Shelly SILVER

Profile

Final educational background:
Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program(1981)
BFA, Cornell University College of Art, Architecture & Planning (1980)
BA, Intellectual History, College Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, Cornell University(1980)

Recent 5 main activities (personal exhibitions, group exhibitions, concerts) are
-"A Strange New Beauty", solo screening, Arsenal Kino, Berlin, 2017
-"in complete world, What is Citizenship Today", solo screening, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2016
-"In Between, Shelly Silver Retrospective", solo, Cinéma du Réel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2015
-"Hommage, Shelly Silver", solo retrospective, DokLeipzig, Leipzig, 2014
-"Stories, Cities, Makeshift Structures", solo, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, 2016

Other activities (including awards received) are
-Bogliasco Foundation Fellow, Italy, 2018
-Film Feld Forschung/Film Field Research Residency, Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany, 2017
-Best Experimental Short Film, Outfest, Los Angeles, 2015

I am a New York based artist and educator working primarily with the still and moving image. I explore shifting territories between public and private, narrative and documentary, and--increasingly in recent years--the watcher and the watched.

About works / performance

A Strange New Beauty, 2017, 50:00

A Strange New Beauty, 2017, 50:00

TOUCH, 2013, 68:00

TOUCH, 2013, 68:00

The Lamps, 2015, 4:14

The Lamps, 2015, 4:14