BIO : Miriam Sampaio

Miriam Sampaio, commissaire indépendante et artiste travaille avec la vidéo, la photographie et la performance. Son travail a été diffusé en Europe, aux USA, au Canada et au Mexique. Ses recherches actuelles autour de ses origines judéo-portugaises l’amènent au Portugal et dans les pays de l’est. Récipiendaire de plusieurs bourses, dont la prestigieuse bourse du FCAR sous le mentorat de Evergon.
                 
Miriam Sampaio. Montreal-based video and photographic artist. Her video The Invisible Proof of My Identity has been screened in Canada, the USA, Mexico and Europe. Her photos have received various accolades including the Agfa award, given to outstanding students of photography at Concordia University. Her inaugural solo exhibition of photography and video, Murmur opened at Galerie La Centrale, Montreal. She travelled to Portugal to film and carry out research on her Jewish-Portuguese roots. She has also been awarded the prestigious FCAR grant to undertake a new photo project in Eastern Europe under the mentorship of the artist Evergon. As an emerging independent curator she has programmed a selection of videos by women artists for Groupe Intervention Vidéo in 2000, for the VideoLisboa Festival in Lisbon, Portugal in 2001.