Born 1974 in Chicago, Illinois, Amie Siegel lives and works in Berlin, New York and Cambridge, MA. She received her BA from Bard College and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.



Amie Siegel works variously in 16mm and 35mm film, video, sound and writing. Siegel uses the cinematic image as material means to a conceptual end. Her work mines the voyeuristic gaze, direct address and interview to consider how these repetitions shape cultural memory. In multi-channel video and film installations, Siegel reformulates cinematic enterprises—including the establishing shot, the remake and the tracking shot—as uncanny reflections on absence, historical disorientation and nostalgia. Longer videos and feature films move between spontaneous and scripted spaces, truth and fiction, shifting performance from identification to parody and estrangement. 


Exhibitions include The Talent Show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Another Point of View, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec; The Russian Linesman, The Hayward Gallery, London; 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Forum Expanded, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Screenings include the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Berlin International Film Festival; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Harvard Film Archive; BFI Southbank; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Andy Warhol Museum, Frankfurt Film Museum and Film Forum in New York. Her first book of poetry, The Waking Life (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA) was published in 1999. She teaches in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She has been an artist in residence of the DAAD Berliner-Künstlerprogramm and is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.

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