North Star Music Festival
Truman State University
Kirksville, MO
Date: October 25 (+ extra show October 26), 2025
"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)
"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)
"every.single.one" (solo performance work-in-progress), 2019-2021. Image from University of Missouri Theater "Life & Literature" series production, 2019. (Photograph: Rebecca Allen)
"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.)
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"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.
Performances, Exhibitions & Screening
About “every.single.one”
“every.single.one”
The one-woman show by Cherie Sampson, “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. It 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.
Recognition: “every.single.one” was a 2023 Jane Chambers Award Finalist.
2025 Performances
Columbia Entertainment Company (CEC) Theater
Columbia, MO
Dates: February 6–9, 2025
Cherie Sampson: Using the power of performance to share her cancer story
Previous Performances of “every.single.one”
Minnesota Fringe Festival 2024
Goldman Theater, Edlavitch DCJCC
Washington, DC
Date: July 26, 2024
Midwest Women in the Arts Symposium (MWAS)
Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Date: October 20, 2023
20th Annual Conference of the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO)
Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Banff, Canada
Date: September 14, 2023
Recent Exhibitions & Film Screenings (2024–25)
“every.single.one” — Solo Exhibition
Fort Madison Area Arts Association
Date: July 2025
MSFF Popups — Documentaries & Environmental Films
From McMinnville Short Film Festival
Date: September 27, 2025
McMinnville Short Film Festival
McMinnville, OR
Dates: Feb 27 – Mar 2, 2025
“Viral Integration” — Curated Exhibition
41 Artists Addressing Health Issues — Curated by elin o'Hara Slavick
Susan Samueli Health Sciences Building, University of California, Irvine
Dates: Dec 21, 2023 – Dec 15, 2024
St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF)
Hi-Pointe Theater
Dates: Nov 7–17, 2024
St. Louis Filmmaker’s Showcase
Award: Best Experimental Film (“Substance of Venom”)
Hi-Pointe Theater, St. Louis, MO
Dates: July 19–21 & 26–28, 2024
Media & Interviews
The Daily Blend — Cherie Sampson & Cheryl Black
MU Research News: Living at the Intersection of Science and Art