Home - Cherie Sampson

"Substance of Venom" New single channel video work, 2022 (video still)

"Substance of Venom" Video installation for "Quality of Being Fleeting" exhibition (Currents 826 Gallery, Santa Fe. May 27-Sept. 12, 2022)

Two works in Video installation for "Quality of Being Fleeting" exhibition (Currents 826 Gallery, Santa Fe. May 27-Sept. 12, 2022)

"every.single.one" (solo performance work-in-progress), 2019-2021. Image from University of Missouri Theater "Life & Literature" series production, 2019. (Photograph: Rebecca Allen)

"Deliverer," 2019, experimental dance based on a traditional classical Indian dance item. (Co-choreographed with Anjali Tata-Hudson; Ned McGowan, composer. Judy Bales, costume design.)

"Uphold (from below)," Video-performance, 2019. Shot in 2017; part of the "every,single.one" project. Still from video. (Charles Gran, composer)

“every.single.one” Photographic/performance series for the camera, April, 2017. Part of the "every.single.one" project. (Photograph: Lisa Wigoda)

Burning of the birch ladders, Koli, Finland. 2018. Live performance event. Photographs and videos are part of the Pori Art Museum Collection. (Photograph: Leena Jarva)

"Mettä vuoti kuivat kuuset" (From the dried-out fir leaked honey), Video installation & performance series, Ahjo Art Center, Joensuu, Finland. 2012. Performances took place over a three week period, five days a week in the gallery space over the duration of the exhibition. Silk scrims, birch trees, video projections. Photographs and videos related to this project are part of the permanent collection of the Pori Art Museum.(Photo: Pekka Pankakoski)

"On Moss Rock", Self-portrait in the forests of Koli, Finland. B&W Silver gelatin; 35mm. 1998 (Photo: Cherie Sampson). This photograph and others in this series are part of the permanent collection of the Pori Art Museum.

"Mettä vuoti kuivat kuuset" (From the dried-out fir leaked honey), 3-channel installation. Exhibited at MEDIAPiste Gallery, Pori Art Museum, 2013-14. This work is now part of the permanent collection at the Pori Art Museum. (Video still)

"Her Blue Sea Fire" Live Performance, June 2002, Fairfield, Iowa, USA. (Photograph: Radim Schreiber). Photographs & videos related to this work are part of the permanent collection of the Pori Art Museum.

"At the Pole of Heaven," Video-performance, 2012. (Shot at Mekrijärvi, Ilomantsi, Finland in 2008). This work is part of the permanent collection of the Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland.

Screenings/Installations:

2016: Passport to India, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. (April 3)

2015: FIVC Off (Alternative Screen) Festival Internacional de Videodanza, Chile.

Soorya Performing Arts L.A. Dance Festival, Malibu, CA.

Citizen Jane Film Festival, Dance-Film Program, Columbia, MO.

Official Selection, Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne, France.

Official Selection, Indian Cine Film Festival (ICFF), Mumbai, India. (Jury Best Music Video Award)

Official Selection, Movies by Movers Screendance Festival, Boone, North Carolina.

Biennial Quad State Exhibit, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL.

7th Annual St. Louis Indian Dance Festival, Clayton, MO.

NEWS - Exhibitions & Performances

2025 Performances of "every.single.one"

Columbia Entertainment Company (CEC) Theater, Columbia, Missouri

Columbia Entertainment Company Theater Box Office

February 6-9, 2025

Thurs – Sat, 7:30 PM

Sunday, 2:00 PM

“every.single.one” depicts personal, familial and community experiences with hereditary cancer while exploring topics of genetics, integrative oncology, and healing from a patient’s perspective of modern medicine. The narrative interweaves three levels of testimonial – the performer’s own experience, that of her sister, and stories of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer survivors and previvors - people who have taken prophylactic measures to prevent cancer when there is a known genetic risk. “every.single.one” is a dramatic interpretation of an intimately personal and simultaneously universal human reality that explores the body as a site of uncertainty in illness, loss, sibling and community interrelationship and survival.

The performances will be followed by thematic talkback sessions with the artist and members of the production team, medical researchers and practitioners, survivors & previvors.

NEWS - Exhibitions & Performances

February 6-9, 2025

Thurs – Sat, 7:30 PM

Sunday, 2:00 PM

Related links:

"every.single.one" was a Finalist for the 2023 Jane Chambers Award in feminist playwriting & performance texts.

Joan Hisaoka Gallery, Smith Center for Healing & the Arts