Lewis Klahr

2013 Stan Brakhage Vision Award

2009 The Wexner Center Residency Award

2007 COLA (City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant)

1999 Creative Capital

1998 Jerome Foundation

1992 Guggenheim Fellowship

1995 National Endowment for the Arts

1994 The national society of film critics: awarded for
The Pharaoh's Belt

1993 N.Y. State Council on the Arts

1989 N.Y. State Council on the Arts

1988 N.Y. Foundation of the Arts

1986 N.Y. State Council on the Arts

1984 Creative Artists Public Services

Exhibitions and Screenings (selected)

• 2022 — False Aging, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, US
• 2020 — Circumstantial Pleasures, Light Industry, New York, US
• 2020 — Circumstantial Pleasures, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, US
• 2020 — Circumstantial Pleasures, London International Animation Festival, UK
• 2020 — Circumstantial Pleasures, Ottawa International Animation Festival, CA
• 2020 — Circumstantial Pleasures, Festival ECRA, Rio de Janeiro, BR
• 2019 — Circumstantial Pleasures, Regent Street Cinema, London, UK
• 2018 — Ghosts of a Different Dream: The Films of Lewis Klahr, Ottawa International Animation Festival, CA
• 2018 — 10,000 Shards of Bliss (the rhythm that forgets itself), Big Ears Festival at Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, US
• 2017 — Sixty Six, North West Film Centre, Portland, US
• 2017 — Sixty Six, University of Chicago, US
• 2017 — Sixty Six, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
• 2017 — Sixty Six, SUNY, Binghamton, US
• 2017 — Sixty Six, Amherst College, Amherst, US
• 2017 — Sixty Six, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, US
• 2017 — Sixty Six, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, US
• 2016 — Zurich Film Festival, Zurich, CH
• 2016 — Circumstantial Pleasures, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, CH
• 2016 — New Zealand International Film Festival, NZ
• 2016 — North West Film Forum, Seattle, US
• 2016 — Sixty Six, Tate Modern, London, UK
• 2016 — Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK
• 2016 — Sixty Six, Singapore International Festival of the Arts, Singapore
• 2016 — Sixty Six, Toronto Premiere, Organized by Cinema Scope Publishing, CA
• 2016 — Sixty Six: Lewis Klahr, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, US
• 2016 — Jeonju International Film Festival, KR
• 2016 — Sixty Six, Essential Independents: American Cinema Now!, City Tour of Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra and Brisbane, AU
• 2016 — Sixty Six, 59th San Francisco International Film Festival, US
• 2016 — International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
• 2016 — Goteborg Film Festival, SE
• 2016 — Lewis Klahr, Sixty Six, Redcat, Los Angeles, US
• 2016 — Berlin Critic's Week, Berlin, DE
• 2016 — Hong Kong International Film Festival, HK
• 2015 — Sixty Six, World Premiere, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
• 2014 — Kiss The Rain, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, US
• 2014 — 66, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
• 2014 — Mars Garden and Erigone's Daughter, BFI London Film Festival, UK
• 2014 — New York Film Festival, US
• 2014 — Downtown Film Festival, Los Angeles, US
• 2014 — Sixty Six, Berlin International Film Festival, DE
• 2014 — Montreal Film Festival, CA
• 2014 — New York Film Festival, US
• 2014 — Toronto Film Festival (3x) Millennium (4x) including 20-year anniversary retrospective, CA
• 2014 — The London Film Festival, UK
• 2014 — Hong Kong International Film Festival, HK
• 2013 — Museum of the Moving Image Astoria Queens 2 programs recent digital work, New York, US
• 2012 — S8 Festival La Coruña, ES
• 2012 — London Film Festival, UK
• 2012 — Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, CA
• 2012 — Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, US
• 2012 — The Surreal Screen: Spotlight on Lewis Klahr, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, US
• 2010 — London Film Festival Visiting Filmmakers, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, US
• 2009 — The Walking Picture Palace, Carnegie Museum Pittsburgh, US
• 2006 — Film Center U Colorado at Boulder, US
• 2006 — The Whitney Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art, US
• 2004 — The New York Film Festival Views from the Avant-garde, US
• 2004 — Flaherty Film Seminar, New York, US
• 2001 — Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, CA
• 2000 — L.A. Film Forum, US
• 2000 — Century, The Whitney Museum of American Art (16 films included), US
• 2000 — Film Center U Colorado at Boulder, US
• 1998 — 10/91, 2 show retrospective of 16mm films, Donnel Library, New York, US
• 1998 — Chicago Filmmakers, US
• 1998 — Museum of Fine Art Boston, US
• 1998 — Rotterdam Film Festival, NL
• 1998 — S.F. International Film Festival, US
• 1998 — S.F. Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and touring program, US
• 1998 — Impakt, European Media Arts Festival and touring program, Utrecht, NL
• 1998 — Vancouver Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, CA
• 1998 — Milwaukee Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, US
• 1998 — London Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, UK
• 1998 — Rotterdam Film Festival, NL
• 1998 — San Francisco International Film Festival, US
• 1998 — A.T.A. SF, US
• 1998 — Pirate Gallery, Denver, US
• 1997 — Film Society Massachusetts College of Art, US
• 1997 — Calendar the Siamese 16mm 30min, premiered in the 1997 NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS Venice Film Festival, US
• 1997 — NY Film Festival Avant Garde Sidebar; Hamptons International Festival; Lesbian & Gay Mix Festival NYC, US
• 1996 — Pacific Film Archive, US
• 1996 — Lulu 16mm 3min, Long Island Film Festival, US
• 1996 — New York Film Festival & Hamptons International Film Festival, US
• 1995 — The Whitney Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art, US
• 1995 — Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago, US
• 1995 — Pittsburgh Filmmakers, US
• 1995 — Altair 16mm 8min, voted best cutout animation, NY Film Festival, US
• 1994 — Film Society Massachusetts College of Art, US
• 1994 — Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cineprobe, US
• 1994 — Rotterdam Film Festival, NL
• 1992 — Pacific Film Archive, US
• 1992 — Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cineprobe, US
• 1991 — Cepa Gallery, Buffalo, US
• 1991 — Best Animation Atlanta Film & Video Festival, US
• 1990 — Film Society Massachusetts College of Art, US
• 1990 — L.A. Film Forum, Los Angeles, US
• 1990 — Best Animation Atlanta Film & Video Festival, US
• 1990 — Film Society Massachusetts College of Art, US
• 1990 — L.A. Film Forum, US
• 1990 — Film Society Massachusetts College of Art, US
• 1990 — L.A. Film Forum, US
• 1990 — Service prize, S.F. Art Institute Film Festival, US
• 1989 — Pacific Film Archive, US
• 1989 — Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cineprobe, US
• 1989 — Honorable Mention Black Maria Film Festival, US
• 1988 — Brussels Festival of Super 8 & Video, BE
• 1988 — Collective for Living Cinema, US
• 1988 — Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, US
• 1988 — First Prize Buck's County Film Festival, US
• 1988 — Second Prize 1987 Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, US
• 1988 — Service Prize 1988 S.F. Art Institute Film Festival, Pulls S-8 5min, US
• 1988 — 10 Year Retrospective of the American Avant Garde Film, Astoria Museum of the Moving Image, New York, US
• 1988 — L.A. Film Forum, US
• 1988 — S.F. Cinematheque, US

