Education
2017 Master of Fine Art Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis MN
2015 Bachelor of Fine Art Honors Wayne State University, Detroit MI
2012 Associate of Art, Macomb Community College, Warren MI
2012 Associate of General Studies, Macomb Community College, Warren MI
Awards/Grants/Fellowships
2015 Irving D Reed Honors College Award
2015 Jurors Award, MEGA
2015 Margaret R. Humberger Scholarship
Exhibition Record:
Solo Shows
09/2016 Finding my Feelings, Sculpting Experiences, Minneapolis MN
Group Shows
10/2021 La Gatita Amable, Detroit MI
05/2021 Broken (America) An Art Pop-up, Detroit MI
05/2021 Macomb County Art Teacher Show 2021, Mount Clemens MI
04/2021 Hatchback 15, Hamtramck MI
01/2021 Michigan Annual XLVIII, Mount Clemens, MI
11/2020 Worldwide Juried Online Art Show, online
02/2019 Ojos Rojos, Detroit, MI
12/2019 Macomb Faculty and Staff, Warren, MI
12/2019 Cariño, Detroit, MI
03/12/2018 Traditional/Contemporary, Inver Hills, MN
10/2017 Sculpture X, Detroit, MI
05/2017 8-Bit, Hamtramck, MI
05/12/2017 Thesis Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
03/2017 Women, Detroit MI
02/2017 Trump: Backward-Forward, Minneapolis MN
01/2017 Disruption: 2017 Volunteer Biennial, Minneapolis MN
10/2016 littleSCULPTURE, Pittsburgh PA
09/09/2016 AP-OP-TO-SIS, Minneapolis MN
09/08/2016 COnfluence, Regis Center for the Art, Minneapolis MN
03/2016 MCAD MFA at SOOVAC, Minneapolis MN
01/2016 Minnesota Mean: The Students Take Measure, Minneapolis MN
08/2015 Meeting Waters, Minneapolis MN
06/10/2015 Emerging Artists, Anton Art Center, Mt. Clemons, MI
05/2015 MEGA, Grand Rapids MI
04/24/2015 Undergraduates, James Pearson Duffy Gallery, Detroit, MI
03/07/2015 Women, Detroit, MI
03/2015 Virtual Insanity, Detroit MI
01/24/2015 Graduating Seniors Exhibition, Detroit MI
01/2015 Michigan Annual XLII, Mount Clemens MI
09/2014 ArtPrize, Grand Rapids Mi
08/2014 If you Build it, They will Come, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit MI
08/2014 Call For Art, Dancing Dog Gallery, Ann Arbor MI
08/2014 Corpus Illuminata, Tangent Gallery, Detroit MI
04/2014 Scope, Wayne State University Undergraduate Exhibition, Detroit MI
03/08/2014 Women's Show, Contemporary Art Institute Detroit, Detroit MI
01/2014 Michigan Annual, Anton Art Center, Mt Clemens MI
Professional Experience
2021- Adjunct Instructor, Saint Clair County Community College, Port Huron, MI
2020 - Freelance Artists, Display Group, Detroit, MI
2020 - Freelance Artists, Chef Mike Album Cover, MI
2019-2021 - Adjunct Instructor, Macomb Community College, Warren, MI
2019 - Art Coordinator, Macomb Community College, Warren, MI
2017 - Intern, Kunstverein Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
2016 - Installation Intern; Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2016 - Exhibition Installer; Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2015-17 - 3D Shop assistant; Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2015 - MFA Studio Monitor assistant; Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Lectures, Presentations, Workshops
2022 - Professional Practice Talk, Auburn University
2021- PCA ACA Conference, Art and Design, Which Brow
2022 - PCA ACA Conference, Art and Design, Girls to the Front, Women in Contemporary Art
2018 - Visiting Artists, University of Wisconsin Stout
2017 - Sculpture X Symposium, Demystifying Grad School, Detroit MI
Curation
04/2018 - Traditional/Contemporary, Inver Hills, MN
Bibliography
Star Tribune, May 24th 2017, "Artcetera: A Trip to Hades with Minneapolis Artist Samantha Russell", Interview by: Alicia Eier
Barbed, Issue #4 (Spring 2016): p.74-75
Foreign Languages Spoken
Intermediate German, spoken and written