Anita Thacher is a New York-based artist known primarily for her multimedia installations, public art, short films and video as well as her paintings, photographic and print works. Her art explores issues of perception both spatial and personal. Memory, childhood and domestic themes are primary in the work. While densely layered both visually and aurally, the work has simplicity and humor.
A retrospective of her work was presented at the XXX Internationale Festival di Femme, Florence, Italy in 2008. National and international exhibitions include five New York Film Festivals, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Jeu de Paume, France, and the Sculpture Center, New York. Her film work was included in the Whitney Museum, American Century 1950-1999 exhibition. She is the recipient of the New York Women in Film and Television Preservation Fund Grant for her film, Homage to Magritte. Her permanent public artwork, Illuminated Station, competitively selected by M.T.A. Arts for Transit, Long Island Rail Road Station, Greenport, NY, 2005 and the illuminated photographic installation, Metropolitan Shadows, Newark Museum, NJ. features the medium of light. Her prints are in the collection of the Rutgers Archive for Printmaking at the Zimmerli Art Museum.
Ms. Thacher is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, former member of its Board and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow Italy
Education
New School for Social Research, BA English Literature
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture
Millennium Film School
Selected Grants and Awards
National Endowment for the Arts (four grants)
New York State Council on the Arts (four grants)
Ford Foundation
American Film Institute
French Minister of Culture Award
Martin E. Segal Award of Lincoln Center (first recipient)
Cine Golden Eagle (two awards)
Jerome Foundation (two grants)
Mitchell A. Wilder Award
28th Chicago International Film Festival Gold Plaque Award
MacDowell Colony Fellow and Board Member
Selected Public Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
City of Seattle, Office of arts & Cultural Affairs
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase
Berlin Film Archives
Musee des Beaux Arts, Belgium
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003 Belgium Cultural Center, Paris, Scratch, Films and Documentation of Installations.
2002 Art Resources Transfer, Inc., New York City, Drawing Rooms, Installation.
1999 Art Resources Transfer, Inc., New York City, If a House, Light installation.
1998-9 Islip Art Museum, Anthony Giordano Gallery, “The Light Show,” East Islip, New York, Night Light. Light Installation
1988 University of Colorado, Boulder, Anteroom. Light installation.
1987 Norwegian International Film Festival, Haugesund, Anteroom.
1985 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Film.
The Fabric Workshop, New York, Light Work
Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona, Film, Video, Photography.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Tribeca Film Festival, New York, Lost/In Memoriam
2006 Shin Kong Cineplex, Taipei, Women Make Waves Film Festival, Women’s Arts: the Ultimate Female Allure
Jerusalem Film Festival, Found Footage.
2005 USB Gallery, New York, Along the Way:MTA Arts for Transit, Celebrating 20 Years of Public Art.
Cinema Spoutnick, Geneva, Switzerland, Film.
US Express, Global screenings, (History of US Videos), Video.
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