Donna
Cameron
www.donnacameron.info
Brooklyn, NY & Arlington, VA
Mobile: (646) 258-7216
Email: dnacameron@gmail.com
EDUCATION
GRADUATE STUDIES
M.P.S. New York University, Tisch School of
the Arts
Inter-Telecommunications,
(ITP), Digital Photography, Social Networks,
UNDERGRADUATE
STUDIES
B.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Film/Video, Photography
SELECT
SOLO SHOWS
2013
Lincoln Center, Dance on Camera, NY Film Festival, Shirley Clarke In Our Time, February
1
2011
Angel Orensanz Foundation, NY, video installation, January
2010 Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY, Shirley Clarke
In Our Time, January 30
2009 Millennium Film Workshop, NY, Photography
& Films, December
2007
The Museum of Modern Art Study Center, Donna Cameron… February
2004
Millennium Film Workshop, NY, Photography & Films, March-May
2003 Zeitgeist Theater, New Orleans, LA, March 21,
photography and films,
Shreveport Arts Fest, Shreveport, LA, March 22, films
718 Gallery, Visionary Moving Image, paintings, photography, February
2002 Art
Vanguard Gallery, NY, paintings, photography, April -June; November-December
Anthology Film Archives, NY, Visual Communication, films, photography, March-
April
2000
Museum of Modern Art, NY, MoMA 2000, Making Choices, Part 2, June 17, 23
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Cineprobe, June 19
The Berrie Center for the
Performing Arts, Mahwah, NJ, "Thunderbolt", March
1998 New
York University, NY, NY, Directors Series, April
TSOA Institute of Film & Television, NYU, NY, Freshman Symposium, April
1997
Berks Filmmakers, Reading, PA, February
University of Colorado at
Boulder, Boulder, CO, April
TSOA Dept. of Film & Television, NYU, NY, Freshman Symposium, April & Nov.
San Francisco Cinemateque, SF, CA, Donna Cameron Film Retrospective, May
The Entrance Gallery, Fordham at Lincoln Center, "Sequences of a Multiples Artist"
(Retrospective of Donna Cameron's art and films) October, 1996-January,
1997
1996
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Cineprobe, March
TSOA Dept. of Film & Television,
NYU, NY, Freshman Symposium, April & November
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, New Releases, MoMA Circulating Film Library,
May
New York University, NY, NY, Directors Series, May
SELECT GROUP SHOWS
2012 Microscope
Gallery. NewYork, Photography, February
2012
Gallery Plan B, Washington DC, Photography, February-April
2011 Gallery Plan B, Washington, DC, Photography.
November-December
2011
New Museum, Urban Landscapes, Millennium Film Workshop, Film, May
2010 Art
League, Alexandria, VA, Photography, March
2009 Millennium Film Workshop, Photography & Film, December
2007 Galleria
Cà Rezzonico, at 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, IT,
Photography, Film, June -Sept
2005 The
Museum of Modern Art, NY, Premieres, January
Galleria Cà Rezzonico, at 51st Venice
Biennale, Venice, Italy, Video, June-October
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, Jazz Elegy, April
Anthology Film Archives, NY, Light and Substance, Photography,
April
2004 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, Film, February-March
NuNu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Photography, April
New York Expo, Marriott Hotel. Brooklyn, Photography, February
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, NY, Photography, Jan-April
Black Maria Film Festival, Directors Citation, Film
2003 Madcat
Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, Film, October
Germaine Keller Gallery, NY, "Art as Seduction", Photography, April
2002
Sundance Channel, Shorts from the Underground, Film, November
Museum Of Modern Art, NY, New Acquisitions from the Film Archive, May
Exit Art, NY, REACTIONS, Photography, January-March
2001 Hudson
River Arts, Art Culture & Technology, Video & Photography, June
2000 Whitney
Museum of American Art, NY, The Color of Ritual, The Color of Thought:
Women in Avant-Garde Film in America,
1944-2000, Film, September 9
1998 Brooklyn
Academy of Music, Brooklyn on Film: Then & Now, Film. November 12
Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Independents: Seven Films, September 20, 25
