Esther Podemski

Laps #2

2014

Esther Podemski is an American filmmaker and visual artist, whose works have been exhibited in galleries, film festivals and academic venues. As a painter, she has exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is included in private and public collections. She has exhibited paintings and drawings at the Jersey City Museum, The Portland Art Museum and The Oregon Jewish Museum, as well as galleries in Portland, Oregon and New York. Recent exhibitions include, “5 Days in July," a two-screen installation that revisits the Newark riots of 1967. This installation was exhibited at numerous museums, galleries and colleges, including The Tisch School of Art, at NYU, The Birmingham Civil Rights Museum and The State Museum, in Trenton, New Jersey. It won the Director’s Choice award at the “Black Maria Film Festival” and the Jury award for the best short at “The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival." Her grants include the New York State Council on the Arts, The Jerome Foundation, The Soros Foundation, The Memorial Foundation For Jewish Culture, the Yaddo Residency and Ucross Residency programs. She has taught fine arts graduate and undergraduate courses at Parsons School of Design, in New York, Pacific Northwest College of Art and Sarah Lawrence College.