Edin Velez

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Edin Velez (* 1951 in Arecibo , Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican video artist and screenwriter who lives in Brooklyn , New York City .

life and work

Edin Velez was born in 1951 and grew up in Puerto Rico. He studied painting at the University of Puerto Rico and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture . He moved to New York in the early 1970s and was one of the first generation of video artists in SoHo (Manhattan) .

Dance of Darkness is a documentary about the Japanese butoh dance.

Exhibitions (selection)

Edin Velez's works have been shown internationally, for example at the Whitney Museum of American Art , New York; Center Georges Pompidou , Paris; documenta 8 , Kassel; American Film Institute National Video Festival, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art , New York; Festival du Nouveau Cinema et de la Video, Montreal; International Center of Photography , New York; and Image Forum Film & Video Festival, Tokyo; Tate Gallery , London; Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam.

Awards (selection)

Edin Velez has received numerous awards such as a Guggenheim grant , the Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize, National Endowment for the Arts , from the Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 322; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
  2. ↑ Newark Ruttgers Video Production Faculty , accessed on 14 August 2015 (English)
  3. ↑ Electronic Arts Intermix Dance of Darkness ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  4. ↑ Electronic Arts Intermix : Edin Velez ( Memento from November 27, 2012 on WebCite ) (English)
personal data
SURNAME Velez, Edin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Puerto Rican-American video artist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Arecibo