Sam Penn (b. 1998, Oklahoma City, OK) is a photographer based in New York City. Penn's work was the subject of a solo exhibition at New York Life Gallery, New York, NY (2025), and Balice Hertling Galerie, Paris, France (2024). Penn 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). In conjunction with Sam Penn's 2025 exhibition, Max, New York Life Gallery published Penn's third publication, co-authored with the eponymous subject, Max Battle. Penn's second zine, Bad Behavior, was published by New York Life Gallery in 2024 to coincide with the artist's solo exhibition at Galerie Balice Hertling in Paris. Sam Penn's first publication, Some Girls, was published by New York Life Gallery in 2023. Penn's work is included in the permanent collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
Sam Penn: Bad Behavior
Zine
Sam Penn: Bad Behavior
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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 course of a 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.