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STATEMENT

In 1998, Miriam Sampaio completed a BFA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Concordia University. She is currently completing an MFA in Studio Arts, with a concentration in Open Media, also at Concordia University. Since 2002, she has exhibited her work in Canada, Portugal and Cyprus. She divides her time between Montréal and Lisbon.

My photographic/film practice is marked by an obsession with collecting, hoarding and archiving. It is a means of visibly charting lived experience and marking moments that have passed. My Super 8 images offer impressions of a distant past and a dislocated present. I feel compelled to document, preserve and thwart disappearance. I situate myself within a constructed myth where I blur and distort elements of truth. I am exploring the moment when silence begins to fill with secrets.

Education 

1999

BFA, Major in Interdisciplinary Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Graduated with distinction

2001 - 2002

FCAR mentorship program, working with photographic artist Evergon

2007-11

MFA, Open Media/Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal

2012-2015

PhD Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, London, UK. (Withdrawn)

Awards 

2018

2011

2011

2010

2006

CAC Research, creation and development, Canada

Concordia University Scholarship, Montreal

Concordia University Travel Grant, Montreal

Concordia University Scholarship, Montreal

Acordo Tripartido- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,

Luso- American Foundation & Instituto das Artes, Portugal, Travel grant for     

Canada Council for the Arts, Media Arts, project grant

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