pdf version. last update: 10/22/06| Solo Exhibitions and Screenings | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | Jack the Pelican, New York | |||||||||||
| 2006 | Le Petit Versailles, New York | |||||||||||
| 2005 | Rx Gallery, San Francisco | |||||||||||
| 2004 | Jack the Pelican presents, Brooklyn | |||||||||||
| 2002 | Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco | |||||||||||
| The Lab, San Francisco | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | Cristinerose Gallery, New York | |||||||||||
| Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut | ||||||||||||
| 1998 | Videotheque de Paris, France | |||||||||||
| 1997 | Bologna Cultural Center, Italy | |||||||||||
| 1996 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | |||||||||||
| National Film Theater, London | ||||||||||||
| Roxie Cinema, San Francisco | ||||||||||||
| Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley | ||||||||||||
| The Director's Guild, Los Angeles | ||||||||||||
| Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York | ||||||||||||
| Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings | |
| 2006 | Risky Business, curated by Dana Lee, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York The New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York Grand Opening, 3LD Art & Technology Center, NY |
| 2005 | Performa 05, curated by RoseLee Goldberg, NYC International Art Connection vol. 1&2, 00130 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland Image Union, PBS-WTTW Flash Art Fair, Jack the Pelican Presents, Milan Art Chicago, Jack the Pelican Presents, Chicago |
| 2005 | Image Union, PBS-WTTW Flash Art Fair, Jack the Pelican Presents, Milan Art Chicago, Jack the Pelican Presents, Chicago |
| 2004 | Public.exe/Public Execution curated by Anne Ellegood and Michele Thursz, Exit Art, NY Acting Out: video by Michelle Handelman and Peggy Ahwesh, Art Gallery of York University, TorontoScope Art Fair, Jack the Pelican presents gallery, New York |
| 2003 | Nown, curated by Michele Thursz, Pittsburgh Arts Wood Street Galleries |
| Action Figure, curated by Miriam Sternberg, Bellevue Museum of Contemporary Art Beyond the Moment, Artists Space, NYC Future Species, curated by David Liss, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn Melting Pop, curated by Daniela Cascella, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy Lights, Camera, Action, curated by Vikki Dempsey, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson | |
| 2002 | Reel NY Series, curated by Kathy Brew and Garrison Botts, PBS -13/WNET Transcinema 02, curated by Gregory Cowley, SMOMA, San Jose Museum of Art The Big M, curated by Isis Arts and Michelle Hirschhorn, tours Europe through 2003 LA Freewaves, curated by Rhizome.org, American Film Insitute, Los Angeles |
| 2001 | Arse about Face performance series, curated by Deborah Edmeades, Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC Art LIVE Festival, Turin, Italy The New Festival, New York Art Expo, Chicago- Catherine Clark Gallery |
| 2000 | New Media Lounge curated by Michael Rush, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida Art Expo, Chicago, Cristinerose Gallery |
| 1999 | Unnatural, The Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco Little Kino in Slumberland, Exit Art, New York The Grotesqueness of Desire, InsideART Gallery, Chicago |
| 1998 | Fragmented Bodies: Identity or Violence, California State University at Pomona State of Repair, D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival, New York New video work, The Knitting Factory, New York The Ljubljana Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Slovenia |
| 1997 | Scared Stiff, Leslie Lohmann Gay Art Foundation Gallery, New York City Body Parts: Medical Imagery and Experimental Cinema Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Video Tensions, curated by Steve Seid, University of Arizona Triton Art Fair, San Francisco |
