Sam Hillmer is a Brooklyn-based musician, artist, organizer and arts educator. He is a founding member of the band Zs, one half of the art duo Trouble (with Laura Paris), and also makes music as Diamond Terrifier.

Recent collaborations include work with David Salle, Tauba Auerbach, Dirty Projectors, Laurel Halo, Arto Lindsay, and Eartheater.

Recent performances include appearances at Le Guess Who Festival (Utrect NL), Avant Art Festival (Warsaw, PL), Unsound Festival (Krakow, PL), Rewire Festival (The Hague, NL), Krems on der Donau Festival (Krems, AUST), OFF Festival (Katowice, PL), Urban Nomad Festival (Taipei, TW), Club UNIT (Tokyo, JP), Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, TN), and Hopscotch Festival (Raleigh, NC).

Sam has curated and produced performance programs and exhibitions with The New Museum, Sculpture Center, Pioneer Works, The Queens Museum, ICA Miami, Issue Project Room, Knockdown Center and Basilica Hudson. He also cofounded the New York City underground music and performance venues Trans-Pecos and H0L0.

In addition to work as a musician, artist and organizer, Sam has been active as an arts educator and community organizer in NYC, and has helped to provide accessible arts based programs in undercapitalized and underserved areas of the city since 2004. As part of this work Sam has collaborated with The Department of Youth and Community Development NYC, Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, AHRC, and the Coalition For Hispanic Family Services on programs aimed at serving youth, individuals in carceral settings, adults with intellectual and developmental disabilites, seniors and unhoused people.

At present Sam is Programming Director and Producer at DMINTI, an arts organization producing new work with artists working at the intersection of the fine art world and new technology. DMINTI is currently supporting work with Laurie Simmons, Judy Chicago, Josephine Mecksepper, and Ricci Albenda. For the past two years DMINTI has supported the development of Judy Chicago’s ‘What If Women Ruled the World? Participatory Quilt featuring Nadya Tolokonnikova’ which was presented most recently at The New Museum in New York and The Serpentine Gallery in London. In December of 2024, during Art Week Miami Beach, DMINTI will launch a new exhibit of installation work by Laurie Simmons and architect Peter Wheelwright, Kaleidoscope (…Bigger) House, with ICA Miami and the Miami Design District.

Past projects include Wet Ink, Trans-Pecos, H0L0, NADA, and the SEM Ensemble, among others.

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