SELECTED SOLO SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS
2005 - "Filme von Les LeVeque," Viennale International Film Festival, Vienna, Austria.
2004 - "DOUBLING FORBIDDEN PLANET: A Hallucinamatic Event," KS Art, New York, NY.
2003 - "Reconstruction Trilogy and The Hitchcock Variations," Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA.
2002 - "Les LeVeque," Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico.
- "4 Vertigo (a video installation)," The College of Saint Rose Gallery, Albany, NY.
2001 - "Video by Les LeVeque," Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX.
- "The Investigations of Les LeVeque," Filmforum, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2000 - "Les LeVeque," The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1999 - "Flight, a video installation," Megahan Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA.
1998 - "Flight, a video installation," Fosdick - Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY.
1996 - "Is It Love," Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY.
1992 - "Untitled," Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
1991 - "More Questions Concerning Technology," Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
1990 - "Some Questions Concerning Technology," Artists Space, New York, NY.
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2007 - "No United States," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria.
- "Generix Remix Project," Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA.
- "For Life Against War...Again, a collective outcry," Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA.
2006 - "The Generic Re-Mix Project," REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, CA.
- "Locuras Contemporaneas," Museo Nacional Center de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
- "Space Between the Spokes," KS Art, New York, NY.
- "The Hollywood Show," Magic Lantern, Providence, RI.
- "The Imaginary Cinema," Polly Maggoo, Marseilles, France. - -
2005 - "Fair Use: Appropriation in Recent Film and Video," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
- "CUT," Susanne Vielmetter L.A. Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
- "Enemy Image," Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY.
- "Ill at Ease," Hong Kong Cultural Art Center, Hong Kong, China.
- "La Imagenn Norteamericana - La Poder y Opresion," Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Brazil.
- "Withdrawal," Galerie chez Valentin, Paris, France.
- "Tesla Project," Podewil Palais, Berlin, Germany.
- "Strain Andromeda The and Strained Andromeda Strain," Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada.
- "The Cinema in Parts," Videozarts, Paris, France.
2004 - "Hollywood Deconstruit," Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
- "American Landscape: Discordant Views," Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL.
- "Hollywood Revisite," Instirut Francais, Centre Culturel et de Cooperation Linguistique, Bilbao, Spain.
- "The Presidency," Exit Art, New York, NY.
- "Regan Babies, Born in the USA," Eyebeam, New York, NY.
- "Cinema2," Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy.
- "Depression What Is It Good For?" Franke Institute for the Humanities, Chicago, IL.
- "Scanners," Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
- "Constructive Engagement," Ocularis, Brooklyn, NY.
2003 - "American Dream, American Idioms Screening Series," Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY.
- "I Found It At The Movies," Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA.
- "25hrs," The Video Art Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
- "Emergency Filmmaking Project," The Substation, Singapore.
- "Remembrance," Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melborne, Australia.
- "Video and Film Works by Martin Arnold, Virgil Widrich and Les LeVeque," ZKM, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.
- "L'insecurite c'est l'ordre," VKS, Tlse, France.
- "Invisible Objects+Boyce+LeVeque," Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA.
2002 - "Cine y Casi Cine," Museuo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
- "Good Vibes: Politics of Resistance and Musical Culture," Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
- "Revolver," Expo 24/7, UPCtv (syndicated throughout Europe for three years).
- "CURARE 10 Aniversario," Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico.
- "HitchcockcochctiH," Image-Movement Cinematheque, Tapei, Taiwan.
- "Film Show," San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
- "Magnitude," Mazer Theatre, New York, NY.
2001 - "Video Jam," Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL.
- "Peperes Mutations," Videographe, Montreal, Canada.
- "Telescope/Microscope," La Panaderia Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
- "Breer+Gibbons+Ahwesh+LeVeque," Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA.
- "Home-Reeker," Bleeker Theater, New York, NY.
- "Wet and Dry, International Video Art," Cinemedia, Melbourne, Australia.
- "Evolution," Outdoor Video Projection, Leeds, England.
- "Take Two," The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
- "Danger: Video Program," Exit Art, New York, NY.
- "Pete and Repeat," DAC, Brooklyn, NY.
- "The Lives of Images Reverberate in Time," The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.
- "Pranks," The Peoples Cinema, New York, NY.
- "4 Vertigo," www.concreteinc.tv.
2000 - The 2000 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
- "Montor/Sampler," Pomidou Center, Paris, France.
