Courtney Krantz

Courtney Krantz was born in Bermuda and raised in Colorado and Northern Michigan. She has been based in New York City since 2003 and currently lives in Brooklyn where she makes work within the realms of the still and moving image as well as installation and performance-based pieces/documents. Recent projects explore encounters between fiction and documentary genres, built spaces and natural environments and various considerations of the body originating from investigations of dance and improvisational movement practices. Recently, her work has been presented at Movement Research at Judson Church, Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Millenium Film Workshop (NYC) and Festival Novog Filma i Videa (Serbia). For high school, she attended Interlochen Arts Academy (1993-1997). She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College (2001) and an MA in Media Studies from The New School (2012). She is currently a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence (2012-2014).