Myriam Jacob-Allard is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker who works primarily with video, performance, craft and installation. Her practice focuses on popular culture and drawing on collected stories as well as on songs and family myths, her work reflects on matrilineal transmission, memory and forgetfulness.
Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as in international film festivals. Screenings of her work include: IFF Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Festival Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (Jury Prize), Dok Leipzig, Uppsala SFF, IFF Message to Man (Centaur Prize for Best Experimental Film), Tallinn Photomonth, and recent exhibitions include: National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, Glassbox Nord in Paris, Dazibao in Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Mains d’oeuvres in Paris, La Biennale at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. She holds an MFA in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM. The recipient of many grants and awards, she was awarded the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art (2015), received the Quebec Studio in Paris Grant (2022) and the Quebec Studio in Berlin Grant (2025).