About

Cherie Sampson is an intermedia artist and educator with a three-decade career in performance, installation, and new media art, alongside extensive university teaching. After completing her MFA in Intermedia & Video with a Sculpture minor at the University of Iowa, she developed an environmental performance practice influenced by Cuban-born Ana Mendieta (d.), also established in the woodlands around Iowa City. Sampson has presented her work widely across the U.S. and internationally, with performances and exhibitions spanning Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and her site-based work created in Finland over a twenty-year period is part of the permanent collection of the Pori Museum of Art, Pori, Finland. Her current solo project, "every.single.one," portrays personal and familial experiences with hereditary breast cancer through a lens of medical science, genetics, and integrative oncology, framing the body as a site of uncertainty, resilience, and survival. Recent performances of "every.single.one" have taken place in the U.S. and Canada and the project’s 2023 Finalist recognition for the Jane Chambers Award highlight its artistic and cultural impact.