samuel beilby is an artist based in Boorloo (Perth) on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. He is interested in processes of extraction, labour, noise, paranoia and entropic exchanges between these things. His projects often use diagrammatics and amplification to explore unsure tensions between industrial endeavours, sociocultural circumstances and ecological organisation.

As of 2025, he has participated in exhibitions, residencies, artist talks, academic conferences and performances in Taiwan, Japan, France, Singapore, Greece and Australia. His writing has appeared in Dispatch Review, Leonardo, Un Magazine and various conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues. samuel is the co-founder/co-director of _____.gs and is currently a committee member at Cool Change Contemporary, is Gallery Associate at AVA, a sessional teacher at the University of Western Australia’s School of Design’ Fine Art Department and a PhD candidate at the same university with a research focus on developing a theoretical framework for post-covid noise art. He is also an irritant member of the Boorloo-based art collective mg (aka mgmgmgmg).

education:

2024 – ongoing: PhD, University of Western Australia.
2020 – 2023: Master of Fine Arts (by Research), University of Western Australia.
2016 – 2020: Bachelor of Arts: History of Art and Fine Art (with First Class Honours in Fine Art), University of Western Australia.

awards:

2023: Workwelt Logistics selected as laureate for ISEA2023 (Paris, France).
2019: Artsource Industry Award for user-friendly at UWA Fine Arts Major FAM19 Graduate Exhibition (Boorloo/Perth WA).

exhibitions and residencies (International):

2025: Put Em in a Box #4 – group exhibition at gift_lab (Tokyo, Japan).
2024: Put Em in a Box #3 – group exhibition at Waley Art (Taipei, Taiwan).
2024: Athens Digital Art Festival 2024: Techno(s)cene – festival across various locations (Athens, Greece).
2023: Put Em in a Box #1 – group exhibition at Sonic Sensory Lab (Taipei, Taiwan).
2023: Tropical Lab #17 – 2 week residency and group exhibition at Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore).
2023: diminution – group performance with mg at Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taipei, Taiwan).
2023: Tickle, Sense – group exhibition at Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taipei, Taiwan).
2023: Workwelt Logistics – exhibited and presented (artist talk) at International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA2023) digital art exhibition (Paris, France).
2023: PICA Asia Pacific Residency Program – 8 week residency at Taipei Artist Village (Taipei, Taiwan).

exhibitions and residencies (Australia):

2025: FORCE - performance by Brian Fuata, live sound by Lucreccia Quintanilla and Samuel Beilby) at AVA (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2025: PICA Quick Response Residency – 3 month Residency at PICA Studio Zero (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2024: Put Em in a Box #2 – group exhibition at Cool Change Contemporary (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2023: Machinic Paragenesis – solo exhibition at Current Gallery (Walyalup/Fremantle WA).
2022: distension – group performance with mg at Light Works (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2022: distension – group performance with mg at UWA Cullity Gallery (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2022: Workwelt Logistics – solo exhibition at UWA Cullity Gallery (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2021: inwardly – group performance with mg at UWA Cullity Gallery (Boorloo/Perth WA). 
2020: outsides – group performance with mg at UWA Cullity Gallery (Boorloo, WA).
2020: Familiar Objects & Feral Arrangements – group exhibition at The Lobby (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2020: Goolugatup Heathcote Select 2020 – group exhibition at Goolugatup Heathcote (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2019: UWA Fine Arts Major ‘FAM19’ Graduate Exhibition – group exhibition at UWA Cullity Gallery(Boorloo/Perth WA).
2019: (cross)hatched – group exhibition at YMCA HQ Gallery (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2018: Don’t Let Me Sell Out – group exhibition at Stable Hands (Walyalup/Fremantle WA).
2018: UWA Fine Arts Major ‘FAM18’ Graduate Exhibition – group exhibition at UWA Cullity Gallery (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2018: Untitled (Surveyors) – solo exhibition at Artlaab (Boorloo/Perth WA).

academic presentations and artist talks (International):

2023: "Turbulent Partnerships: Insects, Corporations and Art”, academic presentation at Tropical Lab #17, Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore).
2023: "Turbulent Partnerships: Insects, Corporations and Art", artist talk at BioClub (Tokyo, Japan).
2023: “Machinic Paragenesis”, artist talk at 2023 Season 2 artist-in-residency talks, Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taipei, Taiwan).
2023: "Workwelt Logistics", academic presentation/artist talk at The International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2023) (Paris, France).
2021: “Swarm Labour: The Aesthetics of Sentient Machine Collectives at Work”, academic presentation at xCoAx 2021 ‘9th Conference on Computation, Aesthetics and X (online).

academic presentations and artist talks (Australia):

2025 (upcoming): academic paper presentation at Art Association of Australia and New Zealand ‘Unruly Objects’ Conference (AAANZ2025) (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2025: “Amplification and Compression, Signal and Noise in Marco Fusinato’s Desastres”, academic presentation at Australasian Science & Technology Studies Network ‘Signals & Noises’ Conference (AusSTS2025) (Naarm/Melbourne VIC).
2025: “Open Studios: Djeran-Makuru”, open studio and panel talk with fellow artists in residence at PICA (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2025: “Towards a Promethean Noise”, academic presentation at Design Research Symposium 2025, UWA School of Design (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2024: “Machinic Paragenesis: Experiments in Handling Noise as an Artistic Material”, academic presentation/artist talk at International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2024) (Meanjin/Brisbane QLD).
2023: “Noise within Social Ecosystems of the Automated Artwork,” academic presentation at Automation Culture: Intersections between Art, Automation, and Living Systems 2024 Conference, UWA School of Design (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2023: “Swarmic Trajectories: Mapping the Symbiosis of Social Insects and Biomimetic Automation at Fulfilment Centre Worksites”, academic presentation at Fine Art and History of Art 2023 Postgraduate Symposium, UWA School of Design (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2022: “Swarmic Trajectories: Mapping the Symbiosis of Social Insects and Biomimetic Automation at Fulfilment Centre Worksites”, academic presentation at Fine Art and History of Art 2022 Postgraduate Symposium, UWA School of Design (Boorloo/Perth WA).

press/media:

2025: Scenes in a Box, exhibition book edited by Ya Tien Shih, published by Notation Room.
2024: “Strange Sounds in Wanhua: A collaborative art exhibition unites an international band of sonic artists in Taipei”, Thomas Bird, newspaper article in the Tapei Times (Taiwan).
2023: "Echoes of Fusinato – Noise/Signal Disruption in the work of Samuel Beilby and Curtis Taylor", Paul Boyé, conference paper presented at the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) 2023 Conference (Yugambeh Country/Gold Coast QLD).