Woody Vasulka
Woody Vasulka is a pioneering video artist who has been producing work since the 1960s. In 1964 he married Steina Vasulka and a year later they moved to New York where they worked in the emerging field of video art and electronic media. They showed video at the Whitney Museum and in 1971 founded The Kitchen. His vast body of work includes seminal documentaries, but his main focus has been on the use of electronic media in art. He has produced extensive series of videos, some of which can be seen as cataloguing the possibilities of this new media. Despite the pedagogical flavour of some of his work, Woody’s background as a documentary filmmaker and modernist poet often shine through in highly personal and almost narrative pieces that transcend the technical methodology of their production.
Woody Vasulka’s work has been included in group and solo shows worldwide, including SFMOMA, MoMA, NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, and WRO Art Center, Poland. He has received a range of awards and fellowships, including an N.E.A. Visual Art Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, N.E.A. Media Art Production Grant, Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists, and Siemens Media Art Prize. Vasulka has received honorary doctorates …
Woody Vasulka is a pioneering video artist who has been producing work since the 1960s. In 1964 he married Steina Vasulka and a year later they moved to New York where they worked in the emerging field of video art and electronic media. They showed video at the Whitney Museum and in 1971 founded The Kitchen. His vast body of work includes seminal documentaries, but his main focus has been on the use of electronic media in art. He has produced extensive series of videos, some of which can be seen as cataloguing the possibilities of this new media. Despite the pedagogical flavour of some of his work, Woody’s background as a documentary filmmaker and modernist poet often shine through in highly personal and almost narrative pieces that transcend the technical methodology of their production.
Woody Vasulka’s work has been included in group and solo shows worldwide, including SFMOMA, MoMA, NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, and WRO Art Center, Poland. He has received a range of awards and fellowships, including an N.E.A. Visual Art Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, N.E.A. Media Art Production Grant, Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists, and Siemens Media Art Prize. Vasulka has received honorary doctorates from The San Francisco Art Institute and Prague Academy of Performing Arts.
Courtesy of BERG Contemporary
MoMA, New York, NY
SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
