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Education

Maryland Institute College of Art, (BA degree in Art) Baltimore, MD, 1990-1994
Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, (MA equivalent) Amsterdam, NL 2000-2
Solo Visual Art Exhibitions

2008 Art Statements, Art Basel, Switzerland (Galerie Diana Stigter)
Suzie Q, Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
2007 Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
2006 Stux Gallery, New York NY
2003 Frankfurter Kunstverein, "Young and Upcoming", Frankfurt,Germany
W.I.N.D.O.W. gallery, Walter Van Beirendonk Fashion shop Antwerp, Belgium
2002 De Kabinetten of De Vleeshal, Middelburg,NL "INSE(X)CTS"
Major Art Fair, Amsterdam,NL
Group Visual Art Exhibitions

2008 ‘Film Performance with Deerhoof’, The MATRIX, Berkeley Art Museum, CA
‘Film performance with Perspects’ ,Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI
‘1x1 Series ‘Jersey City Museum, NJ
‘Tenderly’, Sunday L.E.S.gallery, NY
Pop,pop,Kablam, Nieuwevide, Haarlem, Netherlands
‘GOLD’ performance (April29 event) Museum Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
‘LIFT’ series screens “Meet Me In Wichita”, The Kitchen, New York, NY
“Rough Cuts”, Dorsky Gallery group show, Long Island City, NY
2007 TERRE D'ACCUEIL, TERRRE D'EXIL, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
‘In the Eyes of The Beholder’ Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
FEM (Festival Edicion Madrid) organized by Victor del Campo, Madrid, Spain
‘K48 Priznbreak’, The Kitchen, New York, NY
“Don’t kill the weatherman” film and installation, Rosenbach Museum & Library
Sundance Film Festival, Art Installation in New Frontiers Program
Armory Art Fair, NY
Rotterdam Art Fair
Paris Photo, photo fair, Paris France
New York Digital and Video Art Fair
Netherlands Film Festival
Maison Du Chic film show, Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY
Fettes Gallery film show, Culver City, CA
2006 Initial Public Offerings Series. Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Peekskill Project. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Hudson, NY
‘Six Degrees of Seperation’ Stux Gallery, New York, NY
New American Talent: the Twenty-First Exhibition, Arthouse, Austin, TX
‘Undo Redo’ Kunsthalle Friedericianum Kassel
Swing Space Open Studios, NY, NY
Scope Art Fair, New York , NY
2005 Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum,NY
Gorgeous Isn’t Good Enough, Spazio Pirelli, Milan, Italy
Entr'acte 2 ,Casa Pinot Gallizio, Alba, N. Italy
Traveling Tales, Aratoi Wiararapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton, NZ
TERRITORIA, curator: Thom Puckey, The Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, Prato, IT
Arti Et Amicitiae, “Let Me Hear Your Body Talk”, Amsterdam,NL
291 gallery,“4x4”, London, UK
Nieuwe Vide, “Off Track”, Haarlem, NL
2004 Red Gate Gallery, London, UK “Rhyme Nor Reason”
Art Space, “Dutch Film show” Auckland, NZ (catalogue)
Musee d Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY. US. group show with Jonas Mekas
Liste Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, Diana Stigter Gallery
"Luggage" Nanjing Art Institute Gallery, Nanjing, China (catalogue)
Anne Course/ Martha Colburn, Beursschouwburg, Antwerp, Belgium
"Vixens" Diana Stigter Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Studium General, Technical University, Eindhoven, NL
2003 "Site Specific" Deiska, Amsterdam, NL
"FUSE Group Show, De Beyerd, Breda, NL
Group Show", Diana Stigter Gallery, Amsterdam
"Thanatophobia", Illuseum, Amsterdam, NL
"I am a Camera", Eindhoven, NL
" Repetition", Cookie Snooi Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
" GOTHIC", National Touring Exhibtions, Norway
2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius,LT "Baltic Triennale of International Art" Opening
San Francisco Cinemateque, CA. U.S. "Obscure Love and Death"
Pacific Film Archive, C.A. US
Open Days, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten,NL
"Entracte", Bologna ,Italy
"Grip", Haarlem Art Line Festival, de Vleeshal, Haarlem, NL
Winston Hotel, Amsterdam, NL "Weasels Ripped My Flesh"
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania, "8th Baltic Triennial of International Art"
De Appel, Amsterdam , NL "Adam and Eve"
Outline Gallery, Amsterdam, NL "Haunted House Of Art"
2001 Whitney Museum, N.Y.,US
Las Palmas, Rotterdam , NL "Transmission : Emerging Artists: North Sea"
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, NL
2000 PS1, New York, US, "Drive-In Movies: Flicks From The Great Beyond"
Lux Centre, London,UK, "Obscure Love and Death"
Other Cinema, San Francisco , US
Courthouse Gallery, Anthology Film Archive, New York,NY, US
1999 Pacific Film Archive, C.A.,US, Film Series
1998 Harvard Film Archive, US, Two films screened in "Cinema of the Grotesque"
Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.,US, Five films screened in "Big As Life: An American History of 8 m.m. Films"
1997 Serpentine Gallery, London,UK, Ten Films selected for a video loop
High Wire Gallery, Philadelphia, US, Film Series
Washington Place for the Arts, DC.,US, Film Series
1996 Anthology Film Archive, NY.,US, Film Series
Film Screenings (partial listing)

2008 ‘Art Projx’, Tate Britain, and Prince Charles Cinema, UK
Lumen Eclipse, Boston ,MA (public installation)
‘Storytelling’ CRG Gallery video screening
‘New Films by Martha Colburn’, New Nothing Cinema, SF,CA
New York Underground Film Festival, NY,NY
Best of Animation 2008, Film-und Media Fest, Stuttgart,DE
Women’s Film Festival, Cologne, DE
Anne Arbor Film Festival, Michigan
2007 Rotterdam International Film festival
Anne Arbor Film Festival
San Francisco Film Festival
‘Imagined Worlds’,Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
‘Digital Media Adventure’, Reed Arts Week, Portland Oregon
Netherlands Film Festival
Ozone Film Festival, New Orleans, LA
AFI Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
London Int’l Film Festival
Les Recontres Int’l Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, France
2006 Florida Experimental Film/ Video Festival, Gainesville, FL
Dutch Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, Holland
Toontown Troublemakers, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
NEMO Film Festival, Paris, France
Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taipei, Tiawan
Cucalorus Film Fsetival, Wilmington, NC
Dutch Film Festival, Amsterdam, Holland
Scanners New Media Festival, Lincoln Center, NY
Electro Fringe Film Festival, Australia
Swiss Film Night Tour, curated by the Swiss Institute
Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland
International Competition of the 14th Curtas Vila do Conde IFF
Sugar and Splice Film Festival, Winnipeg, ON
Belfast film festival, Ireland
Mission Creek Music Festival, San Fransisco,CA
Paris Underground Film Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival's Music Video Showcase
Synch Festival Innovative Music, Moving Image and New Media, Athens Greece
ByDesign at North West Film Forum
European Media Arts Festival in Osnabruck, Germany
The MadCat Women’s International Film Festival Tour
Imagining Ourselves, International Museum of Women, San Francisco, CA
New York Underground Film Festival
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
49th San Francisco International Film Festival
James River Film Festival, Richmond, VA (festival guest/ featured filmmaker)
Martha Colburn and Co. Ocularis, Brooklyn, NY
Site gallery, London, UK
2005 Dokma Festival, Maribor, Slovenia
By Design, film program at the North West Film Forum, Seattle, WA
Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Stuttgart Film Winter, Germany
Mad Cat Women’s Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Cinema Texas, US
Nouveau Cinema Festival, Montreal, Canada
Lady Fest, Olympia, WA, US
The International Experimental Cinema Expo, Colorado, US
Video EX International Experimental film & video festival, Zurich, Switz.
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, US
Cine Vegas, Las Vegas, US
Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, Austria
Festival National du Film D'Animation, Auch, FR
Cannes International Film Festival, Fortnight of New Directors. FR
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruk, Germany
Doc Films, “The New Animation”, The University of Chicago, IL,US
American Shorts Reading Series, Pittsburg Filmmakers, PA, US
Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, CA
Brampton Indie Arts Festival, Brampton,CA
DUTCH OPEN, Amsterdam, NL
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL
New York Underground Film Festival, (IMPAKT program), NY, US
2004 LABoratory, Salt Lake City,UT. US
Dutch Film Festival, Panorama Program, NL
Massachusettes College of Art Film Society, US
Impakt Festival, NL
Forum des Images, Paris, France
Fantoche, Nussbaumen, Switzerland
Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel
Cinesong, Lyon, France
Ottawa International Film Festival, Canada
Feminale' , Cologne, Germany
Festival Internationale del Cinema de Animazione, Italy
K.Schippers en de Liefde, Cinema De Balie, Amsterdam, NL
Netherlands Film Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL
Super Super 8 Seventh, Basel Switzerland
Cinemateque, Hoogt 4, Utrecht Holland
Illuminating Shadows, Graz, Austria
Emerald Reels, Seattle, WA, US
LA Film Forum, Egyptian Theater, Los Angeles, CA
California Institute of the Arts, LA, CA
Emerald Reels, Seattle, WA, USA
Utah Arts Festival, USA
Video Ex, Zurich, Switzerland
Super 8 Special 2004, Basel, Switzerland
Starting From Scratch, Amsterdam, NL
2003 Pittsburgh Film-Makers, Pittsburgh, PA. US
Rhodes College, Memphis, TN. US
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. US
Federation of East Village Artists, New York, NY. US
Cinema Texas Film Festival, Austin, TX. US
Other Cinema, "New Experimental Works", San Francisco, CA. US
Images Independent Film and Video Festival, Toronto, ON, Canada
Philidelphia International Film Festival, US
