Education
2012 MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2008 BA, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Selected Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
2018
Samantha Mitchell, Pennswood Gallery, Newtown, PA
2017
A Tenuous Equilibrium: Samantha Mitchell and Dena Haden. AUTOMAT, Philadelphia, PA
2015
In Grain: Prints, Brodsky Gallery at the Kelly Writer’s House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,
2014
MFA Picks: Samantha Mitchell and Matthew Colaizzo, PAFA Alumni Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012
Samantha Dylan Mitchell: Totems and Topographies, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Our Autonomy: Portraits by Samantha Dylan Mitchell, Annual Conference, IARPP (International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy), Tel Aviv, Israel
Nothing is Sacred, Fisher Gallery, Oberlin, OH
Selected Group and Exhibitions
2023
(forthcoming) An Exchange of Shifting Atmospheres, LaNao Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2022
Trust Falls, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
An exchange of shifting atmospheres, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
The Mutability of Time, Schau Fenster, Berlin, Germany
2021
It Feels Like The First Time, MANA Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2020
Tiger Beats, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
2018
50 Years at Rancho Linda Vista, Triangle L Ranch, Oracle, AZ
New Radicals, curated by Aubrey Levinthal, Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2017
Call and Response: An Exploration in Photography and Writing. Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Meditations. Snyderman-Works, Philadelphia, PA
2016
SCHEMA, Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE
Objects, Drawings, Translations: 10th Textile Biennial, Snyderman-Works, Philadelphia, PA
Look Both Ways, Woodmere Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA
2015
SWAP: Four Years of Exchange at Second State Press, The Free Libary of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Five to Watch, Avery Gallery, Bryn Mawr, PA
Keeping it Real, Woodmere Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA
2014
Before, Again, curated by Bill Scott, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
In With the New! Recent Gifts on Paper, Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery,
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Faculty Art Exhibition, Delaware County Community College Gallery, Media, PA
Me and Earth, Pile of Bricks, Philadelphia, PA
Small Matters of Great Importance, curated by Susan Cross, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY
GroupThink: Pierre S. du Pont Arts Center Gallery, Wilmington, DE
2012
New Prints 2012/Summer, curated by Shahzia Sikander, International Print Center, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Elemental: Nature as Language in the Works of Philadelphia Artists, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Wish You Were There, curated by Kaitlin Pomerantz, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA
Other Possible Titles, Grizzly Grizzly Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010
12th Annual Chicago Art Open, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL,
2009
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
VIDEOKILLS, AB Projekt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Grants/Fellowships
Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives Grant, Haverford College, PA 2018
Artist in Residence, Playa, Summer Lake, OR 2017
Artist in Residence, Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, AZ 2016
Artist in Residence, Playa, Summer Lake, OR, 2016
Artist in Residence, Caldera, Sisters, OR, 2015
Fob Holder, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2012
INDA 7: International Drawing Annual, published finalist, 2012
Merit Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2010-2012
Finalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Selected Collections
Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Woodmere Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA
LL Funds, LLC, Philadelphia, PA
Collection of Linda Lee Alter, Philadelphia, PA
Collection of Dorothy del Bueno, Philadelphia, PA
Bibliography
Atlee, R.C. “Samantha Dylan Mitchell.” Proper Philadelphia, December 5, 2011.
Darrow, Chuck and Eichel, Molly. “A Star is Born.” Philadelphia Daily News, February 12, 2012.
Dirda, Michael. “Artwork by Samantha Mitchell ’08 Featured in Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.” Oberlin Review, January 08, 2010.
International Drawing Annual 7, Cincinnati, OH: Manifest Press, 2012.
Jia, Olivia. “Two Philadelphia artists on their role as writers.” The Art Blog, January 28, 2018.
Krieger, Deborah. “Interview: Samantha Dylan Mitchell.” Printeresting, April 4, 2014.
Meyer, Ben. “A Love Letter to Rocks and Wood: Totems and Topographies by Samantha Dylan Mitchell.” The Art Blog, February 23, 2012.
Quereshi, Corey. “Trust Falls at Fjord Gallery, with work that is fine in a new gallery space.” The Art Blog, August 18, 2022.