Elizabeth Orr
CV
ELIZABETH ORR
(b. Los Angeles, CA, based in Brooklyn, NY)
EDUCATION
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, M.F.A. Film/Video with Honors, 2014
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, B.A., Film/Video, 2006
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
. Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, NYC, 2021
. BRIC, Media Art Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY, 2020
. United States Embassy, Public Affairs Grant Program, 2018
. Meet Factory Residency, Prague, Czechia, 2018
. New York State Council on the Arts in Partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF), 2017
. Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, NYC, 2017
. Bemis Contemporary Art Center, Residency, Omaha, NE, 2016
. Real Time & Space, Oakland, CA, 2015
. EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Residency, Troy, NY, 2015
. Shandaken Project at Storm King, New Windsor, NY, 2015
. Recess, Session Residency, New York, NY, 2013
. Milton and Sally Avery Scholarship, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, 2012 & 2013
. Artists Space Books & Talks, NO TOTAL, 2012 - present
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
. Sharp Projects, Small Sculptures, Coppenhagen, Denmark, Feb 2024
. Kunsthal Nord, Simple Sabotabe, Aalborg, Denmark, Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
. VIN VIN, Calibration, Vienna, Austria, 2023 (solo)
Derosia, The No Name Lightbulb, New York, NY, 2023 (solo)
. Sharp Projects, Small Sculptures, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
. 1708 Gallery, Single-Use Account, Richmond, Virginia, 2022 (solo)
. Tarsia, Only Pedestrian, two-person exhibition with Micah Angelus, Naples, Italy, 2021
. Artissima, Solo Presentation with VIN VIN, Turin, Italy, 2021
. Maggie Ai Media, STAGE, Season 1, Shenzhen, China, 2021
. Sharp Projects, 10 works, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2021
. VIN VIN, The Over There, Vienna, Austria, 2021(solo)
. RPFA, Spirits in Rotations, Los Angeles, CA , 2020 (solo)
. La Kaje, Assumed Room, Brooklyn, NY, 2019 (solo)
. CAC Brétigny, My End Is A Legend, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France, 2018
. PYLON-Hub, Vivid, Dresden, GR, 2018 (solo)
Kostka Gallerie, Angelus/Orr: City Crown, Prague, CZ, 2018
. Alfred University, Queer Space, Alfred, NY, 2018
. Bodega, Our Hallway Is Surrounded, New York, NY, 2017 (solo)
. Stedelijk Museum, The Conveyor, performance/lecture, Amsterdam, NL, March 2017
. DIS Magazine, Election Renewal, New York, NY, 2016
. Regards, Garden Show, Chicago, IL, 2016
. Artists Space Books & Talks, NO TOTAL Weekend, New York, NY, 2015
. Bodega Gallery, Loss Lead, New York, NY (solo), 2015
. EMPAC, MT RUSH, performance,Troy, NY, 2015
. Pseudo Empire, Traffic, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
. Bard College, Bard MFA Thesis Show, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2014
. Silberkuppe, New Dawn, Bulk Purchases, Berlin, Germany, 2014
. Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Performing Feminisms, Cambridge, MA, 2014
. Nurture Art, One Trace After, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
. Cage, Rehearsal, New York, NY, 2013
. Terminal Projects, CCC, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
. This Red Door, After Saturn Returns, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Rory Parks, 2013
. Bodega Gallery, A Moral Body, Philadelphia, PA, 2013 (solo)
. MOCAtv, Performativity: Cyber/Corporeal, Los Angeles, CA (commission), 2012
. Garden Party/Arts, Queer as in Weird, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
. ICA Philadelphia, First Among Equals: Work Ethic, Philadelphia, PA, 2012
. @Workshop, Poster Launch, Elizabeth Orr + Emma Hedditch, New York, NY, 2012
. Bodega Gallery, A Perception Feeding, Philadelphia, PA (solo), 2011
. Kunsthaus Bregenz, Victory Over The Sun, Austria, 2011
. Go Rimbaud performances, curated by Geo Wyeth, 2011
. Globe Theater, Bulk Purchases, Frankfurt, Germany, curated by Planningtorock, 2011
COMMISSIONS
- Window for Lavendar, outdoor sculptural work measuring 72 x 60 x 3 in, aluminum and auto paint, private collection in California, 2023
- Doree Narrative, an installation of four outdoor sculptural works measuring 40 x 144 x 3 in, 72 x 60 x 3 in, 28 x 32 x 3 in, aluminum, powder coating, and auto paint, private in California, 2023
