Born in San Diego, CA 1979
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2006 | Souffle sur le Miroir (Breath on the Mirror): Film and Works on Paper, Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, France |
| 2004 | The Altered Lens: Photographic Works, Lerner Gallery Space, Columbia University, New York, NY |
| Group Exhibitions | |
| 2007 |
Introductions, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA Wunderkammer, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA Vernissage: MFA Graduate Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA Parables of Isolation: Rubric Experimental Video Exhibition, Plus Gallery, Denver, CO SFAI Now, Red Ink Studios, San Francisco, CA |
| 2006 |
The Moving Picture Show, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA Immediate Future, Murphy and Codogan Fellowship Award Show, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Big Deal, Soma Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA Convergence, Tollhouse Art Center, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Upgrade: Photographic Works, Paintings and Films, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA Obsession, Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, France |
| 2005 | Distillations, Institut Franco-Americain, Rennes, France |
| 2004 |
Cultural Salvage, Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, France Pedestrian, Bronx River Art Center Gallery, Bronx, NY |
| 2003 | Is, Was, Will Be, The Maria Bismark Foundation Gallery, Paris, France |
| 2001 |
25th Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition, The National Arts Club Gallery, New York, NY Thesis Exhibition, Barnard College, New York, NY |
| 2000 | Identity, Postcrypt Art Gallery, New York, NY |
| Public Art Installations | |
| 2007 |
Reel Shorts: On Alzheimer's, The Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY. Looping projection in gallery, November-January, 2007 Reel Shorts, What the Water Saw, The Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY. Looping projection in gallery, January-February, 2007 The Touch, Looping Projection on one of eleven high resolution LED screens with high fidelity sound in Victory Plaza, Victory Media Network's Outdoor Digital Arts Gallery, Victory Park, Dallas, TX, November-January-February, 2007 What the Water Saw, Looping Projection on one of eleven high resolution LED screens with high fidelity sound in Victory Plaza, Victory Media Network's Outdoor Digital Arts Gallery, Victory Park, Dallas, TX, January-February, 2007 |
| 2006 |
What the Water Saw, Looping night street projection with sound, San Francisco Arts Commission View 155 Gallery, September 14-October 28, 2006 |
| Grants and Awards | |
| 2008 |
Derjassi Artist Residency. Awarded artist residency to create the forthcoming film Memory Box—Tamako’s Letter, April-May, 2008. |
| 2007 |
Ella King Torrey Award for Innovation and Excellence in the Arts. Honored as best graduating MFA student in the 2007 San Francisco Art Institute class. 2007 James Broughton Award. Awarded film grant from the San Francisco Art Institute for creativity in filmmaking. Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Studio Award. Awarded one-year studio residency at Headlands Center for the Arts for pursuit of artistic work created in graduate school. San Francisco Art Institute MFA Film Fellowship. Selected as most visionary MFA film applicant and awarded full tuition scholarship to attend the San Francisco Art Institute graduate film program, September, 2005-May, 2007. |
| 2006 |
Murphy & Codogan Fellowship for Film, San Francisco Arts Commission, August, 2006 MacDowell Colony Residency. Awarded artist residency to create the film Five Cents a Peek, June-July, 2006. Film Arts Foundation Personal Works Grant. Awarded grant towards completion of the forthcoming documentary film Mimita, August, 2006 |
| 2005 |
Pont-Aven Artist in Residency Program. Awarded artist residency to create the film Souffle sur le Miroir, May 1-August 31, 2005 |
| 2001 |
Bernard Hans Hessel Memorial Award for The Cartographer's Memory, National Arts Club 25th Annual Art Show Time Grant for Outstanding Visual Art from Barnard College |
| 2000 | Exceptional Artist Scholarship to attend Rhode Island School of Design Summer Program in France |
| 1999 | Patricia Layman Bazelon Scholarship from The International Center of Photography |
| Filmography | |
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5 Cents a Peek, 2007. 16mm b&w film released on video. 06:33 minutes, sound. 5 Cents a Peek is a filmic interpretation of a poem by Sharon Olds wherein the circus becomes a metaphor for a woman’s performance in, and for, the world. The film incorporates animation, archival circus footage and distortions of the female form to explore ideas of performance, spectatorship and the male gaze. |
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| Screenings | |
| 2008 |
