About: Samuel ABelow
Samuel Abelow (b. 1991, New York City) is a Brooklyn-based painter raised in Connecticut. He studied at the Sonic Arts Center of the City College of New York.
His work has been exhibited in both institutional and gallery contexts, including a solo exhibition, The Orphic Dance & Persephone’s Eyes of Water, curated by Timothy Hull at St. Thomas Aquinas College (2019). In 2025, he curated and presented the group exhibition OCEAN at Ezra Gallery, bringing together a selection of notable contemporary artists. More recently, his work was featured in Jewish Consciousness at Maor Gallery (2026).
His paintings are held in private collections across the United States and Europe, including New York, East Hampton, Los Angeles, and Berlin.
Since 2022, Abelow has been based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where his practice has developed through sustained engagement with Jewish mysticism and daily religious life. His recent work emerges from lived experience — integrating ritual, study, and contemporary culture into a visual language that is both symbolic and immediate.
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Solo & Group Exhibitions
Current Mystics (Group) - Curator. Current Arts Org. at 17 Essex St., New York, NY.
Samuel Abelow & Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin: Art Exhibit & Kabbalah Lecture (Solo)— Hadas Gallery @ Chabad Clinton Hill & Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. 2026.
Jewish Consciousness (Solo) — Maor Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 2026.
OCEAN — Curator and exhibited artist. Ezra Gallery, The Hamptons (Group). 2025.
Summer Solstice, Concrete Myths — Van Der Plas Gallery, New York, NY (Group). 2025
The Orphic Dance & Persephone’s Eyes of Water — Azarian McCullough Gallery, St. Thomas Aquinas College (Solo). 2019. Curated by Timothy Hull.
Westport Women’s Club Annual Art Show — Westport Women’s Club, Westport, CT (Group), 2018. Curated by Miggs Burroughs
Curated Events & Design Collaborations
Live Surreal Figure Painting - The Annex (Olami Org). New York, NY, 2026
Live Surreal Portrait Drawings - Diaspora Hotline. Williamsburg, NY. 2026.
Live Surreal Portrait Drawings - Chabad LES, Soul Social. New York, NY. 2026.
SS2025 Collection with Patrick Cupid — New York, NY (2025)
Collaboration with fashion designer Patrick Cupid. Abelow’s original artworks were adapted into digitally printed silk textiles for a series of garments, including The Shirt Dress and The Nehru Shirt. The collection, inspired by mythology and symbolic painting, launched Spring/Summer 2025. Produced made-to-order in NYC.
2017–2019 – The Symbolist Soirée
Hosted private interdisciplinary salons with original artwork, live music, performance, and costume in a hand-designed yurt. Created intimate spaces for mystical and experimental expression in a social setting
Writing & Criticism
Catalog: Fruition in Ecstasy, Portraits and Other Paintings — 2025, 2026 (second edition)
Includes essay by Johannes Böckmann, and artist statement by Samuel Abelow. Editor: Johannes Böckmann
Artist Monograph: Artist Catalog — 2022-2024 (three editions)
Editor: Johannes Böckmann
Includes essays by Christina Bickel, PhD; Johannes Böckmann; Kendra Terry, PhD.
The catalog explores themes of mystical embodiment and transformation of spiritual archetypes in Abelow’s work.
Art Critic, ArtCritique.com (Paris) — 2018–2019
Published essays on exhibitions and cultural themes, covering galleries like Kasmin and Marc Straus.
Collections
Private collections in: New York City, East Hampton, San Francisco, Boulder, Los Angeles, Berlin, Greenwich, Westport, Fairfield, and Ithaca.
Education & Study
City College of New York, Sonic Arts Program — 2009–2011
Jungian Psychoanalytic Study — 2011–2019
Mentorship with Dr. Joseph Wagenseller (President of the C.G. Jung Institute in NYC, Colombia Teacher’s College professor)
Torah Study and Mysticism. Hadar HaTorah Yeshiva, Crown Heights, Brooklyn. — 2022–2025
Daily learning in Hasidic thought and Jewish spiritual texts.