Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
530 W 22nd St, NY, NY 10011

BIOGRAPHY


Lives and works in New York City


VIDEOGRAPHY
2008 Snail 23:43, B&W, No Sound
Donkey & Lightning 14:18, B&W, Sound

2007 Frog 1:15, B&W, No Sound
White on White B&W, No Sound

2006 Self-Portrait 7:52 Color, Sound

2005 Watching The Paint Dry: Yellow 16:53 Color, No Sound
Heater 15:00 Color, No Sound

2004 V-Formation 14:00 B&W, No Sound
Winter (Snow) (1 of the Four Seasons) 15:00 Color, No Sound
Roz 5:42 Color, Sound
Broadway (two screens) 57:00 Color, Sound
Fan 55:00 B & W, No Sound

2003 Fabian 8:17 B & W, Sound
The Mile Running Time 7:25 7:25 Color, Sound
Autumn (Two Turtles) (1 of the Four Seasons) 6:52 Color, No Sound
Autumn (Spider Web) (1 of the Four Seasons) 3:00 Color, No Sound
Summer (Surf) (1 of the Four Seasons) 8:37 Color, No Sound

2002 Spring (Tree Leaves) (1 of the 4 seasons) 14:51 Color, No Sound
Portrait (1 of 10 Portraits) 14:37 Color, No Sound

2001 Focus Trisha 5:41 B & W, No Sound
Jet With Trees 5:43 B & W, No Sound
Jet With Planes 3:14 B & W, No Sound
Angel (two screens) 14:05 B & W, Sound
Sextet II (6 screens: Angel, Rain Piece, August)
 B & W, Sound

2001 Jet 2:08 Color, No Sound
Prison Kiss (double monitors) 10:18 Color, No Sound
Focus Elizabeth 3:05 B & W, No Sound
Dolly Shot Twice 6:40 B & W, No Sound

1999 Sextet I (6 screens: The Hornets, Rain Piece, August) B & W, Sound
August (two screens) 11:40 B & W, No Sound

1998 Rain Piece (two screens) 15:05 B & W, Sound
The Long Dissolve 9:15 B & W, No Sound

1996 Slo Mo 9:30 B & W, No Sound
The Hornets, Bob & Evelyn (two screens) 29:31 B & W, Sound
Citizen (two screens) 54:23 B & W, Sound

1993 The Pool 28:53 B & W, Sound

1990 Aeros 32:52 Color, Sound

1989 The Dogs 17:10 Color, Sound

1988 Trisha & Carmen 13:04 Color, Sound

1987 Ice 4:33 Color, Sound

1986 With Special Thanks 5:28 Color, Sound

1985 O Panama 28:00 Color, Sound
The Elevator 5:02 Color, Sound

1984 The Woman Next Door 19:10 Color, Sound


EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
2008 Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY

2007 Stop. Look. Listen. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Burt Barr: Recent Work, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens NY

2004 Roz, The International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Wave, V-Formation, Focus Trisha, The Long Dissolve, Roz, University of South Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL
Roz, Jack Blanton Museum/CinemaTexas, Austin TX
Roz/The Mile: Running Time 7:25/Fan, Brent Sikkema, New York City
Autumn (1 of the Four Seasons), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Aeros, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia
Wave, USF Graphicstudio, Tampa, Florida

2003 Aeros, ICC Exhibition "Art and Technology" (EAT), Tokyo, Japan
Focus Trisha, The Mile Running Time, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
Ice, Nueva Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Fall (1 of the Four Seasons), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
2002 Focus I, Focus II, Angel, Platform Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
August/The Long Dissolve/Prison Kiss, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Dolly Shot Twice, Yale University Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

2001 Jet, Postmasters Gallery, New York City
Jet With Trees/The Long Dissolve/Focus Elizabeth/Dolly Shot Twice, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Dolly Shot Twice/Prison Kiss, Lawing Gallery, Houston
Sextet I/Prison Kiss, Brent Sikkema, New York City

2000 Rain Piece, "The American Century", Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Ice, The Standard/Yvonne Force Inc., Los Angeles
Focus Elizabeth, Lawing Gallery, Houston

1999 Dolly Shot Twice, ZKM, Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
Rain Piece, International Film Festival, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
August, Patrick Callery Gallery, New York City
The Hornets, Bob and Evelyn, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
O Panama, Cinemedia Australia, Sydney
Ice, Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona,Spain

1998 Rain Piece/The Long Dissolve, Lawing Gallery, Houston

1997 Slo Mo, Whitney Biennial , Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Citizen, Boesky & Callery, New York City

1996 Citizen/The Hornets, Bob and Evelyn, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City
Trisha and Carmen, Cinema of Utrecht, The Netherlands

1995 With Special Thanks, Rice University, Houston
Ice, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York City
The Pool, PBS "New Television", National Broadcast

1994 The Pool, The Lobby Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York City
The Dogs, University of Illinois, Chicago
Ice, Pix Art, Montréal

1993 The Pool, Festival Int'l du Nouveau Cinéma et de la Vidéo, Montréal
The Pool, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City
The Pool, Image Forum Festival, Tokyo and Osaka
Aeros, UCLA, California

1992 Aeros/Trisha and Carmen, Centre George Pompidou, Paris

1991 Aeros, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
Aeros, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
Aeros, PBS "New Television", National Broadcast
Aeros, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Aeros, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia
Aeros, Yugoslav and Czechoslovak National Television
Aeros, "FR3", French Television
The Dogs, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City
With Special Thanks, International Center of Photography, New York City

1990 Aeros, Anthology Film Archives, New York City
Aeros, Toronto Film Festival
The Dogs, PBS "New Television", WGBH (Boston)/WNET (NYC)/KCET (LA)/WETA (DC)
The Dogs, Anthology Film Archives, New York City
Ice/The Dogs, International Center of Photography, New York City
Ice, BBC Television, London
Trisha and Carmen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland

1989 The Dogs, Festival Int'l du Nouveau Cinéma et de la Vidéo, Montréal
Trisha and Carmen, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Trisha and Carmen, Chateauvallon, Toulon, France
Trisha and Carmen, Nostra de Video Danse, Barcelona
Ice/ With Special Thanks, "Independent Focus", WNET-TV, New York City

1988 Trisha and Carmen, Festival Riccione, TTVV, Italy
Trisha and Carmen, PBS "New Television", WGBH (Boston)/WNET (NYC)/KCET (LA)
Ice, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia
With Special Thanks, First Riga Int'l Film & Video Festival, USSR

1987 With Special Thanks, "Mixed Signals", New England Cable-Cast
O Panama, International Filmfestspiele, Berlin
The Elevator, The Kitchen, New York City

1986 With Special Thanks, Festival Int'l du Nouveau Cinéma et de la Vidéo, Montréal
O Panama, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
O Panama, Melbourne Film Festival, Australia
O Panama, "New Television", WGBH (Boston)/WNET (NYC)
The Elevator, Montbeliard Int'l Video Festival, France
The Woman Next Door, American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York

1985 O Panama, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

1984 The Woman Next Door, The Kitchen, New York City
The Woman Next Door, Millennium, New York City
The Woman Next Door, San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain


LECTURES/SCREENINGS
2007 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2004 Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia

2002 Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Providence, Rhode Island
The Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

2001 Parsons School of Design, New York City

2000 Art in General Studio Tour, New York City

1998 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
University of Ohio, Athens, Ohio

1993 Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

1992 Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain
CAPC Musee, Bordeaux, France

1991 New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania

1990 The Electrical Matter, Philadelphia
Anthology Film Archives, New York City

1988 Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1987 Donnell Media Library, New York


RELATED PROJECTS
2004 The Flag Project, Rubin Museum, New York City
Art for a Landmine-Free World, Pace Wildenstein, New York City
Teaching
2002 Pratt Institute - Instructor of Film & Video Projects
2000/2001 New York University Graduate School - Instructor of Creative Projects


Print Editions
2008 Summer, Looped, Color, Graphicstudio, Tampa, Florida
2007 The Gun & The Dog, B&W, Graphicstudio, Tampa, Florida
2004 V-Formation, Graphicstudio, Tampa, Florida
2003 Wave, Graphicstudio, Tampa, Florida
2000 Double Feature, Graphicstudio, Tampa, Florida


Photography
2002 1969 Cadillac, Jenkins Sikkema Editions
2002 Point of Contact, Vol 6, No. 1-2, pgs 90-95, Dec 2002, Syracuse Univ. Press
2002 UNICEF 2003 Art Diary
2000 Fresh Cream, by Vasif Kortun, Phaidon Press
1996 Smooch, Boxed Portfolio, Julie Sylvester/Bermuda Editions


Costume Design
1996 Trisha Brown's "12 Ton Rose"/World Premier, Brooklyn Academy of Music


Short Stories Published
1988 "The Dogs", BOMB, Issue 24, p. 56
1984 "Promised Land", BOMB, Issue 14, p. 48
1983/84 "The Red Cloud", BOMB, Issue 8, p. 18
1982 "The White Shirt", BOMB, Issue 4, p. 18
1981 "The Undertaker", BOMB, Issue 2, p. 35


GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
1999 The Andrea Frank Foundation, New York City

1998 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York City

1997 Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, New York City

1996 Art Matters, Inc., New York City

1996 New York State Council on the Arts, Individual Artists Program

1993 Arts America Grantee. Residency/Tel Aviv, Israel

1993 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Program/New Genres

1993 First Prize, The Pool, Festival Int'l du Nouveau Cinéma et de la Vidéo, Montréal

1992 The American Film Institute, The Independent Film & Videomaker Program

1992 James E. Robison Foundation, New York City

1991 Owego Electronic Arts Grant, New York State

1990 James E. Robison Foundation, New York City

1989 La SEPT Video Commission, Paris

1989 New York State Council on the Arts, Individual Artists Program

1989 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Program/New Genres

1989 JCT Foundation, New York City

1989 Art Matters Inc., New York City

1989 National Endowment for the Arts, Dance/Film/Video Program

1989 Brooklyn Arts Council's FilmSearch Program

1988 National Endowment for the Arts, Inter-Arts Program

1987 Con Edison, New York City

1987 WGBH/WNET Production Funds

1986 New York State Council on the Arts, Individual Artists Program

1985 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Program/New Genres

1985 The Contemporary Arts Television Fund (CAT FUND), Boston

1984 Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, New Works Program

1983 National Endowment for the Arts, Inter-Arts Program


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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2007 Inselman, Andrea . ‘Stop. Look. Listen’ (exhibition catalog) c. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca NY ISBN 1934260037
'The Flag Project,' Rubin Museum of Art, c. 2007 p. 48

2006 Heartney, Eleanor, "Burt Barr at Sikkema Jenkins," Art in America, June/July, 2006
Richer, Francesca, and Matthew Rosenzweig, ed. "No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists," d.a.p., p.33

2004 CinemaTexas, Ninth International Short Film Festival (Exhibition Catalog) pp. 132-133
Gean Moreno, Contemporary Art Museum (Booklet) Tampa, FL, August
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Stephen Mueller, ArtCritical.com, July
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2000 Hine, Hank. GraphicStudio (catalogue)

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