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Born 1986 in Binghamton, NY Samuel Jablon is an artist and poet based in New York City. Jablon received his MFA from Brooklyn College/CUNY (2013) and his BA from Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado (2009). He has performed and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, The Queens Museum, Hauser & Wirth, Storefront for Art and Architecture, The Kitchen, Artists Space, Blum & Poe, the Landing, and Ballon Rouge Collective. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Interview Magazine, Art in America, ARTnews, Hyperallergic, BOMB, and the Brooklyn Rail. Jablon also has artwork in public collections of the ICA Miami, JP Morgan Chase, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, City University of New York, and Pen America.

As an artist and poet, Sam Jablon's practice exists at the intersection of language, painting, and poetry. The approach to language is not merely as a tool for communication, but as a material: flexible, unstable, and generative. Jablon's work investigates how text can operate beyond its semantic function, becoming visual, spatial, and experiential. He is drawn to the moment where language begins to dissolve, where it flickers between legibility and abstraction, inviting a more embodied and durational engagement with meaning.

Rooted in the traditions of concrete poetry, Dada, and postwar abstraction, Jablon's practice draws from a lineage that blurs disciplinary boundaries. Through painting, he reworks poetic fragments, layering them until they lose syntactic clarity and morph into fields of visual resonance. The process is iterative and improvisational. Words are distorted, buried, and revealed again, disrupting linear reading and encouraging reflection and reinterpretation. This instability is not a failure of language but a condition he embraces, one that mirrors how meaning is continuously formed, undone, and reassembled in an exchange between the artist and viewer.