Her Shorts, Women’s International Video Festival, Tucson, AZ, May, 2008 2008 Portland Women’s Film Festival, Portland, OR, May, 2008 9th Annual Santa Cruz Film Festival, Santa Cruz, CA, May, 2008 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY, April, 2008 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival,, Ann Arbor, MI, March, 2008 Black Maria Film and Video Festival, New Jersey, NJ, March, 2008 2nd Place for Best Film Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston, MA, March, 2008 Women with a Vision,Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, March, 2008 Washington DC Independent Film Festival, Washington DC, March, 2008 Renditions in the Grey Zone, Studio 27, San Francisco, CA, February, 2008 The Victoria Film Festival, Victoria, Canada, February, 2008 |
| 2007 |
Wonder Women Film Competition, Pen and Brush Gallery, New York, NY, November 2007, Honorable Mention Pacific Film Archive’s Alternative Visions, Berkeley, CA, October, 2007 30th Annual Mill Valley International Film Festival, Mill Valley, CA, October, 2007 Artist Television Access Film and Video Festival, San Francisco, CA, October, 2007 10 or Less Film Festival,, Portland, OR, October, 2007 The MadCat Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, September, 2007 True West Cinema Festival, Boise, ID, August, 2007 The American Heresy Collective Film and Performance Showcase 2007, San Francisco, CA, June, 2007 Synesthesia: Films by SFAI Grads, San Francisco, CA, May, 2007 |
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The Stillness in the Room, 2007. 16mm b&w film released on video. 08:30 minutes, sound. The Stillness in the Room explores 19th century English death and mourning rituals within a framework of time, growth and decay. The film draws upon the strict dress code of Victorian widows, which included the black “weeping veil.” In the film, the veil is a dominant trope that serves to reveal fragments of imagery, ritual, and emotive experience. |
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| Screenings | |
| 2007 |
Truth and Reconciliation, San Francisco, CA, September, 2007 Synesthesia: Films by SFAI Grads, San Francisco, CA, May, 2007 |
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Passing, 2007. 16mm b&w film released on video. 01:20 minutes, sound. Passing is a short film that explores the idea of passing: passing time, past histories, and away. |
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| Screenings | |
| 2008 |
Derapage 8, Centre Design UQAM, Montreal, Canada, April, 2008 The 5th Annual Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS, February, 2008 |
| 2007 |
10 or Less Film Festival, Portland, OR, October, 2007 Microcinema International's Independent Exposure Film Festival, "All Animation," world-wide tour beginning August, 2007 Terra Incognita, Film and Video Screening, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, July, 2007 Twin Rivers Media Festival, Asheville, NC, May 2007 Synesthesia: Films by SFAI Grads, San Francisco, CA, May, 2007 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI, May, 2007 Her Shorts, Women's International Video Festival, Tucson, AZ, May, 2007 Microcinema International's Independent Exposure Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, May, 2007 The Three Minute Film Fest, Santa Fe, NM, April, 2007 Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, Tampa, FL, April, 2007 |
| 2006 | Film Arts Foundation 30th Anniversary Film Screening. Castro Theater, San Francisco, CA, November, 2006 (screened as work in progress). |
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The Touch, 2006. 16mm b&w film released on video. 02:58 minutes, sound. The Touch is a meditation on Anne Sexton's poem of the same name. The film examines melodies within spoken, written and visual language and how they can interact. |
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| Screenings | |
| 2007 |
8th Seoul International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea, September, 2007 Commfest Community Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, September, 2007 Scanners, New York Video Festival, New York, NY, July, 2007 San Fracisco Frozen Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, July, 2007 Rooftop Film Festival: Trapped Inside the Machine, Brooklyn, NY, June, 2007 ArtsFest Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA, May, 2007 53rd International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany, May, 2007 Brooklyn Arts Council 41st International Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn, NY, May, 2007 29th Annual Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH, April, 2007 Siren International Film Odyssey, Ithaca, NY, April, 2007 Open Appeture Short Film Festival, Boone, NC, March, 2007 Aarhus Festival of Independent Arts, Aarhus, Denmark, April, 2007 Synesthesia: Films by SFAI Grads, San Francisco, CA, May, 2007 San Francisco International Women's Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, April, 2007, Best Spoken Word Kansas City Jubilee Film Festival, Kansas City, MO, April, 2007 Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston, MA, March, 2007 La Enana Marron Film Festival, Madrid, Spain, March, 2007 Foursite Film Festival, Ogden, UT, March, 2007 Recent Animations, The Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, March, 2007 Intercity Film Festival, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, February, 2007 Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, February, 2007 Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, UK, February, 2007 The 4th Annual Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS, February, 2007 Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, Victoria, BC, February, 2007 |
