Michele Beck
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New York New York USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
Michele Beck is a multidisciplinary artist working with video, sound, performance and sculpture. She completed her Bachelors in Art History at New York University and Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Parsons School of Design. Michele teaches at the New School University and the International Center for Photography in New York City. Her essays, focusing on cultural critiques and art pedagogy, have been published in NY Arts, Surveillance and Society in the U.K and Ideologica Ádhuc in Reus, Spain. Michele is a two-time recipient of a Special Opportunity Stipend from the New York Foundation for the Arts as well as a recipient of the Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. She was awarded two residencies at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY in 2004. Filmography/Awards Info: Exhibitions 2004 Whirlwind White, ARC Gallery Media Room, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition) Video X, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY Contemporneity, Kyrgyz Republic. Curated by Leeza Ahmady Video Salon, Alternator Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kelowna, Canada 2003 Randall’s Tunnel, HEREart, NY (solo project sponsored by Dept of Cultural Affairs & NYFA) Biennale de L ’Image en Mouvement, Centre pour L’image Contemporaine, Geneva Single Channel, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum at the University of Texas Museum, Texas SELF/PROJECTED, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA Immedia 2003, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2002 Multiplex, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France Kinda Figurative, HEREart, NY, NY Zwishenraum vol. II, Satellite Project Space, LIC, NY 2001 Zwishenraum, Satellite Project Space, LIC, NY Shelters for Women, Sofia Municipal Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria BOX, Villa Julie College Gallery, Baltimore, MD Reaching the Heights, Columbia Medical Center, NY, NY 2000 Exchange: An Evening of Performance, 16 Beaver Group, NY, NY Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD Bulgaria, NY, Elizabeth Foundation, NY, NY (funded by The Trust for Mutual Understanding) 1999 XMAS, Kent gallery, New York, NY 1998 Reading Between the Lines, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Room, Bazar Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Creació Jove Mercé '98, La Capella de la Santa Creu, Barcelona, Spain 1997 Making Light, 57 Hope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Carving the Forces of Change, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Copyright Island, Bilbao River, Portugalete, Spain Sink, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY Drawings in Progress, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 1994 Annual Exhibition, Sculpture Center, New York, NY Emerging Berkshire Artists, Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA Screenings 2005 The Videodrome, Marseilles, France Fake Snow, Magic Lantern Theatre, Providence, RI 2004 Angle International Film & Video Festival, Xiamen, China Inport Video- Performance Festival, Tallinn, Estonia Festival Images Contre Nature, Cedex, France Fine Arts Theatre, Asheville, NC Hidden Camera, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, England CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Drift, aRaMoNa Gallery, NY, NY. Whiz Bang, New York, NY. Curated by Meg Shiffler LABoratory Exhibition of Experimental Film & Video, Salt Lake City, Utah 2003 DUMBO Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY backup2003_festival.new media in film, Weimar, Germany New Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York Experimental Video selected by the Video Data Bank, Sofia, Bulgaria Rencontre Internationales Paris/Berlin New Forms Festival, Montreal, Canada Antimatter Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada Bridge Magazine, Artists DVD Project Detroit International Film Festival, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI- “Best of Show” Vertical Video, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Spark Video, Beacon, NY Love and Other Difficulties, Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA, Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Firestation #3, Houston, TX, Cinema Obscura, Santa Barbara, CA Visual Affect, Remote Lounge, NY, NY. Curated by Susan Joyce Art in General Video Marathon, Art in General, NY, NY 2002 Digital Showcase, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England Z Film Festival, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL Media[less]Medium, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA Spark Video International, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY Mash Bash Video, Bcat-TV, Brooklyn, NY LA Freewaves Los Angeles, CA MediaArt Friesland, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Video-Zone, International Video Art Biennial TA Cinematheque, Israel Photophobia, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada Tagawa International Short Film Festival, Japan Video 825, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA Independent Exposure June 2002, Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Experimental Show, Hotel Astor, South Beach, Fla. Screeners Club, Level X, Brooklyn, NY Nomad Video Film Festival, Fine Arts Cinema, Berkley, CA Music Video, Coolidge Center Theatre, Brookline, MA HiLow Film Festival, Victoria Theater, San Francisco, CA The Best of Z Fest. 21 Grand, Oakland, Califonia Tratado de Libre Video, Centro Multimedia, Mexico City, Mexico Art in General Video Marathon, Art in General, NY, NY 2001 Festival des Cinémas Différents, Paris, France Z Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL. backup2001_festival.new media in film, Weimar, Germany Kassler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Kassel, Germany Leeds International Film Festival, Millennium Square, Leeds, UK EATOMSK, Toynbee Studios, London, UK Video Catalyst, Bronx Museum of Art, NY, NY Fully Human, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Open Zone 6, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY The 2:30 Show, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD Expanded Media: (VIDEACY), Side Street Live, Los Angeles, CA 2000 Vancouver Underground Film Festival, BC Canada Axelgrease, Squeaky Wheel Cable Access, Buffalo, NY Wigged.net, http://www.wigged.net 1998 Festival Internacional de Video de Canarias, Palma de Gran Canarias, Spain BTV (Barcelona Televisión), Barcelona, Spain Escape, Sala Amárica, Vitoria, Spain Catacomb Micromedia, Winnepeg Manitoba, Canada Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Republic of Macedonia Kicking the Machine, Project 304, Bangkok, Thailand 1997 Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA Independent Exposure, Seattle, WA The Sync, http://www.thesync.com/indexposure/arch1.html Talking Crazy Talk, Knitting Factory Video Lounge, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art/ Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection Distinctions 2004 Residency at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York -July - August Residency at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York - January 2003 Special Opportunity Stipend Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant administered by the LMCC Special Opportunity Stipend Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Performance: The Art of Daily Life, Public talk/performance, Columbia Medical Center, NY 1998 Residency at ARTELEKU, San Sebastian, Spain. Lecture on the work of Valie Export at the Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain. Artist Lecture at the Winchester School of Art, Barcelona, Spain. Panel speaker on women's creative process. Women's Caucus for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Bibliography Voice Choices, The Village Voice, Kim Levin, Oct 29- Nov 4, 2003 "Love and Other Difficulties", Eric Campos, Film Threat, Feb 13, 2003 "Video Voyage", The Boston Globe, March 28, 2002 "Res Reports: Videacy and adHocArts.org" Res Magazine, July 19, 2001 "The Real Thing: Michele Beck & Adelina Popnedeleva", Fair Play, April 2000 Review: Bulgaria, NY, Novoye Russkoye Slovo, November 10, 2000 "Art on the Margins", Review: The Critical State of Visual Art in NY, June 1997 "Something Big: Sculptor Michele Beck talks about her work" The Women's Times, Jan/Feb 1994 This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. 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