School of Contemporary Arts (CA)

Faculty Profile: Shalom Gorewitz

Professor of Video Art and New Media

Year Joined RCNJ: 1981

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7150
• E-mail: sgorewitz@ramapo.edu
• Office: BC-321
• Office Hours: On Leave for the Fall 2010 Semester
• Personal Website

Education:

• B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
• M.F.A., Antioch International University

Courses Offered:

• Art and Technology
• Video Art
• Art and ExileInstallation Art

Awards and Special Recognition:

• Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant, 2008
• New York State Council on the Arts Production Grant, 1995
• National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Art Fellowship, 1993-94
• Arts International, Pilot Travel Grant, 1993
• Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, 1991
• New York State Council on the Arts Production Grant, 1991
• Suitcase Fund for Curatorial Research, 1990
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1989
• National Endowment for the Art Media Production Grant, 1989
• Arts America Foundation Fellowship, 1989
• WNET-WGBH Postproduction Grant, 1987
• New York Foundation for the Arts, 1986
• Checkerboard Foundation, 1986
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1983, '80, '78
• Media Bureau Postproduction Grant, 1982
• New York State Council on the Arts Grant, 1981, '79
• Creative Artists Public Service Award, 1980
• Poets and Writers Production Grant, 1976
• America the Beautiful Foundation Grant, 1975

Selected Public Collections:

• Museum of Modern Art, NYC
• Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
• Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany
• Itau Cultural Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Kowasaki Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• George Potter Library at Ramapo College, New Jersey
• NY Public Library/Donnell Branch
• Library of California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
• Getty Museum Video Art Archive, LA, CA

Recent Scholarly and Professional Accomplishments:

Recent Solo Exhibitions:

• 2006 Virtual Amulets & Trivial Topographies, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NYC
• 2003 Paintings, Pictures, and Scrolls, Society for the Advancement of Judaism, NYC
• 2003 Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY

Recent Broadcasts:

• 2006 Reel New York, Channel 13, NY/NJ Public Television (Soft Targets)
• 2003 The Territory, Houston, Texas Public Television, Southwest U.S.

Recent Group Exhibitions:

• 2008 Eye on Zion, Two Boots/Pioneer Theater, NYC
• 2008 East Village Retrospective, Varga Gallery, Woodstock, NY
• 2007 Infinitu Et Contini, Repeated Histories, Reinvented Resistances
  • Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  • Video Histories, The Hopper House, Nyack, NY
• 2005 Video Spirit: Mysteries, Myths, Meditations and Moving Image,
  • Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
  • Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia, NY
• 2004 Urban Eden, Jewish Museum, NYC
• 2004 Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY

Recent Festivals:

• 2008 Coney Island Film Festival (Hot Stains)
• 2007 Athens, Greece Video Art Festival (The Shape of Emptiness)
• 2006 Recontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid (Soft Targets)
  • Manifestation Internationale Videoformes 21 (Thrashing)
• 2005 11th Biennale of the Moving Image, Geneva, Switzerland (Soft Targets)
• 2004 VideoZone Biennial of Video Art, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel

Selected Published Writing:

• "Electric Breath: Pull the Plug and It's Gone", The Squealer, 2004
• Regular Media Reviews for the Journal of Religion and Health 2002-04

Selected Presentations:

• Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, NYC, 2008
• Art and Technology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, 2008
• Practicing Jews: Art, Identity and Culture, Center for Jewish Studies, U of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
• Regional Conference, Society of Photographer Educators, Panelist, 2003
• College Art Association, The Signal Panel, Philadelphia, PA, 2002

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