Jeanne Liotta
Born New York, NY 1960
Lives and works between New York and Boulder, CO
Education
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Selected Solo Exhibitions
“The World is A Picture of the World,” Microscope Gallery, New York, NY (Current)
“Out of the Box,” The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH 2020
“Break The Sky,” Museo Nitsch, Naples, Italy 2018
“Break The Sky,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2018
“The Tiffany One-Cuts,” Songs for Presidents, Brooklyn, NY 2016
“Desired Constellations,” The Menil Collection, Houston, TX 2015
“Stein Times,” Gridspace Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2013
“A Set of Physical Facts,” The Art/house Jones Center, Austin, TX 2012
“Counterintuitive Proposition for a Black Hole,” Art Alliance Austin, Austin, TX 2012
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
UNTITLED, Flowers Always and Always, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
“Reel Ecologies: Sustainable Futures,” Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, New York
2019
“We Have Been So Desensitized,” Liushu Photography Festival, Zhejiang, China
“Scrapbook, or Why Can’t We Live Together,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Winter Moon,” Shenandoah Museum of Contemporary Art, Woodstock, VA
2018
“Visibility Matrix,” Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
“Social Photography,” Carriage Trade Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017
“Color of Light,” as part of Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema & Art, 1905-2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Cosmic Mind,” The Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan State University Abrams Planetarium, East Lansing, MI
“The Tiffany One-Cuts” included in Nancy Shaver’s installation, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2016
“Nancy Shavers: Dress the Form,” Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
“Timeless Motion,” SOMArts Contemporary Culture Center, San Francisco, CA
“The Cut and The Crumb,” The Frame Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2015
The Experimental Television Center: A History,” Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY
“Anthropocentricities,” Inova Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2014
“Words as Doors,” Halle fur Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
“Slide Slide Slide,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
Dateline: 001, Denver, CO
“Triple Blind: Kenneth Zoran Curwood, Bradley Eros, Jeanne Liotta” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
MusicaVidea, ZBD Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
“Continental Drift,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
“Celestial,” The Camera Club of NY, New York, NY
2010 and earlier
“Covering Ground,” Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO. 2010
“The City, The Stars,” The Scotland Center for Photography, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 2010
“The Soul is the Size of Elsewhere,” Kingsborough Gallery, City College of New York, New York, NY 2009
“Theatre of More,” White Box Gallery, New York, NY 2009
“High Risk Citizen,” Art in General, New York, NY 2008
The Collective Show, Orchard 47 Gallery, New York, NY 2007
“Day for Night,” The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2006
“The MacDowell Colony Centennial,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2007
“Day for Night,” The Whitney Biennial, New York, NY, 2006
“ETC Video,” Art in General Gallery, NYC, 2004
Yantra, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2003
“Big As life: A History of Artists’ Film,” The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, 2001
“The Color of Ritual, The Color of Thought,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2000
“THE END: contemporary culture 1982-2000,” Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY, 2000
“The American Century,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1999
Selected Solo Screenings & Performances
“Past/Present/Live,” The Rubenstein Theater, Duke University, NC 2019
“Jeanne Liotta: Celestial Bodies,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2018
“Dreamlands: Expanded – Subverted Horseplay: Bradley Eros & Jeanne Liotta,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, as part of the Whitney Museum’s “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016”, 2016
“Proyecciones de Liotta,” Kino Palais, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2016
“The Moon, The Stars and The World,” John Cabot University, Rome, Italy 2015
“Cosmic Plaything,” Trinosophes, Detroit, MI 2014
“Liotta x 7,” Collectifs Jeune Cinema, Paris, France 2014
“The Real World At Last Becomes a Myth,” Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY 2013
“The Sublime is Now,” The Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL 2011
Southwest Film Center, Univ NM Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM 2011
Crossroads Festival, San Francisco CA, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA 2011
