Selected Works The Fancy, 2000
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2011 | PARTICIPANT, Inc., New York, NY |
| 2010 | Her Compulsion to Repeat, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
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| 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 | |
| 1997 | Jaqueline Goss, “Reading Subrin’s Swallow,” ebr7:image & narrative |
| 1996 | Cecilia Dougherty, “No One Said It Would Be Easy,” New Art Examiner |
| Fred Camper, “Critic’s Choice,” The Chicago Reader,” May 31 | |
| Lawrence Toppman, “Best of film festival’s first week,” Charlotte Observer | |
| Betsy Sherman, “ICA films take playful look at the everyday,” The Boston Globe | |
| Tina Wasserman, “Leah Gilliam/Elisabeth Subrin,” New Art Examiner | |
| 1995 | Jonathan Rosenbaum, Review, The Chicago Reader, November 17 |
| Amy Taubin, “Edgy, Sexy, Cool: Mix 95,” The Village Voice, November 7 | |
| Michelle Loubert, Review, The Link, Concordia, September 26 | |
| Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Critic’s Choice: No More Sweets for You,” The Chicago Reader, May 10 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |