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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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| 2011 |
PARTICIPANT, Inc., New York, NY |
| 2010 |
Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY |
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SOLO SCREENINGS
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| 2010 |
Elisabeth Subrin: Early Works, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2009 |
Lost Tribes: Elisabeth Subrin, Light Industry at X-Initiative, Dia/Chelsea, New York, NY |
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Replica Remake Radical (with Bea Santiago-Munoz), Filmoteca Nacional, San Juan, PR |
| 2007 |
Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2005 |
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA |
| 2003 |
Harvard Film Archives, Cambridge, MA |
| 2002 |
Film and Video By Elisabeth Subrin, The Film Center at The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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Memoirs of a Difficult Daughter: Works By Elisabeth Subrin, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX |
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The 48th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Poughkeepsie, NY (Featured Artist) |
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The Center for Media, Culture and History, New York University, New York, NY |
| 2001 |
Northwest Film Center, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR |
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The Multiple Personae of Francesca Woodman and Isabelle Eberhardt: Experimental Bios by Elisabeth Subrin and Leslie Thornton, Yeurba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
| 2000 |
Memoirs of a Difficult Daughter: Recent Works by Elisabeth Subrin, Thread Waxing Space, New York |
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Vienna International Film Festival, Vienna, Austria |
| 1999 |
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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Parallel Lies: Imagining Histories and The Female Double, Pleasuredome, Toronto, Canada |
| 1998 |
San Francisco Cinematheque, CA |
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Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA |
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The Film Center at The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1996 |
True Lies (with Leah Gilliam), Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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| 2010 |
A Reluctant Apparition, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2009 |
Made in the USA at Pete’s Motors, organized by Phillip Deely, RENTAL, New York, NY |
| 2008 |
Technically Sweet, PARTICIPANT, INC., New York, NY |
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Technically Sweet, Ovegaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK |
| 2007 |
Invisible Mend, LUX , London, England |
| 2006 |
Cinema Cavern, PS1, Long Island City, NY |
| 2005 |
Inside Out Loud: Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO |
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Video Bites, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| 2004 |
Rear View Mirror, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK |
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The Past Recaptured, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Tivoli, NY |
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American Tableaux, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, traveling to: University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; Winnepeg Art Gallery, Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE |
| 2003 |
Fate of Alien Modes, Film Museum & Secession, Vienna, Austria |
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Video Windows, curated by Shirin Neshat, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2000 |
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 1999 |
The Cool World: Film and Video in America 1950-2000 (The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 1996 |
Girlhood, Dis-Orderred, The Geffen Contemporary at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (in conjunction with Private TV/Public Living Rooms: A New Media Exhibition) |
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ARTIST PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS
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| 2010 |
New Works by Elisabeth Subrin, in conversations with Guest Curator Ed Halter, The Sixth Annual Brakage Symposium, UNiversity of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO |
| 2009 |
Archives Fever: An Evening with Elisabeth Subrin, Film Studies Department, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA |
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Escuaela de Artes Plastica de Puerto Rico (with Bea Santiago), San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 2007 |
Visiting Filmmaker Series, Film Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| 2006 |
The Films of Elisabeth Subrin, Film and Video Center, University of California, Irvine |
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Fine Arts Lecture Series, Otis College of Art and Design, LA |
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Pitzer Cinematheque, Claremont, CA |
| 2005 |
Department of Art, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
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Department of Film and Video, Bennington College, VT |
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School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA |
| 2004 |
Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD |
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Scholar’s Club, New York University, New York, NY |
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Keynote Speaker, Sarah Lawrence College Experimental Film Festival, Bronxville, NY |
| 2003 |
Department of Media Arts, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ |
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Massachusetts College of Art Film Society, Boston, MA |
| 2002 |
Memoirs of a Difficult Daughter, Department of Radio, TV, Film, University of Texas, Austin, TX |
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Department of Film and Media, Hunter College, New York, NY |
| 2001 |
Humanities Gender Group, Women's Studies Program, Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ |
| 2000 |
The Claremont Colleges, Clarement, CA |
| 1999 |
Visiting Lecture Series, Marlboro College, Brattleburo, VT |
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Women's Studies Research Center at The Five Colleges, South Hadley, MA |
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Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA |
| 1998 |
Department of Women's Studies, University of Lancaster, England |
| 1997 |
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI |
| 1996 |
Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College, VA |
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GROUP SCREENINGS AND FILM/VIDEO FESTIVALS
