Currently on display:
A Phantom Figure, Lacrimating in the Night, site-specific installation at Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago, IL.
Upcoming:
The Cartographic Figure (As Mad Spectacle), sculpture in group exhibition Friends of Dorothy at Evanston Art Center, May - June 2025
Latest press:
“Liberate the flesh,” Chicago Reader.
“New exhibition brings leather and its place in sexual expression out of the closet,” Windy City Times.
Interview by John Neff for “Revealed Armor: Leather and Light” at Epiphany Center for the Arts.
Latest Published writing:
“Drink and Be Merry: ‘Lewis Bag’ at Barely Fair,” New City Art, Chicago, IL.
“The Time Traveler Returns: Noah Kashiani at Cleaner Gallery and Projects,” New City Art, Chicago, IL.
“Queer Ecologies at Purple Window Gallery,” Chicago Artist Writers.
“Lost whimsy,” Chicago Reader.
“Fabric becomes the body,” Chicago Reader.
The Wrong Side is Samuel Schwindt’s studio and writing practice that embraces the subversive, the sutured, and the scarred—where writing and leatherwork intertwine as acts of preservation and defiance. Grounded in material histories and queer counterculture, his work reanimates archival traces, exploring leather as both a tactile medium and a metaphor for identity, survival, and transformation. Through sculptural interventions and critical texts, The Wrong Side excavates the tension between protection and exposure, permanence and decay: reworking the past into speculative futures.