Chuck Samuels is a Montréal artist whose photographs and videos have been exhibited and published extensively in Québec, Canada, and abroad since 1980. He frequently photographs or films himself and his work tends to address memory, photography and cinema as subject matter. Samuels’ photographs are part of the collections of Bibliothèque national de France (Paris), Cinémathèque québécoise (Montréal), George Eastman Museum (Rochester), Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), Musée de la Photographie (Charleroi), Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec: Collection Prêt d’oeuvres d’art (Québec), National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), Société française de photographie (Paris) and Worcester Art Museum (Worcester) as well as many Canadian and foreign private collections. His installation and video works have been shown in various venues, including several film/video festivals in Canada. From 2002 to 2014 Chuck Samuels served as the Director of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, an international biennale of contemporary photography (since renamed Momenta, biennale d’art contemporain).
