Sherry Millner

Sherry Millner

Sherry Millner talking about her work at the New York Arts Practicum, 2013.
Born 1950
Brooklyn, New York City
Nationality American
Known for

Sherry Millner (born 1950 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American artist working primarily in video. She has also worked in photography and installation art.

Career

Millner has been producing films, videos, and photomontages since the mid-1970s. In the 1980s she was part of the first generation of feminist video artists, along with Vanalyne Green and Cecelia Condit.[1] Her work explores motherhood, the family, and its relationship to the militarized State, using a combination of satirical humor, analysis, and personal insight. She often collaborates on videos with her partner, the novelist and media critic Ernest Larsen.[2]

Millner's work has been included in numerous exhibitions at venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art (including two consecutive Whitney Biennial exhibitions), The Museum of Modern Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2011, her work was included with that of Superflex, Libia Castro, Ólafur Ólafsson and others in an international exhibition curated by Oliver Ressler and Gregory Sholette, It’s the Political Economy, Stupid: The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory. The exhibition travelled to venues in New York, Chicago, Vienna, Greece, Finland, Serbia, and Croatia.[3] In 2013, her work was included with that of Jeremy Deller, Mike Figgis and others in Economy, an exhibition which travelled to the Stills Gallery in Edinburgh and the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow.[4]

Her photomontages have been reproduced in many journals and anthologies; she was represented along with Barbara Kruger, Susan Meiselas, Carrie Mae Weems, and others in Diane Neumaier's anthology, Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies (Temple University Press, 1995).[5] She has received grants and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts,[6] the Jerome Foundation,[7] the NYSCA, Long Beach Museum of Art, and the Ucross Foundation, among others.[8] Her work has been widely reviewed and referenced by critics and art historians in books, journals, and periodicals.[9][10][11][12][13][14]

Millner has taught media courses at City University of New York, the New York Arts Practicum, and elsewhere. In recent years she has focused on curation. In January 2016, she and Larsen released the first of a three-disc DVD set that forms a curated history of the films of political resistance: Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power, Vol. 1.[15] This was based on their work as curators of the "Border-Crossers and Trouble-Makers" program at the Oberhausen Film Festival in 2008.[16] They also programmed the 2013 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar.[17]

Filmography

Millner's work is distributed by Video Data Bank.[2]

Year Film Length Type
1983 Womb with a View 00:40:00 Color
1985 Scenes From the Microwar 00:23:30 Color, Stereo with Ernest Larsen
1986 Out of the Mouths of Babes 00:24:00 Color
1992 The Art of Protective Coloration 00:16:00 Color, Stereo with Ernest Larsen
1996 Unruly Fan/Unruly Star 00:16:10 Color, Stereo
2000 41 Shots 00:14:00 Color, Mono with Ernest Larsen

Selected exhibitions

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Aufderheide, Pat; Zimmerman, Debra (2004). "From A to Z: A Conversation on Women's Filmmaking". Signs (U of Chicago Press) 30 (1): 1455–1472.
  2. 1 2 "Sherry Millner". Video Data Bank.
  3. 1 2 "It’s the Political Economy, Stupid". GregorySholette.com.com. 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Economy". e-flux. 2013.
  5. ↑ Neumaier, Diane (1995). Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies. Foreword by Anne Wilkes Tucker. Temple University Press. ISBN 9781566393324.
  6. ↑ "NYFA Directory of Artists' Fellows 1985-2013" (PDF). New York Foundation for the Arts. 2013.
  7. ↑ "New York EXPO Exposes Shorts". International Documentary Association. January 1, 1998.
  8. ↑ "Department of Media Culture: Sherry Millner". CSI/CUNY.
  9. ↑ Bloom, Lisa E. (2013). Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity. Routledge. pp. 12, 117–118. ISBN 9781134695669.
  10. ↑ Cotter, Holland (March 1, 1987). "Video Series Blends Art and Politics". The New York Times.
  11. ↑ Cotter, Holland (July 29, 1994). "Art in Review". The New York Times.
  12. ↑ Rosenberg, Howard (July 10, 1996). "How to View TV in Three Easy Lessons". Los Angeles Times.
  13. ↑ Smith, Roberta (January 10, 1992). "Art in Review". The New York Times.
  14. ↑ Suderburg, Erika (2000). Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art. U of Minnesota Press. pp. 16, 179, 181–184. ISBN 9780816631599.
  15. ↑ "Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power Vol. 1". Facets Label. 2016.
  16. ↑ "Theme 2008". Oberhausen International Short Film Festival.
  17. ↑ "Flaherty NYC Fall 2013 Series Inspires Dialogue About Global Revolts". PBS. September 30, 2013.
  18. ↑ "CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s)". The Renaissance Society. 1987.
  19. ↑ Armstrong, Richard (1987). 1987 Biennial exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Whitney Museum of American Art.
  20. ↑ "Investigations 27: Fast Forward, New Video". ICA Philadelphia. 1988.
  21. ↑ Armstrong, Richard (1989). 1989 Biennial exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Whitney Museum of American Art.
  22. ↑ Grundberg, Andy (November 17, 1989). "Video Is Making Waves in the Art World". The New York Times.
  23. ↑ "Literacy on the Table: Cultural Literacy and the Act of Reading". Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. 1989.
  24. ↑ "Video and Myth" (PDF). The Museum of Modern Art. 1989.
  25. ↑ "The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s". The New Museum Digital Archive. August 19, 1990.
  26. ↑ "Video Viewpoints Begins Fifteenth Season" (PDF). The Museum of Modern Art. 1992.

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