Cecilia Dougherty
Biography

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Biography

Cecilia Dougherty works in video, photography, new media and installation. Her work has been screened and exhibited in hundreds of venues worldwide, and she has had numerous one-person shows and retrospectives.

Writing about her work has appeared in magazines and journals including Art in America, The Village Voice, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Artweek, Film Comment and High Performance. Her work has been discussed and cited in critical anthologies on art and film including Lesbian Art in America, by Harmony Hammond, Chick Flicks by B. Ruby Rich, and Contemporary Quilt Art by Kate Lenkowsky.

She has published essays, reviews, artist's pages, poetry and fiction in anthologies and journals including "A History of the Avant Garde Moving Image in the San Francisco Bay Area" (scheduled publication 2009), "[From Site to Vision] the Woman’s Building in Contemporary Culture The [e]Book," Felix, Nest, Millienium Film Journal, Afterimage, Swingset, Film Comment, Artbyte, New Art Examiner, Blocnotes, and Framework.

Former faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, Kansas City Art Institute, University of California at Irvine, Massachusetts College of Art, and The New School University. From 2003 to 2007, co-owned and operated Anthology Books, an independent international bookshop in Dublin, Ireland. Currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Media Arts at Pratt Institute. Co-Chair of Film/Video Department, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College from 2000 to 2004. Currently Core Faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College.