Sadie Benning

Co-Chair, Film/Video, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts

Primary Academic Program: MFA Film/Video

Biography: Film/Video. Sadie Benning was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1973. She received her M.F.A. from Bard College in 1997. Her videos have been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, universities and film festivals since 1990 with select solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Centre Georges Pompidou, and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center among other venues. Her work is in many permanent collections, including those of the Museum of Modern art, The Fogg Art Musuem, and the Walker Art Center, and has been included in the following exhibitions: Annual Report: 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008); White Columns Annual (2007); Whitney Biennial (2000 and 1993); Building Identities, Tate Modern (2004); Remembrance and the Moving Image, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (2003); Video Viewpoints, Museum of Modern Art (2002); American Century, Whitney Museum of Modern Art (2000); Love’s Body, Tokyo Museum of Photography (1999); Scream and Scream Again: Film in Art, Museum of Modern Art Oxford (1996-7), and Venice Biennale (1993).

Benning’s recent work has increasingly incorporated video installation, sound, sculpture, and drawing. Solo exhibitions include Wexner Center for the Arts (Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation, 2007), Orchard Gallery (Form of…a Waterfall, 2008), Dia: Chealsea (Play Pause, 2008) and The Power Plant (Play Pause, 2008). She is a former member and cofounder, with Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman, of the music group Le Tigre. She has received grants and fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, Andrea Frank Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, and Rockefeller Foundation. Awards include Wexner Center Residency Award in Media Arts, National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture Merit Award, Grande Video Kunst Award, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Circle Award.
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Department: Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts