Samantha Box’s work has been recently exhibited at the Houston Center of Photography, DePaul Art Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Light Work, Open Society Foundation, ICP Museum, and at Le Rencontres d’Arles. Box has been an artist-in-residence at the Center of Photography at Woodstock, Visual Studies Workshop, and Light Work. She has been awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Photography in 2010 and 2022, En Foco Fellowship, and Silver Eye Fellowship. In 2023, she was shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize, the Louis Roederer Discovery Award, and the Prix De La Photo Madame Figaro. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and Harvard Art Museums. She holds an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from the ICP-Bard College and a certificate in Photojournalism and Documentary Studies from the International Center of Photography. Box was a 2021 AIM Fellow at The Bronx Museum.

Samantha Box’s work was exhibited at The Bronx Museum in Part Two of Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial, on view from April 12 – June 16, 2024.

Portal, 2022
Digital collage printed as archival inkjet print, collaged with secondary archival inkjet print elements
32 x 40 inches

Untitled (Gold), 2023
Digital collage printed as archival inkjet print, collaged with secondary archival inkjet print elements
32 x 40 inches

Both works are courtesy of the artist

Portal, 2022 and Untitled (Gold), 2023 are recent works from my expanding body of work, Caribbean Dreams, an ongoing series of complex studio tableaux and still-lifes of familial and regionally- referent objects, produce and plants, onto which family and vernacular images, fruit stickers, stamps, packaging, and receipts are collaged.

As a whole, the constructed, iterative, and unpredictable compositions of Caribbean Dreams examine structures of exodus and diaspora and embody an exploration of the artist’s multiple diasporic Caribbean histories and identities.

In these two images, the exposure of the contours of the studio reveals its artifice, underscoring the historic use of this space in creating the myth of a Caribbean paradise; from this break, questions of value—and how value is created—desire, and commodification, and the systems that drive those dynamics of power, as related to the Caribbean, arise.