Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Samantha Wall immigrated to the United States as a child and comes from a multiracial background. Operating from within this framework, her drawings embody the experience of navigating transcultural identity. Wall’s art is characterized by her unique approach to traditional drawing techniques combined with a contemporary vernacular that reflects her understanding of the world around her. Wall graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art, and she is the recipient of awards and grants from organizations including the Oregon Arts Commission, Seattle Art Museum, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Her work has been exhibited widely including the Cue Art Foundation, New York, New York; Portland Art Museum and Oregon Contemporary in Portland, Oregon; The Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon; The Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; and the 6th International Fiber Art Fair, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea.

  • Solo Exhibitions

    2024 Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Forthcoming)

    2024 Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

    2024 SFCC Fine Art Gallery, Spokane, WA

    2022 Beyond Bloodlines, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, OR

    2020 Foreign Body, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, OR

    2018 Phantom Limbs, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, OR

    2018 Inheritance, KSMoCA, Portland, OR

    2016 See Me See You, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR

    2015 Let Your Eyes Adjust to the Dark II, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA

    2014 Let Your Eyes Adjust to the Dark, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR

    2014 Indivisible II, Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA

    2014 Only Part of the Story, Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

    2013 Indivisible, Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR

    2013 Laid to Rest, Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR

    2011 Shame on Me, Goldsmith Building, Portland, OR

  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    2024 The Paths We Cross: Perspectives from the Korean Diaspora, University of Hawaii, Oʻahu, HI (Forthcoming)

    2024 Seen, L’Atelier Gallery, Portland, OR

    2023 May Showers, Railspur, Seattle, WA

    2022 Both Sides Now, Curated by Arielle Simmons, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle, WA

    2022 All That Glitters, Curated by Erika Diamond, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center at the Chautauqua Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY

    2021 Up Close & Personal: The Body in Contemporary Art, Curated by Amy Chaloupka from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA.

    2021 Time Being, Oregon Center for Contemporary, Portland, OR

    2019 6th International Fiber Art Fair, (solo presentation), Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea

    2019-2021 What Needs to Be Said: Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR; Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR; Whipple Fine Art Center, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR

    2018 The Work Continues, Northview Gallery, Portland, OR

    2017-2019 Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts at 25, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman, WA; Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR

    2017 A Necessary Festival, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, OR

    2016 Implied Fictions, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA

    2016 Contemporary Northwest Art Awards Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

    2015 Drawing Deeper, Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR

    2015 Fast Forward, Worksound International, Portland, OR and Städelschule Frankfurt, Germany

    2015 Manifest Justice - Pop-up Art Show, Los Angeles, CA

    2014 A Likeness: Works in Contemporary Portraiture, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA

    2014 Reparations: Contemporary Artists from New Orleans, Luciano Benetton's IMAGO MUNDI Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

    2014 Self(ie) Portraits, Upfor Gallery, Portland, OR

    2014 I Can Never Say What I Mean, Hap Gallery, Portland, OR

    2013 New Views, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR

    2013 The City and the City, LxWxH Gallery, Seattle, WA

    2012 Considering How Exaggerated Music Is, Affordable Art Fair, Seattle, WA

    2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation 2011 MFA Grant Recipients, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY

    2011 First Look III, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY

  • Selected Awards & Commissions

    2023 Kaila Skinner Award Special Recognition Award, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

    2022 Bonnie Bronson Fellowship, Portland, OR

    2021 OSU-Cascades site-specific mural, Percent for Art Program, Bend, OR

    2020 Facebook AIR Program, Commission for a site-specific mural, Redmond, WA

    2019 Career Opportunity Grant and Ford Family Foundation Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR

    2016 Arlene Schnitzer Prize, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR​

    2016 Project Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR

    2015 Career Opportunity Grant and Ford Family Foundation Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR

    2015 Hallie Ford Foundation Fellow, The Ford Family Foundation, Roseburg, OR

    2015 Semifinalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2016, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington , DC

    2015 Contemporary Northwest Art Award, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

    2015 Purchase Award, Portable Works Collection, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR

    2014 Individual Artist Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR

    2013 Brink Award Nominee, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington

    2013 Career Opportunity Grant and Ford Family Foundation Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR

    2013 Project Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR

    2012 Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR

    2011 MFA Grant Award, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY

  • Residencies

    2020 Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR

    2016 Golden Spot Residency Award, Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR

    2016 Artist-in-Residence, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA

    2013 Artist-in-Residence, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA

  • Collections

    Northern Arizona University Art Museum

    Portland Community College-Rock Creek Campus

    Oregon State University-Cascades Campus

    Regional Arts & Culture Council’s Portable Works Collection and Visual Chronicles of Portland Collection

    Portland Art Museum

    Whatcom Museum

    Microsoft Art Collection

    Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

    Crocker Museum

    Soho House Portland