- Central Rounds, 6ft x 3.5ft, aluminum, salt, and glass, CELINE store, Tokyo, Japan, 2021
- Bulk Purchases, “Performing Feminisms,” Harvard Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA, 2014
- Sitting UP, Emma Hedditch & Elizabeth Orr, HD Video 20mins, MOCAtv, 2013
BIBLIOGRAPHY + PRESS
Superposition, “How To Work Out Problems of Your Own Making: Humor and Minimalism: Elizabeth Orr in conversation with Dominic Kim,”Issue #2, September 2023
BOMB Magazine, “Elizabeth Orr Interviewed by Dominika, Tylcz: Sculpture that investigates architecture and perception,” July 2023
Contemporary Art Writing Daily, “Elizabeth Orr at Derosia,” February 2023
BOMB Magazine, “Come To My Window,” Jeanne Vacarro, June 2021
BRIC Lab Essays, “A Garden to Take Care of,” Caroline Ferreira, May 2021
ARTFORUM, Critics’ Pick: “Elizabeth Orr at Vin Vin, by David Misteli, March 2021
Oxford University Press, Oxford Companion to Queer Cinema, Will J. Simmons, edited by Ronaled E. Gregg, 2021 (forthcoming)
“Elizabeth Orr: A Gorgeous Profile,“ Will J. Simmons, November 2019
Art Observed, New York - “Elizabet Orr: Our Hallway Is Surrounded at Bodega,” by J.Garcia
ArtNews, “9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week,” Editors of ArtNews, May 2017
ARTnews, “Morning Links: Allan Sekula Edition,” November 1, 2016.
The Denisonian, “Elizabeth Orr critiques social structures through art,” Savannah Delgross, Oct 11, 2016
CSPA Quarterly: Q14, “MT RUSH Interview with Elizabeth Orr and Meghan Moe Beitkis,” 2016
ArtReview, “Elizabeth Orr at Bodega,” David Everett Howe, Summer 2015
ARTFORUM, Critics’ Picks: “Elizabeth Orr at Bodega,” Abraham Adams, April 2015
Art Agenda,, “New Dawn,” Natasha Ginwala, August 2014
Nurture Art, “One Year with Nurture Art,” Gallery Program 2013/2014 Catalog, 2014
L Magazine, “4 Art Exhibits You Need to See,” Paul D’Agostino, January 2013
If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, “Guy de Cointet’s Five Sisters,” 2013.
Title Magazine, “Due Diligence: Elizabeth Orr’s Work Ethic,” Gordon Hall, 2012
Philadelphia ICA, First Among Equals Exhibition Catalogue, 2012
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Victory Over The Sun, Austria, 2011
Girls Like Us Magazine, “Interview with Elizabeth Orr,” Jessica Gysel, 2011
Huffington Post, “Crazy Wisdom: Eric Orr & Elizabeth Orr,” John Seed, 2011
NY Press, “Catching up with AMASS’ Elizabeth Orr & Savannah Knoop,”Jon Reiss, Fall 2010
East Bay Express, “Review of Its Own Nothingness,” East Bay Express, Oakland, CA, 2010
Out Magazine, Orr, Elizabeth, Interview with Hampshire College President Ralph Hexter, 2006
SELECT SCREENINGS & VIDEOS
Mind Gamed (HD Video 4mins, 2021)
Like a Little Disaster, Baitball, Milan, Italy, 2023
BRIC, Media Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY 2021
Single-Use Account (HD video, 8 minute loop, 2022)
1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia (solo installation), 2022
SUMO Prague / Sharp Projects, Prague, Czechia, 2022
Medieval Beach (HD video, 4mins, 2018)
Lubov, “Main Attractions” Screening Series curated by Theodore Darst, NY,NY, 2019
CAC Bretigny, Bretigny, Screening curated by Julie Grosche, France, 2018
MT RUSH, (HD video, 40mins, 2016)
Tranzit Display, Prague, CZ, 2018
After Effects, Anthology Film Archives, Art in General, 2018
After Effects, Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia and Art in General, 2017
Santarcangelo Festival, MT RUSH, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, 2017
Caro Sposo, curated by Stephanie Cottin, Paris, FR, 2017
University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, 2017
PSSST, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2016
Denison University, Columbus, Ohio, 2016
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, 2016
EMPAC, Troy, NY, 2016
Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Work of Eric Orr, Documentary
(HD video, 45min, 2007 / Feature-length release, 2020)
Directed, Edited, and Written by Elizabeth Orr
Screenings: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, Los Angeles Nomadic Division & Eugenia Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, West Hollywood Library, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; MUSAC, Leon, SP, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA, 2020 (forthcoming).
