Sam Modder, Solo Exhibition

Sam Modder (Tampa, FL), is a Nigerian-Sri Lankan artist who works figuratively in pen, collage, and digital media to portray larger-than-life Black, female characters taking up space in real and imagined worlds. Modder positions the work within the speculative practice of the Black imaginary—centering Black dreams and fantasies to create alternate spaces of both comfort and confrontation. The spaces she creates are less utopia and more speculative test lab, decentering broken realities and focusing instead on the imaginary to help understand and rethink oppressive structures.