Bio
Sam Angel (b. 1987, KY) received her BFA from Watkins College of Art, Design & Film in 2012. Angel is a two time Silver ADDY award winner for her commercial portrait work and a 2020 recipient of a Madison On My Mind project grant from Metro Arts, supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her wetplate collodion imagery exploring long exposures of moths won a grand prize with the New York Center for Photographic Arts. Angel’s work has been featured in multiple books (The World of Marty Stuart, EXIT INN/ 50 years), publications (SOLA Journal (UK), and Journal of Grievances, New York), and in collections with Watkins College, Murray State, and Hutton Hotel (Nashville, TN). As well as a recipient of artist residencies with Art & Soul (NM), Paducah A.I.R. (KY), and Brydcliffe (NY).

Statement
Sam Angel’s work explores topics of vulnerability, the human experience, and connections found in the everyday and the unseen natural world. Through use of long exposure photographic techniques and alternative process printing, her photographs investigate new ways of seeing unmonumental phenomena such as snow, moths flying, or repeating patterns in nature. Angel creates handmade artist books alongside photographic prints regarding photographs as objects of contemplation.