- "Selections from the Whitney Biennial," Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.
- "The Trinity: Desire, Memory, Sin," Galapagos Art and Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY.
- "In the Shadow of the Flag," Tippy Stern Fine Art, Charleston, SC.
1999 - "History Lessons: Reviewing, Reclaiming, Reinventing U.S. History," Apex Gallery, New York, NY.
- "They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To," Wexner Center, Columbus, OH.
- "Sit (Calm) and Watch," Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY.
- "Motion," Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY.
- "Murder the Word 2," Hamlin House Ballroom, Buffalo, NY.
- "NOT e.r.", Channel 56 Time Warner and Channel 69 Cablevision, New York, N.Y.
1998 - "Close Encounters," The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
- "Context and Change in Video Art," The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; The National Museum for Contemporary Art, Nizhy Novrogod, Russia; The TV Gallery Moscow, Russia.
- P.A.R.K. 4DTV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- "Confessions of an Opium Eater," ATA, San Francisco, CA.
- "Unquote Television," Free Speach TV, Philadelphia, PA.
- "Is It Love," Circuit@NYS, The Arts in a Digital Age, Palisades, NY.
- THUNDERGULCH art@the wall, The New York Information Technology Center, New York, NY.
- DUTV Cable 54, Philadelphia, PA.
- "Hybro Video," Exit Art, New York, NY.
1997 - "Station to Station," Artists Space, New York, NY.
- "Public Notice," Exit Art, New York, NY.
- "Tell-a-Vision," The Knitting Factory, New York, NY.
- "Lifelines," Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY.
- "Creepy," Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY.
- Free Speech TV, Boulder, CO.
- "Three Nights of Experimental Video," DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
- "A plurality of styles," The Knitting Factory, New York, NY.
- "Technologyculture," Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA.
1996 - "Surfing Systems," Fridercianum Museum, Kassel, Germany.
- "Do Not Adjust Your Television Sets: Video Screening by Les LeVeque and Diane Nerwen," Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY.
- "Squat Theater: Artist Friends of Squat Select Films, Videos, Readers, and Performers," Artists Space, New York, NY.
1995 - "A Screening of Collaborative Video Works by Les LeVeque and Diane Nerwen," The Knitting Factory, New York, NY.
- "technophobia/philia," The Other Cinema, ATA, San Francisco, CA.
- "Transmission Memories," Art in General, New York, NY.
- "Don't Smoke in Bed," Art in General, New York, NY.
- "The Secret Meaning of Images," New Directions in Television, Lockport Community Television.
- "Video Sculpture," Fine Arts Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
- "Sculpture Space, Celebrating 20 Years," Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY.
1994 - "Intelligent Ambience," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA.
- "BRNO 16," Brno, Czeck Republik.
- "New Experimental Works," The Other Cinema, ATA, San Francisco, CA.
- "HOME VIDEO REDEFINED: Media, Sculpture and Domesticity," Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL.
- "Health Cares," Re:Solution Gallery, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Hollywood, CA.
- The 90's Chanel, Boulder, CO.
- "Axle Grease," TCI Channel 18, Buffalo, NY.
- "Electronic Media Arts Exhibition," Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY.
1993 - "The Revolution Will Be Televised, or How Television Transforms Politics," California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA.
- "Idiot Savant Box," The Other Cinema, ATA, San Francisco, CA.
1992 - 4th Bienal de Video MAMM, Museum of Modern Art, Medellin, Columbia.
- "Noisy Insignificance," Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse, NY.
- "NO-TV and MOVIES," Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
- "Personal Voices and Necessary Absurdities: New Experimental Video and Film Works," Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.
- "Video Witnesses," Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY.
- "New Year, New Work," Artists Space, New York, NY.
1991 - "TV Pirates," Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA.
- "Electro-91," Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
- "Art's Mouth," Artists Space, New York, NY.
- "27 FPS," New Channels Cable Television, Syracuse, NY.
- "Video Witnesses Festival of New Journalism," Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY.
1990 - "SPENT Currency, Security, and Art on Deposit," The New Museum of Contemporary Art at the Marine Midland Bank, New York, NY.
- "(the) Landscape in Question," Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY.
- "Video & the Computer: The Complex Flow of Electrons," St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY.
FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVALS
2007 - Transmediale.07, Berlin, Germany.
2006 - PULSAR Caracas 2006 Encuentro Internacional de Multimedia, Caracas, Venezuela.
