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: Rotterdam, 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
ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER
JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL, Otaru.
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.
RADIATOR GALLERY, Space Odyssey beyond Material Confinements, NY.
2016 SOMOS ART Custom Paradise, Berlin. SEATTLE TRANSMEDIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. DELETE TV - Broadcast exhibition program. ch. LA36, Los Angeles/ch. C31 Melbourne.
2015 CINDY RUCKER GALLERY the trees the trees the trees, NY, NY. ON THE GROUNG FLOOR Roots , LA. ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES, NewFilmmakers. New York, NY. ARTVIDEO KOELN German-Japanese Cultural Centre Cologne, Germany. ACRE-TV Tele-Novela.
2014 Le Deuxieme Sexe Nuit Blanche aux Salaisons, Les 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. INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF ART SZOLNOK, Hungary
2013 WRO ART CENTER BIANNIEL Wroclaw, Poland. PRINT SCREEN FESTIVAL Holon Museum, Israel. 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. 92YTRIBECA Skowhegan at 92YTribeca, NYC.
2010 MOSCOW BIENNIAL OF YOUNG ART Tsaritsyno Museum, Moscow. COLLEGIUM HUNGARICUM Media Façade Festival Europe 2010, Berlin. THE ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS NewTown: Convergences, Pasadena, CA. MOVES10 – Framing Motion The Bluecoat, Liverpool. 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. SVA GALLERY $960,000+ , New York, NY.
2006 THE HAMMER MUSEUM Too much freedom? ‘Freewaves’, LA.