Suara Welitoff
Stills from Clouds (history repeating itself), 2009. Video, running time: 2 minutes, 24 seconds.
Stills from Tell Me, 1998/2005. Video, running time: 3 minutes, 5 seconds.
BIOGRAPHY
Solo Exhibitions/Screenings
2010 Video Wall, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Project Room, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
2008 Anonymous, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
Studio Visit / Interview, Flash Art online
2007 SCREEN, Visual Arts Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge
2006 ICA Theater, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
A Million Sunsets, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
Mass Art Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
2005 Performa 05, Collaboration w/ Thalia Zedek, Participant Inc., NYC
Live music and video collaboration w/ Thalia Zedek, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston
2003 Collective Unconscious, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, NYC
Then Something Happens, Roger Williams University, Bristol
Pretty Please, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
2002 Recipient 2002 Maud Morgan Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Group Exhibitions/Screenings
2010 Conflict/Interest, 2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville
2009 Human Nature(s), Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Project/Protect, Galerie Anita Beckers (Frankfurt), Pulse Art Fair, NYC
And the Fair Moon Rejoices: contemporary visionaries in the wake of
Blake, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
2008 Worlds on Video, Strozzina CCC, Florence
The Sum of Its Parts, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Multiplex, Western Bridge, Seattle
Aspect Magazine, biannual DVD magazine of new media art, Boston
Uovo/15 Magazine, Artists Collaborate, Turin
2007 War and Discontent, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Show's So Nice, Monya Rowe Gallery, NYC
E-flux Video Rental, Sert Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge
2006 NADA Art Fair, Participant Inc. (NYC), Miami
Scope Art Fair, Allston Skirt Gallery, London
2005 E-flux Video Rental, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin;
Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam
Longplaying, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
2004 Rear Window, NGBK, Berlin
New Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2003-4
Invisible Film Series, Millennium Film Workshop, NYC
2003 Ocularis (Scratch, Sniff, Pet), Galapagos Art & Performance Space,
Brooklyn
2001 Between Fantasy and Pleasure, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of
Arizona, Tucson
1999 Mr. Fascination, Threadwaxing Space, NYC
1998 Transience & Sentimentality, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Bibliography
Worlds on Video (exhibition catalogue) Florence: Strozzina CCC, Palazzo Strozzi, 2008.
Cook, Greg, "Suara Welitoff." The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, March 15, 2008.
Roselee Goldberg, ed. Performa: New Visual Art Performance. New York: PERFORMA, 2007.
Johnson, Ken. "In two exhibits, politics and war are held up for scrutiny." Boston Globe, May 16, 2007.
Silver, Joanne. "War and Discontent." ARTnews, Summer 2007.
Brokaw, Leslie. "MFA has new take on the art of war." Boston Globe, April 8, 2007.
Brokaw, Leslie. "Her experiments take a new direction." Boston Globe, April 9, 2006.
McQuaid, Cate. "Beauty in tiny moments." Boston Globe, January 12, 2006.
Holland, Christian. "Suara Welitoff @ Allston Skirt." Big RED & Shiny: An Online Arts Journal 2006.
Issue 35.
e-flux video (rental catalogue) New York, Frankfurt: REVOLVER, 2005.
tema celeste #95. "Maud Morgan Prize." January/February, 2003. p.115.
Temin, Christine. "In Mere Minutes, Her Fragmented Films Render Heartfelt Images." Boston Globe,
December, 2002. p.N8.
Sherman, Mary. "Impressionist Mood Colors Welitoff Films." Boston Herald, December, 2002. p.65.
Gangitano, Lia. "Dangerous Corners." TRANS#8, 2000.
Gangitano, Lia. "Mr. Fascination." TRANS#6, 1999.
Bright, Deborah, ed. The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire. London,
New York: Routledge, 1998.
Transience and Sentimentality. (exhibition catalogue) Boston: The Institute of Contemporary Art, 1998.
Permanent Collections/ Awards
Finalist, Artadia Boston, 2009
Worcester Art Museum. Worcester. 2008.
Western Bridge. Seattle. 2008.
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge. 2006.
Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. 2005.
Artist's Resource Trust. Berkshire Taconic Foundation. 2005.
Film/Video finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council. 2005.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Maud Morgan Prize. 2002.