Naomi Uman Explained

Naomi Uman
Birth Place:	New York City, United States
Nationality:	American and Mexican
Education:	California Institute of the Arts, 1998
Movement:	Feminism
Known For:	Video art, Film director, Visual artist
Notable Works:	Leche, Removed, Unnamed Film, Videodiary 2-1-2006 To The Present

Naomi Uman is an American and Mexican experimental filmmaker and a visual artist.^[1] Uman received an MFA in Filmmaking from CalArts in 1998.^[2] Uman's work is often "marked by her signature handmade aesthetic, often shooting, hand-processing and editing her films with the most rudimentary of practices."^[3] She was once private chef to Gloria Vanderbilt, Malcolm Forbes, and Calvin Klein. Her award-winning films have screened widely at major international festivals as well as the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.^[4]

Filmography

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• Love of 3 Oranges (1993)
• Grass (1997)
• Leche (1998)
• Removed (1999)
• Private Movie (2000)
• Developing Memory (2002)
• Hand Eye Coordination (2002)
• Clay (2008)
• Coda (2008)
• Kalendar (2008)
• On This Day (2008)
• Unnamed Film (2008)

Awards

Uman was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Film, US & Canada in 2002.^[6] In 2008 she was awarded a Media Arts Fellowship by Tribeca Film Institute.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Naomi Uman - Winter 2016 Artist in Residence Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. lift.ca. 2016-03-07.
2. Web site: Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future. creative-capital.org. 2016-03-07.
3. Web site: Naomi Uman. Peripheral Produce. 25 March 2012 . en-US. 2016-03-07.
4. Web site: Naomi Uman. Experimental Cinema. 2016-03-07.
5. Web site: Naomi Uman . . November 21, 2023.
6. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Naomi Uman. www.gf.org. 2016-03-07.