David Sami

David Sami is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Visual Arts at The University of Chicago, where he works as a painter and teacher based in Chicago with roots in Jersey City, New York, and Cairo.

His academic background includes:

• Master of Fine Arts from The University of Chicago (2024)
• Bachelor of Fine Art from The Cooper Union (2020)

Sami's artistic practice critically engages with time, history, and archival systems through mark-making methodologies. His work interrogates pivotal historical and contemporary events by synthesizing social media, museum archives, and historical documents to challenge fundamental assumptions about visual perception, knowledge formation, and memory processes. This approach manifests through deliberate interplay between figuration and abstraction.

His research spans Visual Arts, Contemporary Art, Painting, Figurative Art, Abstract Art, Archival Studies, and Art History.

No scientific awards, student advising records, grant information, or laboratory affiliations are documented in available sources.