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SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS
2007. One Person Shows.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
Media Arts Program, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Smolny College, St. Petersburg, Russia
Mt. Holyoke & Five College Consortium, South Hadley, MA
2007. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
On the Collective for Living Cinema; Orchard, New York, NY (curator Jeff Preiss) (traveled)
Views from the Avant Garde, New York Film Festival; Lincoln Center, NY
Cinema Cavern; PS1, Queens, NY (curator Lia Gangitano)
Idiot Joyland, Luhring Augustine Gallery, NY (curator John Pilson)
It’s Only a Movie: Horror Films From the 1970s and Today, Museum of Moving Image, Queens
No United States; Kunsthalle Wein, Austria (curator Shelly Silver)
2006. One Person Shows.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia; Madrid, Spain (retrospective)
American Univeristy of Beirut; Beirut, Lebanon
Anthology Film Archives; NY, NY (theatrical run, Certain Women)
Personal Archive Show, Anthology Film Archives; NY, NY
2006. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
Stitch & Split: Selves & Territories in Sci Fi,Fundació Antoni Tàpies; Barcelona, Spain
The Württembergischer Kunstverein; Stuttgart, Germany
IAMNOWHERE, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Annandale, NY
The Imagination of Disaster, Ocularis; Brooklyn, NY
Silverlake Film Fest: MP4 Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Copilandia: una Isla Libre de Propiedad Intellectual, Seville, Spain (traveled)
Art as a Form of Conversation, Dashanzi Arts Festival, Beijing, China (traveled)
Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain
Games People Play, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Foundation for Art, Culture & Technology, Liverpool, UK
Breaking the Game, www.workspace-unlimited.org (on-line symposium)
2005. One Person Shows.
Wisconsin Film Festival; Madison, WI (retrospective)
femme totale; Dortmund, Germany (screening & panel)
University of Chicago, Film Studies Center; Chicago, Il
2005. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
Pompidou Center; Paris, France
MIX: NY Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Fesitval; NY, NY
Jerome, Hill & Foundation, MoMA; NY, NY (screening & panel)
The Childhood Show, Magic Lantern Cinema; Providence, RI
Brides of Frankensteain, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2004. One Person Shows
Rotterdam International Film Festival; Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Mediascope; MoMA, New York, NY
New York Underground Film Festival; New York, NY (traveled)
Institute for Studies in the Arts, ASU; Tempe, Arizona
Videos by Peggy Ahwesh, Terrorvision Show, Exit Art; New York, NY
Redcat Theater, California Institute for the Arts; Valencia, CA (residency)
Chicago Underground Film Festival; Chicago, IL
Brighton Cinematheque; Brighton, UK
Zinebi 46 Festival; Bilbao, Spain
Cinematexas 10; Austin, TX
Union Theater, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Milwaukee, WI
2004. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
Visions of Excess, Press Play Video, Carnegie Mellon University; Pgh, PA
The Walking Picture Palace, Anthology Film Archives; NY (curator Mark McElhatten)
New York Video Festival; Film Society of Lincoln Center; New York, NY
European Media Arts Festival; Osnabruck, Germany
Acting Out, York University; Toronto, Canada
Festival of Contemporary Arts: City of Women; Ljubljana, Slovenia
Lookalike: Barbie Lolita Lara Croft, Nederlands Fotomuseum; Amsterdam
2003. One Person Shows.
Mills College Art Museum, Contemporary Exhibitions; Oakland, CA
Pixil This 12; Los Angeles, CA
Princeton University; Princeton, NJ
Binghamton University; Binghamton, NY
2003. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
Image Forum Festival; Tokyo, Japan (traveled)
Russian National Contemporary Art Center, Experimental Videos from US;
Moscow, Russia (traveled)
I Wonder About You and Through You: Women Respond to Technology with Wonder and Caution; Portland, OR
Bellevue Art Museum; Seattle, WA
Moscow International Film Fest; Russia (traveled)
