Ja'Tovia M. Gary

born. 1984, Dallas, Texas.

Education

2014 MFA, School of Visual Arts, Social Documentary Filmmaking.
2012 Dual BA, Brooklyn College, Documentary Film Production/ Africana Studies.
2009 Documentary Filmmaking Certificate, LV Prasad Academy, Chennai, India.

Fellowships & Residencies

2023 Nancy Graves Grantee
2022 Guggenheim Fellow
2019 Field of Vision Fellow
2019 Creative Capital Fellow
2018 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Harvard University.
2018 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
2018 Firelight Media Documentary Film Fellow, New York City, New York.
2018 Artist in Residence, Headlands Artist Residency, California.
2017 Artist in Residence, Squeaky Wheel Workspace Residency, Buffalo, New York.
2017 Artist in Residence, Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, New York.
2016 Terra Foundation of American Art Summer Artist Residency, Giverny, France.
2016 The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Sundance Film Festival Fellows Program

Awards

2023 Quiet as It’s Kept (Single Channel), Best Experimental Film, Urbanworld Film Festival
2023 Quiet as It’s Kept (Single Channel), Special Jury Mention for Experimentation, AFI Fest
2023 Quiet As It's Kept (Single Channel), Special Mention Experimental Film Jury Award, BlackStar Film Festival
2020 The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Directors’ Choice Award, Spectral Film Festival
2020 The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Best Experimental Film, BlackStar Film Festival
2020 The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Top Grit Award, Indie Grits Film Festival
2020 The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Juror Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival.
2019 The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award, LA Film Critics Association.
2019 The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Honorable Mention, Camden International Film Festival.
2019 The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Moving Ahead Award, Locarno International Film Festival.
2019 The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Creative Capital Awards.
2018 Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Audience Award, Best Experimental Short, New Orleans Film
Festival.
2018 Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Special Jury Mention, Best Experimental Short, New Orleans
Film Festival.
2018 Firelight Next Step Production Grant.
2017 Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Filmmaking.
2017 The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Sarah Jacobson Grant.
2016 An Ecstatic Experience, Jury Award, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival.
2016 An Ecstatic Experience, Special Jury Award, New Orleans Film Festival.
2016 The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Rooftop Films/ TCS Camera Package Grant.
2016 The Evidence of Things Not Seen, BritDoc Genesis Film Grant.
2015 The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Production Grant, The Jerome Foundation.
2015 The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Production Grant, Sundance Documentary Fund.
2014 Cakes Da Killa: NO HOMO, Audience Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival.
2012 Deconstructing Your Mother, 2nd place CUNY Film Festival, New York City, New York.
2011 Deconstructing Your Mother, Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Film, Brooklyn
College Film Festival, Brooklyn, New York.

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2023
The Giverny Suite, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA. 
Concentrations 64: Ja'Tovia Gary, I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA.
You Smell Like Outside..., Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

2021
The Giverny Suite, ZOLLAMT MMK, Frankfurt, Germany

2020
flesh that needs to be loved, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia Gary, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

2019
Ja'Tovia Gary: Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.
Tactile Cosmologies, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France.
Screenings 4, University of San Diego Humanities Center Galleries, San Diego, CA, USA.

2018
Giverny I (NÉGRESSE IMPÉRIALE), Boston University Galleries ANNEX, Boston, MA, USA.
A Care Ethic, UC Santa Barbara Museum of Architecture and Design, CA, USA.

2017
Modern Mondays: An Evening with Ja’Tovia Gary, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York City, NY, USA.
An Ecstatic Experience, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Group Exhibitions

2024 

Studio/Archive, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940, Modern Art Museum of  Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Texas Woman’s University Visual Arts: Ja’Tovia Gary & Lauren Kelley, Denton, TX, USA 

2023
‘American Gurl’ Presented by Womxn in Windows, Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
The Butterfly Affect, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy.
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA.
Resting Our Eyes, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Cut Frames, Captured Pixels: Found Footage Film and Video, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL, USA.

2022
Black Melancholia, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, USA.
partus/chorus, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France.
feels familiar, Meyerhoff Gallery at MICA, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere: Freedom Dreams in Contemporary Art, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, USA.

2021
There is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, USA.
re:collections, Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA.
In Place of an Index, Silver Street Studios, Houston, TX, USA.
the view from here, Sadie Coles HQonline.
The Politics of Desire
, Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, USA.

2020
An Enunciated Life
, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
How To Disappear
, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
A Beautiful Struggle: Black Feminist Futurism, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.

2019
Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, USA.
Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Downtime: On the Art of Retreat, Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL, USA.
Accrohage, galerie frank elbaz, Dallas, TX, USA.
Mapping Black Identities: 3 Films, Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Material Tells, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada.
Common Bonds, UC Santa Barbara Museum of Architecture and Design,
Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, Curated by Hilton Als,
David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

2018
TRUTH, The Current Museum, SoHo, New York City, New York.
On Protest, Art and Activism: Part 1, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
An Ecstatic Experience, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture,
Washington, DC, USA.
Elemental, Curated by Zoé Samudzi, Ashara Ekundayo Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA.
Presence Africaine, Bandjoun Station, Cameroon.
In Context / this past was waiting for me, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
On Whiteness, The Racial Imaginary Institute, The Kitchen, New York City, New York.
How Does This Make You Feel, Hales Project Room, New York City, New York.
FOUR, We Buy Gold, New York City, New York.

2017
Hypervisibilities, Organized by Sondra Perry, Union Docs + Vera List Center,
Brooklyn, New York, USA.
An Incomplete History of Protest, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York.
Civil Disobedience, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA.
Lossless, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Face Shifts, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
Millennium Film Journal 65: Architecture On screen and Off, Anthology Film Archives, New York City.
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women / Queer Brooklyn, Film screening, Brooklyn Museum,
Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Unbound: Visions of the Black Feminine, British Film Institute Southbank, London, UK.
This is You Reading My Diary: An Evening with the New Negress Film Society, Anthology Film Archives,
New York City, USA.
How to Love a Watermelon Woman, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California.

2016
Pain Revisited, The Whitney Museum, New York City, New York.
This is What We Mean By Short Films, Rooftop Films, Brooklyn, New York.
New Filmmakers Spring Screening Series, Anthology Film Archives, New York City, New York.
Comrade, What is Your Visual Bond Today, Sunday Sessions,MoMA PS1, Queens, New York.
Black Radical Imagination, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
Transitional Objects / Transitional Subjects, Flaherty Spring 2016 Screening Series, Anthology Film
Archives, New York City, USA.
New Negress Film Society: Short Film Program, Made In New York Media Center,
Brooklyn, New York.

2015
Now! Cinema Screening, Interference Archive, Brooklyn, New York.
Black Radical Imagination, Reclamation of the Black Body, Articule, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Black Radical Imagination, Cinema Studies Institute +LIFT, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Black Radical Imagination, Reclamation of the Black Body, SAW Media Art Centre,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Hauntologies: past/present continuum, Black Cinema House, Chicago, Illinois.
Afroisms, Busseywood African Film Festival, London, UK.
Black Radical Imagination, The Black Fantastic, The Schomburg Center, Harlem, New York.
Black Radical Imagination, MoCADA Soul of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York.
Directed By Women Series: New Negress Film Society, IUCinema, Bloomington, Indiana.

Filmography

2023
Quiet As It's Kept

2019
The Giverny Suite
The Giverny Document

2017
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale)
Sleep is the Cousin of Death

2015
 An Ecstatic Experience

2013
Cakes Da Killa: NO HOMO
Women’s Work
Harlem Montage

2011
Deconstructing Your Mother
Sound Rite

Music Videos

2013
Cakes Da Killa “Goodie Goodies"

Festivals and Screenings

2024
An Ecstatic Experience, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA 
Quiet As It’s Kept, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
An Ecstatic Experience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Canyon Cinema, San Francisco, CA, USA
An Ecstatic Experience, Revolutions per minute Festival, Cambridge, MA, USA
Quiet As It’s Kept, Hayti Heritage Film Festival, Durham, NC, USA 
An Ecstatic Experience, Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, Austria 
Quiet As It's Kept, Off the Wall, Atlanta, GA, USA 
An Ecstatic Experience, The Kravis Center- The African American Film Festival, West PalmBeach, FL, USA 
Quiet As It’s Kept, Festival Internacional de cine de Murcia, Murcia, Spain 
Quiet As It's Kept, Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V., Berlin, Germany

