Andrea Sisson
Lives and works in New York City / Los Angeles 2014 - 2021 / b. Cincinnati, Ohio (1987)
Interdisciplinary filmmaker and artist, writer and scholar whose work bridges experimental documentary and independent narrative film, the fine art and performance world, and psychoanalytic inquiry.
EDUCATION
2025 MSW, Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
2021 MFA, Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts
2010 BAS Design, University of Cincinnati, DAAP, School of Design
AWARDS
2020 J. Paul Getty Trust and the California Community Foundation, Grant for L.A. County Visual Artists
2013 Filmmaker Magazine “25 New Faces of Independent Film”
2010 U.S. FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIP, Design
SELECTED SCREENINGS, EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS & OTHER OUTCOMES
2026:
European Journal of Psychoanalysis | Special Issue 2026 | The Politics of Symptom Suppression: Two Spaces, Two Affective Worlds - published in a collection by the Group for Independent Formation as a response to their February 2025 conference on Politics and Psychoanalysis.
Tacoma Film Festival | October 22–25 | Everything Beautiful Is Far Away special archival screening 20th Anniversary.
FotoFocus, 2026 Biennial The Longview | The Well + 1001 Colors | June - July 2026 Program; Sept 30 - Oct. 03 Biennial; Cincinnati, Ohio | Teaching Artist in Residence for summer program and producer for youth multi-screen film installation for FotoFocus Biennial; Film: Time is a Circle
FIT SUNY Department of Film, Media, and Performing Arts | New York City, August 2026 - Dec 2026 | Professor Second-Year Production Studio
LRC Hosts Camilla Carper | New York, May 24, 2026 | POV performance documentation film installation
The Strother School of Radical Attention | New York, April 2206 | Practices of Attention: Documenting the Disappeared, a 3-week documentary-based course.
Frisson Gallery | New York, February 10, 2026 | Reading for Three of Cups Mariel Rolwing Montes, Alex Schmidt, Allie Taylor; Reading: COLE BEAUNE KAREWITH CASAS, TESS DWORMAN, ARISTILDE KIRBY, DAVE MCKENZIE, ANDREA SISSON
Union Docs | New York, February 5, 2026 | Moderation for Iva Radivojević’s feature ALEPH - a conversation Andrea Sisson around the film’s making and its deep investment in rhythm, language, and form.
Exponential Theater Festival | New York City @ Life WorldJanuary 29 - February 2 | Dramaturgy and Producing for Fashion, a play written and directed by Amanda Horowitz. Performed by Jess Barbagallo, Lorenzo Bueno, Annie Fang, Sterling Gates, Carolyn Kettig, Anne O'Sullivan, Pete Simpson, Ned Riseley, Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke, and Jehan O. Young; set design by Andreea Mincic; lighting by Shana Crawford; sound design by Mitchell Polonsky.
Filmmaker Magazine | Winter Issue 2026, Reflections Section | Film and Psychoanalysis published essay on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the process of filmmaking – with an interview with Greene Clinic Postdoctoral Fellow Kendra Terry, Ph.D.
2025:
FIT SUNY Department of Film, Media, and Performing Arts | New York City, August 2025 - Dec 2025 | Professor Second-Year Production Studio
The Well, Artworks Cincinnati | Cincinnati, Ohio, July 1 - August 3 & Oct 8-12 | July Resident Mentor and Lead Artist Facilitator for a Youth Employment Program (15-21 yr. olds) with the objective to create public arts/social practice projects reimagining the history of the Ohio River for America River Roots Festival.
2024:
Triple Canopy, Swallow Image | New York City, Dec 10, 2024 | Performance with Fia Backström, alongside Goldin+Senneby and Carolyn Lazard. “Fia Backström and Andrea Sisson will stage a performance connecting the experience of psychosis to the distortion of reality by authoritarian regimes.”
Foto Focus at the Cincinnati Art Museum, The Well, Artworks Cincinnati, Sona and Soma | Cincinnati, Ohio, July 8 - August 1 & October 1 | July Resident Mentor and Artist Facilitator for a Youth Employment Program for 15-21 yr. olds creating lens-based projects exhibited for the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Foto Focus city-wide photography exhibition, “Soma and Sona.”