Stand-By, retrospective program; MoMA, NY
Mirror, Mirror, Surrey Institute of Art & Design; London, UK
2002. One Person Shows.
Sandbox Antics, Tantrums, and Tourist Attractions; Pittsburgh Filmmakers
and Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA (retrospective)
New Collaborations: Electronic Intersections; Institute for Electronic Arts, School of Art
and Design, Alfred University; Alfred, NY (conference)
2002. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
2002 Biennial Exhibition; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY
Rotterdam International Film Festival; Rottedrdam, The Netherlands
Image Forum Festival; Tokyo, Japan (traveled)
Animations, P.S.1/MoMA; Queens, NY (traveled Kunst Werke Berlin)
Electromediascope, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Dangerous Beauty: The Videos, Jewish Community Center; NY, NY
Verbindingen/Jonctions Festival 6; Brussels, Belgium
Machine Love, Vidarte2002 International Festival; Mexico City, Mexico
FILMS THAT RISE TO THE SURFACE (OF CLARIFIED BUTTER); Balagan, Boston,
Catastrophe & Spectacle, Oberhausen Film Festival; Oberhausen, Germany
2001. One Person Shows.
California Institute for the Arts; Valencia, CA (screenings/residency)
Sam Spiegel Film School; Jerusalem, Israel (screenings/residency)
The Jerusalem Cinematheque; Jerusalem, Israel
Women Direct, Ithaca College; Ithaca, NY (screening & conference)
All the Girls with Cameras in Their Heads, Cinematexas 6;Austin, TX (mini-retrospective)
2001. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
Laracroft:ism, On Female Heroines, Nomads and Residents panel; NY
Imitation of Kiss, Warhol Museum; Pittsburgh, PA (traveled)
Three Women from Brooklyn, Ocularis; Brooklyn, NY
New York Video Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center; NY
Pandaemonium: Festival of the Moving Image; London, UK (traveled)
Some Kind of Loving, Joanie4Jackie (curator Astria Suparak) (traveled)
The Stained Handkerchief, Maastricht; The Netherlands (traveled)
To Make it Better Every Time: Internal Security; Munich,Germany (traveled)
All is Fair in Love and War; Amsterdam, The Netherlands (traveled)
2000. One Person Shows.
The Flaherty Seminar, International Film Seminars, NY (curator Kathy Geritz)
The American Century: Art & Culture (1950-2000), Whitney Museum of American Art;
New York, NY
2000. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
The End: An Independent View of Contemporary Culture (‘82-‘00),Exit Art; NY
Science is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painleve, MoMA; NY
The Color of Ritual, The Color of Thought, Whitney Museum of American Art; NY
World Wide Video Festival; Amsterdam, The Netherlands
DUMBO Arts Festival; Brooklyn, NY
Cinematexas 5, Austin, TX
The Trinity Show, Ocularis; Brooklyn, NY (curator Jim Browne)
1999. One Person Shows.
The Guggenheim Museum; NY (lecture)
LUX Cinema; London, England (retrospective)
Warhol's Grave, The Balie Theater; Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Grand Illusion Cinema/Wiggly World; Seattle, WA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; SF, CA (residency/retrospective)
Splice This!, S8mm Film Festival; Toronto, Canada (retrospective)
Three by Peggy Ahwesh, Anthology Film Archives; NY
Nocturne and What!, Pacific Film Archive; Berkeley, CA
Criminal Sexuality: The Films of Peggy Ahwesh, Pacific Cinematheque; Vancouver (retrospective)
1999. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
Rotterdam International Film Festival; The Netherlands
European Media Art Festival; Osnabruck, Germany
GirlsKnifeTheoryGore, Cornershop; Buffalo, NY
Dark Shadows: Recent Avant-Garde Films, Chicago Filmmakers; Chicago, IL
1998. One Person Shows.
S8mm Films by Peggy Ahwesh, MoMA; NY
The Secret Charts, Jonctions Festival; Brussels, Belgium
(installation w Amy Sillman)
Girls Beware! (reprise), Jonctions Festival 2; Brussels, Belgium
1998. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films, MoMA; NY
Pandaemonium: Festival of the Moving Image; London, England
Lo-Fi Baroque, Threadwaxing Space; New York, NY
Reel New York, WNET/Ch13 TV; New York, NY
MadCat Women's Film Festival; San Francisco, CA
New York Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center; NY (traveled)
