Julie Harrison

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Harrison
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Julie

Julie Harrison has been a "crossover" artist for more than twenty years, moving between video, performance, painting, installation and computers. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards (the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Artists Public Service Award (CAPS), Funding Exchange/Paul Robeson Fund, the Film Fund, Barbara Lathum Memorial Award, Colorado Video Award/1st Prize from the Athens Film and Video Festival; Gold Apple/1st Prize from the National Educational Film & Video Festival; honorable mention from the Atlanta Film and Video Festival) and has exhibited widely. Museum exhibitions include The Neuberger Museum/Purchase (NY), The Albany State Museum, the Bronx Museum for the Arts, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Astoria useum of the Moving Image (NY), the L.A. Institute for Contemporary Art; and in Germany, he Staatliche Museum in Baden-Baden and the Munchner Stadtmuseum in Munich. Harrison's video work has aired on PBS stations nationally and has been featured in festivals such as the Toronto Film Festival, The World-Wide Video Festival in The Hague; La Video Fameuse Fete in Quebec; Video Roma in Italy; Festival '82 in Vancouver; The International Women's Festival of Film & Video in Rome; Video/Culture Canada in Toronto; Festival International de Films et Videos de Femmes in Montreal; and the National Video Festival in Los Angeles. Her video and book works reside in the private and public collections of: (book) Harvard University, Brown University, University of California/San Diego, Yale University, University of Delaware, University of Iowa, University of Southern California, Scripps College, University of Santa Barbara, New York Public Library, Berg Collection; (video) Albany State Museum, Staatliche Kunstalle, New York Public Library, Stichting Kijkhuis, The Kitchen Center, Park Library (Central Michigan University), Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY; Women Make Movies, NYC; Ampersand, Athens Center for Film & Video, Athens, OH, Video Inn (Vancouver), Metropolitan Toronto Library, University of Connecticut, SUNY/Binghamton, and others. Julie Harrison's work is represented and distributed by Granary Books (New York), Women Make Movies (New York), Kijkhuis (The Hague) and Video Out (Vancouver). Ms. Harrison resides in New York City and teaches at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. http://www.granarybooks.com