Discipline: Film/Video

Daniel Eisenberg

Discipline: Film/Video
Region: Chicago, IL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1990

Daniel Eisenberg has been making films and videos since 1976. His films have been screened throughout Europe, Asia, and North America with solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York; the Musée du Cinema, Brussels; De Unie, Rotterdam; and Kino Arsenal, Berlin. His films have been shown in the Berlin Film Festival; the Sydney Film Festival; the London Film Festival; the Jerusalem Film Festival; Vue Sur Les Docs, Marseilles; and the Whitney Biennial, New York. Eisenberg's films have won numerous awards, fellowships, and honors. Among these are a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the D.A.A.D. Berliner Künstlerprogramm Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Awards include arc+film Festival, Graz, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, and New England Film Festival. Eisenberg lives and works in Chicago and is a professor in the departments of Film/Video/New Media/Animation, and Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Eisenberg is the recipient of a Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin for 2014-2015.

Studios

Mixter

Daniel Eisenberg worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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