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), Shayne Oliver (2023) and The Opioid Crisis Lookbook (2024); presented the Berlin launch of The Opioid Crisis Lookbook with Bjarne Melgaard (2022), and worked on catalogue publications and monographs for Tobias Spichtig (2025), Jon Rafman (2025), Anna Uddenberg (2024) and H.R. Giger & Mire Lee (2022). As a curator, his work has been featured in Flash Art, Cura, and Mousse among other publications.