Shelly Silver

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Shelly Silver (born July 16th, 1957) is a New York based artist utilizing video, film and photography. Her work, which mixes documentary, fiction and experimental genres, spans a wide range of subjects including German identity after the Reunification (Former East/Former West), growing up a woman in Japan (37 Stories About Leaving Home), the Clinton/Lewinsky affair (small lies, Big Truth, 1999). Her narrative films include suicide, a faux- personal diary film, follows the global search of a crazed filmmaker’s attempts to find a reason to go on living, The Houses that Are Left, a genre-crossing narrative where the dead communicate with the living and fictional characters interview actual New Yorkers. Her most recent video What I’m Looking For follows the experiences of a woman who uses an internet dating site to find photographic models, writing: 'I'm looking for people who would like to be photographed in public revealing something of themselves...'explores the boundaries between virtual and actual public space, as a woman

She has been exhibited widely throughout the US, Europe and Asia at venues such as MoMA, the ICP, MoCA, The Yokohama Museum, The Pompidou Center, The Kyoto Museum, the London ICA, The London, Singapore, New York, Moscow and Berlin Film Festivals. Silver has received numerous fellowships and grants from organizations such as the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, the Japan Foundation and Anonymous was a Woman. Broadcasts include BBC/England, PBS/USA, Arte/Germany, France, Planete/Europe, RTE/Ireland, SWR/Germany, Atenor/Spain.

Silver attended Cornell University, graduating in 1980 with a B.A. in Intellectual History, and a B.F.A. in Mixed Media and subsequently attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Studio Program.

She currently teaches at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Sciences (link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_Union) and in the MFA Department of Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts (link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Of_Visual_Arts).

Film/Videography

What I'm Looking For 15:00, 2004/5 (single-channel & installation)
suicide 70:00, 2003
ROOSTER four-channel installation, 2001-2002
1. 3:15, 2001
Hidden Among the Leaves (collaborative installation with Nika Spalinger) 2000-2001
small lies, Big Truth 18:48, 1999
37 Stories About Leaving Home 52:00, 1996
Former East/Former West 62:00, 1994
April 2nd 10:00, 1994
Fragments (variable lengths, 1994-ongoing)
The Houses That Are Left 51:00, 1991
We 4:00, 1990
getting in. 3:00, 1989
Things I Forget To Tell Myself 2:00, 1989
Meet the People, 17:00, 1986