Lynne Siefert

Lynne Siefert is a moving image artist whose work addresses issues relating to the climate crisis, capitalism, cultural amnesia, and political complacency. Siefert’s 16mm films and digital works have exhibited internationally in festivals such as the Berlinale, Edinburgh International Film Festival, EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival, Antimatter Media Art, and Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporáneo, and in galleries and museums such as the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Glass Box Gallery, and the Seattle Art Museum, among others. Siefert’s work has received funding from Artist Trust, 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and The Puffin Foundation. In 2019, Siefert became the first moving image artist to receive the Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen Award in the award’s 43-year history. In 2020 Siefert had her first solo show at the Seattle Art Museum.