Samantha Sutcliffe is a visual artist, film-maker and founder of Uncensored New York.
She is interested in the following topics: suburbia, sexuality, fiction and how the consumption of mass media shapes and modifies our perception.
Her work is presented in various mediums including photography, interviews, short-films, music videos and additional formats that incorporate fragments from broadcast, print and social media. As a film-maker, she has been commissioned by musicians and fashion brands to create subversive and unusual narratives blending reality with fiction.
Her foundational influence is Gonzo Journalism, utilizing a fearless approach to documenting complex narratives where participation is key.
In 2021 she founded Uncensored New York, an art movement against censorship paying homage to transgression from earlier generations. Over a period of four years Samantha has programmed lectures, curated exhibitions and distributed independent cinema and music with a dedication to the preservation and production of art in this daunting socio-political landscape.
Her work has been seen in Arcanite Pictures Gallery, Truth in Photography, Paper Magazine, Gigantic Magazine, Fotofilmic Journal, Dirty Magazine, American Vulgaria, Phile Magazine, Polyester Zine, Paper Journal, Metal Magazine, Musee Magazine and Atlantic.Rethink.
Previous Clients: Ben Doctor, Drink More Water, Valley Latini, Mo Troper, Uniform Object and Ace Hotel.
Education
2019 International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Post-Graduate in Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism
2013 City College of New York, NY
Bachelors of Arts in Studio Art, Minor in Art History
Grants, Honors and Awards
2024 Emerging Exhibitors Grant, Jersey Art Book Fair
2022 Creatives Rebuild New York
2021 Lucie Foundation Notions of Home Prize
2021 Fotofilmic Partial Scholarship for Michael Famighetti Workshop
2021 The City Corps Grant
2021 The Hopper Prize Finalist
2018 International Center of Photography Director’s Cut Scholarship
Select Publications
2025 “Candy Love” Baby Zine Issue 01, Petit Mort Magazine
2024 “Image Removal”, On the Rag Issue 02
2024 The Girl Issue, American Vulgaria
2024 ‘Broken Mirror’ Photo Essay and Interview, Truth in Photography
2024 ‘Life in Plastic’, Dirty Magazine Issue 08
2024 Pretty Obscure Anthology, Far West Press
2024 ‘Rebel Girl’, Gigantic Magazine Issue 06
2023 Women Crush Wednesday, Musee Magazine
2023 ‘The Dollman’ No Agency Annual
2022 ‘Broken Mirror’, Atlantic.Rethink
2021 Fotofilmic JRNL 10 Curated by Paul Schiek
2021 THNK1994 Museum Art Zine
2021 Interview, The Hopper Prize
2021 ‘Broken Mirror’, Paper Journal
2019 ‘Get to know Lexi Minoa’, Phile Magazine Issue 03
2017 Super Special Volume 10, Vuu Collective
2017 As of Late, Oranbeg Press
Group Shows and Screenings
2025 Arcanite Pictures Gallery, Virtual Exhibition
2024 Leo, Film Screening, The Poetry Project, New York, NY
2023 Rockaway Art Week, Far Rockaway, NY
2023 Death of the Subject, Public Works Administration, NYC
2020 The Vida Archive, The Royal Society of Art, Brooklyn NY
2019 My Suburban Sprawl, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2019 971 Int’L, SF Projects, New York, NY
2014 Newspace Now!, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, Oregon
2014 In One Place or Another, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
2014 Across the Gutter, 110 Meserole, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Infocus Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Works, The Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Films
2024 Leo, in collaboration with Ben Fama for The Poetry Project
2024 “More Human than Human”
2024 Mo Troper “Svengali Live”
Public Collections
The Phoenix Art Museum
Studio
New York, NY
Samanthajune27@gmail.com