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Michelle Citron

Michelle Citron
Born Boston, Massachusetts
Years active 1973 to present
Website http://www.michellecitron.com

Michelle Citron (born in Boston, Massachusetts) is a film, video and multimedia artist, scholar and author.

Michelle Citron was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Citron attended University of Massachusetts and earned a B.S. in Psychology. She has an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in cognitive studies and aesthetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Citron was a Professor of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University from 1978 to 2006, where she also served as Associate Dean of The Graduate School and Chair of the Department of Radio/Television/FIlm. She was Chair of the Interdisciplinary Arts Department, Columbia College Chicago from 2006-2012.

Citron's films explore the lives of women – mothers and daughters, women in the workplace, the trauma of incest, lesbian culture – as well as ethnic identity. These works, influenced by avant-garde film and feminism, blend experimental styles with melodrama and an exploration of the border between documentary and fiction. This experimentation continues with a series of more recent interactive narratives as well as her writing, particularly her book, Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions. An additional theme that flows through all Citron’s work is an examination of the autobiographical impulse, particularly as it is expressed through home movies, snapshots, and memoir.

Citron’s work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago, and the American Film Institute/Kennedy Center, as well as the New Directors, Berlin, London, Edinburgh, Oberhausen, and SeNef film and New Media festivals, among others. Her films and interactive narratives are distributed worldwide and are part of the permanent collections of over two hundred universities and museums. She has received many awards and fellowships including two National Endowment for the Arts Filmmaking Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Humanities Media Grant, and three Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowships - for digital arts, filmmaking, and screenwriting. Citron has lectured extensively with her work at universities, museums and cultural centers worldwide including: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University, The University of Graz, Austria, The Film Archive of the People’s Republic of China, The University of Hong Kong, University of Southern California, and The Walker Art Center.

Since 1999, Citron has explored new ways to experience story with a series interactive narratives that collectively comprise Queerfeast.com. Each piece in the series is a distinct work; collectively they create a multi-course meal of lesbian life played out through its pleasures, complications, and contradictions.


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