Sally Grizzell Larson is an independent visual artist. Screenings of her video works include NewFilmmakers NY, Anthology Film Archives; Berlin International Directors Lounge; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid; FILE (Electronic Language International Festival), São Paulo; Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Encuentro, Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the Americas; the Berkeley Video and Film Festival, where “Certain Women” was awarded Best of Festival–Experimental; and the Toronto Urban Film Festival, where “Axiom” was awarded Best in Category: The Medium is the Message.
Her photographic work has been exhibited at the National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Brooklyn Museum; Goldsmiths, University of London, and elsewhere.
BORN
Atlanta, Georgia
EDUCATION
MFA, Photography, Maryland Institute College of Art
EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
2020
2020 Film and Video Poetry Symposium, Film and Video Poetry Society, Los Angeles
2019
Hot STEAM II: A Science/Video/Art Film Screening, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA
2018
Making Space: Leeway @ 25, Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia
2017
Denial as the Leading Principle, Cinema The Movies Dordrecht, Dordrecht, NL
Antiparos Festival, Cine Oliaros, Antiparos, Greece. Screening of award winners of the Mykonos Biennale
2016
VideoBardo, International Videopoetry Festival (VI), Buenos Aires
Out of Bounds Film Festival, Molfetta, Italy
Award Finalist
Jornadas de Reapropiación, Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City
Auckland Underground Film Festival
Stockholm Animation and Experimental Film Festival
Miami Independent Film Festival
Braga International Video Dance Festival, Portugal
2015
Mykonos Biennale 2015, Greece
Awarded Golden Pelican
Underground FilmFest, Munich
25 Jahre Künstlerhaus am Acker, 18 Ackerstrasse/Galerie, Berlin-Mitte
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
2014
Jornadas de Reapropiación, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
Pop Up Kino International Video Art Festival #3, PPC Gallery Space in Berlin and La Neomudéjar in Madrid
Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
International Short Film Festival Hamburg, Germany
A-EYE: An Exhibition of Art and Nature-Inspired Computation, Goldsmiths, University of London; catalogue pub.
Fincortex – Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Experimentales, Colombia
Museo de Almería, Almería, Spain, International Experimental Video-Art Festival
Outcasting: Fourth Wall Festival, V2.0, Cardiff, Wales
FESTIVAL NAA, Barcelos, Portugal
Her Point of View Film Festival, Nashville
Seen & Heard Festival: Celebrating Women in Film, Sydney, Australia
2013
Women Media Arts and Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
Timecode: NOLA Indie Film Fest, New Orleans
ParkArtMagazine and t • Avenida, Edificio AXA, Multimedia Showcase .3, Porto, Portugal
Columbus International Film and Video Festival, Ohio
Portas Abertas, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal, curated by Claudia Giannetti
Utopia Distributed, White Project Galerie, Paris, curated by Milan Atanaskovic
6000 Posters for Giants and Dwarfs, Rhubaba Gallery, Edinburgh, curated by Alex Hetherington, Modern Edinburgh Film School
FILMIDEO, Index Gallery, Newark, NJ
Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, USB-Shuffle
StreetVideoArt, Sceaux (Paris), Art Channel, oart.tv
2012
MIAscreen, Pasadena, “Favorites from Another Experiment by Women Festival,” curated by Lili White
Kunstfilmtag, Language Is the House We Live In, Düsseldorf; catalogue pub.
Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Manchester, UK
Montreal Underground Film Festival
Athens Video*/Art Festival, Greece; catalogue pub.
CineMarfa 2012, Marfa, TX
Traverse Vidéo Festival, Faut Voir, Toulouse, France; catalogue pub.
25 Bilder/Sekunde, Mannheim, Germany, Encyclopedic Cartoons Video Project; curated by Joas-Sebastian Nebe
2011
International Streaming Festival {The Hague}, Sixth Edition
VideoBites [01], AAA, Berlin
Sazmanab Project, Tehran, Encyclopedic Cartoons Video Project; curated by Joas-Sebastian Nebe
Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Pulimentos del Norte, Bilbao, Spain; also, Bibat Museos, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Award Finalist
Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Municipio de Almirante Brown, Buenos Aires
XX.9.12 FABRIKArte, NEWSfromART, Collaterale Festival Internazionale 2011, IdeArte Galleria, Ferrara, Italy
Another Experiment by Women Film Festival, Millennium Film Workshop, New York
Galerija Galženica, Velika Gorica, Croatia, UFS – User Friendly Society; four-person exhibition with Société Réaliste, Paolo Cirio, and Kristian Kožul
Pixilerations [v.8], Providence, RI
One Minute Film and Video Festival, Aarau, Switzerland; catalogue published
Concrete Utopia, 58 Lispenard Street, Brooklyn, i am not a good enough feminist
Harvestworks Media Art Center, New York, End to End
VIDEOFORMES International Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Berlin International Directors Lounge, Art House Meinblau
Toronto Silent Film Festival
Lightworks 2011, Grimsby Minster, UK
International Festival Sarajevo, Winter Festival, Turkish Cultural Center; catalogue pub.
