Short List of Selected Exhibitions

2020

  • Premiere at the 2020 European Film Festival (online)
    shown on the Transilvania International Film Festival Unlimited platform (online)
    Keep Your Splendid Silent Sun (co-directed with Mona Nicoară) a short film looking for signs of life and resilience in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic

2018

  • Museum of Modern Art, NYC Documentary Fortnight
    Premiere screening: …the thing itself

2017

  • Havana International Film Festival
    Screening: State of Rest and Motion

  • Los Angeles Documentary Festival ( Doc LA)
    Best Experimental Film, Gold - State of Rest and Motion

  • Museum of Modern Art, NYC Documentary Fortnight
    Premiere Screening : State of Rest and Motion

2016

  • Rokridan Studio, Stockholm
    Screening : Dance of Darkness

  • School of Visual Arts, NYC
    Screening: This and That

2015

  • Pinta Projects at Art Basel, Miami, Time Sensitive
    Curated by Jesús Fuenmayor

  • Meta Mayan II screening, Catalog published

2013

  • Moving Image, Art Fair, Chelsea, New York
    ReAction Part 1, video screening

  • El Museo del Barrio, New York
    Superreal, video and photography
    Foolish ReMix, three channel video installation

2012

  • Third Bronx Biennale of Latin American Art, New York
    Meta Mayan II, video screening

  • Re:Play, Film Festival, Manipur, India
    Dance of Darkness, video screening

2011

  • Long Beach Museum of Art, California
    Exchange and Evolution-Worldwide Video Long Beach
    Meta Mayan II, video screening

  • Art Basel Week, Miami, Florida
    Curators Voice Art Project
    InConsistent, video screening

2009

  • Nurture Art Gallery, Williamsburg, New York
    Seen/Unseen Show Curated by Peg Curtin
    Mistaken Identities, Video and photograph

2008

  • National Art Museum of China, Beijing
    Synthetic Times – Media Art China 2008

  • Curated by the Museum of Modern Art, NYC
    Screening of Meta Mayan II

2004

  • Modern Means, Mori Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
    Group show of 300 artists representing an overview of contemporary art from the XIX Century to the Present. Including Picasso, Rauschenberg, Mondrian, Rodin, and others.
    Screening: META MAYAN II

2002

  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Premiere of This and That, and other minor misunderstandings
    Experimental road movie chronicling lost loves and a father’s fight with Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Conversations with Contemporary Artists, Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Lecture and screening.

2000

  • World Trade Center, New York, artist in residence
    Created a site specific video installation on the 91st floor of Tower One, ….the thing itself

1999

  • Havana Film Festival, Cuba; Retrospective exhibition

1990

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York , Premiere Screening; A Mosque In Time

1990

  • Louvre Museum, Paris , screening A Mosque In Time

2007

  • Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
    A Processive Turn: The Video Aesthetics of Edin Vélez
    A survey exhibition of three new video installations,
    Ten new works on paper, and single channel videos by Vélez.
    112 page illustrated catalog published by Robeson Gallery

2007

  • New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center
    Premiere of A Certain Foolish Consistency,
    opening feature of festival

2006

  • Taiwan International Documentary Festival, China
    Screening of Meta Mayan II

  • CIRCA PR, first international art fair in the Caribbean
    Mistaken Identities, Cycle 4, single channel video installation

  • Biennial of the Moving Image, touring exhibition of retrospective show, Warsaw, Poland
    Screening: AS IS