Zine
Sam Penn: Bad Behavior
$ 15.00
Published by New York Life Gallery, 2024.
On the occasion of Sam Penn: Bad Behavior at Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, 2024.
Edition of 300
20 pages
© Sam Penn
Bad Behavior is Sam Penn’s second zine published by New York Life Gallery, coinciding with a solo show at Galerie Balice Hertling in Paris. Titled after Mary Gaitskill’s 1988 collection of short stories, the zine consists of photographs taken in New York over the past year featuring portraits, landscapes, and close-ups of bodies. Drawing on a device Gaitskill uses to reconstruct memory in flashes of connected imagery, Penn arranges the photographs in a psychological sequence depicting the decay of one relationship and the birth of another.
Sam Penn (b. 1998 Oklahoma City, OK) is a photographer based in New York. Penn’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Balice Hertling Galerie, Paris, France (2024), and she has participated in group exhibitions at James Fuentes, New York, NY (2025); OCDChinatown, New York, NY (2024, 2023); and New York Life Gallery, NY (2024).