Christopher Samuel
About
Christopher Samuel is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in identity and disability politics.
Often echoing the many facets of his own lived experience as a Black disabled man, his work tells stories, highlighting the often unseen experiences of his day to day life and those of others in similar circumstances.
His practice includes small detailed ink drawings, film, print, audio, research, and large installations.
Samuel works alongside galleries, museums, archives and other institutions to address missing representation in our cultural spaces.
EDUCATION
2014-17 BA (Hons) Fine Art, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
2013-14 BTEC Art and Design, Hereward College, Coventry, UK
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2023 Everywhere and Nowhere - National Trust, Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, and University of Leicester, UK
2020 The Full Light of Day - VAE Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
2019 THE IDLE INDEX - Phoenix Leicester Arts Centre/The Gallery - De Montfort University/Attenborough Arts Centre
2018-19 AB&B COMMISSION - Welcome Inn - , AB&B - Blackpool, UK
2019 DMU Mentor Awards, De Montfort University
2014 The Lodge Hotel - Hereward College
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Solo show: Housing Crisis - Attenborough Arts Centre
2016 Solo show: Our Family - BBC Leicester, 9 St Nicholas Place
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Cared For Network - Careful Networks Online
2021 Swinging in the Wind - The Gallery, DeMontford University Leicester, UK
2021 / 2022 What You Do Not See - Hounslow Library, London, UK
2020 Visions in the Nunnery - Visions
2020 - Bow Arts, London UK
2020 The Future is Loading - Shape Open 2020, Online
2019 THE IDLE INDEX - Phoenix Leicester Arts Centre/The Gallery - De Montfort University/Attenborough Arts Centre
2017 LoveArt - New Walk Museum and Art Gallery
2017 Emancipation? - Attenborough Arts Centre
2016 Outside In National: Radical Craft - Alternative Ways of Making
2013 Impact Art Fair. Block 336, Brixton, London
2013 Outside In: Central - Compton Verney Art Gallery
2013 N22OPENSTUDIOS - The Chocolate Factory, Clarendon Road, London
2012-13 Outside In: National - Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2012 Shape Open - Portobello Gallery 6 Thorpe Close London
2012 Tight Modern - Touring
TALKS / LECTURES / CONFERENCES
2023 Unseen: Archiving the Hidden Black Disabled Experience: In Conversation / Wellcome Collection London and Online
2023 Object Memory: Artist Talk / Phoenix Leicester
2023 Open College of the Arts & The Human LIbrary: Artist Talk / Online
2022 Unlimited Festival 2022: Artist Talk / Southbank Centre, London
2022 TATE MODERN LATES: Art Chats with Senior Creative Producer, Liat Rosenthal
2022 DANC Hybrid Networking event @ HOME Manchester
2022 Attenborough Art Centre: Artist talk
2021 DANC Jennifer Gilbert / Disabled Artists Networking Community / Plus Tate Network
2021Exploring Research: Nothing About Us Without Us, The Wellcome Collection
2021 Cities: The City in British Art Working Class British Arts Network
2021 Museums on Prescription National Portrait Gallery / Tate Online
2021 A Conversation on Sex with Cancer Sex With Cancer / Battersea Arts Centre
2021 The Creative Manifesto Assembly / University of the Arts London
2021 Artist’s Talk What You Do Not See / Hounslow Library
2021 Critical and Creative Approaches to Disability / Illinois State University
2020 Diversity in Architecture Loughborough University - Lu-arc Summer Discussion Series