“The Sublime is Now,” Fondazione Morra, Napoli, Italy & Cineclub Detour, Rome, Italy 2010
“Sounds Like ?”, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2010
“Hymn to the Void,” Skolska 28, Prague, Czech Republic 2009
“Hymn to the Void,” EXIS Festival, Seoul, Korea 2008
“In Search of the Non-Metaphorical Sublime,” The Fuertes Observatory, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2008
“Jeanne Liotta Cosmic Cinema,” Cornell Cinema, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2008
“The Celestial Library,” Red-Cat Theatre, Los Angeles, CA 2007
Group Screenings & Performances
2020
“Path of Totality” (virtual), Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque NM
OptoSonic Tea Ensemble (virtual). Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, New York
2019
“To The Stars: Ad Astra and Experimental Film,” Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY
“Our Minds Were Light years Distant,” Crossroads Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA
“Scrapbook Performances: Zoe Beloff / Jeanne Liotta, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Sci Fi Geographies,” ArtKino Rijeka, Croatia
“Portal to the Sky,” Hopkins Center, Dartmouth University, Dartmouth, NH
2018
“Go Go Go,” Bristol Experimental Expanded Films,Bristol, UK
“Mystical Spaces,” Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy 2018
“Acts of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place,” Bard Graduate Center, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY
“Material Desire in Experimental Film,” Labocine, Life and Other Cataclysms, partnered with Imagine Science film festival, Duke University, Durham, NC
Lumiere Apparitions/,Disparitions!4, University, Lyons, France, Social Photography , Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Radical Film Network, Plymouth England, UK
Flahertiana, International Doc Film Festival, Perm, Russia “Nuits des Etoiles LiIle,” Metropole Museum of Modern Contemporary and Outsider Art, Lille, France
“Through the Atmosphere,” Kopernik Observatory & Science Center, Vestal, NY
“Path of Totality,” Georgia, Denver, CO
2016
“Transitional Subjects,” Flaherty NYC, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
“Volatile Bodies,” Voyage Celeste, Le Bal, Paris, France
“ShadowBoxing with Joseph Cornell,” Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, Canada
“Weathering Climate,” HOVAB at NCAR, Boulder, CO
“Time & Technology,” Landscapes of Resistance, Stockholm, Sweden
“Screen Compositions,” Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY
2015
CineSpace, She Works Flexible Gallery, Houston, TX
“Amalgams,” John Wesley Chapel, Bristol, England, UK
“Disintegrating Bodies,” Alchemy Moving Image Arts Festival, London, UK
The Price of Progress, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
“Videofag,” Toronto Regional Support Network, Toronto, Canada
“She Makes Noise,” Audiovisual Festival, Madrid, Spain
“Womens Studio Workshop, August Arts Festival, Rosendale NY
“Nothing to See Here,” Casa Maauad, Mexico City, Mexico
“Nothing to See Here,” Dikeou Collection, Denver, CO
“Human Machine Material,” CAC Cinema, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
“Commodification/Appropriation,” Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland, UK
“Living in America,” Les Recontres International, Haus der Kulturen Welt, Berlin, Germany
“Nocturne,” Cinema du Reel, Centres George Pompidou, Paris, France
Crossroads Film Festival, SF Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
2013
“Views from the Avant-Garde,” The New York Film Festival, New York, NY Sharjah Biennial 11, United Arab Emirates
Abstraction Reaction, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Strange Science, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL
30 Years of Light, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
2011
“Punto de Vista,” International Documentary Festival, Pamplona, Spain
“A Dream Unveiled,” Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
“The Cloud in the Compass,” Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC
2010
21st Century Limited, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Etoile, Festival du Film Scientifque, Marrakech, Morocco
Views from the Avant-Garde, New York Film Festival, New York, NY
Night Vision, Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium
Dark Lights, Reina Sofa Museum, Madrid, Spain
Recontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
LateNight, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Happiness is a Warm Projector, Smolny College, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Index of Maladjustment, Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
Views from the Avant Garde, New York Film Festival, New York, NY
Transmodern, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
A Quiet Recognition, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2009
Rencontres Internationales, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France New York, NY
Magic and the American Cinema, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Omnium Gatherum, Light Industry, New York, NY
