C.V.
Education
Post Masters, 1996-97, Multi-Media Digital Studies, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
M.A., 1975, Film, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
M.A., 1963, English Literature, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
B.A., 1961, Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Permanent Collections
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
Australia National Film Library, Sydney, Australia
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Donnell Public Library, New York, NY
Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The National Film Archive, Brussels, Belgium
Nederland Film Archive, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Taiwan National Film Library, Taipei, Taiwan
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Retrospectives
2020 La Virreina Centre de la Imatge
2019 “Barbara Hammer: In This Body,” Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University
2019 Color Me Barbara, Retrospective at NewsFest, NY
2019 Museum of the Moving Image
2018 Austrian Film Museum, Vienna
2017 Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City
2015 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
2013 Kunsthall Oslo, Norway
2013 Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2012 Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
2012 The Tate Modern Museum, London, England
2010 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2009 XII Muestra Internacional de Cine Realizado por Mujeres, Zaragosa, Spain
2008 Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
2007 Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 Turin International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Italy
2005 Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Mar del Plata, Argentina
2004 Irish Film Centre, Dublin, Ireland
2003 Australia Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Seoul Art Cinema, Korea
2002 Women Make Waves Film/Video Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2000 Women Make Waves Film/Video Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
1998 Immaginaria, 6th Women’s Film Festival, Bologna, Italy
1997 yyz Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1994 Out in South Africa Film Festival, Johannesburg/Capetown, South Africa
1993 Film Forum, Director’s Guild of America, LA, CA
1993 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE
1992 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln
1991 Retrospective: Film Forum, Directors Guild of American, Los Angeles
1986 Panorama, The Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
1985 Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Career Awards and Honors
2018 Stan Brakhage Vision Award, Denver Film Society
2018 Temple University Films and Media Arts Tribute Award, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Selected Master Filmmaker, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Claremont, CA
2018 Resisting Paradise, Best Documentary, Memphis Film and Video Festival, Memphis, TN
2018 Resisting Paradise, Aesthetic Art Award, Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo, Italy
2018 Resisting Paradise, Southern Circuit Tour (screenings in 7 southern cities)
2012 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts, Trinity College
2011 The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
2011 The Publishing Triangle Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Memoir Writing
2008 LEO Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film, Flaherty Seminars, Leo Dratfield Endowment and International Film Seminars
2007 Platinum Tribute, Outfest
2006 Shirley Clarke Avant-Garde Film Award, St. Louis International Film Festival, NYWFT
2005 Fulbright Senior Specialist, Academy of Fine Arts and Design Batislava, Slovakia
2005 Selected Master Filmmaker, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Claremont, CA
2004 Resisting Paradise, Southern Circuit Travel Award
2003 History Lessons, Documentary Award, Athens International Film/Video Festival
2003 Resisting Paradise, Close-up: Visionaries of Modern Cinema Award, Frameline
2003 Peace Prize, 1st Global Peace Film Festival
2003 Tribute, U.S.A. Film Festival
2001 Career Honor from Mayor of Philadelphia, International Gay-Lesbian Film Festival
2000 Frameline Award, Career Honor, Frameline International Film Festival
2000 Devotion, Jurors’ Merit Award, Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival
1998 Tender Fictions, Awarded Best Documentary Cash Prize, Immaginaria Festival
1997 Tender Fictions, Documentary Competition, Yamagata International Doc Film Festival
1996 Tender Fictions, Director’s Choice, Charlotte Film Festival
1996 Documentary Competition, Sundance Film Festival
1996 The Forum, Berlin International Film Festival
1996 Isabel Liddell Art Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
1995 Cineprobe, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1994 Nitrate Kisses, Audience Award for Best Documentary, International Festival of Women Directors
1993 Polar Bear Award for Lifetime Contribution to Lesbian/Gay Cinema, Berlin International Film Festival
1993 Cineprobe, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1992 Vital Signs, Excellence Award, California State Fair
1992 Best Experimental Film, Utah Film Festival
1992 Juror’s Award, Black Maria Film Festival
1992 Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Video Award
1991 The John D. Phelan Award in Video
1991 Sanctus, Special Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
1991 Second Prize, Experimental Film, Baltimore Film Festival
1991 Endangered, First Prize, Atlanta Film Festival
1991 First Prize, Black Maria Film Festival
1991 First Prize, Buck’s County Film Festival
1991 The Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial
1991 Cineprobe, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1989 The Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial
1988 Endangered & Optic Nerve
1988 The John D. Phelan Award in Film
1988 Place Mattes, First Prize Animation, Marin Country Film Festival
1987 No No Nooky T.V., Second Prize, Ann Arbor Film Festival
1987 First Prize, Humboldt Film Festival
1986 Optic Nerve, First Prize, Ann Arbor Film Festival
1986 First Prize, Onion City Film Festival
1985 Optic Nerve, Cineprobe, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1985 The Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial
Fellowships
2012-13 Guggenheim Fellowship
2011 Fleck Fellow at The Banff Centre for the Arts
2001-02 The Bunting Institute/The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
2003 NYSCA Film Production
2001 Camargo Foundation Fellowship
2001 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow Award in Film
2001 NYSCA on the Arts Film Production
1999 Camargo Foundation Fellowship
1998 Japan Foundation Fellowship
1997 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow Award in Film/Video
1994 Artist Residence, Sound Studio, The Lab, SF, CA.
1994 Artist Residence, Digital Sound Studio, Harvestworks, New York, NY
1994 Astrea Grant for Video Production
1992 The National Endowment for the Arts Film Production
1992 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Film/Video
1992 NYSCA Film Production
1992 The Western Media Regional Fellowship in Film Production
1988 The Western Media Regional Fellowship in Film Production
Residencies
2014 The Studios of Key West, Florida
2013 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Residency, Brooklyn
2010 IASPIS Artist Residency, Gothenburg, Sweden
2008 Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming
2005 Artist-in-Residence, Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, New York
2001 The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy
1999 The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France
1999 Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
1998 C-Scape Dune Shack, Provincetown, MA
1998 Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
1997 Headlands Center on the Arts, Sausalito, CA
1994 C-Scape Dune Shack, Provincetown, MA
1994 Digital Sound Studio, Harvestworks, NYC
1994 The Djerassi Foundation, Santa Cruz, CA
1994 Konstfack University of Art Craft and Design, Stockholm, Sweden
1994 The LAB, San Francisco, CA
1993 Digital Independence Residence, The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Film and Video Awards
2011 Generations & Maya Deren’s Sink
2011 Teddy Award for Best Short Film, Berlinale
2009 A Horse Is Not A Metaphor
2009 Juror Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
2009 Juror Award, Black Maria Film Festival
2009 Teddy Award for Best Short Film, A Horse Is Not A Metaphor, Berlinale
2003 Resisting Paradise, Best Documentary, Crossroads Film Festival
2003 First Prize, Global Peace Film Festival
2001 History Lessons, Documentary Award, Athens International Film Festival
2000 Devotion, Merit Award, Taiwan International Film Festival
1998 Tender Fictions, Best Documentary, Immaginaria Film Festival
1996 Tender Fictions, Isabel Liddel Art Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
1994 Nitrate Kisses, Audience Award for Best Documentary, International Women Directors
1992 Vital Signs, Award for Excellence, California Works
1992 Best Experimental Film, Utah Film Festival
1992 Best Video, Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art
1992 Juror Award, Black Maria Film Festival
1991 Sanctus
1991 Second Prize in Experimental Film, Baltimore Film Festival
1991 Special Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
1989 Endangered
1989 First Prize, Black Maria Film Festival
1989 Second Prize, Buck’s County Film Festival
1988 Place Mattes
1988 First Prize Animation, Marin County Film Festival
1987 No No Nooky T.V.
1987 First Prize, Humboldt Film Festival
1987 Second Prize, Ann Arbor Film Festival
1986 Optic Nerve
1986 First Prize, Ann Arbor Film Festival
1986 First Prize, Onion City Film Festival
Film and Video Grants
2013 Welcome to This House, Guggenheim Fellowship
2011 Maya Deren’s Sink, NYSCA Post-production Grant
2008 A Horse Is Not A Metaphor, Dream Wish Team, MSK Hospital, NYC
2008 Frameline Completion Grant, NYSCA Production Grant
2007 Diving Women of Jeju-Do, NYSCA Post Production Grant
2007 Women’s Film Festival: Seoul, Korea
2007 Bent Time, New York Women in Film and Television Restoration Grant
2005 Lover Other: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, NYSCA Film Production Grant
2005 Women In Film Production Grant, Los Angeles
2005 Wexner Center for the Arts Program Finishing Grant
2005 Finishing Funds, The Hugh M. Hefner Foundation
2001 Resisting Paradise, Creative Capitol Foundation Film Production Grant
2001 NYSCA Film Production Grant
2001 My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities, NYSCA Film Distribution Grant
2001 Soros Foundation Grant
2000 The Japan Foundation & Artist Fellowship N.Y. State Council on the Arts Film Prod.
1999 Art Matters Grant in Film Production & Arts Link Travel Grant to Ukraine
1998 Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions, Japan Foundation Grant
1998 Tokyo Women’s’ Foundation Film Production Grant
1998 Soros Foundation Documentary Grant
1998 Wexner Center for the Arts Program Finishing Grant
1997 My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
1997 Art Matters Film Production Grant
1997 Artlinks Travel Grant to Ukraine
1997 Japan Foundation Research Grant
1997 NYSCA on the Arts Video Production Grant
1997 Women in Film Finishing Fund Grant
1994 Out in South Africa, Astraea Grant for Video Production
1992 Tender Fictions, The American Film Institute Film Production Grant
1992 Astraea Center Finishing Fund
1992 Film Arts Foundation Film Production Grant
1992 The Jerome Foundation Film Production Grant
1992 King County Arts Commission Film Finishing
1990 Nitrate Kisses, Experimental Television Center Finishing Fund
1990 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow Award in Film
1990 Film Arts Foundation Film Production Grant
1990 NYSCA on the Arts Film Production Grant
1990 The National Endowment for the Arts Film Production Grant
1990 The Western Media Regional Fellowship in Film Production Grant
1988 Endangered, King County Arts Commission Film Finishing Fund
1988 Do You Want to Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape
1988 The Metropolitan Transit Authority Award for Art in the Subway
1982 Pond and Waterfall
1982 The Jerome Foundation Film Production Grant
Selected Feature Essay & Personal Documentaries
2003 Resisting Paradise, Sundance Channel
2000 History Lessons premiered The Frameline Film Festival, San Francisco
2000 Devotion, A Fim about Ogawa Productions, premiered Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival
2000 My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities, Sundance Channel
1995 Tender Fictions, premiered Sundance & Forum, Berlinale
1992 Nitrate Kisses, premiered Sundance & Toronto Film Festival
Installations
1999 Eight in Eight: Women’s’ Studies Department, SUNY Oneonta
1999 Dallas Video Festival (3 Monitor Version)
1997 Eight in Eight: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
1997 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Fresno Art Museum
1997 Kiss and Tell: Headlands Center for the Arts
Selected Lectures
2015 “Canceled from Memory,” Pratt Institute for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2015 “Collages and Short Films from the Eighties,” KOW, Berlin, Germany
2015 Artist Talk, Akademin Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden
2014 “Canceled from Memory,” Cooper Union, NYC
2003 “Feminist Anti-War Art,” Feminism & Social Action, SUNY Women’s Studies Conference, New Paltz, NY
2001 “Truth and Lies: Auto/bio/graphy and Film,” Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2001 “Truth and Lies: Auto/bio/graphy and Film,” University of Ohio, Athens, Ohio
2000 “Autobiography and Film,” Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan
2000 “Autobiography and Film,” Tung-Hua University, Hua-Lien, Taiwan
2000 “Hidden Histories,” Keynote, Lesbian in the Visual Arts Conference, San Francisco, CA
2000 “Invisible Histories,” College Art Association, New York, NY
2000 “Intervening into Histories,” Swiss Institute, New York, NY
2000 “Resisting Paradise: The Conflicting Choices of Artists and Resistance Fighters in WW II, France,” Biography Seminar at the Humanities Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1998 “Shirley Temple and Me,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1998 “Q & A II”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA
1997 “Autobiography and Film”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1997 “The Pleasures and Perils of Confessional Art:” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1996 “Making Autobiographical Film,” Women’s Cinema Conference, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
1994 “Banned on Campus: Responding to Censorship in the Visual Arts,” The Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1994 “Difficult Subject Matter,” Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1994 “Transforming the Female Subject,” The Illustrated Woman, Conference on Feminist Activism and Art, Center for the Arts and Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
1994 “Technology, Legacy of Modernism in a Post-Modern Age,” 15th Annual Sculpture Conference, San Francisco, CA
1993 “Developing Personal Imagery,” Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1993 “Experimentation in Film and Video in a Decade of Pragmatism,” National Association of Media Alliance Conference, Chicago, IL
1992 “Gay Filmmaking: Taking Back the screens,” The Independent Feature Market, Angelika Film Center, New York, NY
1991 “Marie Menken,” Universitat Zurich, Switzerland “Identity Politics and the Camcorder,” Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1991 “Women’s Contribution to Independent Film,” University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Selected Publications
2014 “Projection Pleasures,” July 2014
2009 “Millennium Survey: Barbara Hammer.” Millennium Film Journal No. 51 (Spring/Summer 2009)
2008 “Shaking the Archive.” March 2008
2000 “Maya Deren and Me,” Maya Deren: Radical Transformations (University of California Press: 2000)
1998 “Twentieth Anniversary: Creteil Film Festival,” The Independent (August 1998)
1994 “Middle-Aged and Still Going Strong,” Ages of the Avant-Garde: Performing Arts Journal (January 1994)
1993 “Diary: June 10, 1993,” One Day in the Life of World Cinema (Hamlyn: London, 1994)
1990 “Risk-taking as Alternative Living/Art-Making: Or Why I Moved to the Big City,” Millennium Film Journal (Winter/Spring 1989-90)
1988 “The Function of Art in Culture Today,” High Performance (Spring/Summer 1988)
1984 “The Artist as Teacher: Problems and Experiments,” Journal of Education, Boston University, vol. 166 (July 1984)
1983 “Creative Teaching Spaces: Home Movies,” Learning Our Way, Essays in Feminist Education (The Crossing Press, 1983)
1980 “Sara Kathryn Arledge,” Cinemanews, San Francisco, no. 6/1 (1980-81)
1979 “Use of Time in Women’s Cinema,’ Heresies (Fall 1979)
Teaching
2004-2018 European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland
1999-00 The New School for Social Research, NYC (part-time)
1999-00 New York University School of Continuing and Professional Education, NYC
Fall 1998 Visiting Artist, Film/Video Department, University of Ohio, Toledo, OH
June 1998 Faculty, Applied Filmmaking, Continuing Ed., New York University, NYC
1996-97 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (full-time)
1996-97 Spring 1996 School for Visual Arts, NYC (part-time)
Fall 1995 Mentor, The Artist Mentor Project, Film/Video Arts, NYC
Fall 1995 Video Production Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
Spring 1995 The New School for Social Research, NYC (part-time)
Fall 1994 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (part-time)
1993-94 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (part-time)
1992-93 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (full-time)
Spring 1993 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (part-time)
1991-92 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (part-time)
1991-92 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (part-time)
1988-89 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (full-time)
1988-89 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA (part-time)
1986-88 The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington (full-time)
1985-86 Columbia College, Chicago, IL (full-time)
1985-86 State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY (full-time)