I continue to be focused on the fundamentals: Creating an experience holding a new beauty which reveals a balance between the physical and the spiritual. That a transition might take place.

(Sam Scott)

Scott is known internationally for his monumental abstract oil paintings collected in the US and Europe. Sam has lived and worked in Santa Fe since 1969. His work has been the focus of local exhibitions at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art, Sam Scott: An American voice, 1967–1997, and the Center for Contemporary Arts, Messages from the wounded healers.

His artwork was included in the 1975 Whitney Biennial, and he has been recognized by the French government with awards and exhibitions for his work. He earned his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where his teachers included abstract painters Philip Guston and Clyfford Still, among others.

Scott’s works have been included in more than 70 group exhibitions in museums and public art spaces including Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, San Antonio, Washington, DC, Cairo, Berlin, Beijing, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Singapore and Guadalajara among others. Scott is considered to be a part of the next generation of American AbEx (American Abstract Expressionist) painters.