Samora Pinderhughes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and filmmaker who uses his art to examine sociopolitical issues and fight for change. His practice broadly encompasses sound, performance, installation, sculpture, and social practice. His artwork is renowned for its emotionality, honesty about difficult and complex topics, and careful deployment of word, image, and sound. Pinderhughes is also the artistic and 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.
During the Adobe Creative Residency at MoMA, Pinderhughes created sonic healing rooms to facilitate the grieving and healing needs of people who have experienced high levels of structural violence, including poverty, environmental racism, policing, detention, and the carceral system. These spaces used performance, installation, film, songcraft, and language to shape and hold space for community engagement, collective exchange, and participatory action. This process took place in collaboration with four community organizations across New York City: Brotherhood Sister Sol, the Fortune Society, Parole Prep, and South Bronx Unite/The Land Stewards on these engagements. This project reflects a commitment to building worlds in which narrative and structural change live side-by-side, where those who are most affected by institutional violence and the prison industrial complex have a direct say in how to build better futures.
At the conclusion of his Adobe Creative Residency, Samora Pinderhughes will present the exhibition Call and Response in MoMA’s Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio from January 24 through February 15, 2026. Call and Response will feature a series of evening performances in the Kravis Studio and a public program developed with community partners. An installation of Pinderhughes’s new film, REAL TALK, will remain on view during Museum hours. Pinderhughes’s project asks, How do we survive in America? How do we support each other? What if we built a world around community care?