Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers (born July 7, 1957), is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker. She lives and works in New York City.
Catherine Chalmers
- Name
- Catherine Chalmers
- Born
- 7 July 1957
- Birthplace
- San Mateo, California, US
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Field
- Photography, video & sculpture
- Training
- Stanford University, Royal College of Art
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer · film director · artist
- Fields
- photography
- Education
- Royal College of Art · Stanford University
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Catherine Chalmers (born July 7, 1957), is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker. She lives and works in New York City.
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Catherine Chalmers (born 1957) is an American artist, film director and photographer. The artist was born in San Mateo.
Catherine Chalmers studied at Royal College of Art and Stanford University. The artist is active in photography. Catherine Chalmers received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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• Name — Catherine Chalmers • Born — 7 July 1957 • Birthplace — San Mateo, California, US • Awards — Guggenheim Fellowship • Field — Photography, video & sculpture • Training — Stanford University, Royal College of Art
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Catherine Chalmers was born in 1957 in San Mateo, California. Chalmers graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. degree in Engineering in 1979, and from the Royal College of Art, with an M.F.A. degree in Painting. She has exhibited at MASS MoCA, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Photography, the University Art Museum of CSU Long Beach; and Boise Art Museum. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, ArtNews, Blind Spot, Harper's, and Discover. Her work has been featured on PBS, and This American Life.
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Catherine Chalmers born at San Mateo.
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• Year — Title — Type — Notes • 2008 — Safari — short film — A film following a New York City cockroach. • 2019 — Leafcutters — short, documentary film
Awards
• 2008, Jury Award (Best Experimental Short) for her film "Safari", SXSW Film Festival. • 2010, Guggenheim Fellowship, in video and audio. • 2018, Best Environmental Short for her film "Leafcutters", Natourale Film Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany. • 2019, Gil Omenn Art & Science Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival. • 2019, Best Experimental Film, The Earth Day Film Festival.
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- 1.MacRae, Sloan. Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History to Host Catherine Chalmers, Acclaimed Artist and Photographer. Carnegie Museum of Natural History. April 16, 2019.
- 2.Museum of Contemporary Photography. Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.
- 3.Isle, Ray. Article Let Us Prey. Stanford Magazine. July 1, 2000.
- 4.Boxer, Sarah. Cockroaches as Shadow and Metaphor; An Artist Began Chilling and Decorating Bugs, But Moved On to Depicting Their Executions (Published 2003). The New York Times. 2003-05-08. 0362-4331.
- 5.MASS MoCA - Unnatural Science.
- 6.Jacobson, Louis. Prey for Understanding. Washington City Paper. December 1, 2000.
- 7.New This Month in U.S. Museums. artnet.com.
- 8.Museum of Contemporary Photography. www.mocp.org.
- 9.Catherine Chalmers: Prey and Eat - University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach - Absolutearts.com. www.absolutearts.com.
- 10.Catherine Chalmers: American Cockroach at Boise Art Museum. Artdaily. July 22, 2008.
- 11.Zimmer, Carl. This Can't Be Love: The Curious Case of Sexual Cannibalism. The New York Times. September 5, 2006. 0362-4331.
- 12.The Roaches That Came In from the Cold ARTnews. www.artnews.com. February 2001.
- 13.Catherine Chambers. Blind Spot: Magazine.
- 14.Catherine Chalmers. Harper's Magazine.
- 15.Reviews, American Cockroach. Discover Magazine.
- 16.Catherine Chalmers. PBS.
- 17.Animals. This American Life.
- 18.SXSW Film Announces Festival Winners. www.prnewswire.com. 2008.
- 19.Catherine Chalmers. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
- 20.Leafcutters. Environmental Film Festival.
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