Sam Ozer is a curator and creative director based between Mexico City and New York. She is the founder and artistic director of TONO, a new arts festival dedicated entirely to time-based artwork. Through TONO, she is co-curator of Watch & Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense, a hybrid video exhibition that is travelling from Mexico City to the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem; and the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne). As an independent curator, Ozer has organized projects at museums and commercial galleries in Athens, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Milan, and New York. As a member of The Racial Imaginary Institute, she organized a series of exhibitions with David Kordansky Gallery. As a researcher, Ozer worked alongside Ekene Ijeoma to conceptualize the syllabi for his courses Black Mobility and Safety in the US I & II and Poetic Justice for Climate Crisis and curated and produced subsequent speaker series. She formerly held curatorial roles at the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 in New York. She was the inaugural video curator for Feria Material (2022), the inaugural video curator for Zonamaco (2023) and the inaugural cinema curator for Art Baja California (2023).

As a creative consultant, she has worked with Vogue's photo department, advised artists and commercial galleries on their communications strategy, and organized in-house workshops and programs with brands such as Adidas, Soho House Mexico City, and Topo Chico. Approaching brands with a curatorial eye, she has also secured strategic partnerships between visionary brands, artists, and institutions. She is regularly invited for talks and has presented her work at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; LOOP, Barcelona; and for the New Centre for Research & Practice at the 59th Venice Biennale. As a writer, she regularly contributes to Artforum, The Art Newspaper, CFA, Cultured, Cura, Frieze, Materia, PIN-UP Magazine, and Purple Magazine, where she was the Managing Editor for Purple 41 and Editor-at-large for the Mexico City issue. She was a 2022 and 23 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant finalist.

Contact

For inquiries related to curatorial projects, creative partnerships, communications, and writing, email: ozer.samantha(@)gmail.com

For inquiries related to TONO, email: info(@)tonofestival.com