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Samuel Chow

Overview

Canada
1980

Samuel Chow is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; prior to that, he received his BA (Honours) in Visual Studies at the University of Toronto, during all four years of which he was a National Scholar. Chow is an accomplished mixed-media painter and digital printmaker, while he is primarily known for his accomplishments in video. His film “Banana Boy” (2003, Digital Video and Super 8, 7 min, English and Cantonese) won the 2003 Reel Asian International Film Festival Emerging Artist Award and was subsequently adapted as a CBC Radio Play in 2005. “Banana Boy” was one of 10 short films in a special program mounted by MoMA (Museum of Modern Art in New York) curators, Another Wave: Global Queer Cinema, Part 2 – Cross-Cultural Jam, and shown on September 13 and 14, 2006, at MOMA. Chow’s film was the only 21st Century film selected and he was the only artist under age 40 (let alone under age 30). Beyond the MoMA’s recognition, his video/film work has attracted significant academic and artistic honours including wide-ranging critical recognition of his film, radio play and video work.

Chow’s I’m Feeling Lucky solo exhibition at Craig Scott Gallery, September 3-28, 2008, consisted of a new media work in the form of what Chow calls a 'random path network' projected in a small theatre setting (the north gallery of Craig Scott Gallery) and a series of prints of stills from the work displayed in the centre gallery. The I'm Feeling Lucky exhibition was presented in association with the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival: Future Projections. The TIFF press release can be viewed at CINEMA MEETS THE VISUAL ARTS AT TIFF08 WITH MOVING-IMAGE PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF TORONTO.

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