| 1996 | Done Time Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco Inside Out The Knitting Factory, New York London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, British Film Institute Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals: Amsterdam, New Zealand, Toronto, Paris, Bologna, Honolulu, Philadelphia, Seattle, Athens, Boston, New York, Melbourne MIX New York Experimental Queer Film Festival |
| 1995 | Reframing Exposure: Photo Technology and Body Memory Richmond Art Center, California Film show with Hannah Wilke Exhibition Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Sony Visions, American Film Institute, Los Angeles |
| 1994 | Mill Valley Film Festival, California As We Like It Side Street Projects, Los Angeles. Investigations into the Metaphorical and Physical Hole Gallery 2, Chicago. The Illustrated Woman Conference, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, SF |
| Selected Bibliography | |
| 2006 | "Performa 05", Art in America (New York February, 2006) |
| 2005 | LaCroix, Ethan "Urban Affairs" Time Out Magazine (New York November 3, 2005) Rosenberg, Karen "Performance Anxiety" New York Magazine (November 7, 2005) "Gallery Selections" The New Yorker (New York November 2, 2005) Leaverton, Michael "Pretty, ugly" SF Weekley (October 5, 2005) Kurtz, Katie "This Delicate Monster" SF Bay Guardian (October 19, 2005) |
| 2004 | LaCroix, Ethan "Urban Affairs" Time Out Magazine (New York October 24, 2004) Maine, Stephen "Dateline Brooklyn" Artnet.com (Dec.15, 2004) Levin, Kim "Voice Choices" Village Voice (New York June 23, 2004) |
| 2003 | Venkatasubban, Sharmila "Video Game Plans" Pittsburgh City Paper (January 29, 2003) Shaw, Kurt "Altered States" Pittsburgh Tribune (February 7, 2003) |
| 2002 | Smith, Sara "Super Action Figure" RES Magazine (July/August 2002) Hom, Lisa "Girl on Film" SF Weekly (April 10, 2002) |
| 2000 | Rush, Michael "Performance Hops Back into the Scene" The New York Times (July 2, 2000) "Gallery Selections" The New Yorker (New York March 13, 2000) Simpson, Les "Chelsea Girl" Time Out Magazine (New York March 9, 2000) |
| 1997 | Dick, Kirby "Scream" Filmmaker Magazine (New York January 1997) Williams, David E. "Partners in Pain" Film Threat Magazine (Los Angeles January 1997) Roche, Harry, "Critic's Choice" SF Bay Guardian (Feb. 1997) |
| 1996 | Holden, Stephen. "A Shift in Focus" New York Times (New York June 7, 1996) Stein, Elliott. "Absolutely Deviant" Village Voice (New York, June 1, 1996) Kolker, Robert "Let's talk (and talk and talk) about Sex" Time Out (NY Nov 14, 1996) Che, Cathay. "Reel Queer" Time Out (New York June 5, 1996) Rephann, Lola. "Press Picks" New York Press (June 19, 1996) Ambian, Robert. "Interview with Michelle Handelman" Release Print (SF March 1996) |
| 1995 | Sirius, R.U. "Top Ten" Art Forum Magazine (October 1995) Noack, Frank. "Tod und Verzweiflung" Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin Nov. 10,1995) |
| 1994 | Cohn, Terri. "Body Blows" Visions Art Quarterly (Winter 1994) Connor, Celeste. "Social Sights" Artweek (May 5,1994) Winfree, Courtney. "Michelle Handles Herself" Film Threat Magazine (Los Angeles April 1994) |
| Publications | |
| 2001 | Fashion Theory: the journal of dress, body and culture, Berg Publishers, London Inappropriate Behaviour, Serpent's Tail, London |
| 1999 | Art of The X-Files Lookout Publications, New York |
| 1997 | Sugar Baby Cups Magazine, New York Killing Time Morbid Curiousity Magazine, San Francisco |
| 1995 | Coming Up, the World's Best Erotica Richard Kasak Books, New York |
| 1994 | Sensoria from Sensorium. Mangajin Books, Toronto, Canada Herotica 3. (Editor Susie Bright) Down There Press, San Francisco, California |
| 1992 | Framework. Violence issue. Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies |
| 1990 | The Media Conspiracy Against the Developing Mind, Apocalypse Culture 2 (Feral House Press, LA) |
