Dates

• Existence: Born 1958

Biography

Zoe Beloff grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1980 she moved to New York to study at Columbia University where she received an MFA in Film. Her work has been featured in international exhibitions and screenings; venues include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Site Santa Fe, the M HKA museum in Antwerp, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. She has been working with the Christine Burgin Gallery on a number of artist projects that include books and prints.

Zoe works with a wide range of media including film, projection performance, installation and drawing. She considers herself a medium, an interface between the living and the dead, the real and the imaginary. Each project aims to connect the present to the past so that it might illuminate the future in new ways. She is currently exploring utopian ideas of social progress. Her most recent project is The Days of the Commune.

She has been awarded fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a Professor in the Departments of Media Studies and Art at Queens College CUNY.

Solo Exhibitions

2013 “Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and the Blackpool Chapter” The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool England “The Days of the Commune” Slought Foundation, Philadelphia “The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff” Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

2012 “A History of Dreams Remains to be Written…” The Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland “DREAMLAND: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle 1926-1972” Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona “DREAMLAND: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle 1926-1972” Espacio para el Arte Caja Madrid, Aranjuez Spain “The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff”, M HKA Museum, Antwerp “Adventures of a Dreamer”, Freud’s Dream Museum, St. Petersburg Russia

2011 “The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff” Site Gallery, Sheffield “Freud’s Droomland” Het Dolhuys: national museum van de psychiatrie, Haarlem The Netherlands “The Somnambulists” The Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles

2010 “DREAMLAND: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle 1926-1972” Kiosk, Gent Belgium “Adventures of a Dreamer” Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London

2009 “DREAMLAND: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle 1926-1972”, Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY

2008 “The Somnambulists” Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY “The Somnambulists” Arcite Gallery, Windsor Ontario

2005 “The Ideoplastic Materializations of Eva C” Bellwether, New York “The Ideoplastic Materializations of Eva C” Siena Heights University Art Gallery, Michigan. “The Ideoplastic Materializations of Eva C” Gallery TPW, Toronto

2003 “The Influencing Machine of Miss Natalija A.” Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2013 “More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness” The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. " 30X30 – Artcite30th anniversary show pt 1 ”, Windsor Ontario “Imaginary Friends” Interstate Projects, Brooklyn

2012 “Pulsion(s) art et déraison” Musée Félicien Rops, Namur Belgium “More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness” Site Santa Fe, New Mexico

2011 Inconscinet! Les Artistes et la Psychanalyse. Galerie Alfa, Paris “Beloff/Maddin/AMVK – Learning to Dream” Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum, Rotterdam

2009 “Magic Show” a touring exhibition organized by the Hayward Gallery London, venues: Quad, Derby, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Chapter, Cardiff, Pump House Gallery, London Shift Festival der Elektronischen Künste, Basel, Switzerland “Heaven” 2009 Athens Biennale, Greece “Hysteria: Past yet Present” Paul Robson Gallery, Rutgers University New Jersey

2007 “Now You See It” Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York State Artefact Festival, Stuk Art Center, Leuven, Belgium "The Air Loom and other dangerous influencing machines” The Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg, Germany “Wolfgang von Kempelen.Mensch-[in der]-Maschine” Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

2006 “The Golden Hour” Gigantic Art Space (GAS), New York City 2005 Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology and the Paranormal, Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD “Trifecta” Bellwether Gallery New York

2004 “The Disembodied Spirit” Bowdoin College Museum of Art traveling to Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, Austin Museum of Art Texas

2003 Future Cinema, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

2002 Nam June Paik Award 02, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany “Some Assembly Required: Collage in Post-War America” Everson Museum of Art Syracuse traveling to Madison Art Center Wisconsin and the Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida Le Fresnoy Studio National des arts contemporains, Tourcoring, France The Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, New York

2001 Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia “International Distinguished Artist Symposium & Exhibition”, Joseloff Gallery at Hartford University, Hartford, Connecticut “World Without End” Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia

2000 “Alien Intelligence”, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland “Lo Spazio Sospeso - usi e riusi di aree industriali dismesse” Turino Italy “Les Mondes Inventés” Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Microwave festival 2000, Hong Kong

1999 Videoformes 99 Clermont-Ferrand, France Digital Code/Cultural Patterns, University of Texas at Dallas “Zonas de Contacto el arte en CD-ROM”, Mexico City Tramvideo, Lyon France Videoformes 99 Clermont-Ferrand, France Word Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck Impakt Festival, Utrecht

1998 “Biennale de l’Image,” Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris, France “Les Mondes Inventes, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France Galerie VOX, Montreal Cyber 98, Lisbon Portugal Panaemonium Festival: London Electronic Arts

1997 “Selected Memories”, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium “Staging Surrealism” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH The Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, New York

SELECTED SCREENINGS

2013 Center for Contemporary Art , Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw Birkbeck College, London National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, May 4

2012 Museum der Unerhörten Dinge, Berlin Venus and Apoll, Dusseldorf Freud’s Museum of Dreams, St Petersburg, Russia

2011 S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña, Spain La Casa Encendida, Madrid Festival Ambulante, Mexico City 21ème Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille

2010 Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley Rotterdam Film Festival Art Cinema Off Off, Gent, Belgium Museum of Modern Art, New York

2009 Northwest Film Forum, Seattle REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angles

2007 North West Film Forum, Seattle Festival Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal Freud Dream Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia CIANT International Center for Art and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic

2006 The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley MadCat Film Festival, San Francisco Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo The Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto

2005 Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival @ American Museum of Natural History, New York

2004 PICA – Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts TBA Festival Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley

2003 The Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto Anthology Film Archives, New York

2002 London International Film Festival American Museum of Natural History

2001 American Museum of the Moving Image Rotterdam International Film Festival Society for Psychical Research, London

2000 San Francisco Cinematheque

1999 Melbourne Film Festival Australia

1998 Kaaitheater Brussels Film Forum Los Angeles Rotterdam Film Festival

1997 Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival Museum of Modern Art New York The Video Festival of Navarre, Spain

1996 Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley

1994 Film/performance( collaboration with John Cale) The Arts at St Ann's Brooklyn

1990 London Film Festival New York Film Festival Montreal World Film Festival Seattle Film Festival AFI Film Festival, Los Angles Collective for Living Cinema, New York Sundance Film Festival Berlin Film Festival

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Fellowships: The Radcliffe Institute Harvard (2013), Guggenheim Foundation (2003), The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (1997) and NYFA (1997, 2001). Individual Artists grants from NYSCA (1997, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2010), CEC Arts Link (2012), PSC CUNY Research Foundation (2009, 2007, 2004), The Jerome Foundation (1992, 1998, 2000) and Experimental Television Center Finishing Funds Award (2009, 2007, 2004, 2002, 1997). Residences: Harvestworks Digital Media Arts New York, Hallwalls Buffalo, Tesla Berlin http://apa.sagepub.com/content/61/2/416

EDUCATION

BA/MA 1980 Edinburgh University/ College of Art – joint degree in Painting and Art History. MFA 1983 Columbia University. Film Production. 1985-86 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

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