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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, Germany

Berlin Int'l Film Festival, Forum for New Cinema, Germany (2004)

Cinéma du Réel, Pompidou Center, Paris, France

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany

Osonabrück Media Arts Festival, Germany ('04, '00, '93)

Buenes Aires Film Festival, Argentina

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan

Newport Film Festival, Rhode Island

Silverdocs/AFI Documentary Film Festival, Washington DC

2004
Premieres, Museum of Modern Art, NYC

Moscow International Film Festival, Russia (2002)

Itau Cultural, Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Black Milk, Marvelli Gallery, NYC

Maternal Metaphors, Rochester Contemporary, NY

shpatzirin*, Seward Park, NY

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, NY (+'96, '99)

Insecurity is Order, Space, VKS, Toulouse, France

2003
MKA, Vienna, Austria

Homeland, Whitney ISP Curatorial Program,
CUNY Graduate Center, NYC

Ameri©an Dre@m, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY

25hrs, Muestra Internacional de Videoarte, Barcelona, Spain

Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY

Public Image, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland

2002
ZOO, (travelling) Videotage, Hong Kong

Singapore International Film Festival (+1998)
Truth Be Told, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Japan

Lunch in the Ashes, Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany

Interactive Normalization, Museum of Architecture,
Belgrade, Serbia

Three Views, Shelly Silver, Salon of the Museum
of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia

Tokyo Gallery, Japan

Big Feelings, The Love Tapes, MKA, Vienna, Austria

Special Edition, VID, Bern, Switzerland

2001
Rooster, video installation, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland

Museé de L'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art

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

X-ing The Line, Queens Museum of Art, NYC

Festival 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

Cache Parmi les Feuilles, 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 Film Festival

Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel

Oeuvres d¹etre, Temple Art Gallery, Rome, Italy

Women in the Director¹s Chair Film & Video Festival, Chicago, IL

Digital Underground, San Francisco IndieFest, California

L¹Immagine Leggera, Palermo, Italy

Thaw 00, Festival of Video, Film & Digital Media, Iowa

Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville

History Lessons, Apex Gallery, NY

1999
Media & Architecture Biennial, Graz, Austria

World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam (+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

Galleria d¹Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy

Filmladen Dokumentarfilm & Video Festival,
Kassel, Germany (+1994, 1997)

Queensland Art Gallery, Australia

Arsenal Cinema, Berlin, Germany (+1992, 1997)

Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian Institute, Wash D.C.

Pulse, Serpentine Gallery & The Lux Centre, London

We Are Someplace Else Already, Swiss Institute, NY

Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France

1998
Visibilità Zero 1998, Rome, Italy

LA Freewaves, California
Just Watch, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland

Video Wall, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC

New Documentaries, The Museum of Modern Art (+1996)

The Venice Biennale, Italy & Sonnabend Gallery,
part of H. Steinbach¹s Installation Mothers, Daughters, Grandmothers

1997
Pesaro International Film Festival, Italy

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

Escaping Gravity, VideoPositive Int'l Festival , Manchester (+1995)

The National Film Theatre, London, England (+'92, '94, '96)

MedienOperative, Berlin, Germany (+1992)

Electric Shadows, UCLA Film Archives, Los Angeles, CA

experiMENTAL, Kino Xenix, Zurich, Switzerland

Image Forum Festival , Tokyo, Osaka, Japan (+1994)

1996
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, Germany

Sexual Visionaries, Konst Ig, Stockholm, Sweden

Muu Media Festival, Helsinki, Finland (+1992)

The New York Film Festival, Video Section, Lincoln Center

1994
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)

1993
Between Word & Image, The Museum of Modern Art &
Poets House, NYC

Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo, Japan

1992
Centre For Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw

Cologne Kunstverein, Germany

Anthology Film Archives, NYC

Video Viewpoints, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC

Video Art After Video Art, Goethe Memorial Museum, Tokyo

I, A Member, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (+'91)

No Rocks Allowed, Witte de With Center, Rotterdam

Flesh Histories, The Kitchen, NYC (+1986, 1991, 1992)

Bonn Videonale, Germany (+1990)

St. Gervais Video Festival, Geneva, Switzerland (+'91, '90)

San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

The Exploding Valentine, Theater Am Turm, Frankfurt

1991
Channels for A Changing TV, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA (+'90)

Speechless, The International Center for Photography, NYC (+'89)

The London Film Festival (+1990)

1990
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

Order Of Facts, Achim Kubinsky Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

D&S, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany

It's Evening in America, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (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)

1983
Live Radio, Fashion Moda, WBAI, NYC

Selected Fellowships, Prizes, Grants and Residencies
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship - 2005
Macdowell Residency - 2005
Special Jury Prize, Moscow Intern'l Film Festival - 2004
The New York State Council for the Arts
Project Grant - 1987, 1989, 1995, 2004
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Special Project,
Woolworth Residency - 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 Int'l
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 - 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. Mixed Media - 1975-80






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