Peggy Ahwesh info
S E L E C T E D S C R E E N I N G S & E X H I B I T I O N S
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia; Madrid, Spain (retrospective) 2006
American Univeristy of Beirut; Beirut, Lebanon 2006
The Württembergischer Kunstverein; Stuttgart, Germany 2006
Copilandia: una Isla Libre de Propiedad Intellectual, Seville, Spain (traveled) 2006
“Breaking the Game“, www.workspace-unlimited.org (on-line symposium) 2006
femme totale; Dortmund, Germany (screening & panel) 2005
Pompidou Center; Paris, France 2005
MIX: NY Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Fesitval; NY, NY 2005
“Brides of Frankenstein”, San Jose Museum of Art; San Jose, CA 2005
The Museum of Modern Art, Mediascope; New York, NY 2004
“Videos by Peggy Ahwesh“, Terrorvision Show, Exit Art; New York, NY 2004
New York Video Festival; Film Society of Lincoln Center; New York, NY 2003
Festival of Contemporary Arts: City of Women; Ljubljana, Slovenia 2003
“I Wonder About You and Through You: Women Respond to Technology
with Wonder and Caution“; Portland, OR 2003
“Sandbox Antics, Tantrums, and Tourist Attractions“, Pittsburgh Filmmakers
and Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA (retrospective) 2002
New Collaborations: Electronic Intersections, Institute for Electronic Arts, School of Art
and Design, Alfred University; Alfred, NY (conference) 2002
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY 2002
Image Forum Festival; Tokyo, Japan (traveled)
Animations, P.S.1/MoMA; Queens, NY (traveled Kunst Werke Berlin)
California Institute for the Arts; Valencia, CA (screenings/residency) 2001
Sam Spiegel Film School; Jerusalem, Israel (screenings/residency) 2001
The Jerusalem Cinematheque; Jerusalem, Israel 2001
“All the Girls with Cameras in Their Heads“, Cinematexas 6;AustinTX 2001
Laracroft:ism, On Female Heroines, Nomads and Residents panel; NY
The Flaherty Seminar, International Film Seminars, NY 2000
The American Century: Art & Culture (1950-2000), Whitney Museum 2000
“The Color of Ritual, The Color of Thought“, Whitney Museum of American Art; NY
The Guggenheim Museum; NY (lecture) 1999
LUX Cinema; London, England (retrospective) 1999
Warhol's Grave, The Balie Theater; Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1999
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; SF, CA (residency/retrospective) 1999
S8mm Films by Peggy Ahwesh, MoMA; NY 1998
Pandaemonium: Festival of the Moving Image; London, England
New York Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center; NY (traveled)
Low Tech, Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona; Barcelona, Spain 1997
Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late 20th Century Art, ICA; Boston, MA (traveled)
Open Zone: Interactive Phenomena & Quicktime; Barcelona, Spain (traveled) 1996
Statens Musem for Kunst; Copenhagen, Denmark 1996
I N T E R N E T R E S O U R C E S
--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
G R A N T S A N D F E L L O W S H I P S
Bard College Research Grant, (2002); Creative Capital, (2002); Alpert Award in the Arts, Cal Arts/Alpert Foundation (2000); NYFA, Video Fellowship (2000); NYSCA, Film/Video Fellowship (1993, 2002); NYSCA, Distribution Grant (1992, 1999); Guggenheim Foundation, Fellowship (1996); Jerome Foundation, Film Project Award (1990, 1998); Art Matters, (1992, 1995); NYSCA, Music Grant (2007).
