Myriam Jacob-Allard is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily with video, performance, craft and installation. 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 on country-western iconography, songs and 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), Open City Documentary Festival, Dok Leipzig, IFF Message to Man (Centaur Prize for Best Experimental Film), FIVAC, 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). She holds an MFA in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM. The recipient of many grants and awards, in 2015 she was awarded the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art, and recently she received the Quebec Studio in Paris Grant for a six months residency in 2022 at La Cité internationale des Arts of Paris.
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), Open City Documentary Festival, Dok Leipzig, IFF Message to Man (Centaur Prize for Best Experimental Film), FIVAC, 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). She holds an MFA in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM. The recipient of many grants and awards, in 2015 she was awarded the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art, and recently she received the Quebec Studio in Paris Grant for a six months residency in 2022 at La Cité internationale des Arts of Paris.