Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2019 “Aeromantic”, BAU Gallery, Beacon NY
2016 "Regeneration", Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon NY
2013 “echoes assembling”, Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon NY
1999 “Illuminations”, Clapham Art Gallery, London, UK
1998 “Street Vision”, Clapham Art Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Shows:
2019 “Escape/ism”, Atlantic Gallery, NYC
2019 “The imPerfect Poetics of Place”, Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon NY
2018 “The Print Effect”, Manhattan Graphics, NYC
2018 "Freedom of the Press", Westbeth Gallery, NYC
2017 "Fight or Flight", The Painting Center, NYC
2017 "Persistent Song V", Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon NY
2016 “NYC Summer Invitational”, George Billis Gallery, NYC
2016 “Archipelago”, Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon NY
2015 "The Wind Will Carry Us", Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon NY
2014 "SAGA Prints", The Old Print Shop, NYC
2014 "Rollin on the River", Garrison Art Center, Garrison NY
2013 “forgotten dreams”, Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon NY
2013 “Drawn to New York”, City College of New York, NYC
Education:
1988-1990 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design Halifax (BFA), Nova Scotia
1985-1987 Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA program), Cleveland, Ohio
Samantha Beste grew up in Manhattan, beginning life-drawing and anatomy classes at 11 years old at the Art Students League of NY. At 14 she was accepted into the Hunter College Florence Summer Studio Art & Art History Program, which inspired her to leave high school at 16 and return to Italy to study painting. She spent two years living in Florence and painting at S.A.C.I.. Samantha then moved back to America to pursue her BFA at Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio, where she painted in the old Ford Factory for a year and a half, before being awarded a gallery internship for a year in NYC. Samantha then continued her studies in Canada, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Art at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, in Halifax, N.S..
Samantha has exhibited in New York and abroad ( particularly in London, England, where she lived for a decade after art school). Samantha is now based in Beacon, N.Y.