Irit Batsry

Irit Batsry ( * 1957 in Ramat Gan, Israel ) is an American- Israeli photographer, installation and video artist.

Life and work

At the University Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Irit Batsry 1982 received a degree in Video Studies.

In 1983 she moved to New York City and worked as a teacher and an online editor for the Art Journal Film / Video Arts. At the turn of 2002/2003 Batsry had a big exhibition of video installations in the building Biosphere ( Montreal ), which was originally built as a U.S. pavilion at the World Expo 1967 in honor of Buckminster Fuller and is currently used as a water - environmental museum. Batsry developed a site-specific interactive concept that experience made ​​the aesthetic, designed by Fuller " geodesic dome " and expanded.

Her works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art

In Europe, Irit Batsry was Artist in Residence by 1992 - 1993 the French CICV Montbéliard - Belfort ( Centre International de Création Vidéo Montbeliard Belfort ), from 1993 to 2000 at the Cologne Academy of Media, in 1994 and 1996 at the same time Cité in the Internationale des Arts in Paris. With installations and videos she was present in well-known European art institutions. In the fall of 2006, there were several days of video retrospective at the Paris Museum of Contemporary Art Jeu de Paume.

Batsrys adopted country is steadily since 1983, New York City. To work on her videos she often however, kept for months in Europe, for example in CICV Montbéliard - Belfort ( Centre international de création vidéo ) or in the workshops of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.

Videos

  • Slightly less than a saint, 20 min. 1982
  • A Simple Case of Vision, 12 min. 1991
  • Passage to Utopia trilogy, 88 min. 1985 - 1993: Stories From the Old Ruin, 15 min. 1986
  • Leaving The Old Ruin, 34 min. 1989
  • Traces of a Presence to Come, 39 min. 1993

Video installations

  • Giacometti 's Scale, Kunsthaus Rhenaniastraße, Cologne 1995
  • Fuller's flow, Biosphere, Montreal 2003
  • Set, Multimedia Installation, Whitney Museum in 2004, New York

Awards

  • 2002 Bucksbaum Award
  • 2001 video price of recovery and compensation company SCAM (France) for it are not my images ( neither here nor there )
  • 1992 Guggenheim Fellowship
  • 1996, 2001 Grand Prix of video de Création of the Société Civile of Auteurs Multimedia, Paris
  • 1990, 1995 Grand Prix at the Locarno Video Festival
  • 1994 2001 grand prize at the International Video Festival Vigo, Spain, sending date on ARTE: 06/06/2001 It's not for my pictures (neither here nor there ) (80 min)
  • Best Artistic Contribution at the 1991 International Festival of Cádiz
  • 1989 top prize at the Australian Video Festival, Sydney
  • 1989 top prize at the San Francisco Poetry Film Festival
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