Rotterdam International Film Festival "Witches Brew" Rotterdam, NL
16th Stuttgarter Filmwinter , Stuttgart, Germany
Sundance Film Festival, "Frontier Shorts", Park City, UT, USA
IX Festival of Independent Cinema, Barcelona, Spain
Film and Video Muestras of Palma de Mallorca, Spain
"Phallus in donderland", Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
Toneelschuur, Porno-Pop, Haarlem, NL
WORM, Rotterdam, DOEK Festival, Rotterdam, NL
Platform 01 (super 8), Vaksschool, Amsterdam, NL
Osnabruk Media Arts Festival, Osnabruk, Germany
Annexia festival, Toulouse, France
Micro festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
Burgvliet, Gouda, The Netherlands
Kraak festival, Hasselt, Belgium
Chroma festival, Guadalajara, Mexico
Off-loop (Barcelona, Spain
Rum46, Aarhus, Denmark
Bandits Mages, Bourges, France
Milano festival, Milano, Italy
2002 "Filmming Desire: A Journey Through Women's Film" 1995-1999 retrospective
Newcomb College Center of Research for Women, Tulane,LA, USA
Eurock Eennes, "Cine Au Camping" Belfort
S+M Film Festival. New York, NY , USA
iSOSceles Film Night, "Childhood's End" Melbourne , Australia
Anti Matter, Victoria, Canada
"Traditional and Subversive Animation", Worm Cinema, Rotterdam, NL
Institute for Social Ecology, Micro-Cinema, Brisbane, Australia
MIX gay and Lesbian Film Festival, New York
USA Millenium Film Theater, "Personal Cinema Series", NY, New York, USA
Holland Animation Film Festival, "Not Done", NL
Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL
"Recontres Internationales", 14h Videotheque (Paris),Brofabrik( Berlin)
"Wednesday Video", Jakarta, Indonesia
De Balie Cinema, "Straal", Amsterdam, NL
De Overslag, "Cloud Busting Metacollage" Diskono Festival , Eindhoven, NL
Plaza Futura, Eindhoven, NL
S/M Film Festival, New York, NY
Bimhuis, "Improvisation with Cor Fuller and Gert Van Prins" DOEK Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Stadelschule, "Lost Pieces" Frankfurt ,Germany
"Experiments in Terror" travelling European and American Program of Noel Lawerence Other Cinema, New Experimental Works, San Francisco, CA, USA
Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA
Schuttershof Film Theater, Middelburg, NL
Movie W, Waganingen, NL
Cinema Cavia, "VIVI PARA" Amsterdam, NL
Illuseum , Solo Screening, Amsterdam, NL
Film Akademie OT301, Solo Screening, Amsterdam, NL
W139, Winterfilm , Amsterdam, NL
Neiuwe Vide, "Flash show" Film Installation, Amsterdam, NL
De Balie, "Starting From Scratch", Amsterdam, NL
2001 Festival International de Cine Documental y Cortometraje de Bilbao, Spain
MIX Film Festival, New York, USA, (retrospective)
MIX Film Festival, Brazil
Women's Film Festival, Dortmund, Germany
Cleremont-Ferrand International Film Festival, France
2000 Lege Maag Film Festival, Brussels
Philippine International Film Festival
Brussels International Festival Of Animation, Belgium, (retrospective)
Bisbee Underground Film Festival, US
Sundance Film Festival, Utah, US
Out Fest, Los Angeles, US
San Francisco Cinemateque, US
Splice This!, Toronto, Canada
Other Cinema, US
Impakt Media Arts Festival, Nederlands
Viper Film and Video Festival, Switzerland (Tour of 30 venues in Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Nederlands, France, and Czech)
1999 New Nothing Cinema, US
The Grand Illusion, Seattle, US
Blinding Light Cinema, Canada Seattle Underground Film Festival, US
Gent International Film Festival, Belgium
Images Independent Film Festival, Canada
New York Underground Film Festival, US
Chicago Underground Film Festival, US
Contemporary Issues Film Festival, Portugal
1998 Stuttgart Film Winter, Germany
Interfilm Berlin Film Festival, Germany
Kasseler Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany
20e Festival International de Film Independent, Belgium
Exploding Cinema, London, UK
"Small Screens: Bigger Lives" Knitting Factory Video Lounge, New York, US
"Notes on Moving Image" Women's Animation Festival, Japan
Osnabruk Media Arts Festival, Germany
New York Women's Film Festival, US
Dresden International Festival for Animation and Short Films, Germany
Documental, San Diego, US
1997 Halcyon Gallery, Baltimore, US
"Layers In Time" Cin(E) Poetry Film Festival, San Francisco, US
Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, US
Industrial Arts co-op, Pittsburgh, US
Images Independent Film Festival, Canada
Reel Music Film Festival, Seattle, US (Retrospective Film tour of the USA to 15 venues from California to New York)
1996 Oberlin College, Independent Film series, Ohio, US
Super Super 8 Film Festival, US
Anthology Film archive, New York, US
Women In Film Series, Washington, D.C.,US
Gettysburg College, P.A., US
(Percussionist in the free Jazz group "X-Ray Eyes" and Film tour of 25 venues in Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, England, France, and Slovenia)
Lectures / Teaching

