print   back Shelly Silver Artist Resume Selected Screenings & Exhibitions 2007 No United States, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria Dear Mosquito of My Heart, CCA, Tel Aviv, Israel Galerie du Haut-Pavé, Paris, France 2006 Vor den Spiegeln, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany This Land is My Land, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany Taiwan International Documentary Festival Retrospective 12+, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, China Exploding Television: Sex and Sadness, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Aufloesung (I) High Definition, NGBK, Berlin, Germany Shelly Silver: Make a Wish, 6-night retrospective, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany Ecran d'art, Argos, Brussels, Belgium 2005 States of The Image/Moments and Intervals LisboaPhoto, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal Atmospheric Disturbance: Perceptions of the DDR in contemporary art, Motorenhalle, Dresden/ACC Gallery Weimar, Germany Berlin International Film Festival, Forum for New Cinema (2004) Cinéma du Réel, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany Buenes Aires Festival, Internacional de cine Independiente, Argentina 2004 Premieres, Museum of Modern Art, NYC Black Milk, Marvelli Gallery, NYC Moscow International Film Festival, Media Forum (2002) Maternal Metaphors, The Rochester Contemporary, NY Mostra Video Itau Cultural Junho, Palacio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore 2003 Ameri©an Dre@m, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NYC New York Video Festival (1996, 1999) MKA, Vienna, Austria Insecurity is Order, Space, VKS, Toulouse, France Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY 2002 PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland Truth be Told, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Japan Lunch in the Ashes, Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany (+1992) Big Feelings, MKA, Vienna, Austria Tokyo Gallery, Japan Singapore International Film Festival (+1998) 2001 Rooster, video installation, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland Museé de L'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Florida Made in the 20th Century, The Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico Is Too Far Ever Far Enough? Plug-In, Basel, Switzerland Rem Koolhaas Bus Station, Groningen, The Netherlands Home Sweet Home, Tent, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Fighting Girls, Nouvelles 2001, Lausanne, Switzerland (travelling) X-ing The Line, Queens Museum of Art, NYC Festival Int'l du Cinema & des Nouveaux Medias de Montreal, Canada (+1990, 97, 2000) Cinque Pezzi da New York, Care Of Gallery, Milan, Italy CTRL [SPACE} die waschsame Gesellschaft,. ZKM, Germany (+1992) 2000 Cache Parmi les Feuilles, collaborative video installation w/Nika Spalinger, Museum of Art & History, Fribourg, Switzerland Disturbing Desire, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Kunstkanaal/The Art Channel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (+1996, 97) The Digital Underground, San Francisco Independent Film Festival Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel Oeuvres d'etre, Temple Art Gallery, Rome, Italy Women in the Director's Chair Int'l Film & Video Festival, Chicago, IL Osnabruck Media Arts Festival, Germany (+1990) Digital Underground, San Francisco IndieFest, California L'Immagine Leggera, Palermo, Italy Thaw 00, Festival of Video, Film & Digital Media, Iowa City, Iowa 1999 History Lessons, Apex Gallery, NY New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, NY (+1996) Media & Architecture Biennial, Graz, Austria World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands (+1987, 89, 90, 97) Mostra de Video Independent, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona With Western Eyes, Japan Society, Rome, Italy FemmeTotale Film Festival, Dortmund, Germany Berlin Ethnographic Film Festival, Germany Midnight Walkers/City Sleeps, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy Filmladen Dokumentarfilm & Video Festival, Kassel, Germany (+1994, 1997) Queensland Art Gallery, Australia Arsenal Cinema, Berlin, Germany (+1992, 1997) 1998 Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. Pulse, Serpentine Gallery & The Lux Centre, London, England We Are Someplace Else Already, Swiss Institute, NY Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France Visibilità Zero 1998, Rome, Italy LA Freewaves, California Just Watch, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland 1997 Video Wall, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC New Documentaries, The Museum of Modern Art, NY (+1996) The Venice Biennale, Italy & Sonnabend Gallery, NYC as part of Haim Steinbach's Installation Mothers, Daughters, Grandmothers Pesaro International Film Festival, Italy San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival Escaping Gravity, VideoPositive Int'l Festival , Manchester, England (+1995) The National Film Theatre, London, England (+1992, 1994, 1996) MedienOperative, Berlin, Germany (+1992) Electric Shadows, A Pan-Asian Film Festival, UCLA Film Archives, Los