Ina Archer

Born Paris, France
Lives and works between Washington DC and Brooklyn, NY



Education

New York University, MA Cinema Studies 2000
Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Film/Video 1985


Selected Grants & Awards

Frame Solo Booth Prize, Honorable Mention, Frieze, NY 2021
Headlands Center For The Arts, Artists in Residency Program 2013
Anonymous Was A Woman Award (Nominee), 2010
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Interdisciplinary Fellow, 2009
Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbria, Italy 2009
Finalist Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy 2008
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT 2008
Creative Capital Foundation Grant, Film/Video, 2005
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center: Artists-in-Residence 2001
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program: Studio Artist, 1996-97


Selected Solo Exhibitions

“Ina Archer: To Deceive the Eye,” Microscope Gallery, New York, NY 2024
“Ina Archer,” Microscope Gallery Booth, Focus Section curated by Candice Hopkins, The Armory Show, Javitz Center, New York, NY 2023
Microscope Gallery, Frieze New York, The Shed, New York, NY 2021
“Osmundine (Orchid Slap),” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2020
“How it Feels /Where it’s At,” Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY 2004
“1/16th of 100%?,” FVA Arts Interlude Video Wall Program, 1251 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 2000


Selected One & Two Persons Screenings

“The Speculative Archive: Ina Archer & Crystal Z. Campbell,” University of Chicago, Chicago IL 2024
“First Person Cinema: Ina Archer,” University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 2022
“Loves Labor (Eventually) Lost,” The Clark Museum, Williamstown, MA 2020
Visiting Artist, “Difference and Media Project,” Bard College, Rhinecliffe, NY 2012
“Videos by Ina Archer,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2019
Guest Filmmaker, Montclair State University Film Forum, Montclair, NJ 2012
“Visiting Filmmaker Series,” Temple University Film & Media Arts, curated by Elisabeth Subrin, Philadelphia, PA 2011
“Expanded Frames: Lost and found: The Films of Ina Archer and Kevin Jerome Everson,” Cinema Project at Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR 2008
“Film Screenings: Ina Archer,” The Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 2004


Selected Group Exhibitions

“NADA Curated: Reset,” curated by María Elena Ortiz, New Art Dealers Association, New York (online) 2022
“Artworks for Social Justice,” Frieze Viewing Room, Frieze NY (online) 2021
“18th Annual Postcards from the Edge,” Visual Aids at Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, NY 2016
The Laundromat Project: Shani Peters: The People’s Laundromat Theater, Harlem, NY 2013
“DECENTER: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show,” New York, NY 2012
“Loosely Coupled,” West Harlem Art Fund at Governors Island, NY 2011
“RESURRECTINE,” Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY 2010
“Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970” Part II: Contemporary Art Museum (CAM), Houston, Texas 2009
“Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970” Part II: Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA 2008
“Red Badge of Courage ReVisited,” curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ 2008
“Intransit” Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2008
“Mapping Correspondence The Center For Book Arts, New York, NY 2008
“TBA Festival ’07,” Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Portland, OR 2007
“Dangling Between the Real Thing and the Sign in the Window,” Dam/Stuhltrager Gallery, New York, NY 2006
“Florent’s Bi-Decadent Retrospective,” White Columns Gallery, New York, 2005
“African American Video Art Today,” Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN 2004
“Veni Vidi Video,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 2004
“Eve,” Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY 2004
“Women, Race and Representation: Women artists in the Digital Age,” Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA 2003
“Race in Digital Space,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 2002
“Race in Digital Space,” List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2001


Selected Group Screenings

“16mm Film,” Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2023
“Green Screens: Part 1,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2019
“What was I looking at? Recovering the Neglected Archina Studio,” Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2018
“Constructing Identity,” the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon, 2017
“Reconstructing Identity: A Shorts Program,” Northwest Film Center, in connection with 
Black X: African Diaspora Experimental Film Series, Maysles Cinema, NYC 2011
“EXPANDED FRAMES: a celebration and examination of critical cinema past, present, and future,” Cinema Project, Portland, OR 2008
“Film Screenings,” The Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Delaware, 2004
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts, New York, NY 2002
List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA 2001


Selected Panels & Artist Talks

Artist Presentation: “Love’s Labor (Eventually) Lost,” response and conversation with Jacqueline Stewart, The Clark Conference; Conservation Making Art History, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2021
“Ina Archer in Conversation w/ Terri Francis,” Microscope Gallery, New York, NY 2021
“Visiting Artist,” Cooper Union, New York, NY 2020
“Visiting Artist,” Hunter College, New York, NY, 2020
“Ina Archer in Conversation,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2020
“What was I looking at? Recovering the neglected Archina Studio,” Indiana University Libraries and Black Film Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2018
Visiting Artist, “Difference and Media Project,” Bard College, Rhinecliffe, NY 2012
Panels: Avant-Garde Influences Mainstream, 49th New York Film Festival, New York, NY 2011
Artist Talk, Brooklyn Public Library, NYFA Public Programs, April 20, NYC, 2010