Sam Hsieh is an artist and designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master of Architecture from University of California, Berkeley. Raised between Arkansas, California, and Asia, her work is shaped by experiences of instability and cultural displacement. Through sculptural objects, furniture, and domestic forms, Hsieh explores how memory becomes embedded within material and everyday life.

Working between art and architecture, Hsieh creates functional and nonfunctional objects that feel simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar. Her practice draws from ordinary domestic details as vessels for memory and emotional residue. Influenced by the experience of frequent relocation and the loss of her father at a young age, she is interested in how fragile moments become preserved through objects, materials, and repeated forms.

Her work treats domestic space as a site of memorialization, where everyday objects become carriers of absence, tenderness, and time. Through handmade processes and material experimentation, she constructs scenes that hover between utility and artifact, permanence and impermanence. Rather than reconstructing specific memories, the work seeks to evoke the feeling of remembering itself: partial, shifting, intimate, and shared.

Hsieh has taught at University of California, Berkeley in both the Architecture and History of Art departments. Her work has been exhibited in the 2024 UC Berkeley NAAB Exhibition and the 2024 Thesis Exhibition.