I adopt a hybrid approach to the image, somewhere between the documentary and video essay style. I focus on the evocative power of singular places that resonate in the collective imagination and that are rooted in modern or transitional sites, whose singular status questions the links between the individual, modernity, architecture and public space. For my more recent projects, I've been meeting people, particularly immigrants, for whom the notion of place resides in the territories they pass through.

Myriam Yates’ work is comprised of large-scale projections and photographic series. She has taken part in events such the International Festival of Films on Art (Montreal), Kassel Dokfest (Germany), Images Festival (Toronto), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Le Mois de la Photo (Montreal) and Nuit Blanche Toronto. Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions, notably at the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University (Sherbrooke), Hessel Museum of Art (New York), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Sightings program at Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montreal), Dazibao and the artist-run centre Optica (Montreal). In 2015, the Canada Council for the Arts awarded her the Victor-Martyn-Lynch-Staunton Prize (media arts). In 2022, she received the Voir et ne pas savoir grant offered by the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery (Concordia University) for the production of a short film. She studied visual arts, advertisement and graphic design before earning a MFA from UQÀM. Originally from Montreal, Yates now lives in Sherbrooke (Quebec).