Marcia Vaitsman bio

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Education

2014 Universidade de Coimbra, Phd candidate in Contemporary Art, Portugal
2011
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Atlanta, United States MFA, Photography
2002 Academy of Media Arts of Cologne (KHM), Germany MFA, Audiovisual Art (German Diplom)
1998 Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil, School for Art and Communications Bachelor, Media Studies
1995 Institute for Germanistik and Publicity of Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria

Professional Experience

2002-2007
Teaching position at Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne, Germany.
1999-2001

Tutor for Prof. Valie EXPORT and Department of Media Design, KHM, Cologne, Germany

Solo Exhibitions and Screenings

Paco das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil, upcoming January 2016.
Small Acts of Kindness, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA, 2015.
MediaScan: Giant Waves, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil, 2013.
Study of Strange Things
, Somolon Projects, 2011, Atlanta, GA.
Marcia Vaitsman, Galeria Candido Portinary, 2011, Brazilian Embassy, Rome, Italy.
The Whiteness of an Exotic Place, Braziliality, 2009, London, United Kingdom.
The Whiteness of an Exotic Place, Galleria Huuto, 2006, Helsinki, Finland.
The Elephant Cage, Japan Foundation, 2005, Cologne, Germany.
Walking on Eggs in Buenos Aires, Boquitas Pintadas, 2004, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A common ancestral stranger, Galerie Projektraum, 2001, Cologne, Germany.

Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2015
Biennial of Cerveiras, Portugal.
Homeless Monalisa, Coimbra, Portugal.
2014
Exquisite Corpses, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA.
2013
Aqua Art Miami, contemporary art fair, Miami, FL.
2012
Aqua Art Miami, contemporary art fair, Miami, FL.
2012

Re-placing Atlanta Preservation Center, Atlanta, GA.
Caminhos da América Latina, FLAAC, Brasília, Brazil. (upcoming 08.2012).
From Cosmology to Neurology and Back Again, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Soltem os Bichos, Estúdio 397, São Paulo, Brazil.
Contemporary Mandalas: New Forms and New Audiences, Emory Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Works in White, CherryLyon Gallery, Atlanta, United States.
2011

Nocturnal Encounters, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada.
Text and Texture, Gustein Gallery, Savannah, GA.
Photography Abstract Medium, photography, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
FUSO: Fixed is Moving, Lisbon Video Art Festival, Portugal.
17 Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil.
Juried Georgia Artists’ exhibition, Abernathy Center, Atlanta, GA.
2010

Micro Screening CINEVIDEO 01, Expanded Dialogues, Vignanello, Italy.
Salon des Refuses. Curated by Stuart Keeler for Public Art Network, Baltimore, MD.
How to Break Up with Yourself, Dewberry Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
DeFine Arts, SCAD, Atlanta, GA.
2009

Deslocamentos, Brazilian Embassy, Berlin, Germany.
Julio, Think’n’dance, online screening www.thisisjulio.com, Spain.
We Love Magazine Library returns, Rocket Gallery, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.
Zirkus Minimus, Galerie Walden, Berlin, Germany.
We Love Magazine Library, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, Japan.
2008

Expedição Fancisco, Floating atelier/artist trip to the São Francisco River, FUNART, Brazil. 2007
2007

Videomostra, Itaú Cultural, Belo Horizonte and Belém, Brazil. 2006
2006

International Video Art Biennial, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. Ogaki Biennial, Ogaki, Japan.
Cultural Typhoon, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, Japan.
Videomostra, Itaú Cultural, Belo Horizonte and Belém, Brazil.
Displaced Exhibition, Upeace, Toronto, Canada.
Hajimari no Mizu, BankART STUDIO NYK, Yokohama, Japan.
The Wanderers’ Engawa in the Era of Technocodes, Softopia, Ogaki, Japan.
2005

15 Videobrasil Media Art Festival, São Paulo, Brazil.
Kunstfilmbiennale – Fokus Südamerika, Cologne, Germany.
Involver, Siebenviertel, Cologne, Germany.
Field Research, Galerie Schenk, Cologne, Germany.
IAMAS Artist In Residence Exhibition 2004-2005, Ogaki, Japan.
2004

IAMAS Open House, Ogaki, Japan.
O Corpo Entre o Público e o Privado, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
Em_trânsito, Goethe Institut/Galeria Monumental, Lisbon, Portugal.
Videobrasil New Media Retrospective 1998-2003, São Paulo, Brazil. 2003
2003

14 Videobrasil Media Art Festival, São Paulo, Brazil.
Projeto Cria da Casa, Espaço OPHICINA, São Paulo, Brazil.
Altitude 2003, KHM, Cologne, Germany.
I Biennale for Architecture, Brave New Art and Bruce Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2002

Feira, Galeria Virgílio, São Paulo, Brazil.
Exhibition Cativeiro, São Paulo, Brazil.
Villette Numérique, I Biennale for Digital Art, Paris, France. Medio@rte Latino, Transmediale 02, Berlin, Germany.
Milia 2002, Cannes, France.
2001

13 Videobrasil Media Art Festival, São Paulo, Brazil.
Mpolis, KHM, Cologne, Germany.
European Gathering of the Young Digital Creation, Valenciennes, France.
3×3, Nanquim Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
See you hear, HDK, Berlin, Germany.
Future Bodies, Cologne, Germany.
Altitude, Cologne, Germany.
Das Gläserne Genlaboratorium, Galerie Projektraum, Cologne, Germany.

