Samuel Glass is a queer artist and photographer living and working in New York City. He received his BFA from Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Raised in the Lower East Side, he took up photography from an early age to make sense of his rapidly gentrifying neighborhood and its impact on the population and architecture. Now primarily focusing on themes surrounding sexuality, desire, substance, identity, relationships, and “otherness”, Sam explores the contemporary online queer landscape, focusing on digital image culture in respect to racialized homo-erotics from the perspective of a brown queer kid growing up in the digital age.
He’s exhibited his work at the Johnson Museum of Art and the Tjaden Galleries in Ithaca, as well as Allison Bradley Projects and The International Center of Photography in New York City. He’s apprenticed under Dorothea Rockburne and has been awarded the King Sang Wong Photography Award, the Fiona Pechukas Photography Grant, and the David R. Bean Prize in Fine Arts.