America, Nice Place marks New York-based artist Borna Sammak’s first solo exhibition in Texas and his first museum show. Known for mixed-media sculptures, paintings and installations that riff on American culture, Sammak brings his wide-ranging practice to Dallas through a showcase of new and recent works, as well as a new exhibition design conceived by the artist to complement the presentation.

Since his first exhibition at a Best Buy in Downtown Manhattan in 2009, the New York-based artist Borna Sammak has quickly distinguished himself as one of the most innovative and culturally critical artists of his generation.

Sammak looks closely to pop culture as a source of inspiration, and his work frequently draws on the urban fabric of his everyday surroundings and from the realms of film, television, YouTube and digital advertising. As The New Yorker proclaimed: 'Few artists are tracking the internet's erosion of our sense of reality with more verve than this young Brooklyn artist.' Sammak frequently riffs on distinctly American themes and motifs – whether in his trash-culture take on modernist collage (in which he layers readymade t-shirt decals on canvas) or his improbable sculptural appropriations of the New York deli vernacular, transforming awnings and other signage into monuments of consumer culture.

Curated by acclaimed curator and writer Alison M. Gingeras, Sammak’s Dallas Contemporary exhibition surveys his wildly heterogeneous practice to date, including emblematic examples of each aspect of his practice, from sculpture, heat-press paintings and embroideries to video animations, furniture assemblages and installation. The show marks Sammak’s first exhibition in Texas, as well as his first solo presentation at a museum.