Biography
PAM KRAY is a film/video artist and writer.
She has exhibited in the United States and internationally through numerous solo screenings and festival participation and has collaborated artistically with film and video makers, audio composers, painters, sculptors, and dancers.
Her oeuvre includes short and feature narrative, experimental and documentary works. Her feature, The Million Heirs (1988), was a finalist for the Rosebud Festival short narrative award in 1990. Her completed video documentary, Mushroom Seekers (2002), premiered at Anthology Film Archives in New York and has screened repeatedly in the U.S. and in Europe.
Pam has screened work at the ExGround Festival in Wiesbaden, the Cinema Bastardo Festival in Turin, Video Ex in Zurich, and the Reel Venus Film Festival in New York. Her films have been part of the Super-8 Masters tour.
Pam collaborated with choreographer Catherine Hourihan on The Art of Falling, a multimedia dance piece, which ran as a window installation-performance at Chashama Art Space in New York and as a stand-alone video installation at the Peripheral Visions Festival in the Czech Republic in 2004. In 2007 the collaboration was awarded a grant for a two-week performance-installation at the LMCC’s 15 Nassau Gallery in New York.
Pam also exhibited Virtually Certain, a 3-channel experimental documentary video installation at the 15 Nassau Gallery in 2006 at a group exhibition, Channels: Emerging Media Publics, and later that year at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery in Reno, Nevada.
In 2008 she created video and projections for the one-woman drama, The Euthanasist, by playwright Liza Lentini. The play was performed in New York at P.S. 122.
As a curator of films, Ms. Kray co-founded I AM EYE independent film forum in Washington, DC, that ran bimonthly from 1982 through 1991. In 2003, she curated a series of six international film/video programs that was presented in the Czech Republic at CESTA (Cultural Exchange Station at Tabor) and FCCA (Center for Contemporary Art) in Prague, and in the United States at Anthology Film Archives in New York City.
She recently finished a master’s degree in Media Studies at the New School University in New York City.
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PAM KRAY
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FILM, VIDEO, INSTALLATION WORKS
2011 – Six Degrees of High Plains Drifter (video, 14 minutes)
2011 – I CAN READ YOU LIKE A BOOK (online graphic novella)
2009 – Essentially a Gambling People (video, 22 minutes)
2007 – The Art of Falling (video for dance: collaboration with choreographer, Catherine Hourihan)
2006 – Virtually Certain (3-channel video installation, 5.5 minutes)
2005 – Wanna Bet (video, 10 minutes)
2004 – Motomanhattan/The Art of Falling (film & video study for The Art of Falling)
2003 – Sanctuary, Last of the Artists (video, 5 minutes)
2003 – Gone Global (film & video, 5 minutes)
2002 – Mushroom Seekers (video, 55 minutes)
1999 – Archaeology (film & video, 30 minutes)
1998 – Motomanhattan (super-8 film, 10 minutes)
1994 – Smalltown Dr. So & So (super-8 film, 9 minutes)
1993 – My Year Without Words (super-8 film, 20 minutes)
1992 – Consenting Children (super-8 film, 30 minutes)
1990 – Piss Mission (super-8 film, 10 minutes)
1988 – The Million Heirs (16mm film, 20 minutes)
1987 – Penis Puppets (super-8 film, 12 minutes)
1985 – The Ghost Sonata (16mm film, 5 minutes)
1982 – A Void Dance (super-8 film, 20 minutes)
1980 – Chapter Of (super-8 film, 5 minutes)
1980 – Constrictor Construction (super-8 film, 3 minutes)
LIVE-MEDIA PERFORMANCES AND COLLABORATIONS
2013 – Video for play: 12 Angry Men. Performed at Eastern Correctional Facility, Napanoch, NY.
2012 – Roaming Urban Soundscapes: 90-minute, 3-channel video installation of original and culled footage accompanying live readings of John Cage works for centenary celebration of his life and 50th anniversary of the New York Mycological Society. Performed at Great Hall at Cooper Union, NYC.
