PERFORMANCE

My-Van Dam is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. She graduated from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in visual and media arts and is a member of the CODE BLANC collective, alongside Stanley Février and Maryam Izadifard. Her practice focuses on the transmission of intergenerational trauma and its multiple physical and psychological impacts. She also explores body memory (BM) and healing processes that foster personal and collective emancipation from oppressive systems. Her current research is rooted in the exploration of somatic theories and practices in an effort to propose a vision of care that is interdependent and collaborative.

Dam has exhibited across Québec, notably as part of the Musée d’art actuel/Département des invisibles (MAADI) at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2022) and University of Sherbrooke (2021). She has also presented works at the Rad Hourani Foundation (2021), Montréal’s Place des Arts (2021), Projet Casa (2022), Art Souterrain festival (2022), Centre culturel Georges-Vanier (2024) as part of the POST-INVISIBLES biennial, and at MAI | Montréal, arts interculturels (2024). She completed a residency at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art in 2023.