2023:
La Forêt Electrique Theater | at Toulouse, France, August 24, 2023 | Theater screening of Everything Beautiful Is Far Away
Poetic Research Bureau | Los Angeles, Spring 2023 | Artists Who Write organized by Andrea Sisson & Ricky Zoker, and reading by Andrea Sisson
FIT SUNY, Department of Film, Media, and Performing Arts | New York City, February 2023 - June 2023 | Professor, Introduction to Sound for Film; Film, Media, and Performing Arts
Montez Press Radio | New York City, February 2023 | Morning Set: Glass & Andrea Larry
2022:
Poetic Research Bureau | Los Angeles, April 2, 2022 | Artists Who Write organized by Andrea Sisson & Ricky Zoker, and reading by Andrea Sisson
The Kitchen, Performance | New York City, March 10-12, 2022 | Fia Backström, “The Last of US — that safe spot in the dot above the I in the word life” - Performer in Fia Backström’s two-person show, organized by Alison Burstein.
2220 Arts, Touch 40 Performance Series | Los Angeles, CA, March 11-13 | 40th Anniversary, Video collaboration for Geneva Skeen
Carnegie Mellon, Visiting Artist | Pittsburgh, PA February 2022 | “Documentary Practice” with Geneva Skeen Performance
Montez Press Radio | New York City, January 28 | Morning Set: Glass & Andrea Larry
2021:
Carnegie Mellon, Visiting Artist | October 2021 | “Introduction to Film” with Geneva Skeen
Thesis Presentation and Screening | Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York July 30, 2021
"Close Alternative,* Bard College | MFA Thesis Exhibition, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York July - August, 2021
2020:
Wavepool Gallery, “Faux Real,” | Cincinnati, Ohio, June - July 2020 | Group Show, Curated by Sidney Hilley; “My Love Is All I have to Give”
2019:
Interstate Projects, Sinkhole Projects | New York, New York, July 5 - 28, 2019 | Group show, Curated by Joe Speier
Art Academy of Cincinnati, Visiting Artist | Cincinnati, Ohio, April 14, 2019 | Sculpture: Installation, Keith Benjamin, visiting artist + lecturer
PAM Residencies, Artist-in-Residence | Los Angeles, CA, February 1 - March 3, 2019 | Critical Forum Discussion February 10 “Artists Who Work,” Performances March 2 & 3
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive | Los Angeles, CA, January 18, 2019 | Pages from Hx-family-memory-predatory-lg archived in library
Poetic Research Bureau, Reading | Los Angeles, CA, January 18, 2019 | Reading of Hx-family-memory-predatory-lg text with contents archived at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
2018:
S1, Artist-in-Residence | Portland, OR, December 1-15, 2018 | Installation & Participatory Exhibition December 14, 2018
MEGA-GEIL, Bard College l Annadele-On-Hudson, NY, Fisher Studios - August 1, 2018 | MFA First Year MFA Show, Group Show
DrawItOut Workshop, Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland, February 2017 | Workshop Creator + Leader, organized by Renee Van der Stelt
2017:
THE ORCHARD Film Distribution | Everything Beautiful Is Far Away | contract stream and wide-release (Prime Video, Apple TV)
Nighthawk Cinema Theatrical Release 2017 | Everything Beautiful Is Far Away
Los Angeles Film Festival 2017 | Everything Beautiful Is Far Away | WINNER of the U.S. Fiction Cinematography Award
Tacoma Film Festival 2017 | Everything Beautiful Is Far Away | WINNER of Best Director and Best Cinematography
Eastern Oregon Film Festival 2017 | Everything Beautiful Is Far Away | WINNER of Best Feature
Sinkhole Projects | Baltimore, Maryland, November 15 | Group show, Curated by Joe Speier
High Desert Test Sites 2017, Swap Meet | Joshua Tree, CA October 21-22, 2017 | Swap Meet curated by Lydia glenn-Murray, High Desert Test Sites 2017 curated by Aram Moshayedi and Sohrab Mohebbi
Alternative Worksite Residency, Artist Resident | Roanoke, VA, Sep 30 - November 15, Open Studios December 15 | Pilot Resident, Founded by Linda Burnham and supported by the Robert Overby Estate