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| 2009 |
Portland Experimental Film and Video Art Festival, Portland, NY |
| 2008 |
Body Politics, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT |
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Am I Repeating Myself? The Power Plant, Toronto, ON, Canada |
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After School Special (with Alex Bag and Kika Thorne), Cineworks, Vancouver, CA |
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Animal, Mineral, Vegetable: Recent Experimental Documentaries, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA |
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Ersatz Facts: The Pseudo-Documentary, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA |
| 2007 |
Festival De Cine Documental, Pamplona, Spain |
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Photographers Movies; Movies about Photographers, Biennale of Photography, Malmo, Sweden |
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The Plastic Self, Orchard Gallery, New York, NY |
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Feminale Women’s Video Festival, Koln, Germany |
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If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Revolution, MuHKA_media, Antwerp, Belgium |
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Cine Test, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia & Canopia Gestion Cultural, Madrid, Spain |
| 2006 |
The 44th New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY |
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Feedback: The Video Data Bank, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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Women Make Waves Film and Video Festival, Taipei, Taiwan |
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Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX |
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Now Again the Past: Rewind Replay Resound, Carnegie Art Museum, North Tonawanda, NY |
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Boomerang: Three Short Remakes, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY |
| 2005 |
Artists’ Vision of Film Series, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA |
| 2004 |
Women in the Director’s Chair, Chicago, IL |
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Outfest Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA |
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Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, Austin, TX |
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Feast Film Festival, Tampa, FL |
| 2003 |
The 22nd Black Maria Film and Video Festival , Jersey City, NJ (multiple locations, nationally) |
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Featured Video Artist, Kentucky Women Writers Conference, Lexington, KY |
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Microwave International Media Art Festival, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
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Cornell Cinema, Ithica, NY |
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The New Festival, New York, NY |
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Frameline, San Francisco, CA |
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Videolisboa, Lisboa, Portugal |
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New Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ |
| 2002 |
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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Paris Photo, Paris, France |
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Close Up, SixPack Films, Vienna, Austria |
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Pixelvision, Balagan Experimental Film and Video Series, Boston, MA |
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Harn Museum of Art, Gainsville, FL |
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Dietmar Schwaertz Gallery, Vienna, Austria |
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Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN |
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The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY |
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Cinematexas Film Festival, Austin, TX |
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Sundance Channel, New York, NY |
| 2001 |
International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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Drama Queens: Women Behind the Camera, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |
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Scene Images: (Auto) Biographical Aspects of Contemporary Media Production, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria |
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VIPER – Int’l Festival for Film, Video & New Media, Basel, Switzerland |
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Transmediale, International Media Arts Festival, Berlin |
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European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruch, Germany |
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San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA |
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Black Maria Film and Video Festival (multiple locations, nationally) |
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Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA |
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Watching People Watching You, curated by Lauren Cornell,The British Council in Poland, Warsaw, Poland |
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Made in the 20th Century: New Video from Art & Tech, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH |
| 2000 |
New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY |
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The Cool World: Film and Video in America 1950-2000, The Whitney Museum, NY |
| 1999 |
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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Cornell Cinema, Ithica, NY |
| 1998 |
Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands |
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London International Festival of the Moving Image, London, England |
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Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH |
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Margaret Mead Film Festival, American Museum of Natural History, NY |
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Montreal Int’l Festival of Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Quebec |
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Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA |
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Harvard Film Archives, Cambridge, MA |
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Out of the Ordinary: 25 Years, 25 Films, Northwest Film and Video Center, Portland, OR |
