04/12/2024
Artist: Dimitry Saïd Chamy Card: Knight - Across the Suits
What doers Magic mean to you?
Magic is anything on the very edge of the probable that catches fire to warm the hearts of those that are lucky enough to witness it, be inspired, and pass it on.
Bio:
Dimitry Saïd Chamy is a transdisciplinary artist, designer, and cultural producer. Working from a q***r, mixed Haïtian-Lebanese immigrant perspective, he explores speculative futures, human generative systems, and symbolic world-building through participatory co-creation and storytelling though media, systems, video, installation, and code.
An Oolite Arts Creator Award recipient, Chamy has exhibited from Miami to Beijing, including Fashion Week at Lincoln Center, New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and Locust Projects in Miami, where he was also a resident teaching artist.
In 2022, he produced The BluPrnt Show, curated by Robert Chambers, with 395 artists and works spanning a 120+ year cross-section of Miami art history assembled by an all-volunteer team and covered by The New York Times. Chamy holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University.
Chamy has taught at six universities and served as an Erasmus+ Scholar and Honorary Chair at the Art Academy in Latvia. Chamy is currently a Research Associate Professor and Resident Artist at the Ratcliffe Art + Design Incubator at Florida International University in Miami, where he bases his studio.