- Video_dumbo, Brooklyn, NY.
- "Remixed 2006," 14th Curtas Vila do Conde Festival Internacional de Cinema, Vila do Conde, Portugal.
- "Too Much Freedom?" LA Freeways, Los Angeles, CA.
2005 - Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France.
- Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH.
2004 - VIDEOEX, International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Impact Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France.
- Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada.
- New York Underground Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY.
- Dallas Video Festival 17, Dallas, TX.
- Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH.
- Flex Fest 2004, Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Gainesville, FL.
- "How Can You Resist," LA Freewaves, Los Angeles, CA.
2003 - Transmediale.03, Berlin, Germany.
- Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France.
- Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
- "The Best of Transmediale.03," Center for Contemporary Art, Kino.Lab, Warschau, Poland; Moving Image Center, Auckland, New Zealand; Colcata, Bangalore, India; Art in General, New York, NY.
2002 - e-phos Festival of Film and New Media, Athens, Greece.
- 15th Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, Canada.
- Imago 2002 Festival, Covilha, Portugal.
- Cinematexas Seventh International Short Film and Video Festival, Athens, TX.
- Transmediale.02, Berlin, Germany.
- 15th Stuttgart Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany.
- Flickerfest 2002, Traveling Exhibition. Australia.
- "TV or not TV," LA Freeways, Los Angeles, CA.
- "The Best of Transmediale.02," Itau Center, San Paulo, Brazil; Digital Weekend, Sofia, Bulgaria; KUDA Cultural center, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Academia di Belle Arti, Torino, Italy.
2001 - Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, Canada.
- Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
- The 35th Annual New York EXPOsition of Short Film and Video, New York, NY.
- Cinematexas Sixth International Short Film and Video Festival, Austin, TX.
- Kurz Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany.
- Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, England.
- Trans 004, Chicago, IL.
- Viper International Festival for Film, Video and New Media, Basel, Switzerland.
- The International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia.
- The 8th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL.
- Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH.
- Thaw 01, Festival of film, video and digital media, Iowa City, IA.
- Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX.
- Images du Nouveau Monde, Quebec, Canada.
2000 - Viennale, Vienna International Film Festival, Vienna, Austria.
- Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media, Montreal, Canada.
- Seoul Net Festival, Seoul, Korea.
- San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA.
- The 7th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL.
- Images du Nouveau Monde, Quebec, Canada.
- 31st Filmothek, Oberhausen, Germany.
- Citymorph 2000 Festival, Buffalo, NY.
- Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- 13 Annual Dallas Film and Video Festival, Dallas, TX.
- "Highlights of the New York Video Festival," Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
1999 - Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media, Montreal, Canada.
- The 8th New York Video Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY.
- Filmfest Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
- 4ieme Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Champ Libre, Montreal, Canada.
- Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT.
- 12 Annual Dallas Film and Video Festival, Dallas, TX.
- The Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, Canada.
- "East Coast Filmmakers at a 1999 Utah Film Festival," Directors Guild of America, New York, NY.
1998 - The 7th New York Video Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY.
- L.A. Freeways Video Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
- Circles of Confusion, World Wide Film and Video Festival, Berlin, Germany.
- L'Immagine Leggera - Palermo International Videoart+film+Media Festival, Palermo, Italy.
- "Pandaemonium," Festival of Moving Images, London, England.
- Festival International Nouveau Cinema Nouveaux Medias, Montreal, Canada.
- The 5th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL.
- 25th Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens. OH.
- 22nd Annual Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Atlanta, GA.
1997 - The Short Attention Span Film and Video Festival, traveling exhibition.
1996 - San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco Film Society, San Francisco, CA.
- "Pandaemonium," Festival of Moving Images, London, England.
1995 - The 4th New York Video Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY.
- Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL.
- Sixth Annual Video International, Saint-Gervais Geneve, Switzerland.
- "Public Access," 12th Dokumentarfilm & Videofestival, Filmladen, Kassel, Germany.
- "International Audio Visual Experimental Festival," Arnhem, The Netherlands.
- The Short Attention Span Film and Video Festival, traveling exhibition.
- "Circles of Confusion, World Wide Film and Video Festival," Berlin, Germany.
- "New York International Video Festival," New York, NY.
- IMAGES Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, Canada.
1994 - "Video Art and Deconstruction," 11th Dokumentarfilm & Videofestival, Filmladen, Kassel, Germany.
- ARS Electronica, Linz, Austria.
