Sarah Halpern
Born 1982, Washington, DC
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
BA Bard College, Film & Electronic Arts, 2005
Awards & Residencies
MacDowell Colony Residency, Peterborough, NH 2014
Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY, 2009
Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY, 2008
Solo Exhibitions
The Whole Story, Microscope Gallery, New York, NY 2023
The Changing Room, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
Paper Plexus, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
Selected Group Exhibitions
Occupy Mana, curated by the Brooklyn Rail, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, 2018
Dreamlands: Expanded organized with the Whitney Museum of Art as part of “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema & Art, 1905-2016,” Microscope Gallery, 2016/2017
Turing’s Apple, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles CA, 2016
Space Time Singularities: Eros, Halpern, Lampert, Peephole Cinema at Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
No Show, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2014
Selected Solo Screenings & Performances
Sound Sets, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2019
The Moon Behind the Hill, Soiree Series, Brooklyn NY 2017
Film, Paper, Sound, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2015
Persuading the Public, Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY 2015
Endings, Stony Brook University Keynote, New York, NY 2014
Varieties of Visual Experience, Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY 2014
The Black Bird, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2013
Film in the House of the Word, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2013
Mad Liberation, Anthology Film Archives NYC , 2010
Selected Group Screenings & Performances
Live Video & Sound: Invisible Sisters (Guma & Hapern) / MV Carbon / Matt Wellins, Microscope Gallery, New York, NY 2023
Wet Gate, Columbus Theatre, Providence RI, 2019
Burn, Zumzeig Cine, Barcelona, Spain, 2018
Processed: To Each Their Own Image, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2016
The Owl Flies at Twilight as part of Optipus collextive, “Dreamlands: Expanded” organized by the Whitney Museum and Microscope Gallery, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY 2017
Sound Performance, Picasso Machinery, Brooklyn NY 2017
Scales, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia PA, 2017
Scales, DC Sonic Circuits, Washington DC 2017
Scales, The Red Room, Baltimore MD 2017
((audience)) Sound Off, Alwan Arts Center, New York, NY, 2015
Too Fast Festival, Fotofono, Brooklyn, NY 2015
Endings, Stony Brook University Keynote, New York, NY 2014
Screen Compositions, Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY 2014
Third Mind Bending, The Stone, New York, NY 2014
Modular Equinox, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
Sliding N2, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
Views of the Avant-Garde, New York Film Festival, 2013
Film in the House of the Word, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2013
Sliding, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2013
Optipus Film Group, The Kitchen, NYC, 2012
Signal to Noise #2, Museum of Moving Image, Queens, NY, 2012
The Index of Maladjustment, Union Docs, NY, 2012
Philadelphia Sound Forum, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2012
Kodachrome, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn NY 2011
Kodachrome Film Funeral, Participant Gallery, New York, NY 2011
E.P.I.C., Migrating Forms, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, 2010
Publications & Sound Releases
Silvered Golden, audio tape recordings, ZAP Cassettes, 2018
Ottomotty, audio tape recordings, ZAP Cassettes, 2018
“she’s not here,” cover image for Anthology Film Archives catalog Volume 45, No.4, Oct–Dec 2015
“Art & Statement: The Changing Room”, Acid Rain, November 8, 2015
“Shoes, Cars, Filth, Projection; the Language of Anxiety Dreams”, essay, Incite Magazine, 2013
“Solar Plexus Cineplex Nexus” essay, Planetary Projection/Caboose Books, 2013