Samora Pinderhughes

Samora Pinderhughes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, pianist/vocalist and filmmaker known for striking vulnerability and carefully crafted, radically honest art. His rhizomatic practice as it stands today broadly encompasses sound, performance, film, photography, installation, sculpture, and social practice. Pinderhughes is the first-ever Art for Justice + Soros Justice Fellow and a recipient of Chamber Music America’s 2020 Visionary Award. He has also been designated as a Creative Capital awardee, a United States Artists Fellow, and a Sundance Composers Lab fellow. He was the 2025 MoMA Adobe Creative Resident. Pinderhughes is a graduate of The Juilliard School. 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. His solo exhibitions include GRIEF at the Kitchen (2023) and Call and Response at the Museum of Modern Art (2026). His albums include The Transformations Suite, GRIEF, Venus Smiles Not in the House of Tears, and Black Spring. The film for his song Process, directed with Christian Padron, won 2021’s Best Experimental Film award at Blackstar Film Festival. Pinderhughes has collaborated with artists across boundaries and scenes including Herbie Hancock, Glenn Ligon, Sara Bareilles, Simone Leigh, Daveed Diggs, Kyle Abraham, Titus Kaphar, and Lalah Hathaway. Pinderhughes also scored the award-winning documentaries Whose Streets?, The Strike, and Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, winning two Emmy Awards.