Nicholas & Hillary, (HD video, 08:40mins, 2015
DINCA Vision Quest, Chicago, IL, 2015
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, 2015
Artists Space Books & Talks, NO TOTAL Weekend, New York, NY, 2015
SITTING UP (HD Video, 10mins, 2014), collaboration with Emma Hedditch
Commission, MOCA TV, curated by Katerina Llanes, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
$$$ (HD video, 05:00mins, 2013)
Family Business, West 21st street Drive-IN, curated by CCS Bard, New York, NY, 2013
TEACHING & LECTURES
Visiting Artist: Video, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, 2021
Visiting Faculty, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Sculpture & Extended Media,
Courses: Basic Sculpture, Intermediate/Advanced Sculpture, and MFA Faculty, Fall 2018
Visiting Artist, VCUarts Summer Studio Program, Richmond, VA, 2017
Visiting Artist: Senior Seminar, Bard College, 2017
Visiting Artist, ASMBLY, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
Lecturer: The Conveyor, “What Technology is Doing to The Brain,” Stadium Generale at Stedelijk Museum, 2017
Visiting Artist, Rietveld Academy’s Studium Generale Program, Amsterdam, NL, 2017
Artist Talk: Spirits in Rotations, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, 2016
Teaching Artist, BRIC, Brooklyn, New York, Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Courses: Animation and Video Production/Post Production
Panelist, Triangle Association, Brooklyn, New York, 2016
Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Denison University, Columbus, Ohio, 2016
Teaching Artist, Multimedia Art, Creative Art Works, Harlem, NY, Summer Program 2016
Course: Video 1
Visiting Teaching Artist, The Academy for Young Writers, Brooklyn, NY, Spring 2016
Course: InDesign, Illustrator, and Graphic Arts
Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY, 2016
Lecturer, University of Omaha, Wilson Memorial Lecture Series, Omaha, Nebraska, 2016
Artist Talk, Real Time & Space, Oakland, CA, 2015
Teaching Artist-in-Residence, NurtureArt, Juan Morales High School, Brooklyn, Fall 2014
Course: Video Production & Post Production
Visiting Teaching Artist, MoMA Education Program, NY, NY, 2013
Course: “Making the Invisible Visible: Learning from the Artist as Researcher”
Teaching Artist, Brooklyn College Performance Interactivity and Media Arts program, 2012
Course: Multimedia Video Production
Teaching Artist, 3LD, New York, NY, 2012
Course: Multimedia Video Production
Teaching Assistant, Hampshire College, Spring 2004 and Spring 2006
Course: Architectonics of the Body in Urban Space
Student Representative for the School of Humanities & Cultural Studies, Hampshire College, Fall 2005
Teaching Assistant: Video 1, Hampshire College, Fall 2004
Teaching Assistant & Grader: Physics 1, Hampshire College, Fall 2002
OTHER PROJECTS
Manager, The Estate of Eric Orr (ongoing)
Five Sisters: Guy de Cointet + Eric Orr, US & European Tour, 2011 - present
Lighting, Set, and Sound reconstructed by Elizabeth Orr
Culturgest, Lisboa, Portugal
OCAT, Shenzhen, China,
Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, GR
Pompidou Metz, Loraine, FR
MoMA, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museo de Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
MUSAC, Leon, Spain
STUK, Leuven, Belgium
Frascati Theater, Amsterdam, NL