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Myriam Jacob-Allard is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker who works primarily with video, performance, craft and installation. Her practice focuses on popular culture, particularly on Quebecois country-western culture, which occupies an important place in her maternal family. Drawing on collected testimonials and stories as well as on songs and family myths, Myriam Jacob-Allard’s work reflects on matrilineal transmission, memory and forgetfulness.
Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as in international festivals. Screenings of her work include: IFF Rotterdam, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (Jury Prize), Dok Leipzig, IFF Message to Man (Centaur Prize for Best Experimental Film), Tallinn Photomonth, among others, and recent exhibitions include: Une voix me rappelle toujours at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec (2022-23), L’horloge de la television indiquait deux heures du matin at Glassbox, Paris (2022), T’envoler at Dazibao (2019), Once Upon a Time… The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (2017-2018) and The Grand Balcony at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in the context of the Biennale de Montréal (2016-2017). She holds an MFA in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM. The recipient of many grants and awards, she was awarded the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art (2015), and recently she received the Quebec Studio in Paris Grant for a six months residency at La Cité internationale des Arts of Paris (2022).
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