Tirtza Even

An experimental documentary maker for over 25 years, Even has produced work which ranges from feature-length documentaries to multichannel, immersive and interactive video installations. Her projects, which rely on subtle digital manipulation and polyphonic, nonlinear display, aim to depict the diversity and partiality of complex, at times extreme, social and political dynamics in locations such as Palestine, Turkey, the U.S. and Germany.

Even’s video-work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, as well as in many galleries, museums and festivals in the U.S., Canada and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight (NY), RIDM Festival (Montreal), and Rotterdam Film Festival. Her work has won numerous grants and awards including Artadia Awards (Chicago), Jerome Foundation’s Media Arts Award, 3ARTs Visual Arts and Next Level Awards, Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship, and multiple NYSCA and DCASE Individual Artist Grants; and has been acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Jewish Museum (NY) and Harvard University’s Carpenter Center, among others.

A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department, Even has been a featured speaker at programs such as MIT Doc Lab, the Whitney Museum Seminar series, SXSW Interactive Conference, the Digital Flaherty Seminar, ACM Multimedia and many more.

Even’s work is distributed by Heure Exquise (France), Video Data Bank (U.S.), and Groupe Intervention Video (Canada).