| Lana Z Caplan | |
| Birth Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality: | American |
| Field: | Photography, video, new media, and installation |
| Training: | MFA Massachusetts College of Art and Design, BA, BS Boston University |
Lana Z Caplan is an American interdisciplinary artist working with photography, video, film and interactive media installations.
Her works have been described as a "suggestion of worlds colliding"[1] and present an abstract illustration of the deepening "schism between humans and the landscape."[2] Her work has been exhibited and screened in solo and group exhibitions in cities around the world including Beijing, New York, San Francisco, San Juan, Edinburgh, Mexico City, Philadelphia, Boston, Manitoba, New Delhi, Tel Aviv, Valparaiso, and Barcelona.[3]
Recent exhibitions venues and festival include International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Anthology Film Archives (New York), Inside Out Art Museum (Beijing, China), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland), the Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC), the Crossroads Film Festival (San Francisco), the Black Maria Film Festival (a 65-city touring program) and the Public Art Video Commission for the Massachusetts Cultural Council.[4] Her 2010 film Sospira was scored by Chris Brokaw and Kevin Micka from Animal Hospital.[5]
A monograph of her work titled Oceano (for seven generations) was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2023.[6]