Elisabeth Subrin

ELISABETH SUBRIN

Solo Exhibitions

2011 PARTICIPANT, Inc., New York, NY

2010 Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY

Solo Screenings

2009 Lost Tribes: Elisabeth Subrin, Light Industry at X-Initiative, Dia/Chelsea, New York

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 Personnae 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

2009 Made in the USA at Pete’s Motors, organized by Phillip Deely, RENTAL

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

Touring Exhibition to:

University of Iowa Museum of Art , Iowa City, IA

Winnepeg Art Gallery, Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada

Miami Art Museum , Delaware Art Museum

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/Talks 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

2004 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of Maryland, Baltimore

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 & 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, NYY

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

1995 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 Lesbian Experimental Film Festival, New York, NY

No More Sweets for You: New Films and Videos, Randolph St. Gallery, Chicago, IL

1989.94 Boston Film/Video Foundation, Boston, MA

Moderna Galerija Ljubijana, Ljublijana, Yugoslavia

Medien Werkstaat, Wien, Austria

European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany

KOB 8 Filmburo, Mainz, Germany

Festival de Video Musical, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Mobius, Boston, MA The Space Gallery, Boston, MA

Grants, Fellowships & Awards

2007 -Fellow, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (also 2002, 2003, 2006)

2006-07 -Fellowship, The Annenberg Foundation & The Sundance Institute, Los Angeles, CA

2005.7 -Film Commission, The MacDowell Colony Centennial Celebration, New York, NY

2004.5 -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

2002-03 -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

Selected Bibliography

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 1995 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1990 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

Teaching 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

2005.6 Visiting Artist, School of Art, The Cooper Union, New York, NY

2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, Bennington College, Bennington VT 2002-05 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

2001.2 Visiting Scholar, Center for Media, Culture & History, New York University, New York, NY

2001.2 Visiting Assistant Professor in Film/Video, English Department, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

1997-01 Visiting Assistant Professor of Film/Video, The Five Colleges, Inc., Amherst, MA. Joint appointment at Amherst & Mount Holyoke Colleges , Amherst, MA

1995.97 Adjunct Faculty, Film and Video Departments, First Year Program and MFA Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL