Irit Batsry
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Irit Batsry is an American video artist.
She graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in fine art in 1982.
She moved to New York City
, and became an instructor and on-line editor for Film/Video Arts.
Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art
, and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
She has lived and worked in New York since 1983.
She graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in fine art in 1982.
She moved to New York City
New York City
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, and became an instructor and on-line editor for Film/Video Arts.
Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
She has lived and worked in New York since 1983.
Awards
- 2002 Bucksbaum AwardBucksbaum AwardThe Bucksbaum Award was established in 2000 by the Bucksbaum Family Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art. It is awarded biannually "to honor an artist, living and working in the United States, whose work demonstrates a singular combination of talent and imagination." The $100,000...
- 1992 Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
- 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)
- "Beach at Nightfall", 2009
External links
- Artist's website
- "Irit Batsry", Artnet