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Bent Is Beautiful: Sadie Benning, Elisabeth Subrin, Nguyen Tan Hoang, University of North Carolina & Mr. Lady Records, Durham, NC |
| 1997 |
the 35th New York Film Festival, New York, NY |
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL |
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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Museum of Photography/Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 1996 |
New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY |
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Festival du Noveau Cinema de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec |
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European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany |
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Video Art: The Chicago 15, Pacific Film Archives, Berkely, CA |
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World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands |
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American Film Institute Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA |
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Northwest Film Center, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR |
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Women Filmmakers Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England |
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New Langton Arts Center, San Francisco, CA |
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IMPAKT Festival of Film, Video and New Media, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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No More Sweets for You: New Films and Videos, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA |
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Sapphire and The Old World: New Works by Leslie Thorntion, Leah Gilliam & Elisabeth Subrin |
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Kino-Eye Cinema, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL |
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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Women in the Director’s Chair Film/Video Festival, Chicago, IL |
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VideoTENSIONS; VideoGRRLS, University of Arizona/Arizona Media Arts Center, Tuscon, AZ |
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Language and Disorder, curated by Kristine Diekman (touring, multiple locations) |
| 1995 |
The American Center, Paris, France |
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Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY |
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The Film Center of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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MIX: New York Gay and Lesbiam Experimental Film Festival, New York, NY |
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GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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| 2007 |
Fellow, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (also 2002, 2003, 2006) |
| 2006-2007 |
Fellowship, The Annenberg Foundation & The Sundance Institute, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2005-2007 |
Film Commission, The MacDowell Colony Centennial Celebration, New York, NY |
| 2004-2005 |
The Rockefeller Foundation, Media Arts Fellowship, New York, NY |
| 2003 |
Fellow, Sundance Feature Filmmaker’s Lab, Sundance Institute, UT |
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Fellow, Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab, Sundance Institute, UT |
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Director’s Choice, The 22nd Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ |
| 2002-2003 |
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY |
| 2001 |
Viper International Award for Film/Video, Basel, Germany |
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2nd Prize, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ |
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Fellow, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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Fellowship, Creative Capital Foundation, New York, NY |
| 2000 |
Best Experimental, New England Film and Video Festival, Boston, MA |
| 1999 |
Art and Technology Residency, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH |
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Fellowship, The Andrea Frank Foundation, New York, NY |
| 1998 |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: “The Douglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Award: Shulie” |
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“Best of 1997,” Film Comment Magazine, January |
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Faculty Research Grant, Amherst College, Amherst, MA |
| 1997 |
Fellowship in Media Arts, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL |
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Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ |
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"Best of 1996,” Film Comment Magazine, January |
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Art and Technology Residency, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH |
| 1996 |
First Place Experimental, USA Film Festival, Dallas, TX |
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Juror’s Choice, 1996 Charlotte Film and Video Festival, Charlotte, NC |
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Grantee, Community Arts Assistance Program, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL |
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Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ |
| 1995 |
Grantee, Regional NEA Fellowship, Center for New Television, Chicago, IL |
| 1993 |
Trustee Fellowship, two-year full scholarship for the MFA Video Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1990 |
Morton Godine Fellowship, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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| 2010 |
Critics' Pick: Best in Film (Elisabeth Subrin at Sue Scott Gallery), Time Out New York, February |
| 2008 |
Ed. Yvette Brackman & Maria Finn, Technically Sweet: One Script/Thirteen Points of View/Allusions-Endless, Danish Arts Council & Plum Velvet, Copenhagen, DK |
| 2006 |
Alex Juhasz & Jesse Lerner, “Phony Definitions and Troubling Taxonomies of the Fake Documentary,” F Is For Phony: Fake Documentaries and Truth’s Undoing, Visible Evidence Series, University of Minnesota Press |
| 2005 |
Jean Petrolle & Virginia Wesman, Ed. “Introduction,” Women and Experimental Filmmaking, University of Illinois Press |
| 2004 |
Alka R. Tandon and Meghan M. Dolan, “15 Professors that are Changing the World: Punk Auteur Takes Over the Airwaves,” The Harvard Crimson, March |
| 2003 |
Roundtable conversation on Francesca Woodman, Art Journal, Summer |
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Astria Suparak, “Queens of All Media,” Heeb Magazine, Volume 3, Spring |
| 2002 |
