Sráč Sam (*1969) is a visual artist, curator, and organizer who lives and works in Česká Bříza, where she also runs the gallery sam83, a platform for freely emerging culture. In her projects, Sam, whose adopted name defies convention, creates environments in which she exposes various forms of social manipulation without conforming to expectations of how art should be made. By setting up her own socioeconomic models she ranks among those artists who have anticipated an ethical turn in art that takes into account the working conditions and relationships within which the artwork is produced. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the hunt kastner gallery in Prague (Casting the Snowman’s Shadow, 2023), the Prague City Gallery at the Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace (The Difference is in the Question, 2017–2018), Display, Prague (Regressive Development and Careless Care, Multilogues on the Now, 2018), and Berlinskej Model, Prague (Becoming a Shaman Fast and Easy, 2012) as well as in the group exhibitions Manifesta 14, Pristina (2022), Biennale Matter of Art, Prague (2022), and 8smička, Humpolec (2018). In 2021 Sráč Sam and Denisa Bytelová were guest curators at the Cursor Gallery at the Center for Contemporary Arts Prague. Sam also organizes the residency project Artist in Cottage, publishes PIŽMO, an independent magazine for strengthening cultural diversity, and has published the literary texts Vanda, Kuniba Likes Things Three Times and My Husband’s Fear.