2007 Film & Media Society , Hunter College
You’re Not The Boss Of Me, guest lecture at Carnegie Mellon
2006 Workshop: James River Film festival
Workshop: PDX Film Festival
Workshop: Pennsylvania Magnet school
Lecture: Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Lecture: (American Institute of Graphic Artists- MOVE annual design symposium, NY, NY
2005 Expanded Animation Workshop, Wiggly World Studios, Seattle, WA
School of the Museum of fine Arts, Boston, MA (visiting artist)
MIT, Massachusettes. US, (visiting artist)
2004 California Institute of the Arts, USA (3 week visiting artist/professor)
Nanjing Art Institute, China (animation workshop)
2003 Dutch Art Institute, Enschede, NL (visiting tutor)
Statenskunst Akademie, Oslo, Norway (visiting artist/ lecture)
Kunstakademie of Bergen, Bergen Norway (visiting artist/ lecture)
2002 Filmwerkplaats,Rotterdam,NL "Basics of Subversive and traditional Animation"
1998 Visiting Professor of Animation, San Francisco Art Institute, US
Several presentations and lectures in many Fine Art schools and art groups in the USA
Debate

2000 De Verschijning, Tilburg,NL, Taal vorm engagement moderator Kees Hin
Commissions / Television Broadcast/ Freelance Film Projects

