Sam McKinniss in conversation with Philippa Snow

Sam McKinniss was born in 1985 in Northfield, Minnesota, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Kent, Connecticut. He received his MFA from the Steinhardt School at New York University and his BFA from the Hartford Art School at University of Hartford. McKinniss has been the subject of many solo exhibitions and has been included in group shows around the world. His work is in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; and Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Philippa Snow is a Norwich, UK based critic and essayist whose work has appeared in Bookforum, Artforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtReview, The Nation, The New Statesman, and The New Republic. She is the author of the books Trophy Lives, out now with MACK, and Which As You Know Means Violence.