Sam Rauch

Sam Rauch is Director of Creative Partnerships at the Public Art Fund in New York.

For more than a decade, Sam Rauch has organized dozens of New York City’s most ambitious and influential contemporary art projects in the public realm, including most recently, Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, an unprecedented 300+ site citywide exhibition by the celebrated Chinese artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei. As the founding Director of Creative Partnerships at the esteemed arts nonprofit Public Art Fund, Rauch oversees Public Art Fund's collaborations with both civic and corporate partners to commission ambitious new site-specific works by the world's leading artists for major public infrastructure developments, new cultural institutions, and more. Prior to his current role at Public Art Fund, he served as the Director of Exhibitions Management at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, where he oversaw the installation of exhibitions that set institutional records for programming scale and attendance.