2005 Music Video Clip for ‘They Might Be Giants’ (Celebrate Brooklyn)
2004 Animation for the feature film “The Devil and Daniel Johnson” winner of Best
Documentary at Sundance Film Festival 2005
2001 Park TV, Amsterdam, Berlin, New York, Two one hour programs
1998 Channel Four, GB, Titles for "Animation Babylon"
Collections

2005 Centro per l’arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato-Italy
2001 Jonas Mekas, US (private collection)
2000 Dibendetto Collection, private, Video
1999 BBC Television, One film purchased
Grants

2007 New York Foundation for The Arts Grant
New York State Council for The Arts Grant
Experimental Television Grant
2005-6 Jerome Foundation Film Grant
2005 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council grant
Dutch Film Fund, completion grant, film: Cosmetic Emergency
2004 Dutch Film Fund, production grant, film: Cosmetic Emergency
Dutch Film Fund, completion grant, film: Secrets of Mexuality
Stadsdeel de Baarsjes Grant. Project: xxx Amsterdam
2000-2 Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
2001 (Nominee) Rockefeller Grant, US
2001 (Nominee) Rockefeller Grant, US
2000 Thaw Film Festival Grant, US
Chicago Underground Film Festival Grant, US
1998 Filmcore grant. New York Underground Film festival
1997 Maryland State Arts Grant, US
Awards

2007 Rena Hort Mann Award, NY
2003 'Best Animated Film' New York Underground Film Festival, US
2002 'Sarah Lawerence College Film Award', US
‘Best Animated Film’ Chicago Underground Film Festival
1999 'Best Animated Film' Chicago Underground Film Festival, US
'Best Animated Film' New York Underground Film Festival, US
1998 'Juries Choice Award' for No Budget Filmmaking, Hamburg Short Festival, DE
1997 'Juries Choice Award' Super Super 8 Film Festival, US
'Kenneth Patchen award' National Poetry Film Festival,US
Articles Published

2006 RES Magazine
Animal Magazine
Venus Magazine
2004 Filmmaker Magazine
Art Press, x-elles,” Les Sexe par les femmes”, May
2003 MM2 Experimental Film in the Netherlands since 1960
Toronto Daily: “Attack of The Collage Queen”
Bild Zeitung, Kulturteil Frankfurt. “Sex, Tod, Schaum, und Schaum” Jul.11
Frankfurter Rundschau, Ausgabe.S, “Garagenkino”, Jul.25
2002 Herald Tribune. April 2
2001 SOMA Left Coast Culture article: “Film: Punk's New Front”, Sept
Tubelight 18, Nov/ Dec, Amsterdam publication
Zone 5300, Comic Magazine: illustrations, Nov/ Dec
2000 A Girl's guidebook to filmmaking, Women's Filmmakers Publisher
Baltimore City Paper, “Filmmaker Martha Colburn Takes Off”, Sept.20
Yahoo Internet Life. “Really Strange Bedfellows:The hyperbizarre film world of Martha Colburn”, Oct
Umelec: Contemporary Art and Culture, Prague, CZ, May
1999 Flicker: Guide To Filmmaking, USA Screen, Amsterdam, and NL
Film A DOBA, Martha Colburnova, Prague CZ , Feb
1998 Coming Attractions Super 8 Magazine
The Independent Film and Video Monthly. Cover Art / May