BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Lives in New York Peggy Ahwesh came of age in the '70s with feminist politics and the experimental film underground. Early years were spent in Pittsburgh where she worked for horror director George Romero and as the film programmer at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Inc. She has worked in film, video and digital media. A mid-career retrospective of her work, "Girls Beware!" was presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1997. Other retrospectives include: Filmmuseum, Brussels; "Warhol's Grave" at The Balie Theater, Amsterdam (sponsored by Mecano); "Peggy's Playhouse" at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Ahwesh's films "The Deadman" (1990, made with Keith Sanborn), "Martina's Playhouse" (1989) and "Nocturne" (1998) are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Her recent video "She Puppet" (2001) premiered at the New York Video Festival, screened in "Animations", at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and the 2002 Whitney Biennial Exhibition. Ahwesh is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, a Creative Capital grant and the Cal Arts/Alpert Award in the Arts. She collaborated with Barbara Ess ("Y Pants", "Ultravulva") on "Radio/Guitar", a recent audio CD release available on the Ecstatic Peace label. |
