EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts, Film, San Francisco Art Institute, 1980

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute
Attended Université Paris, Sorbonne, studied literature
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris, studied painting
American University of Paris, studied literature
Konstfack, Stolkholm, studied sculpture, 1976

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004
Pacific Film Archive Berkley, CA "Latent Light Excavations", screening.
Sheppards Gallery University of Reno, NV “Latent Image Excavations:
Reno” installation projections.

2003
Michael Martin Gallery San Francisco, CA "Twilight's Last Gleaming"
installations.
S.F. Cinematheque San Fransisco, CA “Discreet and Continuous Boundary
Problems: Three week Retrospective”

2002
Ampersand International Arts San Francisco, CA en Passant,
installations

1999
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco, CA "Nothing But Ways",
Installation in collaboration with Trinh T. Minh-ha.

1994
San Francisco Cinematheque San Francisco, CA "New Narrative: work of
Lynn Marie Kirby" screening.

1993
L'Entrepot Theatre Paris, France “New work of Lynn Marie Kirby",
screening.

1992
Intersection for the Arts San Francisco, CA Portraits in Common Time”,
installation.

1989
Museum of Modern Art New York, NY Cineprobe: “Work of Lynn Kirby”
screening.
Portland Art Museum Portland, OR “An evening with Lynn Kirby”,
screening.
Chicago Filmmkaer Chicago, IL “New Work of Lynn Kirby”, screening.
Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, CA “Isolating Experience, Determining
Context”, screening.

1987
Eye Gallery and San Francisco Cinematheque San Fransisco, CA
installations and screening.

1986
Le Centre Pompidou, Paris, France “Les Films de Lynn Kirby”, screening.

1985
Luna Park Berlin, Germany “West Coast Film”, screening.

GROUP SHOWS AND FILM FESTIVALS

2005
San Francisco International Film Festival San Fransisco, CA
“Countdown”, screening, Onion City
Film and Video Festival Chicago, IL screening
Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, CA “Landscape films”.

2004
Toronto International Film Festival Toronto, Canada “Wavelenghts”
screening
Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Lucid.Ludic: Refracted Case
Histories” installation projections.

2003
Michael Martin Gallery San Francisco, CA “Camera sine cine camera”
installation.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Fransisco, CA “The Seventh
Art” installation.

2001
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY “Bitstreams” installation.
S.F.Cinematheque San Fransisco, CA “New Bay Area Work”, installation
improvisation.

2000
CCA Wattis Institute San Francisco, CA “Scanner”, installation.

1999
CCA Wattis Institute San Francisco, CA “Searchlight”, screening.

1997
Film Arts Foundation Festival San Fransisco, CA “You Ain't the Boss of Me Yet”, screening.

1996
Pacific Film Archive Berkley, CA “Sound Culture 96”, sound show.

1995
Artist Television Access, San Fransisco, CA “Open Up and Bleed: sort of
like a diary”, screening
Young Museum San Fransisco, CA “100 Years of California Landscape”,
installations.

1994
Istanbul Film and Video Festival Istanbul, Turkey “Miniatures in Lydian
Mode”, screening,
Victoria Room San Francisco, CA “Articulated Silences”, installation and
screening,

1993
San Fransico Public Art Project San Fransisco, CA “The Space Between”,
installation.
New City Theater of Seattle Seattle, WA screening.

1991
Erector Square Gallery New Haven, CT “Women in the Arts”, screening.
L.A.C.E. Los Angeles, CA “Recent Films”, screening.
Women in the Directors Chair Chicago, IL “Run for it”, screening.

1991
Oberhausen Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, screening.
Kennedy Center Washington D.C. “West Coast Perspectives: Experiments in
Form”, screening.
London Film Festival London, Great Britan “New Traces”, screening.

1989
Artist Space New York, N.Y. “Signs of Fiction”, installation.
Athens International Film Festival Athens, Greece Short Experimental
Narrative.

1988
Eye Gallery and San Francisco Cinematheque San Fransisco, CA
Installation and films.
Onion City Film Festival Chicago, IL, 2nd Place.

1987
San Francisco Cinematheque San Fransisco, CA “Bay Area Films”,
screening.
Humboldt State University Arcata, CA “Personal Cinema”, screening.

1986
Performance Network Ann Arbor, MI “Experimental films from S.F.”

1985
San Francisco Cinematheque “Recent Films from the Bay Area”,
screening.

1984
Boston Museum School Boston, MA Films, screening.

AWARDS

2004
Nominated for Alpert Award in Filmmaking

2004
Fleishacker Award finalist

2005
CCA Faculty Development Grant, (also received in 1997, 2000, 2002, and 2004.)

1998
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

1994 –1995
Lab Residency

1988, 1993
The Film Arts Foundation and William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Grant

1989
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, (also received in 1985, and 1986.)

1988
Onion City Film Festival, The Blue Prize, Second Place.

1983
S.F. Art Institute Film Festival, First Place Awards, (also received in 1980.)

1984
Tiffen Award

1983
Jerome Foundation, Emerging Filmmaker Award

1981
Ann Arbor Film Festival and Tour, Award

1980
Big Muddy Film Festival, Judges Award

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Michael Sicinski, Reviews, New Film Work, 2004

Bay Guardian, Michael Fox, “The Mirror Cracked” November 2003

Art in America, Barbara Pollack, Back to the Future with Birstreams, September, 2001

Art Week, “Nothing But Ways” at the Yerba Buena Center for of the Arts, Steven Jenkins, July 1999

San Francisco Chronicle “Team Works at the Yerba Buena Center” Kenneth Baker, August, 1999

Oversensitivity, Jalal Toufic, Installations of Lynn Kirby, 1998

Distracted, Jalal Toufic, Tuumba Press, 1991

The Stranger, “Films and Videos by Lynn Kirby”, Cyd Gilles, March 29, 1995

Art Week, A Feminist Questioning, Lynne Sachs, March 26, 1988

The Chicago Reader, Critic's choice, Ted Shen, October 7, 1994

Cinematograph, Vol. 3, Sharon and the Birds on the Way to the Wedding, script by Lynn Kirby

Release Print, Time, Space and Knickknacks: an interview with Lynn Kirby, Lisa Gibbs, 1993

Semaine de Paris, Les films de Lynn Kirby, May 25, 1992

Yesterday and Tomorrow, California Women Artists, Edited, Slyvia Moore, Midmarch

>Arts Press, N.Y. 1989, Filmmakers, Barbara Hammer, pg. 275

S.F. International Film Festival, Alternative Projections, Steve Seid, 1989

Artist Space Monograph, Signs of Fiction, Sharon Greytak, March 2, 1989

Cinematograph Vol. 2, Interview with Lynn Kirby, Scott Stark, 1988

Release Print, Portrait of the Artist as a Rhizome, Robert Anbian, March" 1989

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1982–2004
Professor of Media Arts and Graduate Studies: California College of the Arts,
Oakland and San Francisco; Chair, Film/Video/ Performance Department,
(1987–1989, 1993–1995 Associate Dean, 1993–1995)

1992
Associate Professor: London Institute, London, Visiting Artist in Film

1985–1986
Lecturer, San Francisco State University

1983–1985
Lecturer, City College of San Francisco

1980–1984
Lecturer, St Mary’s College, Moraga, Ca