Roy Samaha is a Lebanese video artist and photographer born in Beirut and lives there. Since 2001 He has exhibited his videos in numerous film and contemporary art festivals. He also worked in the News and Broadcasting TV industry since 1998 until 2008. He got his Masters degree in film studies at USEK, Lebanon. Currently, he is giving seminars on alternative video practices in different universities in Beirut.

Residencies:
- September 2010 Resident Artist at Apex Art New York City.
- February 2011 Cairo Egypt, commissioned by Leica Camera.

Installation/Video Loop:
_ On an Empty Mind (Still Life/Moving Death) 2009-2011
_ Missing Originals (Inheritance & Dispossession) 2008-2010

Videos:
_ Transparent Evil 2007-2011
_ Please Rewind Me Later 2007
_ Video For the End of Time 2006
_ Pink White Green Black: Noise/Silence insinuated 2004/2005
_ Untitled for Several Reasons 2002/2003

Festivals & Exhibitions:
• T.A.Z exhibition (Geneva) 2001
• Né. à Beyrouth, 2nd edition of the Lebanese Film Festival, (Beirut) 2002
• 27e Cinemed, Festival International Cinema Méditerranéen (Montpellier) 2003
• Middle Eastern Art Practice Forum: Disorientation (Berlin) 2003
• The 14th international Festival for Electronic Arts: Videobrazil (SaoPaolo) 2003
• Middle Eastern Experimental Film Festival: La Cinematheque, (Paris) 2004
• Home Works 2, Forum on Cultural Practices (Beirut) 2002
• Never The Right Time (Vancouver), 2004
• Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine Saint-Gervais (Geneva) 2004
• “Most Probably I Will Be Performing This Dream Tonight” (Beirut) 2006
• Consciousness in Coma, (Istanbul) 2006
• 1st International Singapore Biennal (Singapore) 2006
• Sydney Arab Film Festival (Sydney) 2007
• …Né. à Beyrouth 6th edition of the Lebanese Film Festival (Beirut) 2007
• Meeting Points 5 (organized by YATF) (Cairo/Amman/Berlin/Brussels) 2007
• Les Rencontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin/Madrid) 2007
• Videos from Lebanon, Beaver Group (New York) 2008
• Home Works 4, Forum on Cultural Practices (Beirut) 2008
• Né. à Beyrouth 7th edition of the Lebanese Film Festival (Beirut) 2008
• Liquid Cities Micro Museum Brooklyn (New York) 2008
• National Center for Contemporary arts (Moscow) 2009
• Cruel Weather, Peacock Visual Arts (Aberdeen) 2009
• On An Empty Mind, [Solo Exhibition] Espace Kettaneh-Kunigk (Beirut) 2010
• All About Beirut, White Box (Munich) 2010
• Selection, Espace Kettaneh-Kunigk (Beirut) 2010
• Rebirth, Beirut Exhibition Center (Beirut) 2011
• MENASA Art Fair, BIEL, (Beirut) 2011
• Roaming Images, 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale (Thessaloniki) 2011
• Breaking Points, Arab Film Festival (Aberdeen) 2011
• Paris Photo, (Paris) 2011
• International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam) 2012
• Affinités, Déchirures & Attractions, Frac (Alsace) 2012