Process and Practice: Sam Moyer in Conversation

In this virtual artist talk, 2024–25 Lab Grant Residency Artist Sam Moyer will discuss her experience working at Dieu Donné to develop her first series of handmade paper works. In her series Soft Mods, she used alternating layers of translucent abaca and pigmented cotton, in shades of Payne’s grey. Her large-scale window installation for the Hill Art Foundation used an open lattice structure to allow light to come through and interact with Isamu Noguchi’s sculpture Woman with Holes II. Working intuitively, Moyer manipulated paper pulp in a sculptural way, creating images that seem composed of light and shadow.

About Sam Moyer

Sam Moyer (b. 1983, Chicago, Illinois) earned a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University. Her work has been featured in national and international exhibitions at the Bass Museum, Miami, Florida; the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri; the Drawing Center, New York; the FLAG Art Foundation, New York; the Hill Art Foundation, New York; LAND, Los Angeles; MoMA PS1, Queens; the Parrish Art Museum, New York; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; and White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri.

Recent one-person exhibitions include Subject to change (2025) at Sean Kelly, New York, Circle of Confusion (2023) at Blum & Poe, LA, Memory Mine (2023) at the Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, Relief (2022) at Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, and Good Friend (2021) at Kayne Griffin, Los Angeles. Her large-scale outdoor sculpture Doors for Doris (2020), commissioned by Public Art Fund, was on view in the Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park, New York from September 2020 - October 2021.

Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; the Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Massachusetts; Jiménez-Colón Collection, Puerto Rico; the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX; the Morgan Library, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Moyer currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

https://www.skny.com/artists/sam-moyer

About Dieu Donné

Dieu Donné is the leading non-profit cultural institution dedicated to serving emerging and established artists through the collaborative creation of contemporary art using the process of hand papermaking.

Since 1976, Dieu Donné has introduced artists to the untapped potential of hand papermaking as an art medium through residencies, fellowships, exhibitions, workshops, artist talks, and publications. Through extensive collaborations with Master Papermakers, Dieu Donné works with artists from a wide variety of practices to explore the creative possibilities in hand papermaking – fostering experimentation and producing innovative works of art. Dieu Donné strives to teach a new visual language, providing a transformative experience that leads to artistic breakthroughs.

https://www.dieudonne.org

How to Attend

This online event will take place on Tuesday, December 9, 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET. Attendees can access the live event through Eventbrite’s Online Event Page. (Please note that you will need to log into Eventbrite to access the talk.) The talk will last approximately 45 minutes, followed by questions. This program is pay-what-you-can, with a suggested donation of $5.00.

All Dieu Donné virtual events include the option of live automated captioning. A captioned recording of this event will be posted online following the event.

This program is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and generous foundation and individual support.

Images:

1. Banner image of Sam Moyer and Tatiana Ginsberg working with paper pulp at Dieu Donné Studio. Photographed by Murray Hall.
2. Portrait of Sam Moyer by Murray Hall
3. Installation of view, Sam Moyer: Women with Holes, Hill Art Foundation, 2025; Courtesy of Hill Art Foundation
4. Sam Moyer, Soft Mod 15, handmade cotton and abaca paper, 2025. 24 1/2 x 18 1/2 in (62.2 x 47 cm).