Education
Born Edinburgh, Scotland
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M.F.A., The School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, 1994
B.F.A., The Kansas City Art Institute, 1988
Exhibitions / Screenings
2016 No Wave Goodbye, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Boulwarism, with PLM Associates, Soma Contemporary Gallery, Waterford, Ireland
Photo/Synthesis, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA
2012 Parallax View: Anita Allyn with PLM Associates, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Becoming Something Else, Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Fleisher Wind Challenge, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
On the Wall, Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
I heart postdemocracy, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Wall Space, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents, Tate Modern, London, England
Gridspace, The Reanimation Library at Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY
2009 BULK, The University of North Carolina Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Islanders, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (Solo exhibition)
No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents, X-Initiative, New York, NY
Expanded Marks, Space Gallery, Portland, ME
Landscape: News from Nowhere, Vox Populi Philadelphia, PA.(Solo exhibition)
Implosion or Fusion: Special Moment of International Art, Elements Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.
2008 Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Director’s Lounge
Contemporary Art & Media, Berlin Germany
Death Bizarre, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Locally Localized Gravity, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
4/4: In Rare Form Design, Liao Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Four by Four, International House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Periphery, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (Solo Exhibition)
2006 TEMPORARY CITIES, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
Harvesting, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. (Solo Exhibition)
Invitational Vernacular Spectacular Extravaganza, University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Cut & Paste, Falling Cow Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Road Movies, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Minty, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Home Free, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC
2005 International Film Festival on Violence Against Women, Gorky Sadan, Calcutta, India
Life Catalog _Color Systems, Carbon14 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Solo Exhibition)
Viewpoint, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Death Bizarre, Almanac Gallery of Photography, Hoboken, NJ
Girl Art Now, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Screening Room, Media Bureau Network, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. PA
FOTOFIESTA: International Photography Biennial, Arts Center of EAFIT University, Medellin, Colombia, South America
2002 Media [Less] Medium: Short Works in Video, Mills Gallery at The Boston Center for theArts, Boston, MA
Chicks with Flicks, Pioneer Theater: New York, NY
John Hopkins Film Festival, John Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
The United States Super 8 and Digital Video Festival, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Poetics and Fear, Israeli Center for the Arts, Tel Aviv Cinematech, Tel Aviv, Israel
In Response: A Tribute to the Heroes and Victims of September 11, Savannah College of Art
and Design, Savannah, GA.
2001 Better Living Through Bits, Art Institute of Boston, Boston Cyber Arts Festival, Boston, MA
Digital Identity, Zeitgeist Gallery, Boston Cyber Arts Festival, Boston, MA
INsideOUT, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2000 BitbyBit, Online Web Exhibition Sponsored by Artbyte
Axlegrease, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY
VideoSpace at CAC, Contemporary Arts Center, North Adams, MA
VideoSpace, Usdan Gallery at Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Emerging Video, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
2012 Occupy Movement, Art, and Civic Change, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA,
2011 Modern Consumer Capitalism and the Media Lecture with Challenge Artist Anita Allyn,
Fleisher Art Memorial
2009 Academy of Arts of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2006 Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, Visiting Artist
2002 The College Art Association, The Signal
2001 The Art Institute of Boston, SexHex at The CyberArts Festival
1997 Rhode Island School of Design, Transgressions- Experimental Video
Looking at Alternative Video Documentaries, Williams College, Williamstown MA
1996 Gender and Technology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
New England Artist Congress, Time Based Arts in New England
1995 South African Project, Mobius, Boston, MA
Identity, Sex, and Politics: Women Working in Video, Space Gallery, Boston, MA
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2008 Constructing the Natural: Mediated Landscapes, Scholarly Support of Research Grant (SOSA)
The College of New Jersey, NJ
2003 Life Catalog, Scholarly Support of Research Grant (SOSA) The College of New Jersey
2001 Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency Fellowship
1999 Gender_ Tech, Scholarly Support of Research Grant (SOSA) The College of New Jersey
1997 Experimental Television Center Residency, Oswego, NY
1996 LEF Foundation Grant, Boston, MA, Visiting
2015 An Unfixed Image: The Photographic Across Media, March 11-April 26, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery.
http://www.princetoninfo.com/index.php/component/us1more/?key=*4-1-15-unfixed-gallery
2013 Concept plus Object, a team curated blog w/Tim Portlock and Christopher McManus. http://conceptplusobject.net/
2012 Earth and Artifice: Todd Keyser, Erin Murray, and Jason Urban. Vox Populi.
2009 Anxious Ground: Contemporary Landscape Photography, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery
2000 Black Box Video Shorts: A collaboration with EAT (Experiments with Art and Technology)
The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ
1997 Duplicating Desires: genderPOP, Bartows Theater, Lower Level MIT List Visual Arts Center
Visiting Artist/Panelist
Curatorial projects
Awards
Bibliography
February 2012
Swartz, Chip, “Becoming Something Else” Knight Arts Foundation, http://www.knightfoundation.org/articles/becoming-something-else-rebekah-templeton
Rosenthal, James
February, 2012
“Photography: Zoe Strauss and Rebekah Templeton” Title Magazine, http://www.title-magazine.com/2012/02/photography-zoe-strauss-vs-rebekah-templeton/
December 13 2011
Rosof, Libby “Erin Riley, Laura Ledbetter, Anita Allyn in Wind Challenge 2” http://www.theartblog.org/2011/12/erin-riley-laura-ledbetter-anita-allyn-in-wind-challenge-2/
August 21, 2006
Amorosi, A.D. "Cut & Paste" Philadelphia City Paper, Halpern, Ashlea, “Catch it of Regret It” Citypaper, Philadelphia
July 27, 2006
"PICK: Cut & Paste" Key to Philadelphia, August 14, 2006Copeland, Colette, “Life catalog and color systems” Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof's http://www.fallonandrosof.com/artblog
June 8, 2005
"International Film Fest on women, child abuse." Indian Express, Calcutta, India,
Appelbaum, Josh. "Small Gauge, Big Heart." Insidebeat
February, 2002
Boyle, Jim "The Sun Always Shines" Time-Off, January, 2002 "Good Times" The NY Times,
January, 2002
"Film Alternatives: Chick with Flicks." Time Out New York, (issue 360)
August, 2002
Feinberg. Shaina. "Chicks with Flicks." Venus, Winter
2002 New Jersey Public Television (NJN), State of The Arts: Interview with Anita Allyn
August, 2002. "New Jersey's Film Festivals" The Star-Ledger, January
2002 New York Press, (vol. 15, no. 34) August 2002 O'Sullivan, Eleanor. "Scintillating Cinema." Asbury Park Press
O'Sullivan, Eleanor. "Four from New Jersey." Asbury Park Press
2001
Erikson, Leann, “Independent Film and Video in Boston” Afterimage, July–August
2002 Rosof, Libby, “Minty fresh as paint at Vox”, ARTBLOGhttp://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com,
February 10, 2002.Wolmart, Gregory University of Pennsylvania http://allyn.faculty.tcnj.edu/projects/review.htm 2005
1997
Jackson, Vincent. "Buena Grad's Film Festival Presents Women Directors." The Press of Atlantic County,
2010 - present
2010 - present