Sam Ekwurtzel (b. 1983) lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions include: Renderings, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Room Temperature, The Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery at SUNY Purchase, NY (2019); Late Morning Early Spring, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (2016); Public Sector, Simone Subal Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL (2014); Dunnage, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (2014); and The ghost in the machine, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (2014). Past group exhibitions include: CTRL V, Am Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna, Austria (2024); The Devil you Know, Simone Subal Gallery, New York (2022); Glass Age, Helena Anrather, New York (2019); LISTE, Simone Subal Gallery, Basel, Switzerland (2018); Redirecting, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (2017); The public sphere, Green Farm project, NY (2017); Fieldwork, curated by Nicholas Baume, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL (2014); Sunny in the Furnace (with Aki Sasamoto), The Kitchen, New York, NY (2014); Centripetal March (with Aki Sasamoto), Chocolate Factory Theater, New York, NY (2012); It’s When It’s Gone That You Really Notice It, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (2012); and A Failed Entertainment, Virginia Commonwealth University Fine Arts Gallery, Richmond, VA (2011). Ekwurtzel has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships including the Windgate Fellowship, Fountainhead Fellowship, Alice C. Cole Fellowship, Shifting Foundation Grant, Visual Arts Sea Grant, and Oscar Williams and Gene Derwood Grant.