Carmen Samoila

Carmen Samoila is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Western Canada, working across painting, cyanotype, photography, and mixed media. With a foundation in sculpture, her work is grounded in a sensitivity to form, material, movement, and light.

At the heart of her practice is the line of life—the passage of time and the traces left by memory, emotion, place, and experience. Landscape, figure, atmosphere, and movement appear throughout her work, often shifting toward abstraction as one experience gives way to another.

Samoila works fluidly across mediums. Paintings find their way into layered photographs; landscape and figure move through images made at different times; photographic processes take on the gesture and physicality of painting. In her cyanotypes, she applies light-sensitive chemistry by hand, allowing sunlight, botanical material, and gesture to become part of the work itself.

Whatever the medium, her work returns to the same place: the experience of being alive, moving through time, and finding meaning in what we see, remember, and feel.

2025–2026 Darkroom Photography, SAIT, Calgary, AB, Canada
2012–2020 Continuing Studies, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB, Canada
2014–2016 Photography Studies, Canadian Photography Learning Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada

2026 Experimental Photography, Sparrow Art Space / Exposure Photography Festival, Calgary, Canada

2025 One Shot Photography Exhibition, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2025 12th Landscape, International Juried Exhibition, Teravarna

2025 9th Color, International Juried Exhibition, Teravarna

2010 Art Walk, Grid Art Gallery, Nelson, Canada
2009 Art Walk, Touchstones Art Gallery, Nelson, Canada

2009 Kootenay Christmas, Touchstones Art Gallery, Nelson, Canada

2005 Fifty-Nine & Counting, Cultural Centre Gallery, Medicine Hat, Canada

2001 North of 50 Artist Showcase, Great Northern Arts Festival, Inuvik, Canada

2000 Convergence, Yukon Arts Centre / Arctic Winter Games, Whitehorse, Canada

2000 Ancient Spirit Arts, Northern Country Arts, Ottawa, Canada

1999 North of 50, Great Northern Arts Festival, Inuvik, Canada