Biography

Born in Wellington in 1977 - SAM FOLEY exhibits internationally. 

He has works in a number of both private and public collections.  Over the last decade, he has been a regular visitor to Europe, basing himself between his home town of Dunedin & Berlin, exhibiting throughout Europe and Scandanavia.

In 2013 he was the recipient of the Kaipara Foundation Wallace Arts Trust Award which included a four month residency at the cultural centre Altes Spital in Solothurn, Switzerland.

Foley has also gained a reputation for his unique 'moving image' works where he used the two mediums of painting and digital projection combned as a singular medium. These works create a 'moving image' which shifts and changes using light and texture in a complex manner , a simulacrum of a simulacrum which still retains the integrity of time and place - it moves with incident & creates memory.

Sams' very latest series of works "Greenbelt Revisited' opens February, 2026. This special exhibition 21 years after his first solo show in Dunedin depicting the same subject matter continues his preoccupation with the streets and alleyways of Dunedin's green belt and his love for this area of town..