Janis Crystal Lipzin

Janis Crystal Lipzin, (born Colorado Springs, 1945) is an American artist working with film, photography, video, audio, multi-media installations, and media performance.

Biography

Lipzin studied painting and photography at Ohio University and New York University, and received her MFA in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute. She taught Film and Interdisciplinary studies at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 2009, where she served as Chair of the Film Department, and before that directed the Film/Photo Program at Antioch College. He film and photo works have been featured in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Centre Pompidou, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Kunstmuseum Bern. She has been awarded three Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, purchase awards from the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Rene di Rosa Foundation, and Kramlich Collection. Her films and videos are distributed internationally. She founded and directed EYE MUSIC, a microcinema that produced media events at 80 Langton Street and the Exploratorium in San Francisco and internationally.

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