Select Film Screenings & Exhibitions:
2024
Transformations: RPM Festival: Hamilton, NY
2023
Surface Memory: SoMad, New York, NY
Cycles and Rhythms: RPM Festival: Pittsburgh Edition: Pittsburgh, PA
Strangloscope - Experimental Audio, Video / Film & Performance International Film Festival: Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Celluliod Now: Chicago, IL
Ann Arbor Film Festival: Ann Arbor, MI
Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City, OK
2022
Engauge Experimental Film Festival: Seattle, WA
Antimatter [Media Art]: Victoria, BC, Canada
FLIGHT / Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova: Genoa, Italy
Revolutions Per Minute Festival: Boston, MA
Chicago Underground Film Festival: Chicago, IL
Moviate Underground Film Festival: Harrisburg, PA
FLEX The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival: Tampa, FL
2021
Antimatter [Media Art]: Victoria, BC, Canada
Revolutions Per Minute Festival: Boston, MA
Engauge Experimental Film Festival: Seattle, WA
North-American Landscape Through Experimental Film: Telluride, CO
2020
Fracto Experimental Film Encounter: Berlin, Germany
Spectral Film Festival: Stevens Point, WI
Moviate Underground Film Festival: Harrisburg, PA
EXPOSURE: Kopernik Observatory, Vestal, NY
Ann Arbor Film Festival: Ann Arbor, MI
2019
Engauge Experimental Film Festival: Seattle, WA
Experimental Superstars: Novi Sad, Serbia
Edinburgh International Film Festival: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Moviate Underground Film Festival: Harrisburg, PA
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival: Milwaukee, WI
Experiments in Cinema: Albuquerque, NM
Athens International Film + Video Festival: Athens, OH
Spectral Film Festival: Stevens Point, WI
Onion City Film Festival: Chicago, IL
Process Film Festival: Riga, Latvia
Best of the 20th Moviate Underground Film Festival: Harrisburg, PA
Artifact Film Festival: Calgary, AB, Canada
Cosmic Rays Film Festival: Chapel Hill, NC
FLEX The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival: Tampa, FL
Revolutions Per Minute Festival: Boston, MA
2018
Spectral Microcinema: Stevens Point, WI
Edinburgh International Film Festival: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Ships that Pass in the Night: Galerie Kristine Hamann, Wismar, Germany
Moviate Underground Film Festival: Harrisburg, PA
Bogotá Experimental Film Festival / CineAutopsia: Bogotá, Colombia
That One Film Festival: Muncie, IN
Find Me: CultureMart at HERE, New York, NY
2017
Antimatter [Media Art]: Victoria, BC, Canada
16mm Films by Kathleen Rugh: Moviate, Harrisburg, PA
Moviate Underground Film Festival: Harrisburg, PA
Artifact Film Festival: Calgary, AB, Canada
2016
Dobra International Experimental Film Festival: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
Still Life: Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
Artifact Film Festival: Calgary, AB, Canada
Sonic Circuits: Silver Spring, MD
Another Experiment by Women Film Festival: New York, NY
2013
Moviate Underground Film Festival: Harrisburg, PA
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival: Milwaukee, WI
CoWorker Projects Screening Series: New York, NY
Images Festival: Toronto, ON
Athens International Film & Video Festival: Athens, OH
Crossroads at San Francisco Cinematheque: San Francisco, CA
2012
CoWorker Projects Screening Series: New York, NY
Moviate Underground Film Festival: Harrisburg, PA
Crossroads at San Francisco Cinematheque: San Francisco, CA
Athens International Film & Video Festival: Athens, OH
From Gust to Hail Film Tour: Brooklyn, Boston, Providence, Baltimore, Philadelphia & NJ
2011
Greenpoint Film Festival: Brooklyn, NY
Flicker Spokane: Spokane, WA
Antimatter [Media Art]: Victoria, BC, Canada
Edinburgh International Film Festival: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Moviate Underground Film Festival: Harrisburg, PA
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival: Milwaukee, WI
Athens International Film & Video Festival: Athens, OH
Signs on the Road: Curatorial Research Lab, Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
AXWFF at Anthology Film Archive: New York, NY
2010
Antimatter [Media Art]: Victoria, BC, Canada
The Not Painful Film Festival: Columbus, OH
EXiS, Experimental Film & Video Festival: Seoul, Korea
Chicago Underground Film Festival: Chicago, IL
Moviate Underground Film Festival: Harrisburg, PA
Takoma Park/Silver Spring Experimental Film Festival: Silver Spring, MD
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival: Milwaukee, WI
Athens International Film & Video Festival: Athens, OH
Artifact Film Festival: Calgary, AB, Canada
2009
Antimatter [Media Art]: Victoria, BC, Canada
H2O: Film on Water: Newport Mill, Newport, NH
Arkansas Underground Film Festival: Hot Springs Nat’l Park, AR
Moviate Underground Film Festival: Harrisburg, PA
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival: Milwaukee, WI
Athens International Film & Video Festival: Athens, Ohio
Finger Lakes Film Festival: Geneva, NY
2008
TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition: Denver, CO
Chicago Underground Film Festival: Chicago, IL
The Secret Knowledge of Water: The Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
Five Places Imagined and Real: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Intangible: The Spiritual in Art: Andover, MA
2007
Film Annual: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Simply the Best: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Alternative: Flash Gallery, Lakewood, CO
2006
Pretty MFA: Donnelly Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA
2005
The Honest Landscape: Flash Gallery, Lakewood, CO
Inspire: Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
Grants, Awards and Residencies:
2024
Lightpress Grant, Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle, WA
2023
Research Funds for Faculty, College of Liberal Arts, Kean University, Union, NJ
Development Grant for Part-time Faculty, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2021
Development Grant for Part-time Faculty, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2019
Jury’s Kodak Award, FLEX The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Tampa, FL
2016
New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media & Film Finishing Funds Grant, New York
2013
Film Production & Travel Grant for Faculty, Emerson College, Boston, MA
2012
New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media & Film Finishing Funds Grant, New York
Best Experimental Film, Moviate Underground Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA
2009
Experimental Television Center Residency Program, Owego, NY
2nd Place, Best Experimental Film, Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens, OH
Best Experimental Film, Finger Lakes Film Festival, Geneva, NY
2008
Dean’s Discretionary Fund Award, SMFA, Boston, MA
2007
Dean’s Discretionary Fund Award, SMFA, Boston, MA
Bartlett Fund Travel Grant, SMFA, Boston, MA
2006
Boit Award, SMFA, Boston, MA
Education:
2008
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University, Boston, MA
MFA: Film and Photography
2005
University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO
BFA: Photography
2004
Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
2000
Centro Linguistico Italiano Dante Alighieri, Florence, Italy
1999
St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM
BA: Liberal Arts and Science
Current Teaching:
Rugh currently teaches Film & Video Production courses at Kean University in Union, NJ. She has also taught at The New School in New York, NY and at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY.