about sam hillmer_↴Sam Hillmer is a Brooklyn-based musician, artist, organizer and arts educator. He is a founding member of the band Zs, one half of the art duo Trouble (with Laura Paris), and also makes music as Diamond Terrifier.Recent collaborations include work with David Salle, Tauba Auerbach, Dirty Projectors, Laurel Halo, Arto Lindsay, and Eartheater.Recent performances include appearances at Le Guess Who Festival (Utrect NL), Unsound Festival (Krakow, PL), Rewire Festival (The Hague, NL), Krems on der Donau Festival (Krems, AUST), OFF Festival (Katowice, PL), Urban Nomad Festival (Taipei, TW), Club UNIT (Tokyo, JP), Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, TN), and Hopscotch Festival (Raleigh, NC).Sam has curated and produced performance programs and exhibitions with The New Museum, Sculpture Center, Pioneer Works, The Queens Museum, ICA Miami, Issue Project Room, Knockdown Center and Basilica Hudson. He also cofounded the New York City underground music and performance venues Trans-Pecos and H0L0.In addition to work as a musician, artist and organizer, Sam has been active as an arts educator and community organizer in NYC, and has helped to provide accessible arts based programs in undercapitalized and underserved areas of the city since 2004. As part of this work Sam has collaborated with The Department of Youth and Community Development NYC, Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, AHRC, and the Coalition For Hispanic Family Services on programs aimed at serving youth, individuals in carceral settings, adults with intellectual and developmental disabilites, seniors and unhoused people.At present Sam is Managing Director of the DMINTI Art Foundation, a not-for-profit organization devoted to expanding access to fine art through new technology. DMINTI is currently supporting work with Michelangelo Pistoletto, Laurie Simmons, Judy Chicago, Josephine Meckseper, and Ricci Albenda. For the past five years DMINTI has helped to develop Judy Chicago’s ‘What If Women Ruled the World? Participatory Quilt’ which has been presented at The New Museum in New York, The Serpentine Gallery in London and many more institutions worldwide. Most recently 'What If Women Ruled the World?' has been presented at the Indian Art Fair in Delhi, India, and Istanbul Contemporary in Turkey. In the fall of 2026 the work will travel to the Museum of Women's Art in Lugu Lake, China. The DMINTI Art Foundation offers accessible public programs around the works it supports at each location these works visit.Past projects include Wet Ink, NADA, and the SEM Ensemble, among others.↴contact_
[email protected]↴home^c ^c ^c