Samuel Nyholm, born in 1973 in Lund, lives as a draftsman, graphic artist, poet in Stockholm and Bremen, lectureship at ECAL Lausanne, exhibition at PS1 in New York, since 2012 professor of illustration at the Bremen University of the Arts. Samuel Nyholm, who publishes his figurative drawings under the acronym Sany, works as a graphic designer and artist. They vary motivic situations, which are peopled by a handful of fictional characters who keep popping up again and again, as the drawings refer topopular culture’s slapstick genre and play with prejudices and stereotypical simplifications. Samuel Nyholm's work often humorously depicts scenarios from the world of art, highlighting misunderstandings and misinterpretations and thus pointing to the gap between a symbol and its meaning.