2011 – Video for play: The Exonerated. Performed at Eastern Correctional Facility, Napanoch, NY.
2008 – Video for play: The Euthanasist. Performed at P.S. 122, NYC.
2007 – The Art of Falling. Dance-video collaboration with Catherine Hourihan. Performances and 2-week installation at 15 Nassau Gallery, NYC.
2004 – Solo Exhibition: The Art of Falling multimedia performance. Live dance and 2-channel video window installation on 42nd St., at Chashama, NYC.
1996 – Collaborative film-music-sculpture with Multicide (Poland) and Katrin Regelski (Germany). Live performance at Lichtmess Kino, Hamburg, Germany.
1996 – Golem of Consciousness: collaborative film-video-music-spoken word with Viktor Mazin, Olessia D., Valery Dudkin (Russia). Performed at Orient to Occident Festival, CESTA, Tabor, CZ.
1990 – Fast Forward: video-spoken word-dance-music collaboration. Performed at d.c. space, Washington, DC.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013 – OPULENTE FIGUREN: invitational screening in gender studies exhibition. Hamburg, Germany.
2012 – RIGHT ON TIME: 25 Years of Pam Kray Films & Videos: Complete multimedia retrospective. CESTA, Tábor, CZ.
2012 – SOLO SHOW: various films/videos. At Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany.
2011 – SCREENING: Six Degrees of High Plains Drifter. Part of exhibition: Place + Time. Bullet Space. New York.
2009 – INSTALLATION/SCREENING: Essentially a Gambling People. Video screening and multimedia exhibition. Downtown Community Center, NYC.
2009 – Artist in Residence: 11 BC Garden, NYC.
2008 – RECLAIM: group show. Six Degrees of High Plains Drifter excerpt screened. Supreme Trading Co., Brooklyn, NY.
2007 – HOWL! FESTIVAL: Motomanhattan/The Art of Falling. NYC.
2006 – 1ST RENO INTERDISCIPLINARY FESTIVAL OF NEW MEDIA: Virtually Certain: 3-channel video installation: Sheppard Art Gallery, Reno, NV.
2006 – CHANNELS: EMERGING MEDIA PUBLICS: Graduate student group exhibition: Virtually Certain: 3-channel video installation: 15 Nassau Gallery, NY.
2005 – REEL VENUS FESTIVAL: Motomanhattan/The Art of Falling. NYC.
2004 – PERIPHERAL VISIONS FESTIVAL: Motomanhattan/The Art of Falling. Single-channel video installation, CESTA, Tabor, CZ.
2003 – NEW YORK-CZECH FILM & VIDEO EXCHANGE SERIES: curator of short video programs. CESTA & FCCA, Czech Rep., Anthology Film Archives, NYC.
2002 – FESTIVAL DIVADELNI SEDMICKA: Mushroom Seekers. European Premiere. Tabor, CZ.
2002 – TELLURIDE MUSHROOM FESTIVAL: screened Mushroom Seekers.
2002 – U.S. AND WORLD PREMIERE: Mushroom Seekers, documentary feature. Anthology Film Archives, NYC.
1998 – GROUP SHOW: ABC NO RIO, NY.
1996 – SUPER-8 MASTERS TOUR: various films screened by invitation. U.S. and Europe.
1995 – GROUP SHOW: ABC NO RIO, NY.
1993 – EX-GROUND FESTIVAL: program of short films and group show. Wiesbaden, Germany.
1982 to present – EUROPEAN TOUR: programs of films toured various locations in Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and Czech Republic.
Comprehensive exhibition list available.
CURATORIAL AND TECHNICAL PROJECTS
1995 to 2014 – Freelance high-end camera operator, video and graphics creator, editor and on-site coordinator for live-event presentations. Media installation and design.
2012 – Technical Producer-Director, Videographer, Editor & Projection Designer: Roaming Urban Soundscapes: New York Mycological Society/John Cage Centenary Anniversary gala presentation, Great Hall, Cooper Union, NYC.
2006 – Technical Director, CHANNELS: EMERGING MEDIA PUBLICS: Graduate student group exhibition. 15 Nassau Gallery, NYC.
2003 – Curator and project manager: NEW YORK-CZECH FILM & VIDEO EXCHANGE SERIES. At CESTA and
FCCA, Czech Republic, and Anthology Film Archives, New York.
2002 – Curator: films for the New York Mycological Society, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
2002 – Curator: videos at Anthology Film Archives, NYC.
1998 – Guest Curator: The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema. NYC.
1997 – Film/video Curator: The Women’s Show. Bullet Space, NYC.
1996 – Guest Curator: Knitting Factory Video Lounge. Organized program of documentaries from Orient to Occident Festival, Czech Republic.
1991 to 1993 – Booking, stage management: Studio 4: Performance art space collective. San Francisco.
1988 to 1991 – Founder, organizer. A Bunch of Drunks Read Their Shit: Poetry Series. Various venues. Washington, DC.
1982 to 1991 – Co-founder, co-curator. I AM EYE Independent Film Forum. Washington, DC.
PUBLICATIONS
Ongoing – Essentially a Gambling People blog
2013 – Provocative Barbara Rosenthal Existentially Grows Up. Review in The Book Arts Newsletter. Center for Fine Print Research
2006 to 2010 – Editor: newsletter of the New York Mycological Society.
1993 to 1994 – Contributor: HaraKiri: music and scene ‘zine: Stuttgart, Germany; Outside: ‘zine: Poznan, Poland.
1990 – The Storm. Short story published in Diffusions (literary ‘zine) Paris.
1982 to 1990 – Publisher/Co-editor, Quality Compositions, ‘zine arm of IAMEYE Independent Film Forum.
ARTIST GRANTS
2012 – NYFA Strategic Opportunity Stipend for presenting retrospective of work at CESTA (Cultural Exchange Station at Tabor), Tabor, Czech Republic.
2011 – Puffin Foundation Grant for video for The Exonerated produced and performed at Eastern Correctional Facility, Napanoch, NY.
2009 – Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Finishing and exhibition funding for video, Essentially a Gambling People.
2007 – Swing Space Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. The Art of Falling: multimedia performance installation collaboration with choreographer, Catherine Hourihan.
2006 – Travel Grant, New School University. Attendance and presentation of media installation: Virtually Certain, at 1st Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media. Stipend, University of Nevada Reno. Attendance and presentation of Virtually Certain, at 1st Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media.
2003 – Supplemental funding, Czech Center New York: New York-Czech Film& Video Exchange Program.
1998 – Residency grant, CESTA, Czech Rep. To work on video documentary, Mushroom Seekers.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2013 – Adjunct Professor, Communications, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY.
2009 to 2011 – Adjunct Professor, Communication Arts Department, Contemporary Arts School, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ.
2008 – Guest lecturer, “Media Literacy and Advocacy.” NYU School of Social Work.
1994 – Guest lecturer with solo film exhibition. George Kuchar’s film class, San Francisco Art Institute.
1991 – Guest lecturer with exhibition. Maryland College Institute of Art.
EXTRACURRICULAR AND COMMUNITY WORK
2001 to 2014 – Video artist, videographer, projection designer, ArtTree Theater Group at Eastern Correctional Facility. Napanoch, NY.
2008 to 2010 – Co-op Board of Directors, 633-11 Housing Corp NYC.
2006 to 2010 – Editor, New York Mycological Society quarterly newsletter.
1995 – Co-organizer, children’s art classes, ABC No Rio, New York.
EDUCATION
2008 – MA, Media Studies, The New School University, New York, NY
1978 – BA, Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY