Lili White – Her Story

Since 1978 Lili White has been exploring origins of myth, primacy of memory, exercises in self and counter self-imagining, and dreaming; through her work with film, sound, and video and studio arts. White’s work delves into topics that include in-camera editing, “automatic action” editing, and Authentic Movement Technique.
She is a fixture in the history of avant-garde filmmaking, and throughout her career she has maintained a dedication to experimental work created by women filmmakers in her Another eXperiment by Women Film Festival & Screening Series.

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2023
FISURA Film Festival; Mexico City, MX (The Color of Wind)

 

 

2022
CAT MOTHER ILLUSTRATIONS with a magical story & Lecture/Presentation; NYPL Thompkins Square; curator: Alyona Glushchenkova

ISFF 18th International Short Film Fest; Detmold Germany (A PHILADELPHIA STORY)

FOTOGENIA FILM FESTIVAL; Mexico City, MX (#3 SPROUT)

Finalist (THE PINK STONE script) in GOLDEN SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL; Abruzzo IT
Finalist (THE PINK STONE script) Diamond Eye international communications and new cimematic visions, able to awaken the deepest emotions in the eyes of the beholder; Milano, ITALY

The Biennial Project; curator: Marjorie Kaye (The Color of Wind & sculpture photos); at Venice Biennial; Venice IT  —  https://www.the-biennial-project.com/contest_home.aspx

 

2021 — during the pandemic:
City Artist Corps Grant — a live reading with 20 actors of CAT MOTHER, a magic-realism, feature film; at THE GARDEN at 6th & B; EAST VILLAGE garden

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MOVING IMAGE — 1 PERSON SCREENINGS: performer, writer, producer, director, editor

2021 STREAMING CINEMA Window at Maysles Cinema; curator: Annie Horner

2019 THE HOUSE of WATER: films based on the I CHING; The Garden at 6th & B; NY

IMAGINING BACKWARDS: a public dialogue with artist and experimental filmmaker Lili White; The Film and Video Poetry Society; curator: Jesse Russel Brooks; NY

2018
I CHING ALCHEMY ROOT SCULPTURES & VIDEO; le Petit Versailles Community Garden; NY

2013
MEET THE MAKER: feature film: FOOL’S GOLD: CALIFORNIA ROADTRIP IN AN ELECTION YEAR; NYPublic Library Performing Arts Branch; curator: David Callahan

2010 & 2007
LILI WHITE; Millennium Film Workshop Personal Cinema Series; Curator: Howard Guttenplan;NY

HOUSE OF THE GENTLE; Le Petit Versailles; Curators: Jack Waters & Peter Cramer; NY

2007
Balloon Garden; Curator: Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Ph.D.; Jersey City Museum; Jersey City NJ

2006
NY(see) (feature film); Premiere: Two Boots/Pioneer Theatre; NY NY

2004
Lili White: Digital Pioneer; Curator: Zhu Denis; Doulun Museum of Modern Art; Shanghai, China & Beijing 25; Beijing China

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GROUP SCREENINGS:

2022
A PHILADELPHIA STORY; 18th International Short Film Fest; Detmold, Germany

2020
NEW YEAR; NEW WORKS; NY Filmmakers COOP; NY
ROMA DOC; Rome IT

2019
ANALOGUE SUN, DIGITAL MOON; The Film and Video Poetry Society; curator: Jesse Russel Brooks; Los Angeles Center for Digital Art; CA

St. Francis College Women’s Film Festival: Brooklyn NY

KINO KLUB, Curator: Darko Duilo; Split Croatia

HYPERFLEXION; curator: Alison Wilson; South Africa

IMAGING HER DIASPORA; curator: Morrison Gong; SYNESTHESIA, Brooklyn NY

THE ATTACK OF THE SLIPPER ROOM MOVIE MONDAYS; curator Camille Habacker; N

MICROSCOPE GALLERY; Pictures for Jonas (Video & Portrait drawing)

 

2018
UNSEEN FESTIVAL; curator: Jacob D. Barreras; Denver CO

THE ATTACK OF THE SLIPPER ROOM MOVIE MONDAYS; curator Camille Habacker; NY

CÓDEC/Festival de Cine Experimental y Vídeo; curator Erik Tapia; MEXICO

CUBED LUMINOUS: Pensecola Museum of Art; curators: Joseph Herring, Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Kera MacKenzie; Florida 

