Peggy Ahwesh

Peggy Ahwesh is a Brooklyn based media artist whose work spans a variety of technologies and styles in an inquiry into feminism, cultural identity and genre. A survey exhibition "Vision Machines", was presented at Spike Island, Bristol (2021) and traveled to Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway (2022). Recent gallery exhibitions include: "Undesirables", San Telmo Museum, Spain (2022); "Heart_Land", JOAN, Los Angeles (2020); CLEAVE, Microscope Gallery, New York (2019) and "Verily! the Blackest Sea, the Falling Sky", Berwick Media Arts Fest, UK (2017).  Fim retrospectives include: Filmmuseum, Brussels; Peggy’s Playhouse, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, among others.  At the Whitney Museum, Ahwesh was featured in the Biennial Exhibition (1991, 1995, 2002)  and had a retrospective  "Girls Beware!" (1997).  Ahwesh's  films Martina’s Playhouse, The Deadman, Strange Weather and Nocturne are in the MoMA permanent collection.  In 2022 she received The Acker Award that honors contributions to the Arts of Downtown NYC.  Ahwesh is Professor Emeritus of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College. She is represented by Microscope Gallery, New York.

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