Katrina del Mar


Katrina del Mar is a New York–based American photographer, video artist, writer and award-winning filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Video, and her films have been screened at numerous festivals internationally. Del Mar has been described as "the lesbian Russ Meyer." Her aesthetic is informed by riot grrrl and 1970s punk.

Early life

Del Mar grew up in Wisconsin and New Jersey. She is the daughter of American painter William P. Campbell.

Career

Del Mar is an active singer and guitarist for New York-based punk/ queercore/ no-wave band The Shirtlifters, formed with Craig Flanagin of God Is My Co-Pilot, bassist Dan Whalen, drummer Genny Slag, and vocalist Normandy Sherwood. The group recently recorded an album with legendary punk producer Don Fury. She also creates zines.
Teaching credits include the University of Arts in Bremen, Germany, where Del Mar conducted the first ever "Queer Trash Feminist Film Workshop," in 2010. In 2012, she presented a series of films and photographs from the Golden Age of Performance Art with Dona Ann McAdams at Warehouse 9, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Her portraits have been noted for their intensity of character and have been used by music labels, books, and other mediums.
Del Mar's work has included music videos that have been accepted to MTV/ Logo Networks: "Bringin Me Down" and "Brooklyn Girls" for groups GSX and Hooray for Goodbye respectively.
As a filmmaker her credits include Surf Gang, Gang Girls 2000, Non Dairy Creamer and Nothin' Pretty. Her films have invited comparisons to American avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger. Del Mar's film endeavor entitled Hell on Wheels, Gang Girls Forever was completed in 2009 and released in 2010 at Anthology Film Archives for a sold out premiere screening.
In 2014–2015, del Mar created an ongoing semi-surreal experimental documentary style web series called delMarvelous: A Day in the Life that American poet Eileen Myles described as "visual poems from a speedy person". Twenty episodes have been released so far.
Upcoming projects include her first feature narrative film; and An Artist Working as a Letter Carrier, a documentary film about her father, William P. Campbell.

Personal life

Katrina del Mar is an out lesbian.

Solo exhibitions