Deirtra Thompson uses film, video, and sculpture to explore the relationships between memory, identity, and systems of authority. Thompson's films and installations are influenced by traditions in narrative film and experimental forms of non-linear storytelling. Thompson was a Sondheim Prize semi-finalist and has recently exhibited her films at the Baltimore Museum of Art and at TÄT Gallery in Berlin. She is a 2008-2009 Princess Grace Foundation award winner and currently an M.F.A student at Bard College in New York. Thompson lives and works in Brooklyn but her heart remains in Baltimore.
DEIRTRA THOMPSON
EDUCATION
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York. M.F.A.
Maryland Institute College of Art, Maryland. B.F.A.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 CINEMATÄT III, TÄT, Berlin, Germany
2008 Notes on Monumentality, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD.
2007 Four Frames, Union Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
2007 Queens of Animation, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD.
2007 Transmodern Age Festival, Baltimore, MD.
2006 Home Movies, 14 Karat Cabaret, Baltimore, MD.
2006 90 Degrees From North, Community College of Baltimore County, MD.
2005 Juried Film Shorts, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD.
SELECTED WRITINGS:
"INT Call Center DAY" Dog Under Porch 2008
"Sequence Vs. Spike" Forklift, Ohio 2010
AWARDS
Experimental Television Center’s Finishing Funds Award 2010
Princess Grace Graduate Film Scholarship, John H. Johnson Award 2008-2009
Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist 2007
MSAC Individual Artist Award 2006
COLLECTIONS
Peggy Ahwesh & Keith Sanborn