Queens World Film Festival, Jackson Heights Cinema, NY
VideoVaudeville2, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn
Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, University of Wisconsin Cinematheque; catalogue pub.
ArcheTime Film Festival, WIX Lounge, NY
New Century Artists Gallery, New York, Hidden Cities, in conjunction with the Women’s Caucus for Art; catalogue pub
2010
Big Screen Project, Future Selves, 6th Ave. bet. 29th and 30th Sts., New York
Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade; catalogue pub.
Miami Short Film Festival, Coral Gables Art Cinema; catalogue pub.
CINESONIKA, International Film/Video Festival of Innovative Sound Design, Surrey, Canada
IN OUT Festival, Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
Festival Les Instants Vidéo, École Supérieure d’Art, Aix-en-Provence, France; catalogue pub.
Espacio Enter Canarias 2010, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain
SIMULTAN #6, Past Continuous. Future Perfect, Timisoara, Romania
namaTRE.ba Project, Bosnia and Herzegovina
GIGUK 2010, VideoArt Festival, Gieβen, Germany; catalogue pub.
Williamsburg International Film Festival, Brooklyn
Tweak, Cinema 2010, Interaction Design Centre, Limerick, Ireland
UAMO Festival (Urban Art and Media Organisation), Consensus-Nonsense, Munich; cat. pub.
DA FEST, National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
Toronto Urban Film Festival
Awarded Best in Category – The Medium is the Message
Awarded Third Place in Festival by guest judge Deepa Mehta
11° FILE (Electronic Language International Festival), São Paulo; catalogue pub.
International Best of Short Films Festival, Eden Théâtre, La Ciotat, France; catalogue pub.
FAD – Festival de Arte Digital, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Zentrifuge Art Space, Nürnberg, Germany, Encyclopedic Cartoons Video Project
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, A History of . . .
Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
NewFilmmakers NY, Anthology Film Archives
{SONiK} Fest, Bronx Art Space, NY
San Antonio Film Festival, Instituto Cultural de Mexico; catalogue pub.
Australian International Experimental Film Festival, Melbourne
Time Film Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland
Athens Video Art Festival, Greece; catalogue pub.
El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM, Currents 2010
Transfera Videoart, Madatac Festival, Madrid
ArcheTime Film Festival, EFA Project Space, NY
New Media Gallery, Zadar, Croatia, She-Story; catalogue pub.
2009
Theatersall des Künstlerverein Malkastan, Düsseldorf, Kunstfilmtag, With a View to the Sound, catalogue pub.
Hemispheric Institute Encuentro, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (Tisch/NYU), Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the Americas, National Univ. of Colombia, Bogotá
Filmbase, Dublin, Fugitive Video Project
Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa, Electronics Alive V
2008
Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia, In Transition Russia; in conjunction with the conference “In Transition: Cultural Identity in an Age of Transnational and Transcultural Flux;” catalogue pub.; traveled to: National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Uncensored, “Media Tonic 3”
Filmmor International Women’s Film Festival, French Cultural Center, Istanbul; catalogue pub.; traveled to: Alkazar Cinema Hall, Istanbul
Museum of Modern Art, Toluca, Mexico, Emerging Forms of Computer Art: Making the Digital Sense; in conjunction with the Computer Art Congress [CAC.2]; book pub.
Open Space / Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Wien, Vienna, On Xenophobia Redux; presentation/ exhibition of xeno.no project archive, Oslo
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Digital Eyes: New Aesthetic Dimensions in Computer Visualization Technology
2007
National Museum of Women in the Arts’ Festival of Film & Media Arts, NMWA Theater, Wash., catalogue pub.
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Cinéma l’Entrepôt, Paris, 2006; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, in collaboration with the Comunidad de Madrid and the Cervantes Institute, 2007; and Cinéma Babylon Berlin, 2007; catalogue pub.
Apexart, New York, The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe
Matadero Madrid, La noche en blanco, Madrid
SIGGRAPH, Global Eyes, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, University of California, San Diego; catalogue pub.
“Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens,” Manhattan Public Access TV (Time Warner 34/RCN #83), Episode 8, 4 April
Camera Obscura, Lanfranchi Memorial, Sydney, Australia, New Video
2006
Berkeley Video and Film Festival, The Oaks Theater, Berkeley, CA; catalogue pub.