OLYMPIA X LANDSCAPE at Elsewhere; curators: Ali Rossi & Eliza Doyle; Brooklyn NY 

THE ATTACK OF THE SLIPPER ROOM MOVIE MADNESS MONDAYS; curator: Camille Habacker; NY 

2017
HAXAN Film Festival; Mosswood Chapel; Oakland CA

HOMEGROWN & WILD: IN PRAISE OF VEGETABLES, IN FILM AND SPOKEN WORD; Curator: Richard Ashrowan— ALCHEMY FILM; Hawick, Scotland

SONOROUS VISION OF WISDOM; collaboration with composer Dalia Raudonikyte With; HARVESTWORKS; NY

WOMEN WHO GIVE… LIGHT.. TO THE SHADOW; Crater-Lab; Curator: Rrose Present; Barcelona, Spain

CARTER BURDEN STUDIO RESIDENCY & SHOW — Leonard Cavello Artspace; NY NY (Targets, Sculptures)

2016
re/night/live/mare/; ACRE TV; Concept by Joseph Herring; Programmed by Joseph Herring, Kera MacKenzie, Andrew Mausert-Mooney; Chicago IL

KROWSWORKERSWORK; Krowswork Gallery; Oakland; CA

A SCREENING of DANCE FILMS; curator: Fred Hatt & Janet Aisawa; NYC

F IS FOR FRAMED; curators: Georgia Hall & Millie Kapp; SPECTACLE Theatre; Brooklyn NY

 

2015
ROMA CINEMA DOC; Rome IT

 

2014
HAXAN Film Festival; Lobot Gallery; Oakland CA

Minneapolis Underground Film Festival; Minneapolis; Minnesota

 

2012
Portland Underground Film Festival; curator: Bob Moricz; Portland, OR

Aurora Picture Show; curator: Mary Magsamen; Houston TX

DEMOCROSCOPE; curator: Perry Bard; Joyce Yahouda Gallery; Montreal, Canada

 

2011
Big 3 FEST; winner of best film for agricultural sustainability; South Bend, Indiana

MisALT Screening Series: Glitch vs Scratch; curator: Tessa Siddle; ATA; San Francisco, CA

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INSTALLATIONS with VIDEO

2018
CUBED LUMINOUS SHOW – Pensecola Museum of Art; curators: Joseph Herring, Andrew Mausert-Mooney,Kera McKenzie; FLORIDA

2014
THE SOLDIER’S DREAM (un-realized)

2010
GOT’CHA; Box TV with assemblage & video loop in installation room with paintings;
London Biennale NYC Satellite Event; curator: Dominic Cloutier;  Christopher Henry Gallery; NY

WHOSE AFRAID OF ORNAMENT? SHOW; curator: Natasha Kurchanova; NutureArts, Brooklyn NY

WHAT CAN’T YOU SEE?; Box TV assemblage & video; thru London Biennale Cross Pollinations; Christopher Henry Gallery; NY

2009
TURQUOISE BEADS; projection on assemblage; Curator: Patricia Parker; Vision Fest; NY

2007
STANDING UPRIGHT; Vision Festival; NY

RIVER to RIVER Movie Nite; Event MC & NY(SEE) excerpt presented; curator: Tal Yarden

2006
5 ELEMENTS; EARTH, WATER, WOOD, FIRE
en INVIERNO; BALLOON GARDEN; Curator: Jersey City Museum: Rocio Aranda-Alvarado

2005
CLOUDGATE;; Art in Odd Places at the Howl Festival; Curator: Ed Woodham; at the Phatory; NYC

2004
WATER GODDESS (aka, HOMELESS)

PRECIPITAIONS; thru London Biennale Cross Pollinations; Curator: Adam Nankervis; NY

2001
TRAVELING with NEPTUNE; THE PAST IS HERE Show; NEWHOUSE GALLERY; SI NY

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STUDIO ART – 1 PERSON SHOWS

2018
I CHING ALCHEMY ROOT SCULPTURES & VIDEO; curator: Nicholas Vargelis; le Petit Versailles Community Garden, NY NY

2015
I CHING ALCHEMICAL GLYPHS (gold leafed onto natural forms) ; le Petit Versailles Community Garden; NY NY

2003
DEPARTURE; Chi:An Art Space; Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY

2002
RECENT WORK; The Art Lab Gallery; Staten Island, NY

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STUDIO ART – GROUP SHOWS

2021
METAMORPHASIS; a PA ACADEMY of Fine Arts Fellowship show; Philadelphia PA

2019
UNSEEN WORK SHOW; Theater for the New City; curator: Carolyn Radcliffe; NY

MARYLAND FEDERATION of ART’s  EYE OF THE BEHOLDER; Professor Katie Deli Kaufman (Corcoran College of Art & Design; Circle Gallery; Annapolis, MD

COVELLO@PS109: MAKING ART WORK; curator: Olivia Beens; el Barrio Artspace PS109; NY

2018
CUBED LUMINOUS SHOW – Pensecola Museum of Art; curators: Joseph Herring, Andrew Mausert-Mooney; Kera MacKenzie; FLORIDA

CERES GALLERY: 13th National Juried Exhibition ; curated by Sara Softness, Assistant Curator: The Brooklyn Museum

ENDLESS EDITIONS BIENNIAL: OPTIMISM; curator: Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo; EFA Project Space; NY
CERES GALLERY: 13th National Juried Exhibition ; curated by Sara Softness, Assistant Curator: The Brooklyn Museum

CONVERSATIONS with HARRIET: LOOKING BACK AND MOVING FORWARD;
Walls-Ortiz Gallery & Center— Gotham Arts Festival; curators: Anthony Artis, Adrienne Croskey, Maria Liu Wong, Sarah Gerth van den Berg; NY

NEW WORKS SHOW; Theater for the New City; curator: Carolyn Radcliffe; NY

2017
AGAINST TRUMPISM: THE ART & POETRY OF RESISTANCE; Museum of International Propaganda curators: Patrick Gannon & Adrienne Amundsen; San Rafael CA

UPRISE: THE ANGRY WOMEN ART SHOW: The Untitled Space; curator: Indira Cesarine; NY
VIDEO about: http://www.themarysue.com/uprise-angry-women/
ARTICLE: http://untitled-magazine.com/uprise-angry-women-exhibit-at-the- untitled-space-signals-the-new-art-resistance/

CONVERSATION in AMERICA: UNDER THE GUN; Curator: Holli Harms; NY
an evening of readings and art regarding gun violence in America; Sponsor: Women in the Arts & Media Coalition;

http://svatheatre.com/events/conversations-in-america-under-the-gun/

2016
FEAR; Haven SBX; Curator: Barry Kostrinsky; Bronx NY

I AM HERE & DREAMSCAPES; Bronx Breeze; Curator: Anna Pasztor; Bronx NY

2010
WHOSE AFRAID OF ORNAMENT; NutureArt; Curator: Natasha Kurchanova; Brooklyn

2006
AMERICAN DIASPORA: TRANSFORMATIONS IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY; Curator: Keungauuk K.Sexton; Victory Hall; Jersey City NJ

ART OF THE WORD; Haven Arts, Bronx NY; Curator: Barry Kostrinsky

2002
GROUND ZERO; Detroit Museum- MONA, Detroit, MI

2000
11th NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION; Viridian Gallery; Juror: Charlotte Kotik

CONTEMPORARY VISIONS; Uni of Bridgeport CN; Juror: Ursula von Rydingsvard

INTERNATIONAL JURIED SHOW; NJ Center for Arts; Juror: Dan Cameron

1999
NATIONAL SMALL WORKS; Schoharie County Arts; Cobleskill, NY; Juror: Frances Barth

COOPERSTOWN ANNUAL NATIONAL; Juror: Jenny Snider; Cooperstown, NY

PLEIADES 17TH ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION; NY NY; Juror: Donald Kuspit

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AWARDS & PUBLIC SERVICE

2022
Finalist (THE PINK STONE short script) in GOLDEN SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL; Abruzzo ITALY

Finalist (THE PINK STONE short script) in Milano, ITALY

A PHILADELPHIA STORY; 18th International Short Film Fest; Detmold Germany

2021
City Artist Corps Grant; live reading of feature length narrative film script, CAT MOTHER.

Featured artist in Jeffrey Cypers Wright & Friends: A Blinkfest: Films from the Alterverse; Howl’s & Friends TV SHOW; NYC

2021
City Artist Corps Grant; live reading of feature length narrative film script, CAT MOTHER.

Featured artist in Jeffrey Cypers Wright & Friends: A Blinkfest: Films from the Alterverse; Howl’s & Friends TV SHOW; NY

A PHILADELPHIA STORY in Austria’s ArtFem.TV collection; curator:Evelin Stermit

2019
IMAGINING BACKWARDS: a public dialogue with artist and experimental filmmaker Lili White; The Film and Video Poetry Society; curator: Jesse Russel Brooks; NY

2017 Carter- Burden studio residency — Cavello Artspace Show; NY NY

2012-15- Elected Board Member: Millennium Film Workshop; NY; Chairperson: Archive Committee; Archives sold to MoMA

2013
MEET THE MAKER: FOOL’S GOLD: CALIFORNIA ROADTRIP IN AN ELECTION YEAR; NYPublic Library Performing Arts Branch; curator: David Callahan

2012 NYSCA Finishing Funds: FOOL’S GOLD: CALIFORNIA ROADTRIP IN AN ELECTION YEAR

2011 everything BUT; WINNER: Best Film on sustainable agriculture; 3 FEST; South Bend IN

2006
Chashama Studio Residency; through Chashama Visual Arts; NY, NY
DVD Project Manager; FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR, AGAIN…, ( TRT. 88minutes, 25 films that protest The War in Iraq) —  production of a DVD that served as fundraiser for NY The Film-Makers Cooperative

2004        
College Art Association Panel: RETROFITTING: Traditional East Asian Art in Contemporary Painting; Lecture-Presentation: INVISIBLE ENERGY: ASIAN ART INFLUENCES IN MY WORK; Seattle, WA

2003 Cuts & Burns Sound Residency; through Momenta Art Gallery at Brooklyn’s Outpost; Brooklyn

2002 Print-Making Scholarship; Manhattan Graphics Center; NY, NY

2001 PS 122; one-year Studio Residency; NY, NY

2000 Valerie Lamb Smith Painting Residency; Philadelphia, PA

1995-6 The Field; The Independent Artist Challenge Program Grant; NY, NY

1995
DREAMING A SLEEPOVER RESEARCH PROJECT; The Japanese House; Philadelphia, PA

1995-2001
Snug Harbor Studio Artist — reviewed and renewed annually

1994-5
Macxibition Judge; The New York MacUsers’ Group Annual Computer Art Exhibition

1990
Public Relations Chairperson & Steering Committee Member; 1990 Art At The Armory: 1990; Philadelphia, PA
A four day long, artist-organized, artist-run show of 400 Philadelphia fine artists; Netted: $20,000;
Attendance: 20,000 people; Direct and execute identity development, furnish catalogue, television interviews and various other management under-takings

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FOUNDER, DIRECTOR, CURATOR

2014 – ongoing
ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL/online; streaming short films; acts as an archive of women’s work; filmmakers paid instantly upon purchase

2010 – ongoing
ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL (http://AXWonline.com):
4 to 6 different screenings yearly. Mostly sponsored by NEW FILMMAKERS NY’s Women’s Night at Anthology Film Archives

CURATOR 

2018
AXW at BMCC; NYC

2017
SHORT SHORTS EXPERIMENTAL SCREENING; Greenpoint Film Festival; Brooklyn NY
AXW at STRANGLOSCOPE; Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

2016
AXW at the DOBRA Experimental Film Festival; Rio de Janiero, BRAZIL

2012
AXW salutes M M Serra & THE NY FILM-MAKERS COOPERATIVE, NYC

2007
duel SP/Pl/ace; Collective-Unconscious;; NYC

1993
THE LIGHT FROM BEHIND (painting); NY LAW SCHOOL thru Art INITIATIVES ; NY

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EDUCATION:
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Graduate of Four Year Painting Program; Philadelphia, PA

University Of Pennsylvania; Bachelor of Fine Arts; Philadelphia, PA