ANITA
THACHER
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Anita Thacher currently lives and works in New York City.
Education
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The New School for Social Research,
BA English Literature
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture
Millennium Film School
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Selected Grants, Honors and Awards
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National Endowment for the Arts (four grants)
New York State Council on the Arts (five grants)
Ford Foundation
American Film Institute
French Minister of Culture Award
Martin E. Segal Award of Lincoln Center (first recipient)
Cine Golden Eagle (two awards)
Beard's Fund
Jerome Foundation (two awards)
Mitchell A. Wilder Award
28th Chicago International Film Festival Gold Plaque Award
New York Women in Film and Television Preservation Fund Grant
NYSCA and Independent Feature Project (IFP) Grant
MacDowell Colony Fellow and Board Member
Civitella Renieri Fellow
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Selected Public Collections
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase
Zimmerli Art Museum's Rutgers Archives of Prints
Musee des Beaux Arts, Belgium
Chicago Art Institute
Institute for the Arts, Rice Museum, Houston
South Caroline Art Institute, Columbia
Berlin Film Archives
French Film Archives (Cinémathèque Française)
Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
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Commissions
| 2008 |
30th Internationale Festival di Femme, Florence, Italy, Installation.
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| 2007 |
The Ludicrous Trial of Mr. P, Here Theater, Video set.
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| 2005 |
MTA Arts for Transit, Illuminated Station, Light sculpture.
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| 2001 |
Sedgwick Cultural Center, Philadelphia, Silent film for live concert.
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| 1989 |
Metropolitan Museum & Getty Museum, "Program for Art on Film," Painted Earth, the Art of the Mimbres Indians.
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2011-2012 |
Mixed Greens, New York, New York, Painting and light installation.
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| 2008 |
30th Internationale Festival di Femme, Florence, Italy, Retrospective, Film and Installation.
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| 2003 |
Belgium Cultural Center, Paris, Scratch, Films and documentation of Installations.
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| 2002 |
Art Resources Transfer, Inc., New York City, Drawing Rooms, B & W Installation.
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| 1999 |
Art Resources Transfer, Inc., New York City, If a House, Light installation.
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| 1998 - 99 |
Islip Art Museum, Anthony Giordano Gallery, "The Light Show," East Islip, New York, Night Light. Night Light, Light Installation
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| 1992 |
Adelphi University, Long Island, New York, Tentative Agreements, Light installation.
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| 1988 |
University of Colorado, Boulder, Anteroom. Light work.
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| 1987 |
Norwegian International Film Festival, Haugesund, Anteroom.
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| 1985 |
TMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Film.
The Fabric Workshop, New York, Light Work, All Through the House.
Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona, Film, Video, & Light work.
Anteroom, Installation and Photography.
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| 1984 |
North Carolina School of the Arts, Greenville, Anteroom.
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| 1983 |
33rd International Design Conference, Aspen, Anteroom.
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| 1981 |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Film.
P. S.1, Long Island City, New York, Lighthouse. Light work.
Alice Tully Hall, New York, 19th New York Film Festival, Lighthouse, installation.
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Selected Two Person Exhibitions
| 2010 |
Scratch Projection, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York
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| 2008 |
Film Forum, New York
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| 2006 |
Marygrove College Gallery, Detroit
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| 2000 |
Anthology Film Archives, New York
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| 1999 |
Anthology Film Archives, New York.
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| 1990 |
Berlin Film Festival, Berlin
Berlin Film Archives, Arsenal, Berlin
Anthology Film Archives, New York
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| 1989 |
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, All Through the House
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| 1987 |
International Berlin Film Festival, Berlin.
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Group Exhibitions
| 2012 |
Capital Art Print Fair, Arlington, VA.
Fountain Art Fair, Hullabaloo, New York.
VanDeb Editions, Editions of 1 Monotypes, New York.
Sideshow Gallery, Mic-Check, Brooklyn, New York.
Affordable Art Fair, Los Angeles, California.
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| 2011 |
The Painting Center, Grey Matter, Chelsea, NY, Painting.
Capital Art Print Fair, Arlington, VA.
Sideshow Gallery, It's All Good, Brooklyn, New York.
Tribeca FF Independent Women: 15 years of NYWIF Funded Film, screening and talk.
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| 2010 |
Museum of Modern Art, 40 Years Film Forum, New York, New York, Film.
Archetime, New York, New York, Film.
Scratch Projection, Paris, France.
School of Visual Arts, Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
Miniatures, Art 101, Brooklyn, New York.
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| 2009 |
Butler's Fine Art, East Hampton, NY, Painting.
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| 2008 |
Ides of March, ABC No Rio, New York, Installation.
26th International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA).
Goethe Institute, London and Arsenal, Berlin. Film.
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| 2007 |
Tribeca Film Festival.
11th International MadCat Film Festival. San Francisco.
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| 2006 |
Shin Kong Cineplex, Taipei, Women Make Waves Film Festival, Women's Arts: the Ultimate Female Allure. Film.
Jerusalem Film Festival, Found Footage, Israel, Film.
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| 2005 |
USB Gallery, New York, Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit, Celebrating 20 Years of Public Art, Documentation of Installation.
Cinema Spoutnick, Geneva, Switzerland, Film.
US Express, Global screenings, (History of US Videos), Video. World distribution, Video.
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| 2004 |
Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY Alumni Exhibition of The New York Studio School, Sculpture Installation.
Choate, CT, Looking In/Looking Out, Shadows. Photography.
New York Public Library, NY, Pioneering Women Filmmakers, Film.
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| 2003 |
Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY, Wonderland, Loose Corner, Film Installation. (Catalogue).
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| 2002 |
OK Harris Gallery, New York, Subject/Object, Shadows, Photography.
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Botanical Gardens, Fleurs, Cibachrome, Photography.
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| 2001 |
International Boxhead Ensemble Tour, 14 European Countries, Docking at X, Video.
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| 2000 |
Whitney Museum of American Art, "The Color of Ritual, the Color of Thought: Women Avant-garde Filmmakers in America 1930 - 2000," Permanent Wave.
Museum of Modern Art, Home Movies... and More, New York Breakfast Table.
Newark Museum, NJ, The Luminous Image V, Photo Installation.
Film Program of the International Women's University, She's got it, Traveling Exhibit.
Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Kassel, Hannover, Germany, Sea Travels. Film.
Pratt Exhibitions, Knowing Limits, New York, Digital Photography and text.
Library of Hattiesburg, National Small Sculpture Exhibition 2000. Sculpture.
Sculpture Center, NY, Annual Raffle, Light Installation.
Alliance for the Arts, Ft. Myers, Florida Illuminated Art, Her Veils, Light Installation.
RAI Television, Italy, Film.
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, Snapshot, Photography.
Cooper Union, NY, Share the Vision, Cibachrome Photography.
Artist's Space, NY, Night of 1000 Drawings. Drawing.
Telluride International Experimental Cinema Exposition, Telluride, Colorado.
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| 1999 |
Whitney Museum of American Art, American Century 1950-1999, Film.
Festival de Cine Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Sex in Short Films.
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, New York. Raw Seeing. Painting.
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| 1998 |
New York Photography Fair, Puck Bldg., Margaret Bodell Gallery, New York. Photo.
Velan, Torino, Italy, The Luminous Image III. Anteroom Screen, Illuminated Photography.
Greenport, New York, Footfalls. Sculpture (Catalogue).
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| 1997 |
Isis Conceptual Laboratory, West Branch, IO, Looking for the Pieces. Light Sculpture.
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| 1996 |
Westbeth Galleries, New York, Lumen-essence 2. Light/Sculpture Installation.
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| 1995 |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Film.
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| 1994 |
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Flowers. Photography.
The Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center, New York, Women Make
Movies for Kids, Loose Corner.
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| 1993 |
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Art on Film/Film on Art.
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI The Illusionists. Film/Photo Installation, Anteroom.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, A Program of Experimental Works.
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| 1992 |
Centre Pompidou, Paris, 3rd Biennale Du Film Sur L'Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Magritte and Surrealist Film.
British Film Institute, London, National Film Theatre.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Art on Film/Film on Art.
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| 1991 |
Arsenal, Berlin, Kino im auf Bruch.
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Birds as Critics: Artist' Bird Houses. Bluebird for Keaton, Painted Sculpture.
Jerusalem Cinemateque and Film Center, The 8th Jerusalem Film Festival.
University of Colorado, Boulder, 20th Year Visiting Artist Program 1991-1992.
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| 1990 |
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, The 8th International Festival of Film on Art.
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Let's Play House. Illuminated Installation.
Alice Tully Hall, New York, The 28th New York Film Festival.
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| 1989 |
American Craft Museum, New York, A Rain of Talent. Sculpture.
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| 1988 |
Louvre, Paris, Film.
Minos Beach, Art Symposium, Crete. Greece, Catalogue essays by Achille Pierre Restany and Thomas M. Messer. Passionate Guests. Natural Light Sculpture.
Festa d'Unita, Florence, Italy. Anteroom, Film Installation.
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| 1985 |
The Sculpture Center, New York, Stopped Time: Four Projected Environments.
Catalogue essay by April Kingsley. Anteroom, Film/Photo Installation.
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| 1983 |
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Directions '83.
Catalogue text by Phyllis D. Rosenzweig. Film/Photo Installation, Anteroom.
The Clocktower, New York, Film as Installation. Photography.
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| 1982 |
West Hubbard Gallery, Chicago, Projections. Catalogue. Installation.
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, Memory in the Space of the Present.
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, The First International Film Festival of Film on Art.
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| 1981 |
Elise Meyer Gallery, New York, Schemes: A Decade of Installation Drawings.
Catalogue text by Shelley Rice, Photography.
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| 1980 |
The Clocktower, New York, Film as Installation.
The Kitchen, New York, Filmworks.
Festival de Cine Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Sex in Short Films.
American Film Festival, New York, Film as Art.
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| 1978 |
1978 Alice Tully Hall, New York, The 16th New York Film Festival.
Westbeth, New York, Dance, Light Installation.
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| 1977 |
Rice Museum, Houston, Secret Affinities. Video copy of Film.
New Jersey State Museum, New Jersey, Moving Visions, Film.
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| 1975 |
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New Directors/New Films.
Alice Tully Hall, New York, The 13th New York Film Festival.
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| 1974 |
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York, Painting.
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Artist in Residences, Teaching, Mentoring
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Transart Institute, 2008, Graduate Painting Student Mentor
Marygrove College, Detroit, 2006, Artist in Residence
University of Cincinnati 2003, Artist in Residence
Hunter College, New York, 2001, Artist in Residence
University of the Aegean, Lesvos Greece, Teaching,1989
University of Colorado at Boulder, 20th Year Visiting Artist Program,1991-2
New York University 1995, 1998, Teaching
Long Island University, 1997, Teaching
University of the Aegean, Lesvos Greece, Teaching, 1989
New York City Public Schools (Lincoln Center in the Schools,) Teaching, 1980s
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