Samara Golden has created installations melding sculpture, projected video, live video and sound. Her installations were in the 2017 Whitney Biennial and have been shown at MoMA PS1, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and the Hammer Museum Biennial.

The Samara Golden lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Design and the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.