Originally from Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Myriam Jacob-Allard is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily with video, performance, craft and installation. She holds an MFA in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM, a BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University and she lives in Montreal. Her practice focuses on Quebecois pop culture, particularly on country-western culture, which occupies an important place in her maternal family. Drawing on collected testimonials and stories as well as country-western iconography, songs and myths, Myriam Jacob-Allard’s work reflects on the maternal figure, matrilineal transmission, memory and forgetfulness.

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Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions as well as in festivals across Canada, Europe and South America. Recent screenings of her work include: The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Dortmund | Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales Traverse, and recent exhibitions include: 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). The recipient of many grants and awards, Myriam Jacob-Allard was awarded the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art (2015), and recently she received the Quebec Studio in Paris Grant for a residency at La Cité internationale des Arts of Paris (2021).

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