Black Box, Edinburgh Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2008
Cine e Ciencia, Centro Galego des Artes da Imaxe, Galicia, Spain
Animate!, American Pavilion, Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
The International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The New Documentary, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Kill Your Timid Notion, Touring Program, U.K
25 FPS International Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
Golden Gate Award nominee, San Francisco International Film Festival, San Franciso, CA
2007
Views from the Avant-Garde, The New York Film Festival, New York, NY
The Nature of Looking, BFI Southbank Galleries, London, England, UK
The MacDowell Colony Centennial, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
First Person Cinema, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, 2007
2006
Magic and the American Cinema, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Rencontres Internationales touring program, Paris, France/Berlin, Germany/Madrid , Spain
Science, Cinema, and Ways of Seeing, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
Selected Grants, Awards, and Residencies
Lightpress Film Digitaization Award 2017
MacDowell Colony Fellow 2002, 2016
NOAA-CIRES Innovative Art & Science Commission: Science on a Sphere, Boulder CO 2013 New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Media Arts Award 2002, 2011
The Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Residency 2010
Lincoln Center Film Society , Best Films of the Decade (#3) 2010
Lincoln Center Film Society , Best Filmmaker of the Decade (#14) 2010
Best International Screen Award, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada 2009
TIGER Award for Short Film, Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008
Best Sound Design for Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival 2008
Best International Screen, IMAGES Festival, Toronto 2008
Museum of Contemporary Cinema Artist Award 2006
McDonald Observatory, West Texas, Special Artist-in-Residence 2005
Jerome Foundation Media Artist Award, 2004
New York State Council on the Arts, (NYSCA), Media Distribution award 2001
Experimental Television Center, Artist-in-Residence 2000
Selected Artist Talks, Lectures, and Panels
WEX Live conversation with curator Jennifer Lange, Wexner Center, Columbus, OH 2020
“Text and Image, Experiments in Moving Image,” w/ Lisa McCarty, Duke University MFA Program 2019
“Masterclass: On Pasolini, Renaissance Painting, and Crosswalk,” with Stephanie Spray, CMCI PhD program, CU Boulder 2018
“Masterclass: On Pasolini, Renaissance Painting, and Crosswalk,” Union Docs Fellows Program, Brooklyn, NY 2017
“Artists lecture: On Sounds of Science/Cinema,” The Brakhage Center, CU Boulder, CO 2016
“Weathering Climate,” panelist, HOVABl, NCAR, Boulder CO 2016
Artist talk, The Hunter College Graduate Program, New York, NY 2016
“Artist talk:The Real World at Last Becomes a Myth,”The New School Media Studies Graduate School, New York, NY 2015
“Artist Talk: On the Anthropocene,” The Society of Science, Literature and the Arts conference, Rice University, Houston TX 2015
“Behind the Scenes: SOS Experiments in Science/Art,” panel discussion, Fiske Planetarium, Boulder CO 2014
Visiting Marisco Scholar, Lecture and Screening, Denver University, Denver, CO 2013
“Science and the Cinema: Notions of Time and Space,” Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA 2011
“The New Non-Fiction Cinema,” panel, Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI 2011
“Amateurs, Artists, & Archives,” master class, F.A.M.U, Prague, Czech Republic 2009
“In Search of the Non-Metaphorical Sublime”, Fuertes Observatory Science Fridays, Cornell University, New York, NY 2008
In Search of the Non-Metaphorical Sublime, EXIS ART Festival, Seoul, South Korea 2008
Film as Found Object, Sculpture Department, Massachussetts College of Art, Boston, MA 2006
Media Mavericks, artist talk, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY 2003
Selected Publications and Papers
Knowles, Kim, Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices, Palgrove MacMillan 2020
Walley, Jonathan, Cinema Expanded,” Jonathan Oxford University Press, 2020
Zinman, Gregory, Making Images Move, UC Press, 2020
Schlemowitz, Joel, Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera, Routledge, 2019
Carlucci , Vanna, Things Never Seen Before, Uzak film journal, 2018
Taylor, Mark, Timeless Motion Electrifies Invisible Forces, KQED, 2016
“Handmade Film in the Era of the Digital,” by Dr. Kim Knowles, Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ), University of West Minster, UK 2013
“Astronomical Skies in Experimental Cinema, by Emilie Verge, Center for Cosmology, Wales, UK 2010
Kahn, Douglas, “The Cinema of Transmissions,” catalog essay for “Wireless Imagination” traveling program, Queensland Library, Australia, 2009
“Not an Image of the Death of Film,” Contemporary Expanded Cinema and Experimental Film,” by Jonathan. Walley, Tate Modern, 2009
Huldisch, Henriette, Whitney Biennial catalog essay, 2006