Film and Video By Elisabeth Subrin, The Film Center at The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Memoirs of a Difficult Daughter: Works By Elisabeth Subrin, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
The 48th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Poughkeepsie, NY (Featured Artist)
The Center for Media, Culture and History, New York University, New York, NY
2001
Northwest Film Center, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
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
Vienna International Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
1999
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Parallel Lies: Imagining Histories and The Female Double, Pleasuredome, Toronto, Canada
1998
San Francisco Cinematheque, CA
Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA
The Film Center at The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1996
True Lies (with Leah Gilliam), Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Let's Dance, MAC/VAL, Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-De-Marne, France
Lush Life, On Steller Rays, Co-curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud, New York, NY
Greater New York, PS1/MoMA, New York, NY
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
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
Video Bites, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
2004
Rear View Mirror, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
The Past Recaptured, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Tivoli, NY
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
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)
ARTIST PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS
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
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
Fine Arts Lecture Series, Otis College of Art and Design, LA
Pitzer Cinematheque, Claremont, CA
2005
Department of Art, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Department of Film and Video, Bennington College, VT
School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2004
Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Scholar’s Club, New York University, New York, NY
Keynote Speaker, Sarah Lawrence College Experimental Film Festival, Bronxville, NY
2003
Department of Media Arts, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
Massachusetts College of Art Film Society, Boston, MA
2002
Memoirs of a Difficult Daughter, Department of Radio, TV, Film, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Department of Film and Media, Hunter College, New York, NY
Women's Studies Research Center at The Five Colleges, South Hadley, MA
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
GROUP SCREENINGS AND FILM/VIDEO FESTIVALS
2009
Portland Experimental Film and Video Art Festival, Portland, NY
2008
Body Politics, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Am I Repeating Myself? The Power Plant, Toronto, ON, Canada
After School Special (with Alex Bag and Kika Thorne), Cineworks, Vancouver, CA
Animal, Mineral, Vegetable: Recent Experimental Documentaries, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Ersatz Facts: The Pseudo-Documentary, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2007
Festival De Cine Documental, Pamplona, Spain
Photographers Movies; Movies about Photographers, Biennale of Photography, Malmo, Sweden
The Plastic Self, Orchard Gallery, New York, NY
Feminale Women’s Video Festival, Koln, Germany
If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Revolution, MuHKA_media, Antwerp, Belgium
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
Feedback: The Video Data Bank, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Women Make Waves Film and Video Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
Now Again the Past: Rewind Replay Resound, Carnegie Art Museum, North Tonawanda, NY
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
Outfest Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, Austin, TX
Feast Film Festival, Tampa, FL
2003
The 22nd Black Maria Film and Video Festival , Jersey City, NJ (multiple locations, nationally)
Featured Video Artist, Kentucky Women Writers Conference, Lexington, KY
Microwave International Media Art Festival, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Cornell Cinema, Ithica, NY
The New Festival, New York, NY
Frameline, San Francisco, CA
Videolisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
New Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2002
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Paris Photo, Paris, France
Close Up, SixPack Films, Vienna, Austria
Pixelvision, Balagan Experimental Film and Video Series, Boston, MA
Harn Museum of Art, Gainsville, FL
Dietmar Schwaertz Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Cinematexas Film Festival, Austin, TX
Sundance Channel, New York, NY
2001
International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Drama Queens: Women Behind the Camera, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Scene Images: (Auto) Biographical Aspects of Contemporary Media Production, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
VIPER – Int’l Festival for Film, Video & New Media, Basel, Switzerland
Transmediale, International Media Arts Festival, Berlin
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruch, Germany
San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
Black Maria Film and Video Festival (multiple locations, nationally)
Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA
Watching People Watching You, curated by Lauren Cornell,The British Council in Poland, Warsaw, Poland
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
The Cool World: Film and Video in America 1950-2000, The Whitney Museum, NY
1999
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Cornell Cinema, Ithica, NY