1997. One Person Shows.
Girls Beware!, New American Film & Video Series, Whitney Museum of
American Art; NY (retrospective)
Subtle Subversions: The Films of Peggy Ahwesh, Chicago Filmmakers; Chicago, IL
Low Tech, Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona; Barcelona, Spain
1997. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late 20th Century Art, ICA; Boston, MA (traveled)
MIX '97: NY Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival; NY
MIX '97: Mexico and MIX '97: Brazil (traveled)
Kybernetes: Encuentro de Video y Electronicas; Bogota, Columbia
1996. One Person Shows.
Vermont College, MFA Program; Montpelier, VT (visiting artist)
Cinema Studies Program, NYU; New York, NY
Open Zone: Interactive Phenomena & Quicktime; Barcelona, Spain (traveled)
1996. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
Korper Und Sexualitat, deutsches filmmuseum; Frankfurt, Germany
Cine Club at Anthology Film Archive; NY
Danish Workshop Film Festival; Copenhagen, Denmark
Slacker Attitude, London Electronic Arts; London, England (traveled)
A Tribute to Squat Theater, Artists' Space; NY
1995 Whitney Biennial Exhibition; NY (traveled)
Statens Musem for Kunst; Copenhagen, Denmark
1995. One Person Shows.
University of South Florida; Tampa, FL (visiting artist)
The Films of Peggy Ahwesh, Pacific Film Archives; Berkeley, CA
Odd and Original: Sexploitation Films by Doris Wishman, Roxy Theater & the Other Cinema;
San Francisco,CA (curator)
1995. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
More Hysteria, Please!, Columbia University; NY (Lacanian Ink)
Festival International du Nouveau Cinema et de la Video; Montreal, Canada
Coming to Power: Xperimental Films by Women, Film Makers‘ Co-op; NY (traveled)
San Francisco International Film Festival; San Francisco, CA
1995 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art; NY (traveled)
Wellington and Auckland International Film Festivals; New Zealand
1994. One Person Shows.
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Arts; Cambridge, MA (retrospective)
American Museum of the Moving Image; Queens, NY
Anthology Film Archives; New York, NY
World Wide Video Festival; The Hague, The Netherlands
1994. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
Bad Girls, The New Museum; NY (w The Scary Movie)
Pixilvision: The Philosophical Toy, 3rd NY Video Festival; New York, NY
American Film Institute Video Festival; Los Angeles, CA
Impakt Festival; Utrecht, The Netherlands
Atlanta International Film & Video Festival; Atlanta, GA
Ex-Post Factory: After Warhol, Pacific Film Archive; Berkeley, CA
Festival of Independents; Philadelphia, PA
Between Heaven and Earth, Pacific Film Archive; Berkeley, CA
MIX 94: NY Gay & Lesbian Experimental Film Festival; NY
MIX '94 Brazil: Festival das Manifestacoes da Sexualidade, Brazil (traveled)
Museum of Sound and Image; Sao Paulo, Brazil (traveled)
Man Trouble, Exit Art; NY (curator Jason Simon),
American Independence, Institute for Contemporary Art; London, England
X-Rated Films by Women, Films Charas; New York
Gay & Lesbian International Film & Video Festival; Montreal,Canada
1993. One Person Shows.
Video Premiers, Museum of Modern Art; NY (w Margie Strosser)
Juger und Sammler: Die Neuen Nomaden, Eiszeit Kino; Berlin, Germany
Strange Paradises, The Cinematheque; San Francisco, CA
The Opium Den at The Pleasure Dome at Cine Cycle; Toronto, Canada
1993. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
New Directions in American Avant Garde (1981-91), London Film Co-op; England (traveled)
Coming to Power: Xplicit Films by Women, David Zwerner Gallery; NY (traveled)