1993 - International Audio Video Festival, Arnheim, The Netherlands, traveling exhibition.
- Bienal de Video Santiage 93, Santiago, Chle.
- Montage 93 International Festival of the Image, Rochester, NY.
- American Film Institute 12th National Video Festival, Los Angeles,CA.
- Sinking Creek Film/Video Festival, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
- The Spring 1993 Upstate Media Festival, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
1992 - Mill Valley Film and Video Festival, Mill Valley, CA.
- Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH.
- Black Maria Film and Video Festival, traveling exhibition.
1991 - Third Annual Video Festival, Downtown Community TV Center, New York, NY.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 - Sharon Lin Tay and Patricia R. Zimmermann, "Throbs and Pulsations:Les LeVeque and the Digitization of Desire," Afterimage, The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 34. No. 4., pp. 12-16.
2005 - William Powhida, "Enemy Image Momenta Art," Brooklyn Rail, October Issue, p. ART.
- Holland Cotter, "Art in Review," The New York Times, October 7, p. E.40/
2003 - Ross Gibson, "Remembrance and the Moving Image," Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Catalogue.
- Steve Seid, "I Found It At The Movies," Art and Film Notes, May/June.
2001 - Andrea Scott, "Pete and Repeat," Time Out NY, August 9-16.
2000 - Kent Jones, "Whitney Biennial Film/Video Program, Artforum, May.
- Dave Kehr, "Taking Chances With Emerging Film and Video Artists," The New York Times, March 24.
- "Whitney Biennial 2000," Whitney Musuem of American Art, Catalogue.
- Michael Rush, "New Media Rampant," Art in America, July.
- "Command 400," Voyeurism, Felix: A journal of Media Arts and Communication.
- Joe Milutis, "From Hi-8 to High Culture," Afteimage, The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 27, No.2.
- Sylvie Fortin, "Close Encounters," Exhibition essay, The Ottowa Art Gallery, Ottowa, Ontario.
1997 - Stephen Holden, "A Revolution Made of Gritty Intimacy," The New York Times, July 17.
- Tony Oursler and Gary Simmons, "Station to Station," Artists Space, New York, NY.
1996 - Bernhard Balkenhol & Holger Kube Ventura, "Surfing Systems: never touch a running system," Catalogue.
- Graham Leggat, "Is It Love," Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY, Catalogue.
- Richard Huntington, "Visual Pleasure," The Buffalo News, October 11.
- Mathieu Victor, "Signals In the Night," Artvoice, Buffalo, NY, September 25.
1995 - Victor Faccinto, "Video Sculpture," Catalogue.
1994 - "Intelligent Environment," ARS Electronica 1994, Linz, Austria, Catalogue.
- Dara Meyers-Kingsley, "HOME VIDEO REDIEFINED: Media, Sculpture and Domesticity,"Catalogue.
- Helen L. Kohen, "Home video never looked like this," The Miami Herald, February 27.
1992 - Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Catalogue.
- Elizabeth Forbes, "Sound Doctrine," Times Union, Rochester, NY. January 23.
1991 - Rober Brasier, Review, Dialogue, July/August.
1990 - John Knecht, "Muses and fuses: Traumas in the Technosphere," Artists Space, New York, NY, Catalogue.
- John Wineland, "(the) LANDSCAPE IN QUESTION," Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, Catalogue.
1989 - Karen Helmerson, "Les LeVeque," Dialogue, Sept/Oct.
1988 - Helen Cullinan, "A way-out show at SPACES," Cleveland Plaindealer, Cleveland, OH, September 25.
1986 - Michael Brensen, Critics Choices, The New York Times, December 28.
- Robert Mohney, review, Arts Magazine, January.
SELECTED AWARDS
2004 - inVisible art_science, International Media Art Award
2002 - Honorable mention, Image, Transmediale.02.
- Audience award, Image, Transmediale. 02.
2000 - Silver Spire Award, San Francisco International Film Festival.
1998 - Reel Frontier Award, Best Short, Arizona International Film Festival.
1997 - Honorable mention, 22nd Annual Atlanta Film and Video Festival.
1996 - Certificate of Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival.
1995 - Director's citation, Black Maria Film and Video Festival.
1994 - Director's Citation, Black Maria Film and Video Festival.
1991 - Juror's Choice Award, Black Maria Film and Video Festival.
EDUCATION
1992 - MFA, Art Video, Department of Media Studies, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University.
