About

Since 1988 Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse have worked collaboratively on numerous experimental documentaries and installations.  These works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, at festivals and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Biennial, San Francisco International Film Festival, Berlin Video Festival, Toronto, and World Wide Video Festival.  In 2001 they received a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship.  Additional awards include a Creative Capital Foundation Grant and an Artists in Residence at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

Finley, a Guggenheim Fellow and Alpert/Cal Arts Award winner, is a Professor of Media Arts at the California College of Arts.  She lives in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, and son. Muse is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Haverford College, Haverford PA.  He received his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley in 2006 and an M.F.A. in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1988. The Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco represents their installation work, and the Video Data Bank distributes their films.