Michelle Handelman

She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. In 1999 Handelman won the Bravo Award, Bravo television for BloodSisters.

Handelman's 2009 four-channel video installation "Dorian, a cinematic perfume" is based on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. It features the bio-fem drag queen Sequinette as Dorian, Armen Ra as Lord Henry, K8 Hardy as Sybl, Quin Charity as Basil and Mother Flawless Sabrina as Dead Dorian. It features music by Lustmord, Armen Ra, Nadia Sirota, Vincent Baker, and Stefan Tcherepnin. "Dorian, a cinematic perfume" has been exhibited at Participant, Inc., NYC; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin; Guangzhou 53 Art Museum, China; Dirty Looks Screening Series and Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia.

She received her M.F.A. in 2000 from Bard College and her B.F.A. in 1989 from the San Francisco Art Institute. She was an associate professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design from 2007–2013.

Cannibal Garden was a series from 1998–2000 featuring series of video loops and photographs.

Handelman created the live multimedia performance, The Laughing Lounge for PERFORMA 05 the first biennial of visual art performance. BloodSisters (1995) her feature documentary on the San Francisco leather dyke scene is distributed by the Tribeca Film Institute's Reframe Collection

Michelle Handelman (born 1960 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American video installation artist, filmmaker, photographer, performance artist, writer and professor. She is an associate professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and currently lives in Brooklyn.