BIO

Astria Suparak has curated international exhibitions, screenings and events at The Kitchen, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eyebeam, Anthology Film Archives, P.S.1, FotoFest Biennial, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Participant Inc., Yale University and The Liverpool Biennial, in addition to numerous alternative spaces. In the last ten years, she has presented close to 300 shows in 10 countries. Suparak was the director of the media series at Pratt Institute from 1997 to 2000 and of Syracuse University's Warehouse Gallery from 2006-2007. She is currently the director of Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Gallery.

Suparak’s drawings have been published in feminist journal LTTR, photo essay book I NY, British art magazine Black Diamond, and Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents. Her writing has appeared in NY Arts, The Independent, and Heeb, and in the upcoming anthologies Live Cinema: A Contemporary Reader, and A Microcinema Primer: A Brief History of Small Cinemas. She has advised various art organizations and served on juries, boards, and panels, including Creative Capital, ReNew Media, IMPAKT, the Aurora Picture Show, and the New York Underground Film Festival. Her curatorial work is included in the collections of institutions including Massachusetts College of Art (Boston), Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (UK), and the University of California, San Diego.

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Astria Suparak curates site-specific shows for international art museums and galleries, film and cultural festivals, and bands. After the programs screen to their particular audiences, Suparak then brings the work to different settings and a wider public, with locations including schools, skating rinks, artist collectives, sports bars and churches.

Suparak founded the Pratt Institute Film Series in 1997, which expanded to include multidisciplinary performance, live music, and on-site installations. After programming over one hundred events in New York City, she spent the next four years touring Europe, Mexico, America, and Canada with curated screenings and exhibitions. She was the inaugural director of Syracuse University's Warehouse Gallery from 2006-2007, and is currently the director of Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Gallery.

Her own publications and projects include the artist booklet Diagrams from Waiting, featured in the feminist journal LTTR, the videotape compilation Some Kind of Loving produced by Joanie 4 Jackie, and the on-going research series American Girls, made in collaboration with teens and published by British art magazine Black Diamond. She has served on various award committees including The Program for Media Artists, IMPAKT Festival, Creative Capital Foundation, and state arts councils of Pennsylvania and Ohio.


Astria Suparak has curated conceptually and aesthetically diverse shows for Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo (Mexico City), Yale University School of Architecture (New Haven), Anthology Film Archives (New York), The Liverpool Biennial (UK), Outfest (Los Angeles), Chicago Cultural Center, New York Underground Film Festival, MoMA affiliate P.S.1 (Queens, NY), The Knitting Factory, International Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany), and a rotating lineup of films for live musical accompaniment by The Boxhead Ensemble. Her video program Looking is better than feeling you, originally created for teenagers at Ladyfest in Washington, D.C., went on to exhibit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Recent endeavors include How To Be A Canadian, the informational video evening commissioned by Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology; Trouble, a film screening on Hollywood and collage which accompanied the travelling gallery exhibition and DVD catalogue Industry, premiering at La Cinematheque quebecoise; and Quantum Leaps, an inspirational program of new video cataloging heroes, compressing history, and hallucinating futures, which screened at The Kitchen in New York.

Astria Suparak's projects have taken her to eleven countries. Her work can be seen in numerous publications, in streets across North America, and in the collections of museums and institutions including Massachusetts College of Art (Boston), Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (UK), and the University of California, San Diego.

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SHORT BIO

Astria Suparak is an artist who also curates for museums, festivals, and bands, including PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, The Liverpool Biennial, Kurtzfilmtage Oberhausen, Yale University, and Anthology Film Archives. She also brings experimental film and video art to non-institutional venues such as skating rinks, ships, sports bars, churches, and elementary schools. Her work can be seen in numerous publications, streets, and collections.

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