

WA-00003022

Chicago, IL, USA

Painting

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

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Publications Referenced

90%

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ1671106

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Ground Work (Field Revision)

Sean Kelly Gallery

2026

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Faktura / Tektonika

Sean Kelly Gallery

2025

Field Verification (6 fields)

4 cross-verified · 2 single-source

Primary mediumWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
BiographyWikipedia + Unknown· 88%✓
LocationArtsy + Gallery· 85%✓
NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%
DeceasedUnknown· 20%

Source Registry (4)

Sean-Kellyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/sam-moyer
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Hauser-Wirthhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/sam-moyer
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Blum-Poehttps://www.artsy.net/artist/sam-moyer
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About

Why this artist matters now

Sam Moyer is an American painter whose practice engages abstraction through layered, translucent surfaces and chromatic intensity. Working in Brooklyn, her paintings build spatial depth through accumulated glazes and gestural marks that resist linear composition. Her work extends a lineage of color-field investigation while introducing contemporary material concerns and formal rigor. Moyer's canvases operate between structure and spontaneity, creating visual fields that reward sustained looking.

Source: Sean Kelly · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Whitney Museum of American Art

Canonical record

Artworks (7)

WattsOS

Leaflet 2

2025 · Etching and aquatint

28 1/4 × 21" (71.8 × 53.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Leaflet 1

2025 · Etching and aquatint

30 3/4 × 24 1/4" (78.1 × 61.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Two Way Mirror

2022 · Aquatint

plate: 22 1/16 × 17 9/16" (56 × 44.6 cm); sheet: 28 3/8 × 23 1/2" (72.1 × 59.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

R.R. Echo

2022 · Lithograph

sheet and composition: 44 × 30" (111.8 × 76.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

MOON SUN

2021 · Lithograph

composition: 39 1/2 × 30" (100.3 × 76.2 cm); sheet: 49 1/2 × 37 3/4" (125.7 × 95.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

9000 lb. Line

2018 · Etching and aquatint

plate: 38 5/16 × 24 13/16" (97.3 × 63.1 cm); sheet: 43 9/16 × 33 9/16" (110.6 × 85.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Clean Weave

2011 · Brush and ink on paper

Sheet (sight): 17 7/8 × 23 1/2 in. (45.4 × 59.7 cm) Image (sight): 17 7/8 × 23 1/2 in. (45.4 × 59.7 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Artwork sources (2)

7 published of 7 catalogued · 4 with image

MoMA
6 published4 img
Whitney
1 published

Record

Images

Art Institute of Chicago

Artsy

Relationships

Peers & Context16

Julian Charrièreco-exhibited Lindsay Adamsco-exhibited James Casebereco-exhibited Jose Dávilaco-exhibited Donna Huancaco-exhibited Hugo McCloudco-exhibited

Collections2

Whitney Museum of American Art Sean Kelly Gallery

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery

Sean Kelly Gallery

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

Background

Education

Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Visual Arts

Yale University

Visual Arts

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Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Ground Work (Field Revision)

2026

Exhibition Ground Work (Field Revision)Sean Kelly Gallery

2026

Group Exhibition Faktura / Tektonika

2025

Exhibition Faktura / Tektonika Sean Kelly Gallery

2025