Paula Rabinowitz, “Medium Uncool: Women Shoot Back; Feminism, Film and 1968—A Curious Documentary,” Science and Society, Volume 65, Spring |
| 2001 |
Josh Kun, “False Document,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, Jan. 31 |
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Pablo de Ocampo, “Inside the Ghost: Elisabeth Subrin’s Haunting Feminism,” The Portland Mercury, Vol 1, No. 45, April 12-18 |
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Rachel Greene, “Elisabeth Subrin, The Fancy,” BOMB, September |
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Ed Halter, “Jumping Out a Window is a Way of Going Home: Incomplete Sketch of an Essay for Elisabeth Subrin,” Cinematexas, September |
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Holly Willis, “Filmforum: Fancy, LA Weekly, March 30 |
| 2000 |
Elizabeth Freeman, “Packing History, Count(er)ing Generations,” New Literary History, 2000, 31: 727-744 |
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Nicole Armour, “Disappearing Acts: Elisabeth Subrin,” Film Comment, pp 55-57 |
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Lia Gangitano, “File Under ‘Heros’,” Thread Waxing Space, October |
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Amy Taubin, “Video Vanguard; Mensch Musician,” The Village Voice, July |
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A.O. Scott, “Video as Art in a World On Tape, The New York Times, July |
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Ed Halter, “New York Video Festival,” New York Press, July 19-25 |
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Dave Kehr, “Taking Chances with Emerging Film and Video Artists,” New York Times, March 24 |
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Kent Jones, “Whitney Biennial Film/Video Program,” Artforum, May |
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Kristin M. Jones, “Whitney Biennial,” Frieze, Summer, Issue 53 |
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Daniel Belasco, “The Jewish NU WAVE,” The Jewish Week, July 21 |
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Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, Manifesta: young woman, femism and the Future (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux), pp. 116, 135, 204-205, 217 |
| 1999 |
Peter Goddard, “Shot-for-Shot remake remarkably unsettling,” The Toronto Star, February 26 |
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Paul Arthur, “The Avant-Garde in ’98,” Film Comment, Jan/Feb |
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Bill Horrigan, “Shulie,” for “The Shock of the View: Artists, Audiences, and Museums in the Digital Age,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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Johnny Ray Huston, “Watching You Watching Me,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, January |
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Manohla Dargis, “Manohla Dargis Hit List,” LA Weekly, Jan 8 |
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Josh Kun, “Aura: The Remix,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 3 |
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Scott Stark, “The Top Ten Avante-Garde Films of 1998,” Film Threat |
| 1998 |
B. Ruby Rich, “Fanning the Firestone: Elisabeth Subrin’s Shulie looks back with envy,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 25 |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Remaking History (review of Shulie), The Chicago Reader, Nov. 20 |
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Kate Haug, “Time Frame,” Afterimage, Nov/Dec |
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Amy Taubin, “More, More, More,” Village Voice, December 31 |
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Manohla Dargis, “Elisabeth Subrin in person,” LA Weekly, February 27 |
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Mikki Halpin, “Don’t Look Back,” Filmmaker Magazine, July |
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Amy Kroin, “Cases of Mistaken Identity,” The Valley Advocate,” Aug. 13 |
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Cara Jepson, “Holding a mirror to the ‘60s,” The Chicago Reader, Nov. 20 |
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B. Ruby Rich, Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement, pp. 383-384 |
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Betsy Sherman, “Critic’s Tip: Elisabeth Subrin,” The Boston Globe, Mar. 20 |
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Lia Gangitano, “Transience and Sentimentality,” Institute of Contemporary Art & Stuff Magazine, Boston |
| 1997 |
Jaqueline Goss, “Reading Subrin’s Swallow,” ebr7:image & narrative |
| 1996 |
Cecilia Dougherty, “No One Said It Would Be Easy,” New Art Examiner |
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Fred Camper, “Critic’s Choice,” The Chicago Reader,” May 31 |
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Lawrence Toppman, “Best of film festival’s first week,” Charlotte Observer |
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Betsy Sherman, “ICA films take playful look at the everyday,” The Boston Globe |
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Tina Wasserman, “Leah Gilliam/Elisabeth Subrin,” New Art Examiner |
| 1995 |
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Review, The Chicago Reader, November 17 |
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Amy Taubin, “Edgy, Sexy, Cool: Mix 95,” The Village Voice, November 7 |
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Michelle Loubert, Review, The Link, Concordia, September 26 |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Critic’s Choice: No More Sweets for You,” The Chicago Reader, May 10 |
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EDUCATION
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| 1995 |
MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1990 |
BFA Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA |
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TEACHING
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| 2007-present |
Assistant Professor, Film and Media Arts Department, Temple University, Philadelphia. PA |
| 2006-2007 |
Visiting Critic, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT |
| 2005-2006 |
Visiting Artist, School of Art, The Cooper Union, New York, NY |
| 2006 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bennington College, Bennington VT |
| 2002-2005 |
Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| 2005 |
Distinguished Visiting Graduate Professor, Department of Photography and Film, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA |
| 2001-2002 |
Visiting Scholar, Center for Media, Culture & History, New York University, New York, NY |
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Visiting Assistant Professor in Film/Video, English Department, Amherst College, Amherst, MA |
| 1997-2001 |
Visiting Assistant Professor of Film/Video, The Five Colleges, Inc., Amherst, MA. Joint appointment at Amherst & Mount Holyoke Colleges , Amherst, MA |
| 1995-1997 |
Adjunct Faculty, Film and Video Departments, First Year Program and MFA Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
