Ann is a visual artist and filmmaker. Born in Tel-Aviv 1979, studied Film (BA) and Fine Arts (MA) at The School of Visual Arts, NY. Her works were exhibited at The Moscow Biennial for young art, WRO Media Art Biennial, B3 Moving Image Biennial, The Hammer Museum, The Tel-Aviv Museum, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Anthology Film Archives, Künstlerhaus Bethanien and Apexart. Film Festivals include: Dok Leipzig, New Horizons Film Festival, Locarno Festival and Ann Arbor Film Festival. Oren is an award recipient from The New York State Council on The Arts, B3 Moving Image Biennial, Doker International Documentary Film Festival Moscow, Epos Film Festival and Seoul International New Media Festival. She lives/works in Berlin.
Contact: annoren (at) gmail.com
Education:
2009 Skowhegan School of Art, ME.
2007 The School of Visual Arts, NY. MFA. Major: Fine Arts.
2004 The School of Visual Arts, NY. BFA. Major: Film & Television.
Awards:
2019 Israeli Films Competition Winner, EPOS Film Festival, The Tel-Aviv Museum.
2019 Ostrovsky Family Fund Grant
2018 Best IT Documentary Award, DOKer Moscow International Documentary Film Festival
2017 Best Artwork Award, B3 Moving Image Biennial, Frankfurt
2017 The New York State Council on the Arts Project Grant
2016 Rabinovich Foundation Grant
2016 Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts Grant
2016 Ostrovsky Family Fund Grant
2014 New Artist Award, NeMaf 2014 Seoul International New Media Festival
2014 Nars Foundation Fellowship
2012 Special Jury Award, The Social Media Film Festival
2009 Spiro Arts Fellowship
2008 The Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant
2006-2007 Scholarship from The School of Visual Arts
2004 Visual arts fund grant, The School of Visual Arts
2003 The National board of reviews New York Grant
2017 DEUX FEMMES Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI, USA.
2017 THE WORLD IS MINE Sound Unseen Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN.
2017 THE WORLD IS MINE Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA.
2017 THE WORLD IS MINE Underground Cinema Film Festival, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.
2016 THE SUPREME SPASM Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
2016 THE SUPREME SPASM Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY.
2015 InContact APEXART, NY.
2015 InContact PrintScreen, Holon Museum, Israel.
2013 InContact The Tel-Aviv Cinematheque, Israel.
2013 InContact Carnegie Mellon Film Festival, Pittsburgh.
2013 InContact Underground Cinema, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.
2012 InContact Anthology Film Archives. New York, NY.
2012 InContact The Social Media Film Festival, Las Vegas.
2010 COLOR OCCURRENCE MediaLab Prado, Madrid. In collaboration with Zevan Rosser.
2009 IN SECURITY multi-media play, collaboration with Unbound Collective. 3LD, NYC.
Group Exhibitions and Screenings (Selected):
2020
Stuttgarter Filmwinter.
2019
L’Alternativa Barcelona Independent Film Festival. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. CODEC Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental y Video, Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo, Mexico City.
Videoformes 2017 festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem.
Space Odyssey beyond Material Confinements, Radiator Gallery, NY.
2016 Custom Paradise SomoS Art, Berlin. Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival. DELETE TV - Broadcast exhibition program. ch. LA36, Los Angeles/ch. C31 Melbourne.
2015 the trees the trees the trees Cindy Rucker Gallery, NY, NY. Roots On The Ground Floor, LA. NewFilmmakers Anthology Film Archives. New York, NY. artvideoKOELN German-Japanese Cultural Centre Cologne, Germany. Tele-Novela ACRE-TV.
2014 Le Deuxieme Sexe Nuit Blanche aux Salaisons, Les Salaisons, Paris. Preliminary Study: RSI –T Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY/ Muskegon Museum of Art, MI. FILE Festival FIESP Cultural Centre - Ruth Cardoso, Sau Paulo, Brasil. Seoul International New Media Festival. International Film Festival of Fine Arts Szolnok, Hungary
2013 WRO Art Center Biennial Wroclaw, Poland. PrintScreen Festival Holon Museum, Israel. F_ll in the bl_nk. Nars Foundation. Brooklyn, NY.
2012 EPOS Cinepublika The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. Me Pix Rochester Contemporary Art Center, NY. Re-new / The Interactive Media Arts Conference (IMAC) Copenhagen. The Double Cabinet, NY and LAXART, LA. Skowhegan at 92YTribeca, NYC.
2010 Moscow Biennale of Young Art Tsaritsyno Museum, Moscow. Media Façade Festival Europe 2010 Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin. NewTown: Convergences The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA. MOVES10 – Framing Motion The Bluecoat, Liverpool. (IN)TANGIBLE Taller Boricua, NY, NY.
2009 WRO 13th Media Art Biennale WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland.
2008 Come Out & Play APEXART, New York, NY.
2007 Crude Technology The Annex, Whitebox, NYC. View From Here PS122, New York, NY. $960,000+ SVA gallery, New York, NY.
2006 Too much freedom? ‘Freewaves’, The Hammer museum, LA.