Samora Pinderhughes

Samora Pinderhughes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and filmmaker known for striking vulnerability and carefully crafted, radically honest art. His rhizomatic practice as it stands today broadly encompasses sound, performance, installation, sculpture, and social practice. Pinderhughes is also the Artistic & Executive Director of The Healing Project, a community arts organization that creates narrative change and collective healing in partnership with individuals impacted by structural violence to build a world based around healing rather than punishment. Pinderhughes is the first-ever Art for Justice and Soros Justice Fellow and a recipient of Chamber Music America 2020 Visionary Award. He has also been designated as a United States Artist awardee, a Creative Capital awardee, a Kennedy Center Social Practice Fellow, and a Sundance Composer’s Lab Fellow. Pinderhughes has collaborated with many artists across musical boundaries and scenes including Herbie Hancock, Glenn Ligon, Common, Titus Kaphar, Sara Bareilles, Simone Leigh, Daveed Diggs, Kyle Abraham, Branford Marsalis, Chief Adjuah, and Robert Glasper.