Sami Hopkins is an artist, writer-researcher, and musician. Their practice explores how sense and meaning are articulated through the construction of subjectivity in social, material, and symbolic paradigms. Across mediums, they interpret ideas of madness, magic, belief, agency, and self-organization, often turning to ambivalence as a condition that animates psychic and social life and generates its own aesthetic logic. Their work draws on histories of consciousness, social formation, psychological inquiry and treatment, and speculative thought. 

Current interests include: Mad studies; noise, improvised music; magic (illusion) and deception; contemporary myths, cosmologies, and animisms; logistical nightmares, bureaucratic technologies; critical psychology, depth psychology, theories of distress; philosophies of psychological remediation, cognitive interventions and ableist logics; social contracts, relationships of exchange; uses of poetics.

Sami recently completed a certificate in Labor Studies at CUNY School for Labor and Urban Studies. They previously studied at Berklee College of Music and have held positions at the Cooper Gallery at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the Institute for Contemporary Art Boston, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and e-flux. Recent work, projects, and presentations include: Christiania Research Residency (2023), ISSUE Project Room Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship (2021), Recess Critical Writing Fellowship (2020), The Studio Institute’s Museum Education Practicum (2019), and openwork Journal’s editorial team at Columbia University. Sami has received generous support from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and the Performing Arts Fund Netherlands.




Full CV available on request.
For inquiries, contact samihpkns+studio@gmail.com.

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