Visiting Artist

SCAD Lacoste, France, 2014.
Coimbra Film Festival, Symposium for Art and Cinema, Coimbra, Portugal, 2014.
Walthall Fellowship speaker, Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA, 2014.
Invited critic, Design and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 2013.
Panelist at Society of Photographic Education National Conference, Chicago, IL, 2013.
Paço das Artes, 2012, São Paulo, Brazil.
Parkdale Public Library, Leitmotiv, video workshop, 2011, Toronto, Canada.
Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, 2011, Atlanta, GA
Centro Cultural São Paulo, 2009, São Paulo, Brazil.
Centro Cultural da Juventude, 2008, São Paulo, Brazil.
SESC Pompéia, 2008, São Paulo, Brazil.
FACAP, 2008, Petrolina, Brazil.
Paço das Artes, 2008, São Paulo, Brazil.
FRAME/HIAP/Cable Factory, 2006, Helsinki, Finland.
Kuvataideakatemia, Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki, Helsinki, 2006, Finland.
Paço das Artes, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.
Japan Foundation, 2005, Cologne, Germany.
Softopia, Ogaki, 2005, Japan.
Academy of Fine Arts Bremen, 2005, Bremen, Germany.

Curatorial Projects

Photography Abstract Medium, curatorial concept, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Nocturnal Encounters, TV as Public Space, Nuit Blanche, 2011, Toronto, Canada.
Studio 12 Encounters, 2011, www.marciavaitsman.com/studio12, Atlanta, GA.

Awards and Residencies

Fulton County Arts Fellowship, Atlanta, GA, 2013.
Idea Capital Travel Grant, Atlanta, GA, 2013.
Hambige Center for the Arts and Sciences, 3 weeks, Dillard, US, 2013.
Doukan 7002, center for art and social engagement, Chicago, IL.
FLAAC, Tranaposição, Brasília, 2012, Brazil.
Studio artist program, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, 2011, Atlanta, GA.
Prize Mostras de Artistas no Exterior, Sao Paulo Biennial Foundation, 2010, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Lost Art Contest (art history category 20th century), SCAD, 2010, Atlanta, GA.
Frances Larkin McCommon Fellowship, SCAD, 2009, Atlanta, GA.
Project grant, Prince Claus Fund, 2004 and 2008, Den Haag, Netherlands.
Project grant, Conexões, Funarte/Petrobras, Culture Ministry, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
HIAP, Cable Factory, 3 months, 2006, Helsinki, Finland.(residency)
25th Viper Festival, 2006, Basel, Switzerland. (nomination)
Tokyo Video Festival, Fine Works Selection, 2006, Tokyo, Japan. (nomination)
UNESCO-Aschberg prize, 2005, Paris, France.
Videobrasil Media Art Festival, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2011, São Paulo, Brazil. (nomination)
IAMAS, 6 months, 2004, Ogaki, Japan.(residency)
Videokunst Förderpreis Filmbüro Bremen, 2004, Bremen, Germany. (honor mention)
Cria da Casa, Espaço Ophicina, Photography, 2003, São Paulo, Brazil.
File Festival, 2002, São Paulo, Brazil. (nomination)
EMMA (Electronic Multimedia Award), 2001, London, United Kingdom.

Press and Reviews

Jerry Cullum, Vaitsman’s ‘Study of Strange Things’ Taps into a Personal Mythology, Burnaway, Atlanta, GA, 2011.
Casey Lynch, Marcia Vaitsman at Solomon Projects, in Imcompletely Wrong, Atlanta, GA , 2011.
Robert Stalker, Review: Marcia Vaitsman’s delightfully eerie “Study of Strange Things”, in ArtsATL, Atlanta, GA, 2011.
How to Break Up with Yourself, Atlanta, GA. (catalog) , 2009.
Mello, Christine. Extremidades do Video, São Paulo, Editora Senac, 2008.
Janken: The Power of Chance, Ogaki Biennale, Ogaki. (catalog), 2006.
Videozone, International Video Art Biennale, Tel Aviv. (catalog), 2006.
Performance, 15o Videobrasil, São Paulo. (catalog), 2005.
Deslocamentos, 14o Videobrasil, São Paulo. (catalog), 2003.
Fluxos, Fusões e Assimilações, 13o Videobrasil, São Paulo. (catalog), 2001.

Collections

Videobrasil Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil.
Institute of Advanced Media Art and Science, Ogaki, Japan.
Helsinki International Art Program, Helsinki, Finland.
Japan Foundation, Cologne, Germany.
Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne, Germany.