Samuel Staples (b. Canada) is an independent curator, writer and researcher based in Berlin, Germany. He worked previously as Assistant Curator at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin from 2022-2023. He has worked on exhibitions with artists such as Anna Uddenberg (2022), Jon Rafman (2022), and Shayne Oliver (2023); presented the Berlin launch of The Opioid Crisis Lookbook with Bjarne Melgaard (2022), and worked on catalogue publications for Anna Uddenberg (2024) and HR Giger & Mire Lee (2022).