Angeles, CA experiMENTAL, Kino Xenix, Zurich, Switzerland Image Forum Festival , Tokyo, Osaka, Japan (+1994) 1995 L'Immagine E L'Oggetto,Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy The American Film Institute Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA (+1989, 1991) The American Center , Paris, France The Self & American Video Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland Ostranenie '95, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau, Germany Sexual Visionaries, Konst Ig, Stockholm, Sweden Muu Media Festival, Helsinki, Finland (+1992) 1994 The New York Film Festival, Video Section, Lincoln Center, NYC The Museum of Kyoto, Japan Nagoya Art Museum, Japan Within & Beyond Confinement, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria Video Text, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Man Trouble, Exit Art, NYC, NY (+1993) Between Word & Image, The Museum of Modern Art & Poets House, NYC 1992 Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo, Japan Centre For Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski , Warsaw, Poland Cologne Kunstverein, Germany Anthology Film Archives, NYC Video Viewpoints, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC Video Art After Video Art, Goethe Memorial Museum, Tokyo, Japan I, A Member, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (+1991) No Rocks Allowed, Witte de With Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands Flesh Histories, The Kitchen, NYC (+1986, 1991, 1992) Bonn Videonale, Germany (+1990) St. Gervais Video Festival, Geneva, Switzerland (+1991, 1990) San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival The Exploding Valentine, Theater Am Turm, Frankfurt, Germany 1991 Channels for A Changing TV, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA (+1990) Speechless, The International Center for Photography, NYC (+1989) The London Film Festival (+1990) v1990 Tendance Multiple, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Subversive Cults/Textual Danger, ICA, London, England The Renaissance Society, Chicago Body Language, Artists Space, NYC (+1989) 1989 Images of American Pop Culture, Laforet Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Festival International de Films de Femme de Montreal, Canada Order Of Facts, Achim Kubinsky Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany D&S, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany It's Evening in America, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal (Travelling) A Few Minutes Before the Year 2000, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA 1988 Television For Real, Halle Sud, Geneva, Switzerland The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NYC 1987 The New Who's Who, Hoffman Boorman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Torino International Film Festival, Italy Fake, The New Museum (+1986) Houston International Film Festival, Texas 1984 Subculture, Group Material, NYC Subway System (+1981) Live Radio, Fashion Moda, WBAI, NYC Fellowships, Prizes, Grants and Residencies The John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2005 The MacDowell Colony Residency, 2005 First Prize, Moscow International Film Festival, Media Lab, 2005 Best Experimental Video, Sopot Film Festival, Poland The New York State Council for the Arts Project Grant, 1987, 1989, 1995, 2004 Special Jury Prize, Moscow International Film Festival, Media Lab, 2003 The Jerome Foundation Fellowship, 2000 The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1986, 1991, 2000 Corporation of Yaddo Residency, 1999 Anonymous Was A Woman Award, 1998 The Golden Dove for Best Feature Length Documentary & The Ecumenical Prize, The 20th Leipzig International Documentary Festival, Germany, 1997 The Japan Foundation, Film Fellowship Grant, 1995 The Japan/United States Creative Artists Fellowship, 1994 Cite Internationale des Arts Residency Fellowship, 1993 DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, 1992 Best Narrative Film, Atlanta Film & Video Festival, 1992 Prix du Jury, Femmes Cathodique Video Festival, Paris, France, 1992 Best Narrative, Australia International Video Festival, 1991 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1989, 1991 Checkerboard Foundation Media Grant, 1991 Silver Medal, Best Experimental Fiction, Houston Int'l Film & Video Festival, 1988 Selected Collections The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; The Museum of Broadcasting, NYC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; ZKM, Karlsuhe, Germany; The Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan; Goethe Memorial Museum, Tokyo, Japan; The Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio; The Long Beach Museum; Cinemedia, Australia, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland Selected Broadcasts BBC, England, PBS, USA; Channel 2, Poland, Planete, Europe, Arte, Germany/France; Kunstkanaal/The Art Channel, The Netherlands; RTE, Ireland; SWR, Germany; Atenor, Spain Education Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, 1980-81 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, B.A. History, Phi Beta Kappa, B.F.A. 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