Biography
Lisa Birke is an award winning Canadian video artist who situates between the traditions of painting, digital video and performance art. She received an MFA with distinction from the University of Waterloo in 2013. She has had solo exhibitions across Canada and her short films have been screened at film/video festivals and media centres internationally, including amongst others: Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada), European Film Festival (touring), Athens International Film + Video Festival (USA), ARTVIDEO LAB (France), InShadow International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies (Portugal), Cologne OFF X (USA, Israel, India), Cyprus International Performance Art Festival (Greece), Cold Cuts Video Festival (Canada), International Short Film Week Regensburg (Germany), Videoholica (Bulgaria) and SESIFF(Seoul international Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival). The short film Calendar Girls was awarded a “Jury Award for Creative Achievement” at the Arizona International Film Festival (USA) and the Jury Award at ForadCamp (Barcelona) in 2015. Birke currently has projects at CAFKA 16 (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area), the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery and an Ontario Arts Council Emerging Media Artist Grant in 2016.
(Lisa Birke is currently adjunct faculty at the University of Waterloo in the Department of Fine Arts and the Global Business and Digital Arts program.)