University of Cincinnati School of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning (DAAP), Guest Artist | Cincinnati, Ohio, January - February 2017 | Guest Artist for “Ethics In Design” course, fall semester
"If I Say So," Group Show | New York City - March 3rd, 2017 | Curated by Jo Rosenthal
2016:
U.S. In Progress Film Market, Champs-Elysees Film Festival | Paris, France, June 2016 | Five-day Market Participant w/Project “Everything Beautiful Is Far Away”
VogueTV | October 2016 | Give Yourself Credit Campaign, Objects Without Meaning
Softies Zine, Publication | New York City - October 2016 | Published poems, "One-Liner"
Bizzare Bushwich, Olimpia Dior Performance | New York City - October 2016 | Participant in Olympia Dior Performance
2015:
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Guest Artist & Lecturer | Providence, Rhode Island, Lecture: November 17, 2015; Class Critique: December 8, 2015 | Visiting artist & lecturer for video & photography course, "ISSUES & IMAGES II" by instructor Sheida Soleimani
Expanded Cinema, Omni Hotel, Group Show, | Dallas, Texas, October 25, 2015 | Videos projected large-scale on the front of the Dallas Omni Hotel w/radio soundtrack | Curated by Justine Ludwig, Senior Curator, Dallas Contemporary
VAEFF Video Art & Experimental Film Festival, Screening, Tribeca Cinemas | New York City, November 12 - 14, 2015 | Group screening + symposium, "TV Time”
Sao Paulo Museum of Image and Sound, 1000 Forms of Fear Triptych, Group Show | Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 6-7, 2015 | Group exhibition created by Sia and Daniel Askill, including the film, "Do The Chandelier”
Nonesuch Records Video Release | April 20, 2015 | "Blue Mountains" by Sam Amidon from the album 'Lily-O,' Official Music Video
"Unseen Films," Screening | Bushwick, New York, April 2015 | Screening of “I Send You This Place” programed by Bleue Liverpool
AC Hotel Miami Beach | June 10, 2015 | Panel conversation, panelist on travel, travel documentary, travelogues
2014:
Souvenirs From Earth, SFE ART TV, Art-Video Broadcast | 2013 to present | Video loop at Palais de Tokyo, Paris & international broadcast on ARTE, CN, BBC in France & Germany | Pieces included - “Do the Chandelier”, “Blue Mountains”, “Anthemoessa”, “OFFF Cincinnati Titles”, “Puzzle Muteson - En Garde, ISYTP Trailer
IFP Market | New York City, 2014 | Market Participant with Project “Everything Beautiful Is Far Away”
2013:
VAEFF, Video Art & Experimental Film Festival, Tribeca Cinemas | New York City, February 9, 2013 | Closing night showcase of “I Send You This Place” + Symposium with panelist PS1 founder Alanna Heiss
IFP Film Form, Independent Film Week | The Gotham, RCB Emerging Storyteller’s Slate | New York City, Winter 2013 | Market for Everything Beautiful Is Far Away
ReRun Theatre, Week Theatrical Run | New York City, June 2013 | Week-long Theatrical + symposiums of “I Send You This Place”
Emery Theater, Group Show | Cincinnati, Ohio - November 2013 | Double-panel film installation, and screening + Symposium of “I Send You This Place”
2012:
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Film Premiere | Raleigh, NC, April 2012 | Official Selection, “I Send You This Place” + Symposium
Reykjavik International Film Festival, International Film Premiere | Reykjavik, Iceland, October 2012 | Official Selection, “I Send You This Place” + Symposium
OFFF Barcelona, Commissioned Film, Contemporary Arts Center | Cincinnati, Ohio, September 2012 | Film for conference + lecture during media & arts festival
TEDx “I Send You This Talk,” Lecture | Cincinnati, Ohio, Autumn 2012 | Presentation on topics of the film/experimental documentary, “I Send You This Place”
2011:
Gamli Skóli: Old School Arthouse, Artist Residency | Hrisey, Iceland - March 2011 | Residency
2010:
Fulbright Fellowship | Reykjavik, Iceland, September 2010 - September 2011 | 10-month Fulbright Fellowship
"44" Performance Series, Contemporary Arts Center, Performance | Cincinnati, Ohio, June 2010 | Performance & Discussion - “Wearable Instruments”
