Donna Cameron

www.donnacameron.info 

Email:

papercam@gmail.com

 

EDUCATION 

MPS, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Inter-Telecommunications (ITP), NY, NY, 2009.

BFA, The Rhode island School of Design, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1980.

SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Featuring video, film, photography, multimedia, digital and analog workshops and production courses and humanities courses on visual art and design-related topics

1993- current     Instructor, Visiting Assistant Professor, Maurice Kanbar Institute, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

Special Programs, Department of Photography, Department of Film &Television.

2004-2006          Instructor, New School for Social Research, Department of Film and Media

2000-03             Instructor, New York University School of Continuing & Professional Studies

Department of Journalism & Television, Certificate Program.

1998-2001          Thesis Instructor, Adjunct Professor, School of Visual Arts, NY

Department of Computer Arts, BFA Program; Department. of Continuing Education.

 

TECHNOLOGY/LANGUAGE SKILLS

DIGITAL: Platforms: Mac, Linux, PC; Software: Adobe Suite- After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere, Flash; Final Cut Pro, Director, Maya; Coding: HTML Java, Eclipse, PHP; Processing, Mobile Processing.

FILM & VIDEO: s-8, 16mm, 35mm, Mini-DV, BetaSP, Betacam, 3/4SP, SVHS, VHS, 8mm, hi8.

OPTICAL: JK printer, Richardson printer; Mitchell animation stand, Oxberry animation stand.

PHOTOGRAPHY: All formats, analog and digital.

LANGUAGE: Fluency: English, French. Familiarity: German, Italian, Latin.

 

SELECT SOLO SHOWS

2007    The Museum of Modern Art, Study Center, Donna Cameron: Portrait of an Artist… February

2004     Millennium Film Workshop, NY, Paper emulsion 2D imaging & Films, March

2002     Anthology Film Archives, NY, Visual Communication, films, sequential 2D imaging, March 21- April6

2000     Museum of Modern Art, NY, MoMA 2000, Making Choices, Part 2, June 17, 23

2000, 1996, 1991, 1988  The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Cineprobe

1997     San Francisco Cinemateque, SF, CA, Donna Cameron Film Retrospective, May

            The Entrance Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center (Retrospective) Oct 1996 - Jan 1997

 

SELECT GROUP SHOWS/ DONNA CAMERON

2007     Galleria CàRezzonico, con latere 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, June -September

2005     Galleria CàRezzonico, con latere 51^st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, June-October

            Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, Jazz Elegy, April

            Anthology Film Archives, NY, Light and Substance, sequential 2D imaging, April

2005     The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Premieres, January

2004     Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, February-March

2001     Hudson River Arts, Art Culture & Technology, video & painting, June

2000     Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, …Women in Avant-Garde Film in America, 1944-2000, September 9

1998     Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn on Film: Then & Now, November 12

 

SELECT PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art, Film & Video Archive, NY; Circulating Film & Video Library, NY

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

The Donnell Media Center, NY Public Library, NY (films & videos)

Elmer Bobst Library, Avery Fisher Media Center, NYU, NY (films & videos)

 

AWARDS & PROFESSIONAL HONORS

2005-7   Video Artist in Residence, The Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, NY

2001     Patent Awarded, U.S. Patent & Trademarks Commission for “Cinematic Paper Emulsion”

2000     MacDowell Fellow; Elodie Osborne Award in Film & Video, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1999     MacDowell Fellowship

1998     MacDowell Fellowship

1995     Black Maria Film Festival, Jurors' Citation Award for the film “Autumn Leaves”

1994     Black Maria Film Festival, Jurors' Choice Award for the film “NYC/Joshua Tree”

1990     Jerome Foundation Grant

1987     Jerome Foundation Grant

 

SELECT PUBLISHERS OF WRITING BY DONNA CAMERON

1994-current    Manhattan Arts international Magazine, NY, NY

1994-1998       The Museum of Modern Art, NY

1975-77           The Miami Herald, Miami, FL

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY   

2007     Spuytenduyvil Press, Donna Cameron, book, June

2006     Furness, Maureen, " Animation Bible", Laurence King, London, Abrams, NY, book, December

1994     Jensen, Jytte, "Shirley Clarke In Our Time by Donna Cameron", Museum of Modern Art, NY

1993     Wees, William C., Recycled Images, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY

1991     Gartenberg, Jon, "The Fragile Emulsion", May

 

SELECT BROADCAST PROGRAMS

2005     Arts From the Orensanz Foundation, Manhattan Cable Network, January

2003     The Sundance Channel, Shorts from the Underground, November

2000     MTV On-line & MTV Broadcast, The Real World, February & June

1996     Channel 9- KQED- Jack Walsh's “LIVING ROOM FESTIVAL” program

 

SELECT CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

1996-8   Other Voices, Directors Series, New York University, NY, NY, April

1995-6   Fresh Start, Bi-Weekly NYU Public Access Television Show

1995-7   Panel, organizer & panelist - Artists Talk on Art, NY