Samuel Schwindt
Samuel Schwindt is a word|object|surface-smith. He is always looking for the maddest spectacles and vampiest explosions.
He received a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2019) and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from University of Illinois at Chicago (2024). Now, he works as commission-based leather-gear crafter, archivist, sculptor, curator, freelance writer and educator.
Recent exhibitions and project-sites include Gallery 400, the Gender and Sexuality Center at University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago Art Department, Evanston Art Center, Boccarra Art Brooklyn, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago Sculpture International Project Space, Side Street Studio Arts, the Leather Archives and Museum, Epiphany Center for the Arts and Parlour and Ramp, among others. His writing ranges from exhibition catalogues and artist statements for local artists, and news stories, reviews and essays for publications such as Another Chicago Magazine, Chicago Artist Writers, Sixty Inches from Center, F Newsmagazine, New City and Chicago Reader.
Find his work and publications at www.samuelschwindt.xyz
Seven Fingers and a Six Pack: Is AI Selling Queer Parties?
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Beyond Fire Island: End-of-Summer Reverie at The Dunes Resort, Michigan’s Queer Oasis
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