Vanalyne Green  

A leading figure in the emergence video as an art medium, Vanalyne Green is an iconic figure in feminist art practice and video art in United States. She studied fine art at Fresno State University where the first feminist art program was initiated by Judy Chicago, before moving to the California Institute of the Arts, studying with Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and gaining a BFA in 1974. Associated with the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, she was a member of the Feminist Art Workers performance group and of the New York-based agit-prop collective No More Nice Girls. Green was a founding member of the collaborative group Feel Tank Chicago, the city in which she was appointed Chair of Video Art at the School Art Institute of Chicago. In 2004, Green became the first woman to hold the Chair of Fine Art at the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Her wide ranging video work has been screened extensively and internationally, including at the Whitney Biennial (1991), American Film Institute, Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, The Guggenheim Museum and many other museums, universities and film festivals. She has received numerous honors: among them, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, as the well the Rome Prize, a year-long residency at the American Academy in Rome. (7/19)