Group exhibitions (selected)

• 2023 — Thrill Me. Power & Magic of Music. Image and Sound in Contemporary Video Art, Zurich, Basel, Lucerne, CH
• 2022 — London Film Festival, London, UK
• 2022 — Academy Museum of the Motion Picture, Los Angeles, US
• 2020 — 5 Artists 5 Walls, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, CH
• 2018 — David Rosenboom and Lewis Klahr: Battle Hymn for Insurgent Arts, Redcat, Los Angeles, US
• 2014 — Alter Heroes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sao Paulo, BR
• 2014 — Opium Den, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, US
• 2014 — Exit Art, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, US
• 2014 — Old & New Masters of Super 8, Performance Space 122, New York City, US
• 2014 — Conspiracies, SUNY at Purchase, US
• 2014 — The Knitting Factory, U of Wisconsin at Madison Film Center, US
• 2014 — Helen of T, Indielisboa, Lisbon, PT
• 2010 — The Geneva Window, The Lab, Dublin, IE
• 1999 — Elsa Kirk, MoMA, US
• 1998-2001 — History of 8mm film, Museum Of Modern Art, New York, US
• 1994 — Slacker Attitude, European Tour
• 1989 — Toronto International Experimental Film Congress
• 1988 — Tour of 5 German Cities
• 1979-90 — Collective for Living Cinema (9x 1979-90)

of the Donnell Library, Oberlin College, the University of Virginia and the Massachusetts College of Art