STRL_ is a spatial collaboration between Samuel Collins & Shō Alexander Murayama

EDUCATION

MA Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability [Copenhagen, Denmark]
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts & School of Architecture

BArch [Hons] Architecture [Sheffield, UK]
The University of Sheffield



SELECTED EXHBITIONS / PROJECTS

2022 

Soil Wall Garden [Pichla, Styria, AT]
Public earth-work, comissioned by KIÖR as part of Open Fields

Twice Between Two Points [London Borough of Hounslow Libraries, London, UK]
Comissioned by Creative People & Places Hounslow

Open Studios [Greenville Workshops, London, UK]
Group exhibition

Modern Pilgrimage [London - West Sussex, UK]
Chalk based sculpture series archiving an 85 mile walk from London to West Sussex
w/ Mo Langmuir

Walking Landscapes [Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Denmark]
Group exhibition

2021 

Curtain Call [Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen]
Pavillion as part of Chart Art Fair 2021
w/ Laura Vargas Vargas, Rosita Kær & Cuircuit Circus

FieldWalk - 55° 6’28.85”N, 15° 0’3.82”E [Bornholm, Denmark]
12hr walking installation, commisioned by Metropolis
In Collaboration with The EU Agriculture Comission and Biodynamic Association

Nesting Pellets [ARoS Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark]
Sound Sculpture as part of ‘Mellem Natur og Teknologi’ exhibition, Commissioned by AUT
w/ Nick Woodward

2020

Walking into Nature [Ærø, Denmark]
Three screen video instillation
w/ Anastasia Karkazis & Cecelie Flyger

2019

Wandering Walk [Ærø, Denmark]
Public sound walk and wayfinding



RESIDENCIES

2022

Academie Schloss Solitude [Stuttgart, Germany]
Six month artist residency
w/ Mo Langmuir

Ræveskiftet [Hornbæk, Denmark]
Artist residency supported by Ole Haslunds Artfund

2021

Bækkelund International Recidency Center for Artists [Bornholm, Denmark]
 Artistic research residency supported by Metropolis Copenhagen



TEACHING

2021

Finding Measure in the Terrain Vauge [Denmark, Copenhagen]
Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability - MA
One-week workshop

Guest Tutors [Copenhagen, Denmark]
Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability - MA
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts & School of Architecture

Visiting Artist/ Tutor [Ærø, Denmark]
Kunsthøjskolen på Ærø
Walking-land art workshops 2018-2021



RESEARCH 

2022

Stones of Time: Ireland’s Neolithic Landscape
Two Weeks Research Trip, supported by Danish Arts Council & Dryers Fund
Walking, mapping, recording. 

2019

Nuclear France [N.E France]
Two Weeks Research Trip
Field-work exploring N.France’s nuclear landscapes. Writing and visual narrative into nuclear culture developed in response.

2018

Manufactured Landscapes [Fyn Archipelago, Denmark]
Three Weeks Research Trip
Field-work based around landscape romanticism and tourism. Landscape essays and public installations developed in response.