About Ed Gendron
Ed Gendron is an independent artist, photographer, and filmmaker who currently resides in New Haven, CT. He grew up in southwestern VA and received his MFA in Film and Photography from Radford University. Initially a painter and printmaker, Ed was inspired by the stories of people whose portraits he painted, so he embarked on documentary film and photography as a way to connect with people and tell their stories. Most recently, he has documented WWII reenactors in the American South, Northeast, and Midwest culminating in a series of photographs and a feature length documentary film called Playing Soldier (2017). His photographic work has been selected for juried exhibits at University of North Florida, Eastern Carolina University, and the Durham Arts Guild.
You can follow the Playing Soldier film at: http://www.playingsoldierthemovie.com/
You can follow the Playing Soldier film at: http://www.playingsoldierthemovie.com/
Curriculum Vitae
Invited Speaker/Workshops
• Documentary Workshop: War Reenactors: Who Gets to Tell History, Vermont Humanities, Online Presentation (December 2021)
• Filmmaking Workshop: The Art of Animation, New Haven, Ct (August 2021)
• Filmmaking Workshop: Animation: What Is It, Why Do It? How Are They Made? New Haven, Ct (August 2020)
• Documentary Workshop: War Reenactors: Who Gets to Tell History, Vermont Humanities, Online Presentation (December 2021)
• Filmmaking Workshop: The Art of Animation, New Haven, Ct (August 2021)
• Filmmaking Workshop: Animation: What Is It, Why Do It? How Are They Made? New Haven, Ct (August 2020)
Juried and Invited Exhibitions - Photography
One Person Exhibits - Photography
Grants & Awards
Film Screenings
"Playing Soldier" (feature-length documentary film)
• NH Docs Documentary Film Festival, Yale's Whitney Humanities Center, New Haven, CT (2018)
• Best Video Film and Cultural Center, Hamden, Ct (2018)
“Fishbowl” (feature-length MFA film)
Related Motion Picture Work Experience
• Invited Panelist, Animation Workshop, NHdocs, New Haven Ct, (2020)
• Cinematographer, Music Video for Thabisa Rich/Mxolisi Therealmxo Lokwe, (work in-progress)
• Animator, Where Are You Jay Bennett?, a Rock Documentary by Gorman Bechard
• Emerging Artists Grant Panel Reviewer, (Film Category) Durham Arts Council, (Fall 2014)
• Filmed interviews for the the Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education of NC. (Holocaust Speakers Bureau) (Spring 2014)
• Invited Panelist, Animation Workshop, NHdocs, New Haven Ct, (2020)
Radford University (Radford, VA)
Education
MFA, Radford University (2007)
BFA, Radford University (1992)
- Some Body: Examples of the Human Form, West Hartford, CT, (February 2022)
- Reenactor Moments, Solaris Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, (September 2020)
- Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography (Laura Wexler, Susan Meiselas, Ariella Azoulay, Wendy Ewald , Leigh Raiford, and Sarah Fritchey, Curators), Artspace Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, (July 26 - Sept 14, 2019)
- State of the Union (Jim Richardson, Juror), Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury Vermont, (January 3 - January 27, 2018)
- Regarding Leisure (Alexander Diaz and Christopher W. Luhar-Trice, Jurors), University of North Florida Gallery, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida (March 5 - May 5, 2015)
- 9th Photographic Image Biennial Exhibition (Burk Uzzle, juror), Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (January 22 - February 15, 2015)
- Pixel and Grain Regional Photography Exhibit (Jeff Whetstone, juror), Durham Arts Guild, Durham, NC (October 3 – November 1, 2014)
- Roanoke City Art Show, Show (juried), Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA (2002)
- Fifth Biennial Exhibition, Show (juried), Olin Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, VA (1998)
One Person Exhibits - Photography
- Come See the Crocodile Woman, XYZ Gallery, Blacksburg, VA (2003)
Grants & Awards
- Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC (2009-10)
- Best Special Effects, Progeny Motion Picture Festival (juried), Blacksburg, VA (2006)
- Animation Award, Highlander Film Festival (juried), Radford, VA (2006)
- Special Effects Award, Highlander Film Festival (juried), Radford, VA (2006)
Film Screenings
"Playing Soldier" (feature-length documentary film)
• NH Docs Documentary Film Festival, Yale's Whitney Humanities Center, New Haven, CT (2018)
• Best Video Film and Cultural Center, Hamden, Ct (2018)
“Fishbowl” (feature-length MFA film)
- Ava Gardener Film Festival, Smithfield, NC (2008)
- Lyric Theater, Blacksburg, VA (2008) “Planning Ahead” (animated short)
- Blue Ridge Vision Film Festival (juried), Roanoke, VA (2006)
- Progeny Motion Picture Festival (juried), Blacksburg, VA (2006)
- Highlander Film Festival (juried), Radford, VA (2006)“Desideratum” (animated short)
- Progeny Motion Picture Festival (juried), Blacksburg, VA (2004)
Related Motion Picture Work Experience
• Invited Panelist, Animation Workshop, NHdocs, New Haven Ct, (2020)
• Cinematographer, Music Video for Thabisa Rich/Mxolisi Therealmxo Lokwe, (work in-progress)
• Animator, Where Are You Jay Bennett?, a Rock Documentary by Gorman Bechard
• Emerging Artists Grant Panel Reviewer, (Film Category) Durham Arts Council, (Fall 2014)
• Filmed interviews for the the Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education of NC. (Holocaust Speakers Bureau) (Spring 2014)
• Invited Panelist, Animation Workshop, NHdocs, New Haven Ct, (2020)
Radford University (Radford, VA)
- Adjunct Instructor, 3-D Art Foundations (Spring 2008)
- Graduate Teaching Fellow and Instructor of Record, Art Appreciation (2005-2007)
- Invited Guest Lecturer, Computer Animation (spring/fall 2006)
Education
MFA, Radford University (2007)
BFA, Radford University (1992)