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
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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​
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS​
2018 Solo show: Housing Crisis - Attenborough Arts Centre ​
2016 Solo show: Our Family - BBC Leicester, 9 St Nicholas Place​
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2020 Diversity in Architecture Loughborough University - Lu-arc Summer Discussion Series
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