Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Jessica Bardsley, a Guggenheim Fellow, filmmaker, and scholar whose internationally recognized work explores water, media, and contemporary art through experimental film and critical theory.
Jessica Bardsley
Jessica Bardsley
Jessica Bardsley is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video. Her films have screened across the world at venues like Sundance, CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, RIDM, True/False, and the Criterion Channel. Her book Fluid Materiality: A Media Theory of Water in Contemporary Art is forthcoming from MIT Press. She received a Ph.D. in Film and Visual Studies from Harvard University and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. At Catwalk, she is furthering her inquiry into water's relationship with contemporary art.
