Douglas Rosenberg

Douglas Rosenberg (MFA, San Francisco Art Institute) is the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an artist and a theorist working with performance, video, installation whose work has been exhibited internationally for over 30 years in museums, festivals, galleries and elsewhere.  He is the author of Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image, published by Oxford Press and The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies, for which he was awarded the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research and he is a founding editor of The International Journal of Screendance. 

His work has been supported by numerous grants and awards including, the NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Soros Foundation, the MAP Fund in New York and the James D. Phelan Art Award in Video. He is most recently the recipient of the Creative Arts Award.  Recent exhibitions and screenings of his films include Dance Film Festival, Prague, Berlin Kiez Film Festival (Best Feature Film), and Choreoscope-Barcelona Dance Film Festival. His most recent feature-length film, The Sea, shot on the Island of Fårö in Sweden is currently screening at film festivals internationally and for which he is the recipient of the KNOWBOX Dance Film Festival's Visionary Award.