
Van McElwee’s body of media art includes over one hundred single channel video works, installations and web projects. Grants and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, The American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Award, The National Endowment for the Arts Independent Production Fund (seven-time recipient), a Regional Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship and a travel grant from the Government of India. McElwee’s work has been exhibited extensively worldwide and is represented in The Kitchen Video Collection in New York and by Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis, Heure Exquise! in France, UK and the Inter Media Art Institute in Germany, and LUX in the UK.
Cylinder Seal 2024
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Exotic Vector 2024
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Score in Variation 2023
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Incarnation 2023
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Zig Zag 2021
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World Skin 2021
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Ancestor House 2021
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Atlas of the Last World 2021
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Unnatural Selection 2019
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The Map is the Territory 2019
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Cross-Sections of Non-Existent Objects, Passing Through a Plane 2018
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Mercado 2017
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Outpost 2016
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Solutions to an Unknown Problem 2016
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Wanderung 2016
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Archaic Rooms 2016
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Electric Pilgrims, Everyone is Everywhere 2015
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Mexican Dream 2015
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Objects in a Landscape 2015
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Soft City 2015
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Original Self 2013
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Dream Travel 2013
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Travel Dream 2013
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Color Vector 2012
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Arcades 2012
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Supernatural 2011
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And/Or 2011
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Cloud Catcher 2010
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Meandering Modules 2010
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Dream Alleys 2010
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