About the Artist
Artist Biography
你好！我的名字是 Samson Huang（又名 Sam），感谢您光顾我的商店，里面摆满了我的画作和其他艺术作品。 我是在坦帕湾地区工作的艺术家。 我追随我对艺术的热爱的故事是一种毅力和承诺。
1970 年代初，当我的家人从台湾移民到曼哈顿下东区时，我 9 岁时的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。 进入一个新的环境并且不懂英语，为了应对新文化的冲击，我迅速发展了我的观察能力和描绘图像的能力。 随着我的英语水平提高，纽约市成为了我的游乐场，提供了多种多样的人和文化。 我在纽约经历的每一个方面都让我着迷，这有助于培养我对艺术的强烈亲和力。
我在学校投身于艺术，我的作品引起了老师的注意，并赢得了比赛和奖项。 虽然我的辅导员鼓励我申请艺术学校， 我选择学习工程学，然后是法律，以减轻我工人阶级移民父母的担忧。 在一个苦苦挣扎的移民家庭中追求艺术家的职业生涯从来都不是一种选择。 尽管如此，我从未放弃对艺术的热爱。在我生命的不同阶段，我继续绘画、绘画和创作艺术。带着耐心，一些规划，以及生活意外曲折的无形之手，我从2016年开始全职从事艺术创作。 艺术是我现在的生活。 创造伟大而有趣的艺术作为一种向善的力量，并与世界分享它们是我们的目标。 成为我梦想的一部分，从我的商店购买产品，或给我发信息。 我喜欢收到你的来信。
Artist Statement
My work explores the unseen frameworks of human experience—internal states, memory, and cultural navigation—through an intuitive, reduced approach to form. Rooted in an early need to decipher my environment through visual observation, my practice relies on expressive mark-making, gestural line work, and layered washes across canvas and mixed media.
Rather than rendering strict representation, I allow figures and symbolic characters to emerge dynamically through the process of painting. The canvas becomes a space where raw, immediate impulse meets deliberate spatial structure. By reducing complex forms to their essential lines and energetic silhouettes, I aim to strip away visual noise and reveal the core emotional and psychological architecture beneath. Drawing on traditional techniques, contemporary mark-making, and a self-directed study of form, each piece serves as a record of presence—a visual dialogue between internal reflection and the external world.
Artist CV
Solo Exhibitions
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2024 — Luminous Void, Gallery 221 at HCC Dale Mabry, Tampa, FL
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2019 — Open Portals, Gallery on the Boulevard, North Tampa Branch Library, Tampa, FL
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2019 — Portraits of Mugshots, Tre Amici At The Bunker, Ybor City, FL
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2018 — Cucalorus Festival Art Pop-Up, Bottega Gallery, Wilmington, NC
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2007 — East Meets West, Gallery Cafe Xujiahui, Shanghai, China
Selected Group & Juried Exhibitions
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2026 — WallMountable, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC
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2026 — June Pride, The Werk Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
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2025 — CONFAB 2025 (Juried), Washington Studio School, Washington, DC
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2024 — NOW on View (Juried Installation), HCC Gallery, Tampa, FL
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2023 — Our Legacy of Advocacy (Juried), National Nurses United Global Convention, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
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2023 — All Will Be Revealed, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
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2023 — Touched by a Lobster: A Surrealist Art Show, The Werk Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
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2022 — Gasparilla Festival of the Arts (Juried Emerging Artist), Tampa, FL
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2022 — Karst Grounds::Quatro Sunistra (Juried), Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL
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2022 — Abstraction, Tampa Regional Artists, Tampa, FL
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2021 — Scope of Solidarity (Juried), National Nurses United, Oakland, CA
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2021 — Skyway 2020/21: A Contemporary Collaboration (Juried), Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
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2021 — AIR Show - Artists In Recovery (Juried), QUAID Gallery, Tampa, FL
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2021 — Diamonds, Razors & Champagne (Juried), A Space Gallery, New York, NY
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2006 — DC Outsider Art, Holmead House Gallery, Washington, DC
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2005 — Hey, Is That a Boy or a Girl?, Warehouse Gallery, Washington, DC
Grants, Awards & Honors
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2024 — Professional Development Grant Recipient, Hillsborough County Arts Council, FL
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2020 — Emergency Art Grant Recipient, Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and Arts, FL
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2020 — Grant Award Review Panelist, Hillsborough County Arts Council, FL
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2019 — Professional Development Grant Recipient, Hillsborough County Arts Council, FL
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2019 — International Prize Winner, Global Nurse Solidarity Assembly Art Competition, San Francisco, CA
Public & Institutional Collections
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HCC Art Galleries, Tampa, FL (NOW on View #1, Interdependent Pavilion Installation)
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National Nurses United, Headquarters, Oakland, CA (120 Years of Advocacy, Scope of Solidarity, #ProtectNurses)
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National Nurses United, Headquarters, Oakland, CA (Scope of Solidarity)
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National Nurses United Southern Region Office, Ybor City, FL (Solidarity and Justice — 9 ft × 30 ft Mural)
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Humane Society Tampa Bay, Tampa, FL (Kila)
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Planned Parenthood, FL (Three Graces)
Press, Lectures & Visiting Artist Appearances
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2023 — Guest Speaker, Coffee & Conversation Presentation, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
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2022 — Featured Interview, CanvasRebel Magazine
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2022 — Guest Speaker, Diversity Included, Accurate Representation Matters, NAWBO
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2022 — Featured Interview, Voyage Tampa Magazine
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2021 — Featured Artist & Interview, Skyway 20/21 Series, Tampa Museum of Art
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2020 — Guest Panelist, #ProtectNurses Virtual Exhibition
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2020 — Guest Lecturer, Art History Department, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
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2019 — Feature Article, “An Artist's Take on For-Profit Prisons,” Creative Loafing Tampa