BIO
Andrew Lampert has been making films, videos, performances and photographs since the late 1990s. His work is regularly presented in international contexts with past shows including: The Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou, The Getty Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, PS1/MoMA, The New York Film Festival, The Toronto Film Festival, The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and The Art Gallery of Ontario among many other venues.
A frequent writer on art and cinema, Lampert edited THE GEORGE KUCHAR READER (Primary Information, 2014), co-edited two volumes of HARRY SMITH COLLECTIONS CATALOGUE RAISONNE (J&L Books, 2015), co-edited MANUEL DE LANDA: ISM ISM (J&L Books, 2018), TONY CONRAD: WRITINGS (Primary Information, 2019) and WILLIAM WEGMAN: WRITING BY ARTIST (Primary Information 2022). He co-writes the monthly advice columns HARD TRUTHS and HARD CHOICES for Art in America with Howie Chen. He is co-publisher and co-editor of The Further Reading Library imprint with Christine Burgin.
From 2002-2015, Lampert served as Archivist and Curator of Collections at Anthology Film Archives, where he was responsible for managing the archive, preserving films and videos, and programming public screenings. He has restored over 300 classic and obscure moving image works by iconoclastic artists like Vito Acconci, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Bruce Conner, Tony Conrad, Maya Deren, Hollis Frampton, Robert Frank, Ken Jacobs, Danny Lyon, Marie Menken, Carolee Schneemann, Paul Sharits, and Stuart Sherman to name only a few.
Lampert has taught at CUNY City College, Purchase College, The New School for Social Research, Cooper Union and NYU. He is one half of the creative firm Chen & Lampert, and his videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix.
SELECTED WRITINGS ON & ABOUT
HOW A REMEDIAL MATH TOOL ENDED UP AT THE WHITNEY by Sophia Hollander, The New Yorker, January 22, 2024.
ON A NEW YORK STREET, WINDOWS BECOME THEATERS FOR KEN JACOB’S FILMS by Travis Diehl, The New York Times, June 29, 2003.
WEGMAN’S WORLD by Lucas Adams, The New York Review, June 14, 2022
AMERICAN ARTEFACTS: PAPER AEROPLANES COLLECTED BY BEAT ARTIST HARRY SMITH by Alice Fisher, The Guardian, Feburary 25, 2021
TONY CONRAD: WRITINGS by Geeta Dayal, 4Columns, November 08, 2019
INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW LAMPERT: WHOSE AUTHORITY IS IT TO MAKE DECISIONS? by Julian Ross, Ann Adachi-Tasch, and Go Hirasawa, Collaborative Cataloging Japan, 2017
WORN IN NEW YORK by Emily Spivack, 2017, Abrams Books
INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW LAMPERT AND JAKE PERLIN, Pioneer Works Journal, 2017
FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT by Andrew Hultkrans, ArtForum.com, April 11, 2017
JOHN KLACSMANN & ANDREW LAMPERT ON HARRY SMITH, 'PAPER AIRPLANES' & 'STRING FIGURES' by Madeline Weisburg, Artbook.com, December 04, 2015
FLYING DREAMS > SEX by Gareth Tobago, Flaunt Magazine, December 02, 2015
ON PAPER AIRPLANES: THE COLLECTIONS OF HARRY SMITH by Sophie Butcher, Aperture.org, November 25, 2015
WHAT'S WITH ALL THE PAPER PLANES by Mandi Kieghran, N FOR NORWEGIAN, November 2015
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW? THE SURVIVAL OF FILM IN THE DIGITAL AGE by Amy Taubin, ArtForum, October 2015
FESTIVALS: MIGRATING FORMS by Giampaolo Bianconi, in Film Comment, January 10, 2014
UNESSENTIAL CINEMA: AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW LAMPERT by Joel Schlemowitz, in The Moving Image, in The Moving Image, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2012
A FRAME-BY-FRAME SHOW-AND-TELL, by Andy Battaglia, in The Wall Street JournalT, Jan 14, 2012
ANDREW LAMPERT by Ed Halter, Bomb, Issue 112, Summer 2010
POWERS OF PROJECTION by Ed Halter, ArtForum, January 2010
YEAR IN FILM: CULTURE HIGH by Eric Hynes, Village Voice, December 22, 2010
BEST OF THE DECADE: AVANT-GARDE, Film Comment, 2009
THOSE OF US WHO KNOW ABOUT THESE DARKENED ROOMS, AND GO THERE ... by Jacob Korczynski, C Magazine, Spring 2009
ROBERT DOWNEY'S NO-BUDGET GENIUS by Bruce Bennett, in The Wall Street Journal, September 9, 2008
THE RESURRECTION OF A RENEGADE’S SCOTCH-TAPE FILMS by Stuart Klawans, in The New York Times, August 29, 2008
WHOSE WEDDING by Charles Graeber, in The New Yorker, August 6, 2007
HOME MOVIE MEMORIES by Gary Shapiro, in New York Sun, August 14, 2006
A FOLD IN THE FABRIC Catalogue, LMAK Projects, 2006
SECRETS IN THE ARCHIVES: HIDDEN STORIES, NECESSARY RELEASES by Melinda Stone, in A Closer Look/Hidden Histories, San Francisco: National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture, 2005.
BEST OF 2005 by Debra Singer, in ArtForum, December 2005
REEL PEOPLE by Emily Pugh, in Stay Free, Issue 23, 2005
YOU ARE HERE by Belinda Baldwin, in The Independent, October 2004
THINKING OUTSIDE THE CAGE: SOUNDS WITH AND AGAINST IMAGE by Alan Licht, in Village Voice, January 21-27, 2004
ALL CAGE, ALL THE TIME (WITH A BIT OF MERCE, NAM JUNE, SHIGEKO AND CHARLOTTE) by Ellen Pearlman, in The Brooklyn Rail, March 2004
LOWLY HOME MOVIES GET A DAY AS HIGH ART by Lawrence Levi, inThe New York Times, August 18, 2003
BEYOND THE FRIEDMANS by Matt Zoller Seitz, in New York Press, Vol.16, No.23, August 13-19. 2003
AVANT-GARDE FILM JOURNAL by Brian Frye, in Millennium Film Journal Nos. 39/40, Winter 2003
THE NEW YORK UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL, AND THE UNDERGROUND IN GENERAL by Mike Plante, in Cinemad, Issue Five, 2001
CONTACT
lamphole@gmail.com