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University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Suderburg, Erika

Professor

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Art


Biography

Erika Suderburg is a filmmaker, visual artist and writer. Her work has been exhibited in festivals, museums, on television and in galleries including: the Pacific Film Archives-Berkeley, the Millennium Film Workshop-New York, Capp Street Projects-San Francisco, the Museum of Modern Art-New York, The American Film Institute-Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art-Los Angeles, Kunstlerhaus-Stuttgart, Grazer Kunstverein-Austria, the Collective for Living Cinema-New York, Fukai International Video Biennale-Japan, New Langton Arts-San Francisco, International Video Festival-Bonn, The Long Beach Museum of Art, The American Academy in Rome, Simon Watson Gallery-New York, Trial Balloon Gallery-New York, Mix Mexico-Mexico City, FilmForum-Los Angeles, Cohan & Leslie Gallery-New York, The Getty Museum-Los Angeles She began making experimental film and video in 1978 and has made four feature length films and myriad short films and videos that have been exhibited in Korea, Japan, Greece, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, France, Singapore, Australia, Mexico, Qatar, Holland, Egypt, Sweden, the Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, and the UK. Her work is distributed and published by System Yellow in Los Angeles and V-Tape in Toronto. Information, filmmography, clips, installation images and links to all her current projects can be found in updated form at: http://erikasuderburg.com. http://www.art.ucr.edu/people/faculty/Suderburg/index.html

Former Institution

Otis Parsons School of Art and Design; Cal Arts; Art Center-Pasadena; Bard College, NY.

Degrees

MFA Fine Arts 1984

UC San Diego

BFA Fine Arts 1981

Minneapolis College of Art & Design

Awards

Kraft Media Prize Corcoran Gallery/Washington Project for the Arts, 2007.
Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department: City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Fellow: 1997-98
Finalist, Getty Center for Art & Humanities, Scholars Program: 1996
Center for Ideas & Society, University of California: 1995
Long Beach Museum of Art Open Channels Award: 1988
Long Beach Museum of Art Access Award: 1987
The Russell Foundation Grant: 1984
University of California Fellowship/Louis B. Mayer Production Grant: 1984


Research Area

Experimental Film and Video, Documentary Film and Video, Early Cinema, Installation Art, Performance, Queer Theory, Film Theory, Art Theory, Visual Culture and Cultural Studies, & Denis Diderot. She is a faculty member in the Department of Art, as well as in the Department of Dance and in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies.

Publications

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Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art, University of Minnesota Press 2000.

Michael Renov and Erika Suderburg (editors) Resolution(s): Essays On Contemporary Video Practice. 1996, University of Minnesota Press.

Ephemera, Chimera and Curiosa: Erika Suderburg Collected Works Vol. 1, System Yellow Productions, Los Angeles, 2003.

“Pat O’Neill and the Western Precipice: An Elemental Table of Objects and the Events That Enfold Them,” in Views from Lookout Mountain. Edited by Julie Lazar. Berlin: Steidl Verlag and The Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2006.

“Nadar Over Las Vegas (Lands in Death Valley) Bull.Miletic’s Spatial-Mechano Gymnopédies," in Bull.Miletic Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien , 2005.

Edward Leffingwell, Joseph Santarommanna, Erika Suderburg Three Ambient Gardens, Smart Art Press, Los Angeles, 1998.

"Real/Young/ TV Queer," in Between The Sheets, in The Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary ,(ed) Chris Holmlund and Cynthia Fuchs, 1997, University of Minnesota Press.

“Welcome to the Epidemic”, in Xtra , Los Angeles, Vol. 7, Issue #1, Fall 2004.

“Working Like A Homosexual," in Journal of the History of Sexuality, San Francisco State University: Department of History, Volume 12, No. 4 [October 2003].

“Jennifer Steinkamp,” in Poetic Siirsel Justice Adalet: 8th International Instanbul Biennial. Editor Dan Cameron, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul, Turkey, 2003.

“Empty Library,” Xtra , Los Angeles, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2000.

"Four Landscape Events," in Frame-work, Vol. 7, Issue #3, 1995. Published by The Los Angeles Center For Photographic Studies.

"Diderot and The Last Luminare," in Felix: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication, Vol. 2, No.1, 1995.

"Biographical States: The Films of Sergei Paradjanov," in AfterImage, Volume 20, Number 2, September 1992.

"Of Film Schools, Art Children and Flying Teacups." Oberhausen Film Festival Catalog, Oberhausen, Germany 1992.