Awarded Best of Festival – Experimental
Image Forum Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Park Tower Hall, Tokyo; traveled to: Goethe-Institut, Kyoto
VIDEOFORMES International Multimedia and Video Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Dallas Video Festival, Angelika Film Center
Through Her Eyes, Women of Color Film Festival, Millennium Film Workshop, NY
Imaginaria Film Festival, Conversano, Italy
Izolenta 06 International Digital Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
International Short Film Festival Detmold, Detmold, Germany
Kupfer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Visualizing TRANS; in conjunction with the conference “TRANS: Visual Culture”
2005
NewFilmmakers NY, Anthology Film Archives
Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, Multiplex 2, curated by Rebecca Cleman and John Thomson in conjunction with Electronic Arts Intermix
Prog:ME – Rio de Janeiro Festival of Electronic Media, Centro Cultural Telemar; catalogue pub.
Mass Art Film Society, video:series Selections, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Goliath Visual Space, video:series, Brooklyn
Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, solo exhibition, Exotica, cat. pub.
Side Cinema, New Video, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Philadelphia Video Festival, International House
Impakt Festival, videoDictionary, Casco Gallery, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Institute for New Media, Frankfurt, Germany, Extremes
2004
Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Festival Mídia Tática; traveled to: Projecto Subsolo, Rio de Janeiro
Reel Venus Film Festival, Symphony Space, Thalia Theater, New York
La Isle Ulisses 2004-03, Teatro Odisséia, Rio de Janeiro
École Normale Supérieure, Concours de Sociologie Visuelle, Urbanities, Cachan, France
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, A Sense of Place, cat. pub.
Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, Recent Works
Berrie Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, Photography Reborn; book pub.
2003
Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig, Not Now!, curated by Maik Schlüter; catalogue pub.
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba, V Salon Internacional de Arte Digital
2002
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Color, Culture, Complexity; catalogue pub.
Exit Art, New York, Reactions; traveled to: Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
Quay School of Art Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand, First to See the Light
Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, Digital Art in Philadelphia
2001
Brooklyn Museum, Digital: Printmaking Now, catalogue pub.
Henry Street Settlement, Charles E. Culpeper Gallery, New York, solo exhibition, Flight
Mastel/Mastel Gallery, Brooklyn, Digital D.U.M.B.O.
2000
P60 Gallery, Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary, Chance Future
Center Gallery, University of Alabama, solo exhibition, Not Drowning, Just Waving
1999
Dance Theater Workshop Gallery, New York, solo exhibition, Reading the Echo
Visual Arts Museum, New York, New York Digital Salon, 1999; traveled to: Centro de Cultura, Málaga, Spain; Circulo des Bellas Artes, Madrid; Palacio de Santa Cruza at the Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain; Internacional Universidad de Santander, Santander, Spain; Imagina Festival, Monaco; The Picasso Foundation, Malaga, Spain
The Allen R. Hite Art Institute Gallery, University of Louisville, The Photographic Persona
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, Art and Technology
The Alternative Museum, New York, Digitally Reborn
1998
Tyler School of Art, solo exhibition, Emblems, Book I
Viridian Artists Inc., New York
1997
Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania Photographers 10
1996
Viridian Artists Inc., New York
Soho Photo Gallery, New York
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Three-Person Exhibition
Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX, Pulp Fictions
1995
Yale University Art Gallery, Reinventing the Emblem, catalogue pub.
