Michelle Handelman Selected Works     Biography     Press Release


  EDUCATION

  2000 M.F.A. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  1989-1987 B.F.A. The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
  1986-1983 The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
  1983-1982 North London Polytechnic, London, England
  1982-1980 Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts

  GRANTS AND AWARDS

  1999 Rockefeller Fellowship Nominee
  Creative Capital Finalist
  Grand Prize, Manchester Film Festival for BloodSisters
  1997 Sundance Screenwriters Workshop Finalist for Sugar Baby
  1996 American Film Institute Sony Visions Award for Hope
  1995 Rockefeller Fellowship Nominee
  1994 Horizons Foundation Grant for BloodSisters
  Texas National Award - First Place for Blood, Guts and Beauty
  San Francisco International Film Festival- Certificate of Merit for Take-2
  Rutgers University S-8 Film Festival- Special merit
  1993 Bay Area Video Coalition Interactive Fellowship Award
  1992 Film Arts Foundation Grant for BloodSisters
  1991 San Francisco Artspace Video Production Grant for A History of Pain
  1989 The San Francisco Art Institute Film Festival - Honorable Mention

  SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

  2000 Cristinerose Gallery, New York
  1998 State of Repair, D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival, New York
  Videotheque de Paris, France
  University of Texas, Tulsa
  1997 Bologna Cultural Center, Italy
  1996 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  National Film Theater, London
  Roxie Cinema, San Francisco
  Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
  The Director's Guild, Los Angeles
  Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York
  1995 Tyneside Cinema. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England
  Kino Eiseit, Berlin
  Xenia Cinema. Zurich
  Reithaller. Bern, Switzerland
  Other Cinema, San Francisco
  1994 Blood, Guts and Beauty Catherine Clark Gallery , San Francisco
  Visual Surgery: Art, Anatomy and the Acute Rita Dean Gallery,
  San Diego
  1993 Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego
  1992 Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
  Artspace Gallery, San Francisco
  San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco
  Paard Theater, Den Haag, Holland

  GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

  1999 Unnatural, The Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
  Kino Festival of American Underground Film, Manchester, England
  The Grotesqueness of Desire, InsideART Gallery, Chicago
  The Womb Room, Locus Media, New York
  Little Kino in Slumberland Exit Art, New York
  1998 Fragmented Bodies: Identity or Violence California State University at Pomona
  The San Francisco Internation Art Exposition, Fort Mason Center
  The Ljubljana Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Slovenia
  Valentine's Sex Massacre show, The Knitting Factory, New York
  1997 Scared Stiff, Leslie Lohmann Gay Art Foundation Gallery, New York City
  Queer Screen. Sydney, Australia
  Body Parts: Medical Imagery and Experimental Cinema Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
  Video Tensions, University of Arizona, Tucson
  1996 MIX - New York Experimental Film Festival
  Catharine Clark Gallery, Triton Art Fair
  Done Time Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
  Optimism/Sarcasm The Lab Gallery, San Francisco
  Inside Out Knitting Factory, New York
  London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, British Film Institute
  Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals: Amsterdam, New Zealand, Toronto, Paris,
  Bologna, Honolulu, Philadelphia, Seattle, Athens, Milwaukee, Boston, New
  York, Melbourne
  1995 Psychoanalysis and Art: The Re-Embody-Ment of Desire, Somar Gallery, SF
  Reframing Exposure: Photo Technology and Body Memory Richmond Art Center, California
  Film show with Hannah Wilke Exhibition Center for the Arts, San Francisco
  The 114th Annual Exhibition, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art
  Institute, San Francisco, CA
  Texas National. SFA Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University
  Annual Show, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
  Triton Art Fair, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
  American Film Institute. Los Angeles
  Madrid Experimental Film Festival. Madrid, Spain
  Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals: San Francisco, Dallas, Los Angeles, Austin,
  Berlin, Montreal Hamburg, Atlanta, Chicago
  1994 Mill Valley Film Festival. California
  As We Like It Side Street Projects, Los Angeles.
  Investigations into the Metaphorical and Physical Hole Gallery 2,
  Chicago.
  The Illustrated Woman Conference Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, SF
  1993 Toronto Film Festival of Festivals. Canada
  TranceSex Exhibit Mondrian Hotel, AMO Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
  Shock! Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento
  Gallery Artists Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
  1992 Flesh Histories touring film exhibition: The Kitchen, New York;
  911 Media Center, Seattle; Frameline Lesbian and Gay Film Festival,
  San Francisco; ICA,
  London; MIX Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; Johns Hopkins
  University, Baltimore
  Hi -8 Residency Grant Program SF Artspace Gallery, San Francisco
  John Cage 80th Birthday Reception Stanford University, Palo Alto
  1991 Easier Said Than Done University of Illinois Gallery, Chicago
  Group show World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago
  Ann Arbor Film Festival. Ann Arbor, Michigan
  1990 Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs La Luz de Jesus
  Gallery, LA
  Festival for Freedom of Expression San Francisco Art Institute

  SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  1997 Dick, Kirby "Scream" Filmmaker Magazine (New York January 1997)
  Williams, David E. "Partners in Pain" Film Threat Magazine (Los Angeles January 1997)
  Roche, Harry, "Critic's Choice" SF Bay Guardian (Feb. 1997)
  1996 Holden, Stephen. "A Shift in Focus" New York Times (New York June 7, 1996)
  Stein, Elliott. "Absolutely Deviant" Village Voice (New York, June 1, 1996)
  Kolker, Robert "Let's talk (and talk and talk) about Sex" Time Out (NY Nov 14, 1996)
  Che, Cathay. "Reel Queer" Time Out (New York June 5, 1996)
  Rephann, Lola. "Press Picks" New York Press (June 19, 1996)
  Bordas, Hanna. "BloodSisters" Bay Windows (Boston June 20, 1996)
  Ambian, Robert. "Interview with Michelle Handelman" Release Print (SF March 1996)
  Ward, Robin. "No Pain, No Gain" Bay Area Reporter (March 19,1996)
  Vance, Kelly. "Over There" East Bay Express (March 22, 1996)
  1995 Sirius, R.U. "Top Ten" Art Forum (October 1995)
  Noack, Frank. "Tod und Verzweiflung" Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin Nov. 10, 1995)
  1994 Cohn, Terri. "Body Blows" Visions Art Quarterly (Winter 1994)
  Connor, Celeste. "Social Sights" Artweek (May 5,1994)
  Kennedy, Matthew. "Artists Manipulate Body in Blood, Guts and Beauty."
  The Sentinel (SF,Ca. April 13, 1994)
  Winfree, Courtney. "Michelle Handles Herself" Film Threat Magazine (Los Angeles April 1994)
  1993 Warwick, Acacia. Review. Art Papers (Atlanta Sept./Oct. 1993)
  Hankin, Kelly. "Torture and Pain come to Rita Dean." Gay and Lesbian
  Times (San Diego July 15,1993)
  Gassaway, Jeff. "Talk about your Tortured Artists." Strap (San Diego July 1993)
  1992 Torgovnick, Marianna. "Skin and Bolts." Art Forum (New York Dec. 1992)
  Bornstein, Kate. "Painful Television," Bay Area Reporter ( SF,Ca. April 16, 1992)
  Van Duzen, Wendy. "Dangerous Duo." Primal Chaos (SF, Ca. February, 1992)
  1991 Stonitsch, Lonette. "Michelle and Monte," P-Form Magazine (Chicago. February, 1991)

  PUBLICATIONS BY THE ARTIST

  1999 Art of The X-Files Lookout Publications, New York
  Every Woman Needs a Weapon Creation Books, London
  1997 Bitch Goddess Cups Magazine, New York
  Killing Time Morbid Curiousity Magazine, San Francisco
  1995 Coming Up, the World's Best Erotica Richard Kasak Books, New York
  1994 Sensoria from Sensorium. Mangajin Books, Toronto, Canada
  Herotica 3. Down There Press, San Francisco, California
  1992 Framework. Violence issue. Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
  1990 The Media Conspiracy Against the Developing Mind, Apocalypse Culture 2 ( Feral House Press, Los Angeles.)

  LECTURES

  1996 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  California College of Arts and Crafts
  San Francisco Art Institute
  University of California at Berkeley
  1995 Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
  San Francisco Art Institute. SF,Ca.
  University of California at Davis
  University of California at Berkeley
  1994 San Francisco Art Institute. SF, Ca.
  The Illustrated Woman: Feminism, Activism and the Arts. Center for the
  Arts. SF, Ca.
  1993 University of California at Davis
  Catharine Clark Gallery, SF
  Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego
  ATA- Artists Television Access, SF
  1992 Stanford University, Palo Alto,Ca.
  1991 Lower Links, Chicago

  PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  1999-97 Media Studies Graduate Program, New School University, NY- Adjunct
  Professor
  1999 Art Department, Cooper Union, New York ­ Visiting Artist
  1997-96 Film Department, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland -
  Adjunct Professor
  1997-95 New Genres Department, San Francisco Art Institute, SF - Adjunct
  Professor
  1995-94 Art Department, University of California at Berkeley - Visiting Artist
  1995 Film/Video Department, San Francisco State University - Visiting Artist
  1996 New Media Department, University of California at Davis ­ Visiting Artist

  Michelle Handelman


  Filmography, Videography


  Directed and Produced:

  2000 La Suture Laserdisc 10 min.
  2000 Cannibal Garden Digital video loop
  1999 Blowjob Digital video loop
  1999 Candyland Digital video loop
  1995 BloodSisters Betacam video 75 min.
  1994 Hope 3/4 " video 5 min.
  1992 A History of Pain 3/4 " video 45 min.
  1991 Homophobia is Known to Cause Nightmares 16mm optical sound 9 min.
  1989 Catscan Super 8mm sound 7 min.
  1988 Sexual TechniquesIn The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction 16mm optical sound
  1988 Found Fountain Hallucination Super 8mm sound 7 min.
  1988 Venus Is Mind 16mm optical sound 4 min.

  Scripts:

  1998 Sugar Baby Feature Narrative, currently in development

  Appeared in:

  1994 Twists in the Cord Feature film by Lynn Hershman-Leeson
  1993 Virtual Love Feature film by Lynn Hershman-Leeson
  1993 Cut Piece Video by Lynn Hershman-Leeson
  1988 Weird San Francisco Feature video by Charles Gatewood

  Soundtracks for:

  1993 Terminal USA ITVS commission by Jon Moritsugu

  Production Designer for:

  1992 Drop-Out: Not!
  Award-winning TV pilot produced by Tamara Tovey For The Childrenšs Media Lab