Samantha Salzinger is a South Florida–based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, photography, video, and installation through the construction of intricate handcrafted dioramas. Her work explores the intersection of physical and digital image-making, creating fabricated environments that blur the boundaries between reality, simulation, and artificiality. Through meticulously constructed scenes that appear algorithmically generated, Salzinger examines contemporary image culture, consumer desire, nostalgia, and the aesthetics of hyperreality.
Saltzinger earned her MFA in Photography from Yale University and her BFA from Florida International University. She has presented solo exhibitions at the MAD Arts Museum, Dimensions Variable, Nina Johnson Gallery, and Fredric Snitzer Gallery, among others. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at The Bass, USF Contemporary Art Museum, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Coral Springs Museum of Art, and internationally at Colectivo Perifero Gallery in Buenos Aires and Projectraum M54 in Basel, Switzerland.
Her work has been recognized with numerous awards and fellowships, including the Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award, the Broward County Artist Innovation Grant, and three South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowships. Salzinger’s work is included in the permanent collections of Pérez Art Museum Miami, Young At Art Museum, and Yale University, as well as the Red Bull Collection and private collections including the Mosquera Collection, the Mikesell Collection, the Doug McCraw Photography Collection, and the Girls' Club Collection: Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection.