Biography

SUZIE SILVER is an artist working primarily in video and performance. Her works have screened at the New Museum and Whitney Museum in New York; the Worldwide Video Festival in The Hague; Documenta IX Video Festival, Kassel; the London Film Festival; The Moscow Film Festival, gay and lesbian film and video festivals in Austin, Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, and Tel Aviv; and dozens of other venues worldwide.

Silver received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently she is Associate Professor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. She has been a recipient of the 1996 James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, as well as awards from the Jerome Foundation and the Lyn Blumenthal Fund for Independent Video, among others.

In recent years, Silver’s work has been based on her fascinations with gender, sexuality, and visual pleasure; blurring genres of video and performance art with mass media forms. Currently, her interests carry her long-standing engagement with popular culture and spectacular beauty of all kinds into projects exploring fantasy, notions of the paradisical, and the allure of imaginary landscapes. Since spring 2003, she has developed an ongoing collaboration with sculptor Hilary Harp.


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EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts/Video, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), 1988

Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts/Studio, University of California, San Diego, 1984

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2005

Pittsburgh Biennial – Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA (group exhibition)

The Happiest Day – Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery, PA (two person exhibition)

18th Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Stuttgart, Germany

The Fake Snow Show – Magic Lantern, Providence, RI

Entermultimediale 2: International Festival of New Media Art – Prague, CZ

The Environmental Art Fair – Erie Art Museum, PA (group exhibition)

Arcipelago: 13th International Festival of Short Films and New Images – Rome, Italy

scopeNewYork – Bucheon Gallery featured artist, Flatotel, New York City

The New Beasts – private party and group art exhbition, Ballroom, Chelsea Hotel, New York City

Film Kitchen – Pittsburgh Filmmakers, PA

2004

PLAY III - International Video Art Festival – Museo de Arte Αngel M. De Rosa – Junμn, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Angle: The First International Short Film and Video Festival – Xiamen, China

Biennale Internazionale di Ferrara – Castello Estense, Ferrara, Italy

American Scam – Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico

Cyberdeco: A Screening Adventure – Piccadilly Cinema Complex, Perth, Australia

Megahan Gallery – Allegheny College, Meadville, PA

Objects in /and Visual Culture – Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, State College, PA

Hilary Harp, Suzie Silver, David Raffin – Mason Proctor Williams Art Institute, School of Art Gallery, Utica, NY

Eyewash@Parkers Box presents New American Story Art - performance & video program, Brooklyn, NY

la femme dans la creation electronique – Arminius Upstairs, Rotterdam, NL

Media Frames - Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI

We'll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning – Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX

2003

Pittsburgh Biennial – Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

25hrs International Video Art Show – Polisportiu El Raval, Barcelona

Media Room – ARC Gallery, Chicago

6 Booths in 7 Weeks – Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana

Supervalitragilisticexelluminaceous! – Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon, PA

2002

Museu D’Art Contemporani – Barcelona

Mikrokino Festival – Belgrade, Yugoslavia

6th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film & Video Festival, Tempe, AZ and Santa Barbara, CA

2001

Moscow International Film Festival – Russia

Festival of Actual Kino – Novosibirsk Actor’s House, Siberia

Art-Performance-Technology in collaboration with the International Sculpture Conference and commissioned by APT - Untitled No. 2: A Haralez Project in collaboration with Elizabeth Monoian, a series of public performances, projections and audio interventions, Pittsburgh

Big Mama Cinefest – Atlanta

Undershorts Film Festival - Chicago

2000

MicroCineFest - Baltimore

Video Gender Now - Console-ing Passions: Feminism, Television, Video Conference, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana

VIDEOKONK1004 – Video Lounge, The Knitting Factory, NYC

Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Spain, purchase for permanent collection

1999

Light Motion Sound: Cinema NOW Film Festival - San Diego

Women in the Director’s Chair – Chicago

OutTakes 99 - Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland, New Zealand (touring)

1998

Nuts and Bolts Show - Aurora Picture Show, Houston

Festival de Video de Navarra - Spain

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

MIX Brasil Festival of Sexual Diversity - Curitiba, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro (touring)

The New Festival: The 10th Anniversary New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival – The Public Theater, NYC

Dykeye Queer & Feminist Video Festival - Stockholm, Sweden

1997

Time Arts Chicago/Art in Chicago: 1945-1995 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Luces, c·mera, acciÛn (...) °Corten! (videoacciÛn: el cuerpo y sus fronteras) - IVAM Centre Julio Gonz·lez, Valencia, Spain

Sexual Visionaries 2 – Musee Royal de Marimont, Belgium

1996

La Centrale Gallery - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sala Amarica, Vitoria, Spain

Zentrum fur Kunstlerische Bildmedien, Germany

VideoUS Scenen - Folluturcentrum Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden

Lesbian Genders - Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

Festival De Andere Sinema - Antwerp, Belgium

Festival Lesbica - Bologna, Italy

1995

Light & Shadow Repairs: Recent Film and Video Art - NY Soho Biennal ‘95, Eighth Floor, NYC

Sexual Visionaries, Konst/Stockholm, Sweden

Gotham Girls, Winnipeg Women’s International Film & Video Festival - Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada

Youth Culture Killed My Dog (But I Really Don’t Mind) - TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago

New York Underground Film Festival - Anthology Film Archives, NYC

1994

Worldwide Video Festival - Den Haag, The Netherlands

New Festival: ‘94 New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival - The Public Theater, NYC

International Lesbian and Gay Film/Video Festival, San Francisco

Trans-X: Eine filmische Identity Tour - Filmcasino, Vienna and Moviemento, Linz, Austria

Beyond Desire: New Lesbian & Gay Performance & Film Series – Diverseworks Artspace, Houston

25 Years of Exposure - part of Gay Games Cultural Festival, Anthology Film Archives, NYC

Bad Girls - New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC

La Saison Video – Mons en Baroeul, France

Illinois Traveling Showcase - six-city statewide tour, IL

More Art for More People: C.A.G.E. Turns 15 - C.A.G.E., Cincinnati

Pixel Junkies - British Film Institute, London, England

Bad Girls – L’Aeronef, Lille, France

Det Dansk – Copenhagen, Denmark

Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – Tel Aviv, Israel

Monitor 94 – Frolunda, Sweden

Image Rock – Bilbao, Spain

Patronato Municipal de Culture– San Sebastian, Spain

18th Annual San Francisco International Film/Video Festival – CA

London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – England

1993

Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art - Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

International Videofest - Medianoperative, Berlin, Germany

World Wide Video Festival - Den Haag, The Netherlands

9th Festival Internacional de Cine Realizado por Mujeres - Spain

35th Festival Internacional de Cine de Bilbao - Spain

Bad Girls West - UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles

Bad Girls: An Institute of Contemporary Art Video Tour, London. England

Undressing/Crossdressing - Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema – Philadelphia

18th Festival of Illinois Film and Video Artists - Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago

Illegal Love Bites - National Film Theatre, London, England

International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival - Los Angeles

Melbourne Queer Film and Video Festival - South Yarra, Australia

Adelaide Gay & Lesbian Film Festival – New Zealand

Diffusions – Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Videopositive – Liverpool, England

1992

Documenta IX Video Festival - Kassel, Germany

Performance Video Series - Facets Multimedia, Chicago

International Lesbian and Gay Film/Video Festivals - San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hong Kong,

Maine, Montreal, Austin, Chicago and Atlanta

Australian International Video Festival - Glebe, Australia

European Media Arts Festival and Touring Program – Osnabruck, Germany

Videonale - Bonn, Germany

What You Lookin’ At, Gallery 2, SAIC, Chicago

London Film Festival - London, England

The Body - Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany

Video Art After Video Art - Goethe Institute Gallery of Japan, Tokyo

Cinema Psychedelia - Film in the Cities, Minneapolis

About Sex-180 degrees of Gay & Lesbian Video - VideoInn, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Music/Performance – Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain

Dallas Video Festival – TX

1990

Melbourne Lesbian Film & Video Festival - Melbourne, Australia

Me and Rubyfruit: Experimental Lesbian Video - Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee

Institute of Contemporary Art – Boston, MA

1989

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival - National Film Theater, England

How Do I Look? - Queer Video/Film Festival, NYC

Women in the Director’s Chair - Facets Multimedia, Chicago

1988

Offensive Video Kunst - Theatre Fletch Bissel, Dortmund, Germany

International Lesbian and Gay Film/Video Festivals - Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco

1987

Choices: The California Connection - The Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

AFI National Video Festival, American Film Institute, Los Angeles

1986

Homo Video: Where We Are Now (Recent Videotapes by Gay Men and Lesbians) - New Museum, NYC

Women Make Videos - The Women’s Building, Los Angeles

SELECTED AWARDS

2004

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship

Experimental Television Center Residency – Oswego, New York

2001

Berkman Faculty Development Fund - Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

2000

Raymond J. Wean Career Development Professor – three year appointment, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

1996

James D. Phelan Art Award in Video – San Francisco

The Jerome Foundation: New York City Film and Video Program – Production Grant for The Look of Love: A Gothic Romance, NYC

Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund For Independent Video - Production Grant for The Look of Love: A Gothic Romance, NYC