BIO

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. In June 2006 she became the founding director of the new contemporary art space The Warehouse Gallery in Syracuse, NY.

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.

A. Suparak
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