| 2006 |
Artist Television Access Wonder Show, San Francisco, CA, December, 2006 Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens, MNN Channel 34, New York, New York, December, 2006 (Television Broadcast) Indigo TV: Winners of the New York Short Short Film Festival, Channel 9 and 33, New York, New York, November, 2006 (Television Broadcast) See the Voice: Visible Verse, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC. November, 2006. 16th Annual NOVAC Louisiana Shorts Festival, Zeitgeist Multi- Disciplinary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, October, 2006 Pacific Film Archive’s Alternative Visions, Berkeley, CA, October, 2006 Portland International Short Short Film Festival, Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR, October, 2006 Student Shorts Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, October, 2006 Artist Television Access Film and Video Festival, San Francisco, CA, October, 2006 Award Winning Shorts, Calgary Fringe Film Festival, Calgary, Canada, August 2006 Planet Dust, True West Cinema Festival, Boise, ID, August, 2006 New York Short Short Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY April, 2006, Honorable Mention Intoxicating Luv, New Nothing Theater, San Francisco, CA, June, 2006 |
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What the Water Saw, 2006. 16mm b&w/color film released on video. 02:34 minutes, sound. What the Water Saw explores a mystery at the depths of the sea. The film is structured to mimic the ocean's moods, creating a varied psychological space for the viewer. |
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| Screenings | |
| 2007 |
Microcinema International's Independent Exposure Film Festival, "Mind Over Matter," world-wide tour beginning June, 2007 ArtsFest Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA, May, 2007 Synesthesia: Films by SFAI Grads, San Francisco, CA, May, 2007 Her Shorts, Women's International Video Festival, Tucson, AZ, May, 2007 Derapage 7, Centre Design UQAM, Montreal, Canada, April, 2007 Aarhus Festival of Independent Arts, Aarhus, Denmark, April, 2007 The 4th Annual Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS, February, 2007, Best Experimental Film Intercity Film Festival, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, February, 2007 |
| 2006 |
Single Reel Film and Video Festival, Bennington College, VT, November, 2006 and Culture Project, New York, NY, December, 2006 The 23rd Annual Olympia Film Festival, Cine X Showcase, Olympia, WA, November, 2006 Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens, MNN Channel 34, New York, New York, November, 2006 (Television Broadcast) 31st Annual New England Film and Video Festival, Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline, MA, October, 2006 Independents' Film Festival and Live Broadcast, The Education Channel, Tampa, FL, September-October, 2006 (Television Broadcast) Tarfest, Los Angeles Architecture and Design Museum, October, 2006 The Tacoma Film Festival, Grand Cinema, Tacoma, WA, October, 2006 2nd Annual Small International Film Festival, Berkeley Art Center, September, 2006 Gray's Reef Ocean Film Festival, Savannah, GA, September, 2006 Murphy & Codogan 2006 Award Show, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA, September-October, 2006 Planet Dust, True West Cinema Festival, Boise, ID, August, 2006 24-Hour Film Festival, Downtown Community Television Center, New York, NY, July, 2006 Talent Circle International Super Shorts Film Festival, Touring in London followed by Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton, Cardiff, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Margate, Newcastle upon Tyne, Oxford, and Wolverhampton, May-July, 2006 Pathological Rhetoric, New Nothing Theater, San Francisco, CA, June, 2006 |
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52 Bis, 2006. 16mm b&w film released on video. 02:05 minutes, sound. Filmed at my grandmother's house in Paris, France, 52 Bis explores the unraveling recesses of space and memory through the idea of light and dark, or the negative and positive image. |
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| Screenings | |
| 2007 |
Visual Osmosis, NewYorkRioTokyo Project Space for Contemporary Ideas, Berlin, Germany, February, 2007 Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens, MNN Channel 34, New York, New York, November, 2006 (Television Broadcast) |
| 2006 |
Independents' Film Festival and Live Broadcast, The Education Channel, Tampa, FL, September-October, 2006 (Television Broadcast) Upgrade, Photographic Works, Paintings and Films, Swell Gallery, San Francisco CA, May, 2006 |
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Souffle sur le Miroir (Breath on the Mirror), 2006. 16mm b&w/color film and DV, released on video. 10 minutes, sound. Co-directed with Sarah Friedland. Souffle sur le Miroir was made during a four-month residency in Pont-Aven, France. The film investigates how space, culture and geography influence dreams and how consequently those dreams can be reinterpreted through varied technologies. |
