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LEWIS KLAHR
Born 1956. Lives in Los Angeles
Faculty member, CalArts School of Theatre
Awards and Prizes
2013 Stan Brakhage Vision Award
2009 The Wexner Center Residency Award
2007 COLA (City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant)
1999 Creative Capital
1998 Jerome Foundation
1992 Guggenheim Fellowship
1995 National Endowment for the Arts
1994 The National Society of Films Critics awarded The Pharaoh's Belt a special citation for experimental work for 1994
National Endowment for the Arts
1995 N.Y. State Council on the Arts
1996 Jerome Foundation
1993 N.Y. State Council on the Arts
1989 N.Y. State Council on the Arts
1988 N.Y. Foundation of the Arts
1986 N.Y. State Council on the Arts
1984 Creative Artists Public Services
Solo exhibitions and Screenings (selected)
2022
False Aging, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, USA
2020
Circumstantial Pleasures, Light Industry, New York, USA
Circumstantial Pleasures, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Circumstantial Pleasures, London International Animation Festival, UK
Circumstantial Pleasures, Ottawa International Animation Festival, CAN
Circumstantial Pleasures, Festival ECRA, Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2019
Circumstantial Pleasures, Regent Street Cinema, London, UK
2018
Ghosts of a Different Dream: The Films of Lewis Klahr, Ottawa International Animation Festival, CAN
10,000 Shards of Bliss (the rhythm that forgets itself), Big Ears Festival at Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, USA
2017
Sixty Six, North West Film Centre, Portland, USA
Sixty Six, University of Chicago, USA
Sixty Six, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Sixty Six, SUNY, Binghamton, USA
Sixty Six, Amherst College, Amherst, USA
Sixty Six, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, USA
Sixty Six, Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus Ohio
2016
Zurich Film Festival, Zurich, CH
Circumstantial Pleasures. Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, CH
New Zealand International Film Festival, NZ
North West Film Forum, Seattle, USA
Sixty Six, Tate Modern, London, UK
Edinburgh International Film Festival, SCO
Sixty Six, Singapore International Festival of the Arts, Singapore
Sixty Six, Toronto Premiere, Organized by Cinema Scope Publishing, CAN
Sixty Six: Lewis Klahr, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA
Jeonju International Film Festival, KOR
Sixty Six, Essential Independents: American Cinema Now!, City Tour of Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra and Brisbane, AUD
Sixty Six, 59th San Francisco International Film Festival, USA
International Film Festival Rotterdam, NLD
Goteborg Film Festival, SWE
Lewis Klahr, Sixty Six, Redcat, Los Angeles, USA
Berlin Critic's Week, Berlin, DE
Hong Kong International Film Festival, HGK
2015
Sixty Six, World Premiere, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2014
Kiss The Rain, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, USA
66, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
Mars Garden and Erigone's Daughter, BFI London Film Festival, UK
New York Film Festival, USA
Downtown Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
Sixty Six, Berlin International Film Festival, DE
Montreal Film Festival, CAN
New York Film Festival, USA
Toronto Film Festival (3x) Millennium (4x) including 20-year anniversary retrospective, CAN
The London Film Festival, UK
Hong Kong International Film Festival, HGK
2013
Museum of the Moving Image Astoria Queens 2 programs recent digital work, New York, USA
2012
S8 Festival La Coruña, ESP
London Film Festival, UK
Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, CAN
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
The Surreal Screen: Spotlight on Lewis Klahr, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
2010
London Film Festival
Visiting Filmmakers, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio ,USA
2009
The Walking Picture Palace, Carnegie Museum Pittsburgh, USA
2006
Film Center U Colorado at Boulder, USA
The Whitney Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art, USA
2004
The New York Film Festival Views from the Avant-garde, USA
Flaherty Film Seminar, New York, USA
2001
Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, CAN
2000
L.A. Film Forum, USA
Century, The Whitney Museum of American Art (16 films included), USA
Film Center U Colorado at Boulder, USA
1998
10/91, 2 show retrospective of 16mm films, Donnel Library, New York, USA
Chicago Filmmakers, USA
Museum of Fine Art Boston, USA
Rotterdam film Festival, NLD
S.F.International Film Festival, USA