Dallas Video Festival; Dallas, Texas
Picturing Ritual, Center for Photography at Woodstock; Woodstock, NY
1992. One Person Shows.
Sarah Lawrence College; Bronxville, NY
sex/POSITIVE; Philadelphia, PA (conference/screening)
University of Florida, a Critical Art Ensemble project; Tallahassee, FL
Coming Soon, American Culture & Popular Culture Associations Annual Conference;
Louisville, KY (w Keith Sanborn)
1992. Selected Festivals . Group Shows.
Flaming and Other Creatures, Harvard Film Archive; Cambridge, MA
Through Her Eyes: Women in Film and Video, The Learning Channel
Eros and Thanatos, Woodstock Guild; Woodstock, NY
The Travel and Leisure Show, 4 Walls; Brooklyn, NY
1991. One Person Shows.
The Wexner Center; Columbus, OH
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center; Buffalo, NY
The Center for Photography at Woodstock; Woodstock, NY
1991. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art; NY (traveled)
Return of Visual Pleasure, Whitney Museum of American Art; NY
Films de Femmes Fest International de CrÈteil et du Marne; Creteil, France
Ars Electronica Video Festival; Linz, Austria
Museum of Fine Arts; Houston, TX
Reframing the Family, Artists Space; New York, NY
Melbourne & Sidney International Film Festivals; Australia
Al-Ismailiyah International Film Festival; Al-Ismailiyah, Egypt
Pearls Before Swine, Eiszeit Kino; Berlin, Germany
Nucleo dos Cineasates Independentes; Lisbon and O Porto, Portugal
1990. One Person Shows.
Cineprobe, MoMA; New York, NY
The Carnegie Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, PA
The Pittsburgh Filmmakers; Pittsburgh, PA
In Bataille's Dark Chamber, The Collective for Living Cinema; NY (w Keith Sanborn)
Child, Kitchen Center for Video, Music & Performance; NY (panel/screening)
Image Film and Video Center; Atlanta, GA
Anti-Censorship Fest, Coalition for Freedom of Expression; Berkeley, CA
The London International Film Festival; London, England
The Pleasure Dome; Toronto, Canada
1990. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
Image World, Whitney Museum of American Art; NY
A Passage Illuminated: American A/G Film 1980-90; Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Festival de Nouveau Cinema; Montreal, Canada
Independent Focus, WNET/CH 13; NY, NY
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been. . . , Film in the Cities; Minneapolis, MN
Opaque Projections: Childhood & Memory, LACE; Los Angeles, CA
Women in the Directors Chair; Chicago, IL
Sexual Politics: The Cutting Edge, Dartmouth College; Hanover, NH
1989. One Person Shows.
In Bataille's Dark Chamber, SF Cinematheque; SF, CA (w Keith Sanborn)
In Bataille's Dark Chamber, Small Press Distribution Center; Berkeley (w Keith Sanborn)
Old & New Masters of Super 8, Anthology Film Archives; NY
The Collective for Living Cinema; New York
Massachusetts College of Art; Boston, MA
1989. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
The Politics & Poetics of Sexuality, Feminism & Reproductive Freedom, Hallwalls
Contemporary Art Center; Buffalo, New York
Breaking the Fall, Collective for Living Cinema; New York (curator Mark McElhatten)
The Body & Other Tales of Joy & Woe, Critical Art Ensemble Media Fest; Tallahassee, FL
1987. One Person Shows.
Film Forum; Los Angeles, CA
Cal Arts; Valencia, CA
The Cinematheque; San Francisco, CA
Super 8mm: The Last Frontier, Currier Gallery of Art; Hanover, NH
1987. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
Infermental: A Video Magazine; Buffalo, NY (curators Chris Hill & Peter Weibel) (traveled)
