CV Born 1969, Hartford, CT
Lives & works in Ridgewood, NY
Education
2024–present Queens College, CUNY. M.L.S./M.A. in History
Rare Book School
2004 The Whitney Independent Study Program, NY, NY
2003 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. M.F.A. Film, Video & New Media Graduate Colloquium Speaker
1991 The University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. B.A. Art History Graduated with Distinction Nominated for NEH Award in Film Studies
1990 MATRIX Art Gallery Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Internship
Solo Exhibitions Microcinema: Films of Mary Billyou, RhizomeDC
2019
Why Sing When Nobody Hears? Films by Mary Billyou, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Select Group ExhibitionsA Panoply of Techniques, Enguage Experimental Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
Horror and Haunting as Social Commentary, Virtual Int’l Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Rumor Has It, marytwo, Lucerne, Switzerland
Seeing the Big Picture, invitation by Sara Sowell, Milton Avery School for the Arts, Princeton University, NJ
Empty Arms, invitation by Suzanne Goldenberg, Umbrella House, NYC
Carry & Transform, Ridgewood Open Studios
Lorimoto Gallery, Ridgewood Open Studios
2025
Cauldron Film Fest, Salt Lake City, UT
What Next, Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City, OK
Blind Date, Ridgewood Open Studios
2024
Film Party, Celluloid Now, Chicago Film Society, Chicago, IL
2023
Women’s Punk Art Making Parties, Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY
Antimatter, Vancouver, Canada
Winter Windows, Supermoon Community Art Space, Ridgewood, NY
2021
Injerto 2019: Rituals, Ambulante Itinerant Film Festival, Mexico
2019
Joanie 4 Jackie 4 Ever, Fotofocus Biennial, The Mini Microcinema, Cincinnati, OH
Diverging Forms, Maryland Film Festival
Are You Tired of Forever? Cosmic Rays, Chapel Hill, NC
2018
a great unknown called trust, CROSSROADS, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
Experimental Superstars, Novi Sad, Serbia
2017
Grrrl Germs: A Visual History of Riot Grrrl, Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY
The 27th Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, IL
The Short Circuit, Brighton, U.K.
2016
Live in the Layers, Not on the Litter, other projects, Ashley Berlin, Germany
2015
Select Awards
Queens College Foundation Master’s Scholarship
2025–2026
Pine Tree Fellow, Godwin-Ternbach Museum
2024–present
Arts Access Grant, Queens Art Fund, New York Foundation for the Arts
2024
Finishing Funds, New York State Council for the Arts
2012
Presentation Funds, New York State Council for the Arts
2011
Filmmaking Grant, The Jerome Foundation
2009
Finishing Funds, Experimental Television Center
2006
Select Press
Kley, Elisabeth, “Gotham Art and Theater,” Elisabeth Kley, Artnet.
2010
Pearce, Daniel, “Ecsatic at St. Cecelia’s,” Idiom.
2010
Anderson, Melissa, “Pie with Dignity,” Artforum.com.
2009
Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review: Spectral Evidence,” The New York Times.
2007
Select PublicationsHysteria: Past Yet Present, exhibition catalogue, Paul Robeson Gallery.
2009
Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright, Lucas Hildebrand, Duke University Press.
2009
“Breach Birth: The Hygiene of Screen Skins,” A. Lee Laskin, Octopus Journal, vol 4: Surface, University of California, Irvine.
2008
Collections
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Video Data Bank, Chicago, IL
Filmmaker’s Cooperative, New York, NY
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