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                          \u003C\/figure\u003E\n      \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-full view-mode-full\u0022\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-items\u0022\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarry Gerson\u003C\/strong\u003E (b.July 3, 1939, Philadelphia, PA) is an artist-filmmaker who has made films, sculptures, photographic constructions, digital film installations, and mixed painting\/photo works.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGerson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his father owned a chain of movie theatres. Self taught, Gerson is most noted for his films. He made his first film,\u00a0\u003Cem\u003EThe Neon Rose\u003C\/em\u003E,\u00a0 in the early nineteen sixties; since then he has completed over thirty-four films which have been shown in one-person shows at The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and in group shows at museums, libraries and institutions internationally. Retrospectives of his work have recently been mounted at Anthology Film Archives and The San Francisco Cinematheque, and most recently in \u201cThe Parting of the Clouds\u201d at Thomas Erben Gallery (NYC), and \u201cEpisodes From The Secret Life\u201d at Microscope Gallery curated by M\u00f3nica Savir\u00f3n. \u00a0\u003Cspan\u003EHis films have also been included in historic group shows such as The Montreaux Film Exhibition, Une Histoire Du Cinema, and The American Century Show at the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Toronto Film Festival, Museum d\u2019Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Berlin Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival, Views From The Avant-Garde 2009 and 2013.\u00a0\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHis work is in collections around the world including The Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Museum of Modern art (Stockholm, Sweden), Centre National D\u0027Art Et De Culture Georges-Pompidou (Paris, France), etc..He is the recipient of many awards including a fellowship from The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. \u00a0He has taught filmmaking, film installations,and film aesthetics at Bard College, Edinboro State College, S.U.N.Y. - Buffalo, The University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, The Rhode Island School of Design, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Hamilton College. 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