S.F. Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and touring program, USA
Impakt, European Media Arts Festival and touring program, Utrecht, NLD
Vancouver Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, CAN
Milwaukee Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, USA
London Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, UK
Rotterdam Film Festival, NLD
San Francisco International Film Festival, USA
A.T.A. SF, USA
Pirate Gallery, Denver, USA
1997
Film Society Massachusetts College of Art, USA
Calendar the Siamese 16mm 30min, premiered in the 1997 NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS Venice Film Festival, USA
NY Film Festival Avant Garde Sidebar; Hamptons International Festival; Lesbian & Gay Mix Festival NYC, USAA
1996
Pacific Film Archive, USA
Lulu 16mm 3min, Long Island Film Festival, USA
New York Film Festival & Hamptons International Film Festival, USA
1995
The Whitney Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art, USA
Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, USA
Altair 16mm 8min, voted best cutout animation, NY Film Festival, USA
1994
Film Society Massachusetts College of Art, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cineprobe, USA
Rotterdam Film Festival, NLD
1992
Pacific Film Archive, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cineprobe, USA
1991
Cepa Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Best Animation Atlanta Film & Video Festival, USA
1990
Film Society Massachusetts College of Art, USA
L.A. Film Forum, Los Angeles, USA
Best Animation Atlanta Film & Video Festival, USA
1990
Film Society Massachusetts College of Art, USA
L.A. Film Forum, USA
Film Society Massachusetts College of Art, USA
L.A. Film Foru, USA
Service prize, S.F. Art Institute Film Festival. USA
1989
Pacific Film Archive, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cineprobe, USA
Honorable Mention Black Maria Film Festival, USA
1988
Brussels Festival of Super 8 & Video, BEL
Collective for Living Cinema, USA
Hallwalls Gallery, Buffallo, USA
First Prize Buck's County Film Festival, USA
Second Prize 1987 Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, USA
Service Prize 1988 S.F, Art Institute Film Festival, Pulls S-8 5min, USA
10 Year Retrospective of the American Avant Garde Film, Astoria Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA
L.A. Film Forum, USA
S.F. Cinematheque, USA
Group exhibitions and Screenings (selected)
2023
Thrill Me. Power & Magic of Music. Image and Sound in Contemporary Video Art, Zurich, Basel, Lucerne, CH
2022
London Film Festival, London, UK
Academy Museum of the Motion Picture, Los Angeles, USA
2020
5 Artists 5 Walls, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, CH
2018
David Rosenboom and Lewis Klahr: Battle Hymn for Insurgent Arts, Redcat, Los Angeles, USA
2014
Alter Heroes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sao Paulo BRA
Opium Den, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA
Exit Art, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, USA
Old & New Masters of Super 8, Performance Space 122, New York City, USA
Conspiracies, SUNY at Purchase, USA
The Knitting Factory, U of Wisconsin at Madison Film Center, USA
Helen of T, Indielisboa, Lisbon, PRT
2010
The Geneva Window, The Lab, Dublin, IRL
1999
Elsa Kirk, MoMa, USA
1998-2001
History of 8mm film, Museum Of Modern Art, New York, USA
1994
Slacker Attitude, European Tour
1989
Toronto International Experimental Film Congress
1988
Tour of 5 German Cities
1979-90
Collective for Living Cinema (9x 1979-90)
Awards and Scholarships
2013
Stan Brakhage Vision Award
2009
The Wexner Center Residency Award
2007
COLA (City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant)
1999
Creative Capital
1998
Jerome Foundation
1992
Guggenheim Fellowship
1995
National Endowment for the Arts
1994
The national society of film critics: awarded for The Pharaoh's Belt
1993
N.Y. State Council on the Arts
1989
N.Y. State Council on the Arts
1988
N.Y. Foundation of the Arts
1986
N.Y. State Council on the Arts
1984
Creative Artists Public Services
Public Collections and Foundations
Her Fragrant Emulsion N.Y.'s Museum of Modern Art and the Donnell Library
MOMA, Pony Glass, Calendar the Siamese & Altair
The Donnell Library Engram Sepals, The Aperture of Ghostings Trilogy, The Two Minutes to Zero Trilogy,
Daylight Moon (A Quartet), The Pharaoh's Belt, Pony Glass, Lulu, Calendar the Siamese and Altair
The Pharaoh's Belt, University of Chicago and the Massachusetts College of Art
Tales of the Forgotten Future videotape collections of the Donnell Library, Oberlin College, the University of Virginia and the Massachusetts College of Art
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