Margia Kramer is an American documentary visual artist, writer, and activist currently living in New York. She earned a B.A. in Fine Arts and Languages from Brooklyn College and an M.A. in History of Art from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. In the 1970s and 1980s, she re-contextualized primary texts in a series of pioneering, interdisciplinary multi-media installations, videotapes, self-published books, and writing that focused on feminist civil rights, civil liberties, censorship, and surveillance issues. Her works have been widely exhibited, including more than 15 one-person shows and more than 40 group exhibitions. Kramer’s videos and installation works are in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, Allen Memorial Art, New York Public Library, and several private and public collections. She was among the founding members of Political Art Documentation/Distribution and was a member of the editorial board of its magazine, Upfront.
Margia Kramer
Studios
Mixter
Margia Kramer worked in the Mixter studio.
Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…