a Fern Seiden is an artist, photographer, collage maker, film maker, and animator. She is know for being inventive, unconventional, meticulous, curious, aesthetic, and idea abundant. Fern's films have screened at MOMA, and Symphony Space in New York, at international festivals and museums and broadcast on Swedish National Television. She has a long association with The Royal College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden (Konsthogskolan) as faculty and as artist in residence. She is the recipient of numerous grants and production support from The Swedish Film Institute, Swedish Television and The Art Grants Committee. BFA/MFA from CalArts on scholarship, digital imaging at ICP and SVA New York, painting, drawing, fine art and art history at MICA - Maryland Institute College of Art. Her haunting and whimsical hybrid works observe and explore perception - history and memory - nature, human nature and longing
While at MacDowell in 2007, Fern Seiden worked on collage images, sketches, and composites for photographic collage prints, drawings, and animation fused with documentary elements. Her work was featured in MacDowell's Centennial film screening series in 2007.
