
Interdisciplinary artist working with photo-chemical film & photography; video & installation
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 (Withdrawn)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