SoHo20 Gallery, New York, Real Life
BIBLIOGRAPHY: BOOKS
2013
“Great Ode,” Sculpture and Editions, by Vasilisa Forbes, Great Ode Publications, London
2010
“Digital Art Revolution,” by Scott Ligon, Random House/Watson-Guptill
2009
“Photographic Possibilities,” by Robert Hirsch, Focal Press
2008
“Emerging Forms of Computer Art: Making the Digital Sense,” Computer Art Congress [CAC.2]. Proceedings of the International Congress, Toluca and Mexico City; ed. by Khaldoun Zreik and Everardo Reyes García, Europia Publications
2007
“Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age,” ed. by Robert Hirsch, Focal Press
2005
“Photography Reborn,” by Jonathan Lipkin, Abrams Press
“Writing the World: On Globalization,” ed. by David Rothenberg, Terra Nova Books, MIT Press
2004
“Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels,” edited by Robert Hirsch, pub. by McGraw-Hill and Laurence King; fourth edition
BIBLIOGRAPHY: PERIODICALS, OTHER
2014
LLEI d’ART, Lleida, Spain, “Bestiaries: The Exaltation of Vice and Virtue,” Issue 8, No. 12
2012
Kunsfilmtag 012, Düsseldorf, “Language Is the House We Live In,” Larson’s “No. 9” from “Not Drowning, Just Waving”
ITCH – A Journal of Creative Expression, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, Issue e.11, preText, “Manifestos”
The Hopkins Review, Johns Hopkins University Press, Vol. 5.4, fall 2012; “Flight: Seven Photographs” and front cover
2011
Vijenac, Zagreb, “Radically Reshaping the Existing,” by Toma Bačić. Review of the exhibition User Friendly Society, Galerija Galženica, Velika Gorica, Croatia; four-person exhibition: Société Réaliste, Paolo Cirio, Kristian Kožul, and Larson
Arte Globale, “NEWSfromART: contaminazioni dal mondo dell’arte”
NanoPress News, Milan, “NEWSfromART: contaminazioni dal mondo dell’arte”
Nictoglobe, “Reclaim the Mind,” Friction Research Issue #4
Valeveil, Stockholm, “Ouxpo,” Sally Grizzell Larson: Not Drowning, Just Waving
2010
Silent Volume, Toronto, “Axiom 2010,” review by Chris Edwards, Nov. 27, 2010
Monochrom, Vienna, “Sally Grizzell Larson’s No. 29,” Vol. #26-34, Ye Olde Self-Referentiality, ed. by Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry, Frank Apunkt Schneider, Anika Kronberger, Franz Ablinger, Evelyn Fürlinger, Roland Gratzer, and Harald List
2009
ITCH Magazine, Issue e.03, “$,” Bell-Roberts Publishing, London and Johannesburg
Art Digital Magazine, “Larson’s Lucid Hallucinations,” by Max Eternity
Drain – Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture, “Cold,” Vol. 6, No. 1
Third Coast Literary Journal, pub. by Western Michigan University, Issue 29, fall, front and back covers
2008
Xeno.no Project Archive, On Xenophobia Redux, Oslo
2007
New York Resident, 3 July 2007, “Death of Venice? Tribeca’s Democratic Biennial,” by Heather Corcoran
Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Arizona State University. “Domestic Frontiers,” a special issue addressing women’s lives in colonization Volume 28, Numbers 1 and 2
Daily Constitutional, Issue 5, Winter: “Delusions of Grandeur”
Computer Graphics World, Vol. 30, Issue 9, “Portfolio – Global Eyes,” by Karen Moltenbrey
2006
“Global Interiors,” a lecture series sponsored by the University of Wisconsin – Madison; three posters published as part of the event
2002
The William and Mary Review, The College of William and Mary, VA, Vol. 40
Feaster, Felicia. “Matters of Race.” Creative Loafing [Atlanta, GA] Vol. 31, No. 32
2001
Miralles, Carlos, “El Salon Digital de Nueva York se pone en marcha en Madrid.” El Mundo [Madrid, Spain] 11 March
1999
LEONARDO, MIT Press. Vol. 32, No. 5, Oct./Nov. New York Digital Salon
1995
Rethinking Marxism, Journal of Economics, Culture and Society, Univ. of Mass., Amherst, Vol. 8, Number 3
FILMOGRAPHY
THE ARIA, short, 2010
AXIOM, short, 2010 – Award winner
INCIDENTAL MELODIES, short, 2009-05
HISTORY, short, 2005
CERTAIN WOMEN, short, 2005-04 – Award winner
SCREENPLAYS
“A Line Drawn,” feature-length, 1992 – Award winner
COLLECTIONS
New York Public Library
National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Library of Congress, Washington
The VideoArtFoundation, Barcelona (funds provided by the Spanish Ministry of Culture)
Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA
Museum of Modern Art, Toluca, Mexico
Euro-Asia Investment Holding Company, Istanbul
Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta
“Best of Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens,” New York, DVD compilation
Private Collections in the United States, Europe, and Asia
GRANTS/AWARDS
2017, Golden Pelican Award, Mykonos Biennale, Greece
2011, Award Finalist, Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
2010, “Best in Category: The Medium is the Message,” Toronto Urban Film Festival
2010, “Third Place in Festival,” Toronto Urban Film Festival
2007, Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship in Photography
2006, “Best of Festival – Experimental,” Berkeley Video and Film Festival, Berkeley, CA
2004, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Special Opportunity Stipend in Visual Arts
2003, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Special Opportunity Stipend in Visual Arts
2001, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Fellowship in Photography
1999, The Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, Window of Opportunity Award
1999, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Special Opportunity Stipend in Media Art
1996, The Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, Grant in Photography
1994, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Fellowship in Screenwriting
1994, Art Matters Foundation, New York, Grant in Photography