Biography
Peggy Ahwesh was born in 1954. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College. Her work has been widely shown, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Balie Theater, Amsterdam; the Filmmuseum, Frankfurt; the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam; Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, among other venues. Her numerous awards include an Alpert Award in the Arts, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and grants from the Jerome Foundation, Creative Capital, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She teaches at Bard College.
Ahwesh lives in Brooklyn, New York
Her Work
The Fragments Project 1985-1995, 50 min, color, sound, Super 8 film
Martina's Playhouse 1989, 19:48 min, color, sound, Super 8 film
The Deadman 1989, 35:56 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film
Strange Weather 1993, 50 min, b&w, sound
The Scary Movie 1993, 8:16 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film
The Color of Love 1994, 10 min, color, sound, 16 mm film
The Vision Machine 1997, 20 min, b&w and color, sound, 16 mm film
Nocturne 1998, 30 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film
73 Suspect Words 2000, 4 min, b&w, sound
Heaven's Gate 2000-01, 3:53 min, b&w, sound
She Puppet 2001, 15 min, color, sound
The Star Eaters 2003, 24 min, color, sound
Bibliography
Ahwesh, Peggy. "Lara Croft- Tomb Raider." Film Comment July-Aug. 2001: 77.
Dargis, Manohla. "On the Deadman." Artforum May 1990: 29-30.
Handelman, Michelle. "Women's Studies." Filmmaker Magazine Winter 2002: 12.
Hoberman, J. "Attack of the Mutants." The Village Voice 14 Mar. 2000: 115.
Lewis, Jon, ed. The New American Cinema. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998: 353-78.