Leslie Raymond

EDUCATION
1999 MFA New Genre, University of Michigan School of Art & Design
1990 BFA Film & Video1990, Rhode Island School of Design
1988-89 & 91 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1984-86 Center for Creative Studies, Detroit MI
1982-86 Cranbrook School / Kingswood

APPOINTMENTS. POSITIONS
2000 Ann Arbor Film Festival Screening Committee Member
1999-present Adjunct Lecturer, University of MichiganSchool of Art & Design
1999-2001 Media Assistant, University of Michigan School of Social Work
1996-97 Fine Arts Faculty, Cranbrook/Kingswood Upper School

AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS

2000 Ann Arbor Film Festival: Best Local Filmmaker
1998 Redstone Award / University of Michigan
1997 Rackham Merit Fellowship / University of Michigan
1997 Anti-Film Festival, Miami FL: Best of Festival
1995 Midwest Media Artist's Access Center, St. Paul MN - Women Filmmakers Access Grant

EXHIBITIONS

2001 pARTS Gallery "Illucination", Minneapolis MN Two Possibilities
2001 Michigan Theater/Ann Arbor Film Festival Spectator Portraits
2000 Walker Art Ctr - Soap Factory: "Films Defacto[ry]", Minneapolis MN Twa Corbies
2000 Main Street, Ann Arbor MI, "Video Culture/Videopolis" Dual Observation Cabinets
1999 University Of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor MI Kali Central

COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS

Art Farm Nebraska, Silly Yellow House, Marie Woo & Harvey Levine, Matrix Imaging, Matrix Gallery

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2002 Medicine For Today: LUX MUNDI, SuperCinematic Events for the 40th Ann Arbor Film Festival
1998 Collectania, University of Michigan Media Union Gallery
1998 Immedia, University of Michigan Media Union
1997 Combustion Zone, Matrix Gallery, Ann Arbor MI; Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti MI; BluHous Workspace, Hattiesburg MS
1994 Internal Combustion Variety Show, Speedboat Gallery, St Paul MN

ARTICLES

2001 The University Record, March 19, 2001 'Peephole' offers view of chaos within
2000 Current Ann Arbor MI 9/00 "VHS Meets the Louvre: Video Culture, Three Decades of Video Art" by Jessica B. Smith
2000 Current Ann Arbor MI 8/00 "Gallery-Go-Round" by Josh Steichman
2000 Room Magazine Windsor ONT 6/8/00 "The Secret Life of Crows" by Rebecca Kendall
1997 Hattiesburg Amereican Hattiesburg MS 4/97