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