Dimitry Saïd Chamy

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Dimitry Saïd Chamy is a transdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator. Working from a queer, mixed Haïtian-Lebanese immigrant perspective, he explores speculative futures, generative systems, and symbolic world-building through co-creation and participatory storytelling.

Chamy has exhibited work from Miami to Beijing, including Fashion Week at Lincoln Center, New York, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. He has worked on projects at multiple scales in diverse sectors, including art, education, fashion, technology, and the non-profit world.

Born and raised in Port-au-Prince before immigrating to the United States, Chamy has taught at six universities and served as an Erasmus+ Scholar and Honorary Chair at the Art Academy in Latvia. He is an Ellies Creator Award recipient from Oolite Arts and holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University. Chamy is a Research Associate Professor, Resident Artist and founding faculty at the Ratcliffe Art + Design Incubator at Florida International University in Miami, where he bases his studio.

Drawing is a meditation. Flow becomes form queering the line between binaries, building bridges over reservoirs of symbols, creating an endless expanse of possibilities. Ritual, exploration, proof of life—drawing is how our future begins.