Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers, is an American artist and photographer. She lives and works in New York City.Biography
Chalmers graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Engineering in 1979, and from the Royal College of Art, with an M.F.A. in Painting.
She has exhibited at MASS MoCA, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Photography, the University Art Museum of CSU Long Beach; and Boise Art Museum.
Her work has appeared in the New York Times, ArtNews, Blind Spot, Harper's, and Discover. Her work has been featured on PBS, and This American Life.
In 2018 she created a course called Art & Environmental Engagement and taught it spring quarter at Stanford University.Awards
- 2008, Jury Award, SXSW Film Festival
- 2010, Guggenheim Fellowship, in video and audio
- 2018, Best Environmental Short, Natourale Film Festival
- 2019, Gil Omenn Art & Science Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
- 2019, Honorable Mention, Innsbruck Nature Film Festival
- 2019, Best Experimental Film, The Earth Day Film Festival
- 2019 Rising Star Award, Environmental Film Competition, Canada International Film Festival
Books
- Food Chain: Encounters between Mates, Predators, and Prey
- American Cockroach.