ISABEL ROCAMORA BIOGRAPHY

Isabel Rocamora (Barcelona/ London) is a British-Spanish artist filmmaker whose work considers the performative language of human gesture and its relationship to individual and cultural identity.

Her practice developed through performance works (1993 - 2003), some of which were commissioned by national institutions such as Bluecoat Arts Centre and the Victoria and Albert Museum and which toured worldwide, often under the British Council. Her films and multi-channel installations have been shown at galleries, museums and filmothèques worldwide, as well as been broadcast on art programmes on Channel 4 (U.K), TV2 & TV3 (Spain) and Arte Tv (France/ Germany). Winner of several international awards, such as IMZ Dance Screen Award – the Hague and Dance Camera West Media Honor – Los Angeles, her films have been exhibited, amongst others, at Centre for Contemporary Art Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Sala Parpalló Museum, Valencia; Sørlandet Museum of Art, Norway and the National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen. Her work has been selected for major video art editions such as Best of Loop: Remote Viewing at Pacific Centre, L.A and Arts Santa Monica Centre, Barcelona and Video(s)torias at Artium Museum of Modern Art, Vitoria, Spain.

Her new solo show The Intimacy of Violence recently premiered at Galeria Senda and Arts Santa Monica Centre in Barcelona. In the coming months Body of War, its core film, is to be widely screened and exhibited in the context of venues such as the Getty Centre, Los Angeles,  Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel and the Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC.

Rocamora has given extensive conferences and workshops relating to her practice worldwide (Universities such as Brown and Rhode Island, U.S and Bristol, U.K; for the Architects' Association and Whitechapel Gallery, London and Festivals such as Loop Videoart, Barcelona among others). She was tutor in film directing at ECIB (Barcelona Film School) in 2008-09 and teaches moving image installation at IED (Instituto Europeo di Design).

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(updated 08.09.11)