Samantha Fields

Samantha Fields—a sculptor pretending to be a painter pretending to be a lady of leisure pretending to be a sculptor—grew up in Brockton just south of Boston. Her work has been impacted by these roots and is expressed through her choices of material and content. As a multimedia artist, she engages with weaving, needlework, and sewing as a survival mechanism, aesthetic, and conceptual strategy. Working with her hands is an intimate exploration of insistence.

Samantha received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; her undergraduate degree from Massachusetts College of Art; and is currently adjunct faculty at both institutions.

She has been supported though grants from Fiber International, Puffin Foundation, St. Botolph Club, SMFA Traveling Scholars Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council, International Fiber Collaborative, Artist Resource Trust, and through residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Millay Colony, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center, and the 2017 Arts/Industry program at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

Her work has been exhibited at the Jane Lombard Gallery, New York City, NY; Mills Gallery, Boston, MA; Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils, Latvia; Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA; Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA; American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA; Carpenter Center for the Visual Art at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA; ArtPark, Soho, NY; Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC; San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA; Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, VA; Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI; Bridge Art Fair, Miami, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; New Art Center, Newton, MA; the Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA; and the Cistercian Monastery, Lubiąż, Poland.