AMANDA TRAGER | ERIK MOSKOWITZ 

erikplusamanda@gmail.com 
(917) 763-4664 

Amanda Trager 
Born: New York City, 1959 
MAAE, NSCAD, Halifax, Nova Scotia, expected 2023 
BA, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, 1981 

Erik Moskowitz 
Born: New York City, 1966 
BFA, School of Visual Arts, NYC, 1986

SOLO PROJECTS: 

2023 Double Song-Portrait X, Eltuek Centre, Sydney, Nova Scotia 
2021 Migration, Transcription and Songs of Freedom, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), Los Angeles, CA (live performance and online event) 
2020 Two Russians in the Free World (webisode launch), Microscope Gallery / Platform, Brooklyn 
2014 Two Russians in the Free World, Participant, Inc., NYC 
The Story of Elfranko Wessels, Studio10, Brooklyn 
2013 Two Russians / Burt, The Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC 
Artist in Focus, The Pompidou Center, Paris 
Images Sometimes Tremble, The Showroom, London (programmed by The Otolith Group) 
2011 Cloud Cuckoo Land, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco 
2009 Cloud Cuckoo Land, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC, Canada 
2008 Cloud Cuckoo Land, Momenta Art, Brooklyn 


SELECTED GROUP PROJECTS: 

2022 The Work of Love, the Queer of Labor, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC 
And Warren Niesłuchowski was there: guest, host, ghost, Cabinet Brooklyn 
2021 And Warren Niesłuchowski was there: guest, host, ghost, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga 
2020 Mexicali Biennial: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise, Cine Tonala, Mexicali, Mexico 
And Warren Niesłuchowski was there, Cabinet Berlin 
And Warren Niesłuchowski was there, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw 
2019 Mexicali Biennial: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 
2017 The Work of Love, the Queer of Labor, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT (Curated by Yevgeniy Fiks & Olga Kopenkina) 
State of Emergency, Digital Media Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT 
2016 Uplink Factory Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan (Programmed by Centre Pompidou) 
2014 Very Real Time, Cape Town, South Africa 
2013 International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR), The Netherlands 
I've Got the Power, Pera Museum, Istanbul (Programmed by Centre Pompidou) 
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania (Programmed by Centre Pompidou) 
MOVING_IMAGE, a contemporary ABC, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France 
Uplink Factory Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
(Programmed by Centre Pompidou) 
IndieLisboa, Portugal 
9th Berlin International Director's Lounge, Berlin 
2012 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 
Absurdo Absolutum, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn 
Millenium Nomadic, Greenpoint Film Festival, Brooklyn 
2011 International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR), The Netherlands (Competition) 
International Short Film Competition,
IndieLisboa, Portugal (Short Film Grand Prize) 
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Paris 
Conversations Secrètes, FIDMarseilles, Marseilles, France 
Carte Blanche FIDMarseilles, International Film Festival of La Roche-sur-Yon, France 
Image Forum Festival, Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Yokahama) 
Expecting the Images, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon 
A Purpose on Image, Beton7, Athens, Greece 
Demonstration, Ventana244, Brooklyn 
2010 Carte Blanche Catherine Baÿ, Centre Pompidou, Paris 
Circuito Off, Venice International Short Film Festival, Venice, Italy Double-Bill, Art in General, NYC (Curated by Redmond Entwistle) 
New Media, Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), Provincetown, MA 
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Edificio de Tabacalera, Madrid 
2009 Mary’s Choice, 303 Gallery, NYC 
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid 
My Librarian, Literature-inspired videos, Participant Inc., NYC (Curated by Laura Parnes) 
Hors Pistes 4, Centre Pompidou, Paris Hors Pistes 4, Institut Culturel Franco-Japonais de Tokyo, Japan and Pera Museum (Istanbul Biennial parallel event), Istanbul, Turkey 

EVENTS / PERFORMANCE: 

2012 City Drift, Studio10, Brooklyn (organized by Peter Hopkins) 


GRANTS & AWARDS: 

2016 Media Arts Assistance Fund, Wave Farm (NYSCA) 
Headlands Alumni New Works Award, Headlands Center for the Arts 
Finalists / Emerging Fields, Creative Capital Foundation 
2015 Finalists / Moving Image, Creative Capital Foundation 
2014 Finishing Funds Award, The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (NYSCA
2012 Finishing Funds Award, The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (NYSCA
2011 Short Film Grand Prize (International Competition), IndieLisboa, Portugal 
2010 Cuts and Burns Artist Residency Grant Program, Outpost Artists Resources, Brooklyn, NY 
2009 Distribution Grant for NY State Artists, free103point9 — e-catalog production (NYSCA) 
2008 Fellowship in Video, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 
Concordia Career Advancement Award, Concordia Foundation 
Cuts and Burns Artist Residency Grant Program, Outpost Artists Resources, Brooklyn, NY 
Finishing Funds Award, Experimental Television Center, NY (NYSCA) 


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 

2016 Visiting Artists, Columbia University, School of Art, NYC 
2013 Master Class, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague at IFFR (Rotterdam) 
Visiting Artists, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 
Visiting Artists, Parsons The New School of Design, NYC 
2012 Visiting Artists, Parsons The New School of Design, NYC 
Visiting Artists, Mount Royal School of Art, MICA, Baltimore, MD 
2008 Visiting Artists, Boston University, MA 

RESIDENCIES: 

2023 Darling Foundry, Montreal, Quebec 
2016 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 
2011 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 
2006 Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA 
2005 Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA 


BIBLIOGRAPHY: 

2022 Olga Kopenkina. The Work of Love, the Queer of Labor, Catalog essay 
David Finkelstein. Strange Bedfellows: Two Russians in the Free World, Lake Ivan Film Journal, https://lakeivan.substack.com/p/two-russians-in-the-free-world?s=r 
2021 Joanna Warsza and Sina Najafi, And Warren Niesłuchowski was there / Ontological nomad, guest, host, ghost, Book published by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and Cabinet Books in partnership with Foksal Gallery Foundation 
2018 Amish Morrell, Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager. Beyond the Island, Another Island, Visual Arts News magazine 
2014 San Francisco Art Quarterly / Top pick 
2013 Genevieve Yue, Nested Forms, Artforum.com 
2012 Holland Cotter. The Latest Vibe Moved to Brooklyn, New York Times 
2011 Craig Kalpakjian. Artists on Artists: Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager, Bomb Magazine 
Quinn Dukes. Bushwick Open Studios: Film Festival, www.artinnewyorkcity.com 
2010 Christopher Eamon. Cloud Cuckoo Land, Catalog 
Ingrid Schaffner. Queer Voice, ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Catalog essay 
David Finkelstein. Cloud Cuckoo Land, Film Threat 
2009 Eric Heist / Michael Waugh. Momenta Art Catalogue 
Jean-Charles Agboton-Jumeau. Exposition 5–31 Janvier 2009, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Cherbourg, France, Catalog 
2008 Cloud Cuckoo Land Top Pick, ArtCal.com 
Cloud Cuckoo Land–Moskowitz and Trager at Momenta, JamesWagner.com 
2007 Tim Griffin. Signs and Wonders: Mary Heilmann Curates, Artforum 
2005 Joshua Mack. A Bit of Dirt, Modern Painters