Ellenberg is an academic and artist who works across the disciplines of film/video, performance and theater. She began her career as filmmaker and video artist, screening her films widely at international venues, since creating her first film at Ocularis Collective, in Williamsburg in 2000. Her creative practice centers around a re-imaging of the gendered subject within contemporary American popular culture and mythology. In the 2000’s, she curated a range of multi-media events and screenings at venues including Monkeytown, Anthology Film Archives, Galapagos and The Horse Hospital (London). Ellenberg’s short films and art installations have been exhibited internationally at venues such as The Collectif Jeune Cinéma, LA Freewaves, LACMA, Gallery SC (Zagreb), Issue Project Room, Migrating Forms, La Di Da Film Festival, Art in General and EMAF (Osnabrueck). Recent Press; Art F City, Art in America, Bomb, LA Weekly and Hyperallergic.
Ellenberg’s multi-media performance “The Harmers” a live radio play, based on a fictional shock jock and the feminist group that hijacks his radio station, premiered at David Lewis Gallery in NYC and Joan (Los Angeles) in 2015. Ellenberg has been awarded residencies at LMCC, Frontispiece, Hudson and Monson Arts. Her most recent play “Pawel and Ebola” premiered at The Kitchen, New York City in 2018, featuring Bobbi Salvor Menuez, Maxwell Cosmo Cramer and T Ryder Smith. She received an LMCC swing space residency in 2009 and a Kitchen residency fellowship in 2017. Ellenberg’s newest multi-media performance, “Mikva Girls” will be premiering in 2025 at Pageant, a new performance space in Bushwick. Ellenberg finished her text for her “Mikva Girls,” her new performance work, in her residency at Rupert Art Center in Vilnius, Lithuania in Spring 2024.
Ellenberg began her artistic career, majoring in Film Studies and Studio Art at Wesleyan University, where she first began collaborating with electronic composer and musicians, including James Fei and Jeremy Novak. Since then, she has continued to work between film/video, sound and theatrical performance. For the first ten years of her art career, she programmed underground film/video screenings at galleries and microcinemas in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Ellenberg has given artist talks at numerous venues, including Orchard Gallery, Penn State, SVA Critical Studies Program, Suny Purchase and The Kitchen.
In addition to her artistic practice, Ellenberg has been a professor and lecturer since 2007, in the fields of Literature, Digital Art, Media Studies and Film/Video Production. She has taught at numerous local universities and art schools, including Pratt Institute, RISD, Suny Purchase, Montclair State Unversity, Marymount College and RISD. She currently teaches writing, films studies and semiotic theory in the Humanities Program at School of Visual Arts. She is a a Lecturer in Video Production and Theory in the Film program at FIT.
Ellenberg lives and works in Brooklyn with her two cats, Shmu and Mamie.