Sam McKinniss was born on 1985 and is an American abstract and figurative postmodern painter based in Brooklyn.
11 Facts About Sam McKinniss
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Sam McKinniss was born in Minnesota and grew up in Connecticut.
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Sam McKinniss graduated from the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland in 2005.
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Sam McKinniss received a BFA in painting from the Hartford Art School in Hartford, Connecticut in 2007, and an MFA from the Steinhardt School at New York University in 2013.
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Sam McKinniss's show "Egyptian Violet" opened at Team Gallery in New York in October 2016.
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Sam McKinniss made his first appearance at the Miami edition of the international art fair Art Basel in 2015.
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Sam McKinniss's subjects include reclining male nudes, images from popular culture, and floral still lifes.
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Sam McKinniss develops a symbolist vocabulary for contemporary figurative painting; he sources material primarily from online image searching.
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Sam McKinniss has made a large number of paintings that mimic the still-lifes of the 19th-century artist Henri Fantin-Latour, for example, White Roses in a Short Glass.
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Sam McKinniss painted a series of "men in repose" for the second issue of Adult.
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Sam McKinniss's painting of Lorde was the cover art of her 2017 album Melodrama NME magazine selected the cover for their list of the best album art of the 21st century so far and it received praise from commentators at Billboard, Paste and Fuse.