Dimitry Saïd Chamy

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Dimitry Saïd Chamy is a transdisciplinary artist, designer, and cultural producer. He creates hybrid generative systems that draw on collaboration, process, and play to evoke what is lost, examine the present, and explore the possible. His practice is rooted in a love of nature, science, and storytelling—grounded in his diasporic experience as a queer Haitian-Lebanese American immigrant.

Chamy won several grants from Miami-Dade County and was awarded an Oolite Arts Creator Award. He has been an artist-in-residence at Design Hi(j)ack in Beijing, the Barnard College Movement Lab with Pioneer Winter Collective, FETA Foundation, and Locust Projects in Miami, where he also exhibited. His work has been shown at Beijing Design Week, New York Fashion Week, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Lowe Museum. His videos have earned international awards and been screened at festivals worldwide. In 2022, he was an assistant curator and producer of The BluPrnt Show, curated by Robert Chambers with 395 artists spanning a 120+ year cross-section of Miami art which The New York Times featured as expressive of the city’s historical significance as a global art center. He has performed with Juraj Kojš’s Orchid Adventures, designed props, and performed scenic visuals for the premiere of Pioneer Winter Collective’s dance-theater work Apollo.

Chamy holds an MFA from Yale University. He has taught at six universities and served as an Erasmus+ Scholar and Honorary Chair at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga. He is Co-Founder, Research Associate, Resident Designer and Artist at the Ratcliffe Art + Design Incubator at Florida International University in Miami.

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, a way to start a conversation—how our future begins.