Albert Gabriel Nigrin

Place of birth:

Charlottesville, Virginia USA:

Biography:

Albert Gabriel Nigrin is an award-winning experimental media artist whose work has been screened throughout the world. He is also a Cinema Studies Professor at Rutgers University, and the Executive Director, Curator and Founder of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, Inc., a non-profit organization which screens and promotes independent, experimental and artistic cinema in New Jersey via the New Jersey Film Festivals, and the United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival. Mr. Nigrin has an MFA in Visual Arts, Film and Video and an MA in French Literature from Rutgers University and a BA from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Mr. Nigrin has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Film Institute Mid-Atlantic Media Arts Fellowship Program, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Ford Foundation for his film and video work.