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| Screenings | |
| 2007 |
Scanners, New York Video Festival, New York, NY, July, 2007 Nickel Independent Film Festival. St. John's, Canada, June, 2007 Twin Rivers Media Festival, Asheville, NC, May 2007 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI, May, 2007 Her Shorts, Women's International Video Festival, Tucson, AZ, May, 2007 50th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, April, 2007 Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, Tampa, FL, April, 2007 |
| 2006 |
Souffle sur le Miroir, Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, France, June, 2006 Eclectic Grab Bag, 28th Annual Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH, April, 2006 (Screened as work in progress) |
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On Alzheimer's, 2005. 16mm b&w film. 07:56 minutes, silent. On Alzheimer's is an experimental animation piece that explores my grandmother's diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. The film was created by animating photographs taken in her apartment in Corsica, with our family photographs, and her physical objects. The film is sustained by two melodies - text and imagery - that repeat themselves, unfolding in alternate rhythms to emulate the mental obfuscation and confusion of Alzheimer's. |
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| Screenings | |
| 2007 |
Aarhus Festival of Independent Arts, Aarhus, Denmark, April, 2007 Oxford International Film Festival, Oxford, OH, April, 2007 Les Nomades 2007, Toronto International French Short Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, March, 2007 Reel Women International Film Festival, Burbank, CA, March, 2007 Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, UK, February, 2007 Muskegon Film Festival, Muskegon, MI, February, 2007 |
| 2006 |
Single Reel Film and Video Festival, Culture Project, NY, NY, December, 2006 Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens, MNN Channel 34, New York, New York, December, 2006 (Television Broadcast) 29th Annual Mill Valley International Film Festival, Mill Valley, CA, October, 2006 A Quiet Storm, Live Music Set to Silent Films, 10th Annual MadCat Women's International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, September, 2006 The Tacoma Film Festival, Grand Cinema, Tacoma, WA, October, 2006 2nd Annual Small International Film Festival, Berkeley Art Center, September, 2006, Best Juried Film Film Gate International Student Film Festival, Saint Louis, MO, August, 2006, 2nd Place for Best Experimental Film Health Education, 28th Annual Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH, April, 2006 |
| 2005 |
Pacific Film Archive’s Alternative Visions, Berkeley, CA, October, 2005 |
| Artist Lectures | |
| 2008 | San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, November 17, 2007 |
| 2007 | University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, February 9, 2007 |
| Professional or Academic Conferences | |
| 2007 | Panelist, "What is Experimental Film?," Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS, February, 2007 |
| Bibliography | |
| 2007 |
Harmanci, Reyhan. “Wunderkammer, Collection of Modern Curiosities Mixes Whimsy, Technology Old and New,”
San Francisco Chronicle, July 5, 2007. Barnett, Sheena. "Oxford Film Fest, Can't Miss," Scene, North Mississippi Entertainment Guide, February 1-7, 2007 Hardiman. Clayton. "Tickets on Sale for Annual Film Festival," Muskegon Chronicle, mlive.com, January 9, 2007. |
| 2006 |
Dubowsky, Jack Curtis. "The Film Arts 30, Vanessa Woods," Release Print Magazine, November/December, 2006 Leaverton, Michael. "ATAboy," SF Weekly, October 18-24, 2006. Anderson, Soren. "Grand Reels in Indie Film Fest," The News Tribune (Tacoma), September 25, 2006 Wood, Sura. "MadCat Women's International Film Festival," San Francisco Arts Monthly Magazine, September, 2006 Klenow, Erin. "Mad, Mad World," 7x7magazine.com, September, 2006. Loden, Franko "Women at Work," SF Weekly, September 20-26, 2006. Eddy, Cheryl. "First and 10, A decade in, MadCat Stays True to the Avant-Garde," San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 13-19, 2006. Richards, Kathleen. "Mad Reality," East Bay Express, September 13, 2006. Hawkinson, Ingrid. "Festival Report, MadCat Women's Film Festival," KQED Arts and Culture Blog, September 12, 2006. Vigil, Delfin. "Madcat Turns 10," The San Francisco Chronicle, September 10, 2006. |
| 2004 | Fowle, Noah. "Pedestrian," The Bronx Times, March 18, 2004. |
| Publications | |
| 2007 | The Touch, The Journal of Short Film, Volume 6. Columbus, OH. January, 2007. http://www.thejsf.org |
| 2006 | Convergence Exhibition Catalogue. Tollhouse Art Center, Kirkcudbright, Scotland. June, 2006 |
| Education | |
| 2007 | MFA, Film: With Honors, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. |
| 2001 | BA, Art History and Visual Arts: Cum Laude, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY. |
