CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION:

Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. Annandale on Hudson, NY.
MFA, Film/Video.
Empire State College, State University of New York. New York, NY. BA, Fine Art.
New York University. New York, NY.
International Center of Photography. New York, NY.
Palm Beach Photo Workshops. Delray Beach, FL.

AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS:

City Artist Corps Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts 2021
Field Of Vision Grant for Documentary Filmmakers 2020
MFA Teaching Fellowship, Bard College Studio Arts Program 2017

Winner, Juried Competition, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2012
Winner, Best Experimental Film Award of Merit, The Accolade Competition 2010
Change Inc. / The Rauschenberg Grant, 2006
Concordia Foundation Grant, 2006
Winner, Best Experimental Film, Planet Out Short Movie Awards 2006
Elephant Rock Foundation Grant 2005
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Video 2004

SOLO EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS:

2023-2024 “Wolfwhistle” Whistle 267 East 10th Street NYC 
2023 Tough Grrrls and Feral Desire FILM SCREENING at The Horse Hospital London, UK
2022 “Punk Dyke Movie Night” Film Screening Le Petit Versailles New York, NY
2021 “Never Get Bored: Movie Mayhem” Film Screening Gene Frankel Theatre New York, NY
2018 “Gang Girl Trilogy” “An Evening with Katrina del Mar” Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY
2017 “Feral Women / Filmed Portraits” Art on A Gallery, New York, NY

2016 “Hell No / Poster Child” Art Market Provincetown, Provincetown, MA
2016 “Feral Women & Filmed Portraits” Prince Street Project Space, New York, NY.
2015 “Feral Women” Twilight Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2014 “Summer Sang in Me” Strange Loop Gallery, New York NY
2014 “Summer Sang in Me” Art Market Provincetown, Provincetown, MA
2014 “Black Velvet White Leather” DeLuca Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2013 “GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS” Participant Inc., New York NY
2013 “GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS” Art Market Provincetown, Provincetown, MA
2013 “Katrina del Mar – Shorts” Strange Loop Gallery, New York, NY
2013 “Girl Gang Trilogy / Films by Katrina del Mar” MoMA / PS1 Dome 2, Rockaway Beach NY
2010 “Girl Gang Trilogy / Gangs of New York” Fab Lab, Berlin, Germany
2010 “Gangs of New York” Wrong Weather Gallery Porto, Portugal
2010 “Girl Gang Trilogy” Anthology Film Archives, New York NY
2009 “Katrina del Mar Retrospective” Red Rattler, Sydney Australia
2009 “Movie Mayhem” Cherry Bomb Comics, Auckland, NZ
2009 “Movie Mayhem” Gene Frankel Theatre, New York, NY
2007 “Movie Mayhem” Pioneer Theater, New York, NY
2003 “Ruff Trade” Miami Light Project, Miami, FL
2001 “American Toughie” Intermedia Arts , Minneapolis, MN
2000 “American Toughie and Gang Girls 2000” Photo /Film Installation. Spa, New York NY
1999 “American Toughie” Photo and Film Installation. Clit Club, New York, NY.
1999 “American Toughie” Photo and Film Installation. Lust for Life, New York, NY
1998 “Pseudo Kin” P.S. 122, New York, NY
1998 “Chicks Trash and Rock & Roll” Photo Installation. Squeezebox, New York, NY
1998 “Recent Photographs” Deepdale Gallery, New York, NY
1997 “Sweating Gasoline and Looking for a Match” Photo Installation, Clit Club, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023 SURF GANG screens at Rockaway Film Festival 
SURF GANG by Katrina del Mar, 2005. US, 25 mins co-presented by SPECTACLE  
2022 “Swept Away: Love Letter to (a) Surrogate(s)” Guild Hall: Offsite Guild Hall East Hampton, NY
2021 “Goth Beach” Curated by Yana Toyber. Rockaway Beach Surf Club, Queens, NY
2020 “Grateful” Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
2020 “3 Day Weekend” curated by Pamela Willoughby / Victoria DeLesseps. Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
2017 “Firing: Women Photograph” curated by Andreea Waters. Picture Farm Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2016 Spring Break Art Show, Skylight at Moynihan Station, New York NY. “Cannibals” curated by Jo Shane & Maripol.
2015 “Trophy Art” Curated by Melissa McCaig-Welles AZArt New York, NY.
2014 “Push It” ArtNowNY, Joseph Gross Gallery, New York, NY
2014 (S)he is Still Her(e) Rivington Music, New York, NY
2013 “The Future is Now” Highline Loft, New York, NY
2013 “Social Change: Performance and Protest” The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2012 “On the Edge of Society: Deviant Performers at the End of the Millennium” Warehouse 9, Copenhagen
2011 “The Unseen” curated by Adela Leibowitz Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance California
2011 “Filmmakers Cooperative Summer Cinema Salon” Petit Versailles, New York, NY
2007 “If Everyone Had an Ocean/Nouvelles Vagues” film series, CAPC Museum, Bordeaux, France
2007 “Womanizer” film series Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2006 “The Process IV” BINZ 39, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 “Mermaids” Barthelemy Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 “Gen Art Miami” PT Studios, Soho Lounge & Oxygen, Miami, FL
2002 “A Star is Born – Kembra Pfahler” American Fine Arts Co. New York, NY
2001 “Stimulata” University of Cardiff, Wales
1999 “Illusion Delusion Denial” 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
1998 “Night of 100 Girls” Untitled warehouse space, New York, NY
1996 “Tattoo” Studio Museum of Staten Island, New York, NY
1996 “Picture This” CB’s 313 Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Untitled Group Show. Underground, West Palm Beach, FL
1991 “Censorship in the Arts” University of Wisconsin, Madison
1989 “Avantgarde-Arama” Performance Space 122, New York, NY
1989 Untitled Film Program State University of New York at Purchase

WORKSHOPS / ARTIST TALKS / LECTURES:

September 2023 Katrina del Mar Talks Films and Documentaries at FIT Film and Media Department
In this video excerpt, Katrina engages in a Q&A session as part of the History of Documentary class at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She sheds light on the intricacies of crafting low-budget films and the collaborative process involved in bringing them to life within a community context.  History of Documentary Professor Emma Ben Ayoun / Film and Media Director Dahlia Schweitzer

2016 “Performance Art 101” Hosted by Kembra Pfahler. Know Wave Radio. New York, NY.

2015 “Feral Women” Screening and Artists Talk Twilight Gallery West, Seattle, WA.
2013 “2 Days of Katrina del Mar” Screening and Artists Talk presented by Joanie4Jackie, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson.
2012 “Documenting the Moment: Photographing Live Art” Warehouse 9 Copenhagen, Denmark.
2011 “Queer Feminist Trash Film Workshop with Katrina del Mar” Hoshschule für Künste, Bremen, Germany
2011 Visiting Artist; The New School New York, NY.

SELECTED PRESS PROFILES:

2022 AM/NY “East Village’s Katrina Del Mar leads a queercore band that’s her latest artistic creation” Feature Interview By Bob Krasner https://www.amny.com/entertainment/east-village-katrina-del-mar-queercore-band/
2019 Oyster Magazine “Meet Our Fav New NYC Band: Tracy City” Feature Interview Alexandra Weiss, November 2019
2013 Huffington Post “Katrina del Mar, Artist, Talks About Joan Jett, the Fear of Strong Women, and Starting a Revolution”  Feature Interview, Phillip M. Miner

2013 Photograph Magazine “Katrina del Mar: Girls Girls Girls” review by Carlo McCormick
2010 Curve Magazine “Ladies, Start Your Engines” sidebar feature profile April 2010
2009 Time Out New York “Movie Spars” full page Feature Article Oct 1-7 2009 Issue 731
2009 Cherrie “Gang Girl” Sydney, Australia Cover Story Feature Interview/Article Apr 2009 Issue 019
2008 Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_del_Mar
2006 The San Diego Weekly Reader “Riding the Big Apple’s Little Waves” Cover Story vol. 35 no. 7
2006 LOTL “The Eyes of Katrina del Mar” Sydney, Australia full page Feature article issue 201 vol. 17 no. 9
1998 Time Out New York “Girls on the Side” full page Feature Article Feb 26-Mar 5 1998 Issue 127

COLLECTIONS:
Even Hurwitz, New York, NY
Carol Coombes, Philadelphia PA
Cindy Brown, Miami, FL
Erotic Museum in Barcelona, Spain.
Sacred Body Arts, New York Body Archive
Zandl Collection, New York, NY

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

2008 Nerve: The First Ten Years. Published by Chronicle Books
2006 Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents. By Nicholas Ganz Published by Harry Abrams, Inc
2000 The New Nude. edited by Genevieve Field of Nerve. published by Chronicle Books.
1997 Who Touched my Monkey? by Ducky DooLittle. Plushtoy/Night & Day.
1997 Totem of the Depraved. by Nick Zedd. 2.13.61 Publications.
1989-2000 Plushtoy Picture Book. Self Published series.

SELECTED FILM FESTIVALS:

Frameline, San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
NewFest, New York, New York.
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
OutFest, Los Angeles, CA
Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
Feminale International Womens Film Festival, Cologne, Germany
Chicago Underground Film Festival
MIX NYC Experimental Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Image and Nation Film Festival, Montreal, Quebec.
Out Takes Film Fest, New Zealand.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Creative Director, delMarvelous Productions / Katrina del Mar Photography, New York, 2012-Present
delMarvelous A Day in the Life Katrina del Mar 2015-16 currently in production. Webseries Create, co-wrote, produced, directed, and edit upcoming webseries. Successfully ran a $20,000 Kickstarter crowd fund raising campaign.

Photographer, Creative Director
Katrina del Mar Photography, New York, 1990-Present
Freelance Photography: Portrait, Fashion, Entertainment, Art and Stock photography.
Worldwide Syndication, Portfolio is available for review
Clients include: Sony Music, Island Records, Polygram, V2 Records, London Records, Time Out New York, People Magazine, Mademoiselle, Bust magazine, and the NYPost. Photonica/Getty, Globe Photo/IPOL & Liaison Agencies

Video Editor, Freelance
2016 Havas Worldwide. New York, NY
2014 Washington Square Films. Producers: Jack Lechner, Gail Eisenberg
2011 Sizzle Reel “Rock Paper Scissors” Producer: Wendy Kidd
2010 Conde Nast “Deeper Connection” Producer: Laura Kirby Number Six Editorial / Sapient Nitro
2010 FootLocker “Sneaker Enthusiast” Producer: Jim Frame Number Six Editorial / Sapient Nitro

Producer/Director
“delMarvelous A Day in the Life Katrina del Mar” 2015-Present Webseries Create, produce, directe, and edit. Successfully ran a $20,000 Kickstarter crowd fund raising campaign.
“Hell on Wheels; Gang Girls Forever” 2010 Short Film. Created, co-wrote, developed screenplay, produced, directed, and edited award winning independent film. Grant writing, on