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Michelle Citron

DCASE Artist

Michelle Citron is an award-winning digital and film artist focusing on women’s lived experiences. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago, and the American Film Institute, as well as the New Directors, Berlin, London, Edinburgh, Viper, and SeNef film and new media festivals. Her films and interactive narratives are distributed worldwide and are in the permanent collections of over two hundred universities and museums. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including two National Endowment for the Arts Filmmaking Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Humanities Media Grant, and three Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowships, for digital arts, filmmaking, and screenwriting.

Her work includes the interactive narratives Cocktails & Appetizers, Mixed Greens, and As American As Apple Pie (collected at queerfeast.com) and the films Daughter Rite, Parthenogenesis, What You Take For Granted…, and Leftovers.  She is the author of the awarding winning book Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions

Michelle Citron has crowd-funded a project with 3AP

  • Lives: Visible

    • $5,824 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 116% funded

    A box of lesbians. That’s how I think of the trove of over 2000 snapshots that are the heart of my new film, Lives:Visible. The photographs were taken by two lesbians - Norma and Virginia - who lived together …

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