| Lectures | |
| 2005 | Rhode Island School of Design |
| 2002 | University of California at Berkeley California College of Arts and Crafts San Francisco Art Institute |
| 2000 | Media Studies Conference, New School University |
| 1996 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston California College of Arts and Crafts San Francisco Art Institute University of California at Berkeley |
| 1995 | Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco University of California at Davis University of California at Berkeley |
| Professional Experience | |
| 2007-06 | Video Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Ð Visiting Full-time Faculty |
| 2007-98 | Media Studies Graduate Program, New School University, New York - Adjunct Professor |
| 1999 | Cooper Union, New York - Visiting Artist |
| 1997-96 | Film Department, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland - Adjunct Professor |
| 1997-95 | New Genres Department, San Francisco Art Institute, SF - Adjunct Professor |
| 1995-94 | University of California at Berkeley - Visiting Artist San Francisco State University - Visiting Artist University of California at Davis - Visiting Artist |
| Grants and Awards | |
| 2006 | LMCC Studio Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council |
| 2005 | Gottleib Foundation Emergency Fund New York Artists Fellowship Foundation |
| 2004 | NYSCA Individual Artists Program Grant |
| 2000 | Rockefeller Fellowship Nominee |
| 1999 | Grand Prize, Manchester Film Festival for BloodSisters
Bravo Award, Bravo television for BloodSisters |
| 1996 | American Film Institute Sony Visions Award for Hope |
| 1995 | Rockefeller Fellowship Nominee |
| 1994 | Horizons Foundation Grant for BloodSisters
San Francisco International Film Festival- Certificate of Merit for Take -2
Rutgers University S-8 Film Festival- Special merit |
| 1992 | Film Arts Foundation Grant for BloodSisters |
| 1991 | San Francisco Artspace Video Production Grant for A History of Pain |
| Education | |
| 2000-1998 M.F.A. Bard College. Annandale-on-Hudson, New York | |
| 1989-1987 B.F.A. The San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, California | |
| 1986-1983 The School of the Art Institute. Chicago, Illinois | |
| 1982-1980 Hampshire College. Amherst, Massachusetts | |
| Collections | |
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Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia di Rosa Foundation and Preserve, California Poju & Anita Zabludowicz Jean Pigozzi |
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| Michelle Handelman Filmography/Videography | ||||
| Directed and Produced: | ||||
| This Delicate Monster | DVD 3-channel | 10:14 | 2004 | |
| Waterfall | DVD 3-channel | 2:34 loop | 2004 | |
| Folly & Error | DVD | 10:07 loop | 2004 | |
| DJ Spooky vs WebSpinstress M | DVD | 2:45 min. | 2002 | |
| I Hate You | DVD | 3 min. | 2002 | |
| Jump | DVD | 1:45 min. | 2002 | |
| pt.2.pt | DVD | 2 min. | 2001 | |
| La Suture | DVD | 10 min. | 2000 | |
| I.C.U. | DVD | loop | 2000 | |
| Aliendreamcord | DVD | loop | 2000 | |
| Candyland | DVD | 6 min. | 2000 | |
| Blowjob | DVD | loop | 2000 | |
| Ponygal | DVD | loop | 2000 | |
| BloodSisters | DVD | 75 min. | 1996 | |
| Hope | Beta | 5 min. 1994 | ||
| A History of Pain | Beta | 45 min. | 1992 | |
| Homophobia is | ||||
| Known to Cause Nightmares | 16mm optical sound | 9 min. | 1991 | |
| Catscan | Super 8mm sound | 7 min. | 1989 | |
| Sexual Techniques In The Age of | ||||
| Mechanical Reproduction | 16mm optical sound | 13 min. | 1989 | |
| Appeared in: | ||
| Twists in the Cord | ZDF/Arte film directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson | 1994 |
| Virtual Love | ZDF/Arte film directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson | 1993 |
| Cut Piece | ZDF/Arte film directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson | 1993 |