Ann Oren is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her films and video installations explore the performative quality and fantasy of everyday life. The characters in her films exist in the liminal space between performers and audience as she investigates collective desire, winking at collective legends from the history of literature, theater and cinema.
Her work’s institutional presentations include The Moscow Biennial for Young Art, The Hammer Museum, The Tel-Aviv Museum, Anthology Film Archives, Apexart, Kindl - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, and festival screenings include Rotterdam, BFI London, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Dok Leipzig, Locarno and Ann Arbor. Born 1979 in Tel-Aviv, Ann studied Film (BA) and Fine Arts (MA) at The School of Visual Arts, NY. 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
Selected Solo Screenings, Exhibitions and Commissions:
2018 THE WORLD IS MINE Sound_Track Cologne, See the sound
2018 THE WORLD IS MINE Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Lithuania
2018 THE WORLD IS MINE PrintScreen Festival, Israel
2017 THE WORLD IS MINE Dok Leipzig
2017 THE WORLD IS MINE B3 Moving Image Biennial, Frankfurt
2017 THE WORLD IS MINE New Orleans Film Festival
2017 DEUX FEMMES Ann Arbor Film Festival
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
2012 InContact Anthology Film Archives. New York, NY
2010 COLOR OCCURRENCE MediaLab Prado, Madrid. In collaboration with Zevan Rosser
2009 IN SECURITY multi-media play, collaboration with Unbound Collective. 3LD, NYC
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings:
2020
ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONALE KURZFILMTAGE OBERHAUSEN
PÖFF BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL Tallin
BUCHAREST EXPERIMENTAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONALE KURZFILMTAGE HAMBURG
MICROSCOPE GALLERY, Video pool, New York
KINODOT EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL St. Petersburg
JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL, Otaru
VIDEOEX, Zürich
SEOUL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL
KASSELER DOKFEST
2019
L'ALTERNATIVA Barcelona Independent Film Festival. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
KLEX Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film Festival
HAIFA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, VR/AR
2018
MONITORING with KASSELER DOKFEST, Germany
EUROVIDEO 2018 Théâtre de Liège, Belgium
2017
B3 MOVING IMAGE BIENNIAL Frankfurt
LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL, presented by The Parders
VIDEOFORMES 2017 Clermont-Ferrand, France
MUSRARA MIX FESTIVAL, Jerusalem
RADIATOR GALLERY, Space Odyssey beyond Material Confinements, NY
2015
CINDY RUCKER GALLERY the trees the trees the trees, NY, NY
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES, NewFilmmakers. New York, NY
2014
LES SALAISONS Le Deuxieme Sexe Nuit Blanche aux Salaisons, Paris.
SLAG GALLERY Preliminary Study: RSI –T , Brooklyn, NY/ MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART, MI
FILE FESTIVAL FIESP Cultural Centre - Ruth Cardoso, Sau Paulo, Brasil
SEOUL NEW MEDIA FILM FESTIVAL
2013
WRO ART CENTER BIANNIEL Wroclaw, Poland
NARS FOUNDATION F_ll in the bl_nk. Brooklyn, NY
2012
THE TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART - Epos Cinepublika
ROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER Me Pix, NY
THE INTERACTIVE MEDIA ARTS CONFERENCE (IMAC) Re-new, Copenhagen
CABINET + LAXART The Double, NY + LA
2010
MOSCOW BIENNIAL OF YOUNG ART Tsaritsyno Museum, Moscow
TALLER BARICUA (In)Tangible, NY, NY
2009
WRO 13TH MEDIA ART BIENNALE WRO ART CENTER, Wroclaw, Poland
2008
APEXART Come Out & Play, New York, NY
2007
WHITEBOX THE ANNEX Crude Technology, NYC
PS122 View From Here, New York, NY
2006
THE HAMMER MUSEUM Too much freedom? ‘Freewaves’, LA
Awards:
2020 Artis Exhibition Grant
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
Residencies:
2019 Torino Film Lab Extended.
2015 - 2016 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2014 Nars Foundation, NY
2013 HomeBase Build V, Berlin
2013 I-Park, Connecticut
2013 Aljira Emerge 11, NJ
2010 NES, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2010 Open Up MediaLab Prado, Madrid, Spain
2009 Spiro Arts Park City, UT
Publications:
THE SUPREME SPASM, Künstlerhaus Bethanian, 2016
Bibliography:
Vogue, May 11, 2018
Vice April 11, 2018