Sam Gold is a queer non-binary early mid-career South Australian artist living and working on Kaurna Yarta. Pinching clay from 2013, Gold turned their hand to further pursue ceramics in earnest in 2016, bringing over a decade of training in Transpersonal Art Therapy (Ikon Institute), Furniture Design (TafeSA) and studies in Contemporary Art (UniSA, ACSA) to the medium.
Gold is a highly awarded artist. They are the recipient of several Arts South Australia and Creative Australia grants (2019-2024) Helpmann Academy Grant and Undergraduate Award for Excellence (2019),The Helpmann Creative Investment Fellowship (2021), and the University of South Australia's Australian Ceramics Council Award (2018) and Merit Award for Academic Excellence (2019). Gold has exhibited extensively throughout South Australia and interstate and notably features in Primavera: Young Australian Artists 2021 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Currently a tenant at Mixed Goods Studios, and a JamFactory Alumni. Gold is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide.