Irit Batsry

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Irit Batsry (born 1957 Ramat Gan, Israel) is an Israeli-born American video artist.[1]

She graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in fine art in 1982.[2] She moved to New York City, and became an instructor and on-line editor for Film/Video Arts.[3]

Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art,[4] and The Whitney Museum of American Art.[5]

She has lived and worked in New York since 1983.

Awards

  • 2002 Bucksbaum Award[6]
  • 1992 Guggenheim Fellowship
  • 1996, 2001 Grand Prix Video de Création of the Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris
  • New York Fine Arts Foundation Fellow
  • Jerome Foundation Fellow
  • 1990, 1995 Grand Prix at Locarno
  • 1994, 2001 First Prize at Vigo
  • 1991 Best International Artistic Contribution at Cadiz
  • 1989 First Prize at the Australian Video Festival
  • 1989 First prize at the San Francisco Poetry Film Festival

Works

  • "Slightly less than a saint" (1982)
  • trilogy "Passage to utopia"
    • “Stories from the old ruin” (1986)
    • “Leaving the old ruin" (1989)
    • “Traces of a presence to come" (1993)
  • “Of persistence of absence” (1991)
  • “A Simple Case of vision”(1991) [7]
  • "Beach at Nightfall", 2009 [8]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/batsry/biography/
  2. ↑ http://www.bezalelfriends.org/artists/artists-irit-batsry.html
  3. ↑ http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=181
  4. ↑ http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/775
  5. ↑ http://www.artisrael.org/artist/irit-batsry
  6. ↑ Roberta Smith (January 9, 2004). "ART REVIEW; Getting Caravaggio From Video, With Several Hearts of Darkness". NEw York Times. Retrieved March 9, 2012. 
  7. ↑ http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=14725&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
  8. ↑ Los Angeles Times. March 19, 2009 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/review-irit-bat.html |url= missing title (help). 

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