1997
Heart Gallery, Paris, France, Video, installation, April
1996 Florida
Int'l University, Miami, FLA, Festival of the Performing Arts, November
National Flute Convention, Marriott Hotel, NY, New Collaborations, Video,
August
Philadelphia, PA, Crosswaves Festival, Video, March
1995 Beijing,
China, Video Wall, Seeing the World through Women's Eyes, September
14th Annual Black Maria Film &Video Festival, Photography & Video,
1995 Spring Tour
SELECT PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, Film & Video Archive, NY (films &
videos)
Museum of Modern
Art, Circulating Film & Video Library, NY (films & videos)
Museum of the City of New York, NY (video)
Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media Library, New York University
(videos)
Fordham University,
NY (photography)
Duggal
Visual Solutions, NY, (photography)
The MacDowell Colony, NY (photography)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009 Dantzic, Cynthia, “100
New York Photographers”, Schiffer Publishing, LTD, Pennsylvania
2008
Furness, Maureen, "Animation Bible", Lawrence King Publishers, London
2007
Spuytenduyvil Press, Donna Cameron, June
2003 "I LOVE MANHATTAN", review,
Gallery & Studio,
March/April
2000 'Thunderbolt, Indeed!” review, “New York Notebook”
Gallery & Studio,
November/December
1998 Ford, Ruth, "BAM Now the Movies",
and review, the Brooklyn Papers, Nov 13
1996 Sweeney, John F., "Donna Cameron
Comes to the Entrance Gallery", review,
The Observer, Fordham University, NY,
NY, November 13
1995 Dunning, Jennifer, "The Veteran Artist behind the
Steps", dance review,
The New York Times "The Living Arts", New York, NY, June
1994 "Animator
presents her work in N.O.", review, MOVIE NOTES,
The New Orleans Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA, December
"Revolutionary Animator will screen works and demonstrate technique Dec 2-4"
Journal
of the New Orleans Video Access Center, (NOVAC), Nov-Dec
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
1992
Herskowitz, Richard, "Experimental Legacies: Donna Cameron and Len Lye",
Herbert
F. Johnson Museum Newsletter, Ithaca, NY, November
"Independent Filmmakers: New Yorkers and Other Americans',
Exhibition
brochure, Kuntshalle, Bonn, Germany, June
Kelly, Kathleen I., "Hallwalls, End of the Season Art Exhibit", review,
Art Voice,
Buffalo, NY, May
Lucia, Tony,
"Glitches of Light: Berks Filmmakers will get a Glimpse of a Groundbreaker",
Review, The Reading Eagle, April 19
1991
Gartenberg, Jon, "The Fragile Emulsion, Part 1", May
SELECT GALLERY REPRESENTATION
2011-present
Gallery Plan B, Washington, DC
2000-08
Art Vanguard Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1990-98
Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECT
AWARDS & PROFESSIONAL HONORS
2005-09 Video Artist in Residence,
The Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, NY
1990-2005 Purchase of Films by Museum of Modern
Art Film Archive
2001,’99.’98
MacDowell Fellowships (film and photography) (3)
1997
University Council of Arts Educators, nominated to membership, February
Federation of Modern Sculptors and
Painters, nom. to membership, January
1987,
'91 Jerome Foundation Grants (film) (2)
1985, ‘84
Jose De Creef Memorial Awards (painting), The Art Students League, NY (2)
SELECT PANELS
AND PROGRAMS
2011
The Split of Light, Electronic Arts Intermix. NY. April
2006
Laszlo Regos’ Sacred Spaces, Angel Orensanz Foundation
for the Arts, NY
2005 Earth,
Death, Birth Angel,
Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, NY
1998
Other Voices, Directors Series, New York University, NY, NY, April
The Character of a Face, Anthology Film Archives, NY, February
1997
Other
Voices, Directors Series, New York University, NY, May. November
Fresh Start, Bi-Weekly NYU Public Access Television Show
Online No Line, organize/panelist, Artists Talk on Art, Fulcrum Gallery, NY
1993
York Frames of Mind, Artists Talk On Art, NY, NY, November
Recycled Images, panelist, Anthology Film Archives, NY
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
1998
Multi-Channel across Europe- ANAGRAM INTERNATIONAL
1997
Channel 14- A & E- “Artists Talk on Art” panel.
Channel
31 -TIME-WARNER CABLE- Co-Curator/Interviewer
1996
Channel 4- A & E- Location interview about work and teaching.
Channel 9- KQED- Jack Walsh's “LIVING ROOM FESTIVAL” program
SELECT PRINT COMMUNICATIONS
WORK
Photographer
and Editor–in-Chief
New York Film/Video Council Newsletter
Photographer, Field
Reporter, Senior Editor
Manhattan Arts International Magazine, e-zine, NY
Writer,
Catalogue for "Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Film"
The Museum of Modern Art, NY
Writer,
Ad copy on films, for promotional literature.
The MoMA Circulating Film & Video Library, NY
Photographer/Writer
Correspondent
The Miami Herald, Miami, FL
SELECT COMMITTEE & BOARD WORK
2010-2011
Chair, Filmmakers’ Cooperative Web Committee
2009-2010 Vice-President of NEW YORK FILM
VIDEO COUNCIL
2009-2011 Photography and Imaging Contributing
Member (PAI)
1995-2011 Board of Directors of NEW
YORK FILM VIDEO COUNCIL.
1990-2011 Board of Directors
of the Filmmakers’ Cooperative, NY
1994-2005 Special
Consultant, Archive Technologist, MoMA Circ. Film Library
1997-1999
Curriculum Committee, NYU, TSOA, UG Film & Television
SELECT MULTI-MEDIA COLLABORATIONS
2005
The Orensanz Portfolio
With Angel Orensanz (Artist, Angel Orensanz Foundation for The Arts, NY)
A digital photography & video portrait of Orensanz at work, at his global
art site locations.
MoMA, NY; Ca Rezzonico gallery, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
2005-8 Live Reel
With Mark Stewart, (Bang On A Can, Paul Simon) David Cossin (Bang On
A Can)
A reel of five short 35m photography and 16mm film montage works
Angel Orensanz Foundation; Ca Rezzonico, Venice, Italy.
2003-5 Jazz Elegy
With composer Mark Stewart, Andrew Sloan
Live music & 35mm film imaging tribute to the French painter Henri Matisse,
(supported by a MacDowell Fellowship).
Sundance Channel, Shorts from the Underground, November
MoMA, NY, June 2002
1996 Meditation
for a Lonely Flute
With
Fred Kaufman: Composer (Director, School of Music, Florida Int’l University)
Live music & video collaboration, Disney Enterprises a sponsor.
Festival of the Performing Arts, Florida Int’l University, Miami, November
1997 OF WATER
& CLOUDS
With
Flutist Barbara Siesel, Elena Reuhr (Professor of Composition, MIT)
Live music & video collaboration commissioned by /performed for:
The
National Flute Convention, Marriott Hotel, NY, NY, August
1993
Felice
With Jazz pianist Don Militello
(Dr. Billy Taylor, Nanette Bearden Dance Theater)
Live music
& photography slide show commissioned by /performed for:
Jazz Mobile,
Fordham at Lincoln Center, NY, February
SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1993- current Tisch School
of the Arts, NYU, Instructor, Visiting Assistant Professor, Committee Member, Academic
Advisor
Maurice Kanbar Institute, Dept. Film & TV; Dept. of Special
Programs; Dept. of Photography & Imaging; BFA & MFA.
"Politics of Portraiture” research, develop, teach own syllabus
“Digital Video for Photographers"
research, develop, teach syllabus
“Video for Photographers” research,
develop/, teach syllabus
“Black & White Photography” develop/teach department
syllabus
“Sight & Sound Video Production", department
syllabus
“Narrative
Multimedia Workshop” research, develop, teach own syllabus