Ernesto Klar

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Ernesto Klar is a new media artist and educator based in New York City. Klar's works have been presented at Eyebeam, Pulse Art Fair, and Chelsea Art Museum in New York City, the CCCB in Barcelona (Spain), the FILE Festival in Sao Paulo, the Oi Futuro Museum in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the Centrum Kunstlicht in de Kunst in Eindhoven (Netherlands), and The Share Festival in Turin (Italy), among others. His awards include an Artist Fellowship in Computer Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), an Individual Artist Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), as well as grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Greenwall Foundation, among others. Klar holds an MFA from Parsons The New School For Design, and a BMD from Berklee College of Music. He is currently a faculty member at Parsons The New School for Design and The New School for Film and Media Studies in New York City.