2023
Quiet As It's Kept, Media City Film Festival, Detroit, MI, USA
Quiet As It's Kept, Montreal International Documentary Festival, Montreal, Québec, CA
Quiet As It’s Kept, Nashville Film Festival, Nashville, TN, USA 
Quiet As It’s Kept, Black Harvest Film Festival, Chicago, IL, USA
Quiet As It's Kept, New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA, USA
Quiet As It's Kept, Urbanworld Film Festival, New York City, NY, USA
Quiet As It's Kept, AFI Fest, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Quiet As It's Kept, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, England, UK
Quiet As It's Kept, BronzeLens Film Festival, Atlanta, GA, USA
Quiet As It’s Kept, Open City Documentary Festival, London, England, UK
Quiet As It’s Kept, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, CA
Quiet As It’s Kept, BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Quiet As It's Kept, We Create the World: A Juneteenth Celebration, Boston Ujima Project and ICA/Boston, Boston, MA, USA
An Ecstatic Experience, Odù Film Festival, Salvador, BA, Brazil
An Ecstatic Experience, LGBTQ+ Diverse Film Series, LGBTQ+ Resource Center at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Celluloid Body, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

2022
Women's Work, W XOOL Festival, Saint-Ouen, France
An Ecstatic Experience, Nightfall: Eternal Returns, presented by Rooftop Films, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Playing in the Dark: Watery Experiments, Canyon Cinema, San Francisco, CA, USA
An Ecstatic Experience, Women's Work, Dreamsong, Minneapolis, MN, USA
An Ecstatic Experience, New Black Wave Vol. 2, The Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA, USA
An Ecstatic Experience, New Black Wave Vol. 2, Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
An Ecstatic Experience, Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Baden, Switzerland
An Ecstatic Experience, A Light Footprint in the Cosmos, Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), More Than Diversity: Rethinking Public Safety, Green Line Performing Arts Center, Chicago, IL, USA
An Ecstatic Experience, Flesh to Spirit: Materiality and Abstraction in Black Experimental Film, Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL, USA

2021
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Art of the Real 2021: Counter Encounters, Film at Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA
An Ecstatic Experience, Splash, Scratch, Dunk! Films Made by Hand, the Barbican, London, UK
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Risk and The Senses: Black Women in Experimental Film, Gulf Coast (online)
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Expanding The Frame, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA (online)

2020
The Giverny Document (Single Channel)
, 2020 Spectral Film Festival
The Giverny Document (Single Channel),
"NO TIME TO REST", SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA, USA (online)
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Reel Sisters — Do you feel safe?, USA (online)
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), 22nd Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil (online)
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Indie Memphis Film Festival, Memphis, TN, USA (online)
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), 33rd Virginia Film Festival, Virginia, USA (online & drive-in)
An Ecstatic Experience, Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
An Ecstatic Experience, Womxn In Windows, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), "Living Just Enough", Goodman Gallery London, UK
The Giverny Document (Single Channel),
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, USA (Live Stream)
The Giverny Document (Single Channel),
CinemAfrica Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden (online)
The Giverny Document (Single Channel),
New Negress Film Society Black Women's Film Conference, online
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, NC, USA.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Intertextuality: Performance/Subjectivity in Experimental Shorts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), True/False Film Festival, Columbia, MO, USA.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Portland International Film Festival, Portland, OR, USA.
An Ecstatic Experience, "Forms Are Facts," Rachael Rakes Visiting Artist Lecture in Conjunction with Cosmic Rays Film Festival, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Cakes da Killa: NO HOMO, African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
An Ecstatic Experience, The Futurism is Ours: The New Negress Film Society, Maysles Documentary Center, New York, NY, USA.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Denton Black Film Festival, Denton, TX.
An Ecstatic Experience, Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts, Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
An Ecstatic Experience, Directions Screening 2: Future Archives, Plymouth Athenaeum, Plymouth, UK.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Cinemateca de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), London Short Film Festival, London, UK.

2019
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), ICA Cinema: Tony Cokes/Ja'Tovia Gary, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Furora Film Festival, Berlin, Germany.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), Montreal, Québec, Canada.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), AFI Fest LA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Houston, TX, USA.
An Ecstatic Experience, Gems from the Landmarks Video Archive, Austin Film Society, Austin, TX, USA.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Filmforum at MOCA Presents: All That You Can't Leave Behind, MOCA Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Flaherty NYC: Surface Knowledge,
Anthology Film Archives, New York City, NY, USA.
An Ecstatic Experience, Landmarks at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Camden International Film Festival,
Camden, Maine, USA.
The Giverny Document Single Channel), Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival,
Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, UK.
Women's Work, FemFilm Festival, New York, NY, USA.
The Giverny Document (Single Channel), Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), British Film Institute Southbank, London, England, UK.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Crossroads Film Festival organized by San Francisco
Cinemathèque, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, USA.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Not Sorry: Feminist Experimental Film from the 1970's - Today,
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, USA.
An Ecstatic Experience & Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), An Evening with Ja'Tovia Gary,
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada.
An Ecstatic Experience, Personal Problems: A Film Series Organized by Charles Gaines,
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Red Bull Music Presents Rhythm Frequencies,
Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Tampa, FL, USA.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Experimental & Documentary Cinema: MFA Salon, Duke University,
Durham, NC, USA.

2018
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Afrikana Film Festival, Richmond, Virginia.
An Ecstatic Experience & Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), "Mapping Energies" Series, Wesleyan
University, CT, USA.
An Ecstatic Experience, Experimental & Documentary Cinema: The Visible Spectrum,
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
An Ecstatic Experience, Smithsonian African American Film Festival, Washington, DC, USA.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland.
An Ecstatic Experience, Black Dolls Screening Series, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
An Ecstatic Experience, Doc Yard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), CinemAfrica, Stockholm, Sweden.

2017
Sleep is the Cousin of Death, TIFF BlackStar Screening Program, Toronto.
An Ecstatic Experience, TIFF Black Star Screening Program, Toronto.
An Ecstatic Experience, Temps D’Images Festival, Cluj, Romania.
An Ecstatic Experience, Tacoma Film Festival, Tacoma, Washington.
An Ecstatic Experience, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany.
An Ecstatic Experience, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
An Ecstatic Experience, Glitch Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland.
An Ecstatic Experience, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland.

2016
An Ecstatic Experience, Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden.
An Ecstatic Experience, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland.
An Ecstatic Experience, Rush Process Festival of Handcrafted Cinema, Houston, Texas.
An Ecstatic Experience, New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana.
An Ecstatic Experience, Afrikana Film Festival, Richmond, Virginia.
An Ecstatic Experience, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Haverhill, MA.
An Ecstatic Experience, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh,Scotland.
An Ecstatic Experience, New Filmmakers Spring Screening series, New York, NY.
An Ecstatic Experience, Stockholm Animation and Experimental Film Festival, Sweden.
An Ecstatic Experience, ATHENS ANIMFEST, Athens, Greece.
An Ecstatic Experience, Maryland International Film Festival, Hagerstown,Maryland.
An Ecstatic Experience, Athens Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio.
An Ecstatic Experience, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
An Ecstatic Experience, Newark Women in Film Festival, Newark, New Jersey.
An Ecstatic Experience, Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, Georgia.
An Ecstatic Experience, Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland.

2015
An Ecstatic Experience, Gdansk International Animation Festival, Gdansk, Poland.
An Ecstatic Experience, Black Star Film Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2014
Cakes Da Killa: NO HOMO, Milwaukee LGBT Film/ Video Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconscin.
Cakes Da Killa: NO HOMO, BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Cakes Da Killa: NO HOMO, NewFest LGBT Film Festival, New York, New York.
Cakes Da Killa: NO HOMO, Frameline LGBTQ Film Festival, San Francisco, CA.
Cakes Da Killa: NO HOMO, Toronto LGBTQ Film Festival, Toronto, Canada.
Cakes Da Killa: NO HOMO, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Cakes Da Killa: NO HOMO, New Voices In Black Cinema Brooklyn, New York.
Cakes Da Killa: NO HOMO, Marlon Riggs Film Festival, Dallas, Texas.
Cakes Da Killa: NO HOMO, Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA.

2012
Deconstructing Your Mother, Women of African Descent Film Festival, Brooklyn, New York.
Deconstructing Your Mother, CUNY Film Festival 2012, New York City, New York.
The Mama, The Daughter, and The Holy Ghost
, Dirty Sensibilities: A 21st Century Exploration of a New
Black American South, Caribbean Cultural Center, New York.

Presentations, Talks, and Conferences

2023
‘When I Dare To Be Powerful’ Podcast: In Conversation with Ja'Tovia Monique Gary on the Importance and Burden of Locating Self Within the Filmic Space (Online).
I AM AFRICANA Conference, Keynote Speaker. Brooklyn College, Department of Africana Studies, Brooklyn, NY.
 "Nobody Knew For What": Toni Morrison's Clearings of Earth for Art and Art for Earth, with Sarah Jane Cervenak, JJJJJerome Ellis, Ja'Tovia Gary, Adjua Gargi Nzinga Graces, and fahima ife.
Beyond Resilience: Black and Now, with Sabaah Folayan, Elegance Bratton, and Ja'Tovia Gary, Firelight Media (Online).
You Smell Like Outside... Performance and Panel, with Kaitlyn Greenidge, Autumn Knight, Autumn Womack, and Ja'Tovia Gary, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY.

2022
Ja'Tovia Gary and Legacy Russell, Loophole of Retreat: Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy.
Looking for Langston, with Isaac Julien, Kaja Silverman, and Ja'Tovia Gary, ICA Philadelphia and Penn Live Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

2021
Risk and The Senses: Black Women in Experimental Film — a talk with Ayanna Dozier, Ja’Tovia Gary, and Barbara McCullough.
Holding (Space For) Nippy — E. Jane, Ja’Tovia Gary, and Claudrena Harold in Conversation, The Studio Museum in Harlem, (Zoom).
Terri Francis and Ja’Tovia Gary in Conversation, Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University (Online).

2020
In Conversation: Ja'Tovia Gary and Frank B. Wilderson III, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (Live Stream).

2019
The Ecstatic Message: Talking Music and Moving Image Art with Ja'Tovia Gary and Arthur Jafa,
McEvoy Auditorium at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
Ja'Tovia Gary, Humanities Center at the University of San Diego, San Diego, CA.
The Global Black Aesthetic: The No Direct Flight Global Meet Up,
BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA.
In Conversation: The Armory Show Artist Talks: Leonardo Drew and Ja’Tovia Gary with Jen Mergel,
New York City, New York.

2018
 Ja'Tovia Gary: A Care Ethic, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, California.
The Armory Show Artist Talks: Leonardo Drew and Ja’Tovia Gary with Jen Mergel,
New York City, New York.
What Art Speaks to These Times, An Incomplete History of Protest, Whitney Museum,
New York City, New York.

2017
Un-working Dark Matters: Black Feminist Visuality Conference. NYU Steinhardt, Department of
Media, Culture and Communication. New York City, New York.
New Negress Film Society Short Film Program and Lecture, University of Michigan, Penny Stamps
Lecture Series/Ann Arbor Film Festival. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

2016
Black Radical Imagination Conference, NewNegress Film Society Panel and Screening Series,
The Cooper Union, New York City, New York.
New Negress Film Society: Engaging the Radical Possibilities of Emerging Black Women Filmmakers,
Screening and Workshop Series, South Dallas Cultural Center. Dallas, Texas.
New Negress Film Society: Short Film Program, Wagner College, Wagner College,
Staten Island, New York.

2015
New Negress Film Society: Short Film Program, Jorgenson Screening and Lecture Series,
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Habitual Line Steppers: Constructing Blackness Beyond the Imagination,
Black Portraitures Conference. Florence, Italy

2014
Expanding the Walls Youth Multimedia Workshop, The Studio Museum. Harlem, New York.

Teaching

2017 Direct Animation/ Camera-less Filmmaking Workshop, Mono No Aware, Brooklyn, New York.
Advanced Editing and Post Production, The New School, New York, New York.
16mm Filmmaking Workshop, Mono No Aware, Brooklyn, New York,.

Professional Experience

2017 Writer/Producer, BET Promotional Spot, Viacom, New York, New York.
2016 Editor, Black Girl Magic Short documentary, Essence Magazine.
2015 Assistant Editor, The Jackie Robinson Film Project, Florentine Films, Brooklyn, New York.
2014 Cinematographer/Editor, SVA Design for Social Innovation Department, New York, New York.
2013 Editor, Gates Greene Productions, BystanderRevolution Online Campaign.
2012 Archival Researcher, 40 Acres and a Mule, Spike Lee’s Bad 25, Brooklyn, New York.
2012 Post Production Assistant, RealSide Productions,
Shola Lynch’s Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, Harlem, New York.

Public Collections

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Art, Design, & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
The Block Museum at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
The Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
The National Portrait Gallery/ Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY




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