Abigail Child

Abigail Child studied History and Literature at Radcliffe College and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in 1970 from Yale University School of the Arts. She has been an instructor and lecturer in filmmaking and film history at the Henry Street Settlement House in New York, in West Virginia, at The State University School at Purchase, and from 1980 to 1985 at New York University School of the Arts. Since then she has been a visiting professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and The Art Institute of San Francisco. Child has been a curator of several film and lecture programs on both coasts, and her writings have been published in a number of magazines (including “Poetics Journal,” “boundary 2,” and “L=A=N=G=U=A-G=E”). As well, two books of her writings are available (From Solids, Sugue and Climate/Plus, Coincidence Press). Child has received support for her film work from the various foundations and councils in the U.S., and has been a fellow at The MacDowell Colony twice. Her films have been seen across the United States and Europe, and are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern art, New York. During the 1980s, Child produced a seven-part film series entitled “Is This What You Were Born For?” and continues to make both film and video art.