- Born
- Died
- Birth nameDara Nan Birnbaum
- Dara Birnbaum was born on October 29, 1946 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. She was a director, known for Kojak/Wang (1980), Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1979) and The Jimi Hendrix Videogram (1983). She died on May 2, 2025 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Parents
- Received a United States Artists Fellow award in 2010.
- In 2011 she was awarded The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts Residency.
- Was the first woman to receive the Maya Deren Award from the American Film Institute for video, presented in 1987.
- 2024 recipient of an Award in Art by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
- In 2021 she received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
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