Samantha Persons is an interdisciplinary artist, she received her MFA in Sculpture/New Media from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BFA in Sculpture and Art History in Feminist Art and Contemporary Art Practices at the Kansas City Art Institute, as well as studying internationally at the International Ceramic Studio in Kescskemet, Hungary.  Her work is heavily engaged in issues of personal autonomy and social agency, gendered space, queer theory, pageantry, and materiality. She makes immersive installations, sculptures, short films, and drawings. These works often address questions of agency via the guise of narratives that are sometimes discovered only through the close examination.

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