Samantha Carter

Sam A. Carter is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice incorporates performance art, modeling, and visual media. She earned her Ph.D. in Media Studies from the University of California, Irvine in March 2025, then returned to Curaçao, her maternal homeland, to deepen her engagement with the island’s creative community. Her research centers on marginalized cultural production, investigating what it means—both theoretically and in practice—to create culture from the social periphery. This inquiry informs her own artistic work, which is rooted in presence, embodiment, and diasporic exchange. Sam has performed in Act of Valor by Tirzo Martha at the Pérez Art Museum Miami and participated in Carrying Narrative’s Diaspora of Tomorrow writer’s camp, collaborating with artists from across the Dutch Caribbean to stage a live performance in Curaçao. She also hosts Killer Frequency, a weekly live internet radio show from Instituto Buena Bista, dedicated to exploring Black diasporic culture through conversation, sound, and storytelling.