Samuel Alexander Forest

Samuel Alexander Forest (b. 1998, Surabaya, Indonesia) is an artist based in New York. He maintains a primarily drawing-based practice. Through book, video, and sculpture forms, his works take special attention to overlooked everyday objects and slip across moments of poetry and humor. He received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2021 and his MFA from NYU Steinhardt in 2024. He has exhibited at Fragment Gallery, 80WSE, Tutu Gallery, Morris Adjmi, and LaiSun Keane and his works have been reviewed in Hyperallergic, the New York Review of Architecture, and the Boston Art Review. He also has a publishing practice through his small press Figure Bound.