1998
Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands
London International Festival of the Moving Image, London, England
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Margaret Mead Film Festival, American Museum of Natural History, NY
Montreal Int’l Festival of Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Quebec
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA
Harvard Film Archives, Cambridge, MA
Out of the Ordinary: 25 Years, 25 Films, Northwest Film and Video Center, Portland, OR
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
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Photography/Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
1996
New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Festival du Noveau Cinema de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
Video Art: The Chicago 15, Pacific Film Archives, Berkely, CA
World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands
American Film Institute Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Northwest Film Center, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
Women Filmmakers Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
New Langton Arts Center, San Francisco, CA
IMPAKT Festival of Film, Video and New Media, Utrecht, The Netherlands
No More Sweets for You: New Films and Videos, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Sapphire and The Old World: New Works by Leslie Thorntion, Leah Gilliam & Elisabeth Subrin
Kino-Eye Cinema, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Women in the Director’s Chair Film/Video Festival, Chicago, IL
VideoTENSIONS; VideoGRRLS, University of Arizona/Arizona Media Arts Center, Tuscon, AZ
Language and Disorder, curated by Kristine Diekman (touring, multiple locations)
1995
The American Center, Paris, France
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
The Film Center of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
MIX: New York Gay and Lesbiam Experimental Film Festival, New York, NY
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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
Fellow, Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab, Sundance Institute, UT
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
2nd Prize, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ
Fellow, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
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
Fellowship, The Andrea Frank Foundation, New York, NY
1998
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: “The Douglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Award: Shulie”
“Best of 1997,” Film Comment Magazine, January
Faculty Research Grant, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1997
Fellowship in Media Arts, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL
Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ
"Best of 1996,” Film Comment Magazine, January
Art and Technology Residency, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
1996
First Place Experimental, USA Film Festival, Dallas, TX
Juror’s Choice, 1996 Charlotte Film and Video Festival, Charlotte, NC
Grantee, Community Arts Assistance Program, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Nick Stillman, Elisabeth Subrin at Sue Scott Gallery, Artforum, May
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
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
Pablo de Ocampo, “Inside the Ghost: Elisabeth Subrin’s Haunting Feminism,” The Portland Mercury, Vol 1, No. 45, April 12-18
Rachel Greene, “Elisabeth Subrin, The Fancy,” BOMB, September
Ed Halter, “Jumping Out a Window is a Way of Going Home: Incomplete Sketch of an Essay for Elisabeth Subrin,” Cinematexas, September
Holly Willis, “Filmforum: Fancy, LA Weekly, March 30
2000
Elizabeth Freeman, “Packing History, Count(er)ing Generations,” New Literary History, 2000, 31: 727-744
Nicole Armour, “Disappearing Acts: Elisabeth Subrin,” Film Comment, pp 55-57
Lia Gangitano, “File Under ‘Heros’,” Thread Waxing Space, October
Amy Taubin, “Video Vanguard; Mensch Musician,” The Village Voice, July
A.O. Scott, “Video as Art in a World On Tape, The New York Times, July
Ed Halter, “New York Video Festival,” New York Press, July 19-25
Dave Kehr, “Taking Chances with Emerging Film and Video Artists,” New York Times, March 24
Kent Jones, “Whitney Biennial Film/Video Program,” Artforum, May
Kristin M. Jones, “Whitney Biennial,” Frieze, Summer, Issue 53
Daniel Belasco, “The Jewish NU WAVE,” The Jewish Week, July 21
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
Paul Arthur, “The Avant-Garde in ’98,” Film Comment, Jan/Feb
Bill Horrigan, “Shulie,” for “The Shock of the View: Artists, Audiences, and Museums in the Digital Age,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Johnny Ray Huston, “Watching You Watching Me,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, January
Manohla Dargis, “Manohla Dargis Hit List,” LA Weekly, Jan 8
Josh Kun, “Aura: The Remix,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 3
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
Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Remaking History (review of Shulie), The Chicago Reader, Nov. 20
Kate Haug, “Time Frame,” Afterimage, Nov/Dec
Amy Taubin, “More, More, More,” Village Voice, December 31
Manohla Dargis, “Elisabeth Subrin in person,” LA Weekly, February 27
Mikki Halpin, “Don’t Look Back,” Filmmaker Magazine, July
Amy Kroin, “Cases of Mistaken Identity,” The Valley Advocate,” Aug. 13
Cara Jepson, “Holding a mirror to the ‘60s,” The Chicago Reader, Nov. 20
B. Ruby Rich, Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement, pp. 383-384
Betsy Sherman, “Critic’s Tip: Elisabeth Subrin,” The Boston Globe, Mar. 20
Lia Gangitano, “Transience and Sentimentality,” Institute of Contemporary Art & Stuff Magazine, Boston