Independent America, American Museum of the Moving Image; Queens, NY
Speculum of the Other Woman, The Other Cinema; SF, CA
Ann Arbor Super 8mm Film Festival; Ann Arbor, MI
Super 8 Solar System, Artists Space; NY
1984. One Person Shows.
Women's Caucus for Art, National Conference; Boston, MA
Super 8 Motel, The Kitchen Center; NY
The Cinematheque; San Francisco, CA
Millennium Film Workshop; NY
Women in Film, William Penn Museum; Harrisburg, PA
London Film Co-op; London, England
Eiszeit Kino; Berlin, Germany
1984. Selected Festivals. Group Shows.
Midnight Movies, The Squat Theater; NY
Ironic Naturalism, Hallwalls; Buffalo, NY (screening/panel)
Society for Cinema Studies Conference; Pittsburgh, PA
The Funnel; Toronto, Canada
INTERNET RESOURCES
Senses of Cinema, Great Directors Critical Database
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/ahwesh.html
Creative Capital Foundation, Project page on The Star Eaters
http://www.channel.creative-capital.org/project_158.html
Electronic Arts Intermix Distribution, Ahwesh page
http://www.eai.org/eai/artist.jsp?artistID=5768
Stranded in the Jungle, Ch. 17 Decomposing by Steven Shaviro
http://www.dhalgren.com/Stranded/17.html
Cinemad Magazine interview with Scott MacDonald
http://www.cinemadmag.com/page2.html
Felix Journal of Independent Media
http://ww.e-felix.org/artists/ahwesh.html
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ahwesh, Peggy. "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." Film Comment 37 (July/August 2001) p 77.
Arthur, Paul. “Bodies, Language and the Impeachment of Vision: American Avant-garde Film at 50” Persistence of Vision No. 11 (1995) CUNY
Dargis, Manohla. "On The Deadman." Artforum, 28 (May 1990) pp. 29-30.
Gangitano, Lia. "Warhol's Grave", In Steve Reinke and Tom Taylor, ed. LUX: A Decade of Artists Film and Video. XYZ Books, Toronto (2000) pp. 306-11.
Griffin, Tim. "Bury the Lead", World Art, no. 16 (1998) pp. 22 - 25.
Gunning, Tom "Towards a Minor Cinema: Fonoroff, Herwitz, Ahwesh, Klahr, Lapore and Solomon" Motion Picture 3 (winter 89-90) pp 2-5.
Handelman, Michelle. "Women's Studies" Filmmaker Magazine (Winter 2002) p 12.
Iles, Chrissie “Biennial 2002 Exhibition Catalogue”, Whitney Museum of American Art
Jones, Kristin M. "Ahwesh at the Whitney." Artforum 36 (Nov 1997) pp. 118-119.
Marks, Laura U. "Loving a Disappearing Image" Cinéma et Mélancolie Vol 8, no. 1-2, Québec (1999), pp 93-111.
MacDonald, Scott, A Critical Cinema 5: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, University of California Press, 2006.
Russell, Catherine. "Culture as Fiction: The Ethnographic Impulse in the Films of Peggy Ahwesh, Su Friedrich, and Leslie Thornton." In Jon Lewis, ed. The New American Cinema. Durham & London: Duke University Press (1998) pp. 353-78.
Smith, Gavin. "The Way of All Flesh." Film Comment 31 (July/August 1995) p. 18.
Taubin, Amy. "Women on Top" The Village Voice (August 5, 1997) p. 74.
Wees, William C. "The Color of Love and the Recycling of Pornography by Avant-Garde Filmmakers" FSAC Conference, Université Laval, May 2001. conference paper.
Wees, William C. "Peggy's Playhouse: Contesting the Modernist Paradigm”, Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks , Ed. Robin Blaetz, Duke University Press, 2006.
GRANTS & AWARDS
NYSCA, Music 2007; Film/Video 1993, 2002; Distribution 1992, 1999;
Bard College Research Fund 2002; NYFA, Video Fellowship 2000;
Alpert Award in the Arts, Cal Arts/Alpert Foundation 2000;
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 1996;
Jerome Foundation, Project Award 1990, 1998; Art Matters, 1992, 1995;
Creative Capital Foundation 2002.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor
Film & Electronic Arts Program
Bard College
Faculty
Milton Avery Graduate School in the Arts
Bard College
BARD COLLEGE SERVICE
Chair
Film & Electronic Arts Program
1998-99, 2006-07
Chair
Faculty Evaluation Review Committee
2004-06 term
Faculty Evaluator, Division of the Arts
1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007
Divisional Representative to Faculty Senate
1995-96 term
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Brown University
Visiting Professor, Modern Culture and Media, 1987-88
San Francisco Art Institute
Guest Artist, Film Department, 1989-90
