Education:
MA, Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2017
Erasmus Exchange Semester, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, 2009
BA (Hons), The Glasgow School of Art, 2011
Selected Exhibitions (*Solo):
2026 *THE MACHINE THAT GREW TOO BIG AND THE SINGING GARDENER, Sophienholm (Norske Hus and park), Denmark (Upcoming, August – September).
Publication by RSS Press to accompany exhibition, with essays by Carola Uehlken & Lars Bang Larsen.
2026 KØBENHAVNER STYKKER II, Kunsthal Nikolaj, Copenhagen
2025 CHART PRINT AND BOOK FAIR (with RSS Press), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark
2025 THE CASE FILE, THE MONK’S CELL, AND THE SIGNATURE: Object Theatre Workshops for Young People (in collaboration with Sixtyeight Art Institute and Fishtank/Social Hub), Copenhagen (Upcoming)
2024 KONTUR, Grafiska Sällskapet i Stockholm, Stockholm
2024 NOSE BLIND AND HUMMING, San Mei Gallery, London
2023 *ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL, Foyer Gallery, Statens Værksteder for Kunst, Copenhagen
2023 *INDUSTRIAL AND HORTICULTURAL METAPHORS, Danske Grafikeres Hus, Copenhagen
2023 TATE MODERN LATES, Tate Modern, London (Artist Talk, Magdalena Abakanowicz exhibition)
2022 APPARITIONER OVER UTTERSLEV, Bonamatic, Copenhagen
2020 DRAINING OF THE TANKS, Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen
2019 STAGED ON SCREEN, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London (Screening)
2019 *NESTING, WATERING, PICTURING, SET, London
2016 (UN)DOING, (UN)MAKING. Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham
2014 *CUT/PROMPT (collaborative with Douglas Morland), 68 Art Institute, Copenhagen
2013 *MONOLOGUE, OK Corral, Copenhagen
2012 GUERRE-EN-SCENE Glasgow Project Room (duo show with John Nicol)
2011 SAM DEROUNIAN ALEX IMPEY FLORRIE JAMES CONOR KELLY GRAHAM KELLY KARI ROBERTSON TESSA LYNCH CHARLOTTE PRODGER MICHAEL SMITH, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Collections:
City of Copenhagen Visual Arts Council (Københavns Kommune Rådet for Visuel Kunst), 2022
Awards/Funding:
Exhibition Funding, The Machine that Grew too Big and the Singing Gardener, Danish Arts Council (Statens Kunstfond), Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune, Grosser L.F. Foghts Fond, Knud Højgaards Fonden, and Dansk Tennis Fond 2026.
Working Grant (Arbejdslegat), Danish Arts Council (Statens Kunstfond), 2025
Artist in Residency (Huskunstnerordningen) Funding Award, Danish Arts Council, 2024
City of Copenhagen Visual Arts Council (Københavns Kommune Rådet for Visuel Kunst), Exhibition Funding Industrial and Horticultural Metaphors, 2023
Danish Arts Council, Open Residency Pool Funding Award, 2015
Danish Arts Council, Production of New Work Funding Award, 2014 & 2015
New Work Scotland Prize, Collective Gallery, Edinbrugh, 2021 (Shortlisted)
Glasgow Life Visual Artist Funding Award, 2011/12
Press:
Sam Derounian – Industrial and Horticultural Metaphors at Danske Grafikeres Hus in Kunsten.nu, 2023
Truls Melin at Bonamatic, Exhibition review in Magasinet Kunst, 2021
Kristina Bengtsson Silent Performer at C.C.C. Exhibition review in Idoart, 2020
Rebecca Thandi Norma, ‘Six Exhibits to See at Copenhagen Photo Festival 2015’, The Scandinavian Standard, 2015
Misforståelses Kunst, Interview with Sam Derounian and Douglas Morland in Kunsten.nu, 2014
Transmission Gallery Group Show exhibition review by Talitha Kotze in The List, 2011
Artist Residencies:
DANISH ART WORKSHOPS (Statens Værksteder for Kunst), 2026
DANISH ART WORKSHOPS (Statens Værksteder for Kunst), 2022/23
CREATIVE LAB RESIDENCY, CCA Glasgow, 2015
STEINPRENT STONE LITHOGRAPHY RESIDENCY, Torshavn, Faroe Islands, 2011
Curating:
(Un)doing, (Un)making. Hardwick Gallery, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, 2016