Samantha Samika is a visual artist, educator, and expressive arts therapist working across installation, moving image, painting, and drawing. Her practice approaches embodiment not as a subject to depict, but as a method of inquiry—a way of thinking through sensation, movement, and lived experience.

She creates immersive and participatory environments in which viewers become active participants. Through shadow, projection, sound, breath, and gesture, her installations function as spaces of attunement: places to slow down, listen inwardly, and encounter the porous boundary between self, others, and environment.

Informed by somatic practice, meditation, and depth psychology, her work explores how creativity can access pre-verbal and collective layers of experience—the shared, often unconscious knowledge carried in the body. Painting and drawing operate alongside installation as traces of this process: gestures that register time, memory, and perception rather than fixed images.

Across mediums, she is interested in art as a site of agency and repair: a space where participants can release tension, reorient attention, and rediscover their capacity to feel, move, and choose. Her projects often take the form of temporary rituals or relational structures that foreground care, presence, and interdependence.

Born in Mexico and based in Canada, Samika holds a Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts.