Lana Z Caplan

Lana Z Caplan works across various media, including single-channel films or videos in essay form, interactive installations, video art, and photography. Her works are often inspired sub-cultural notions of utopia – where one person’s utopia is another’s undoing. Highlights of her international exhibition record include Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Inside Out Art Museum (Beijing), National Gallery of Art (Puerto Rico), Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Microscope Gallery (New York), Edinburgh International Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, CROSSROADS Festival, Antimatter [media art], Montreal Underground Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque), Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (Scotland). Her work has been reviewed and featured in publications such as ARTnews, Los Angeles Times, Hyperallergic.com, Lenscratch.com and The Boston Globe. She is the recipient of several grants including from Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Puffin Foundation, and the Film/Video Studio Program Fellowship at the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH).

Caplan earned her BA and BS from Boston University and her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art. Caplan’s work is represented by Gallery NAGA (Boston) and her films are distributed by Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris) and Filmmaker’s Cooperative (New York).

For more about her work and upcoming exhibitions, visit her website at: www.lanazcaplan.com.

 

Lana Z Caplan