Huseyin Sami’s practice to date has been predicated on pursuing a consistent line of experimentation to illustrate how painting can capture ideas of time, action and process. Sami’s work has centred extensively on the field of painting and developing numerous activities that have iteratively engaged with the process of making paintings. These progressive pursuits have explored the material of household paint into studies of colour, form and materiality in an attempt to define a unique material language of painting.

Sami’s creative process of transformative incidents within his working methodologies has provided a platform for circumventing new questions and strategies toward art making. This has been a process which further engages his established repertoire of pictorial codes and devices such as pouring, dripping, rolling, stretching and cutting household paint to present the possibility of opening up a new creative space. These enquiries reflect an ongoing series of informed revisions, which have taken his examination and understanding of the medium further.

Sami received a Bachelor of Visual Arts with First Class Honours from Sydney College of the Arts in 2000, and a Master of Visual Arts from the same institution in 2003.

He has exhibited internationally in major exhibitions including Equal Area, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney (2018); Superposition of Three Types, Artspace, Sydney (2017); Shut Up and Paint, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2016); Vivid, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2016); and Primavera, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2004).

In 2023 Sami published his first monograph 'Painting Painting Painting'. His work is held in many public and private collections internationally and domestically, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, The Art Gallery of Western Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.