Gene Gort is a visual artist, video producer, media programmer and educator who lives in Torrington, Connecticut. His artwork and videotapes have been shown internationally including; Dark Music Days Festival at Harpa, Reykjavik, Iceland; Bang on a Can Live Online, NY; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Pacific Film Archive/Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; TheVideoArtFoundation, Barcelona, Spain; Cyberarts Festival, Boston, MA; University of Rochester; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts; Vtape Salon and the Art Gallery of York University/Prefix Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto; Black Maria Film and Video Festival, touring; Athens Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio; Panorama Film Festival, Portland, OR; and nominated in 2026 for Best Experimental Short in Cannes Independent Shorts Festival, Tokyo International Cinema Awards, San Diego Independent Cinema Awards, and Amsterdam Movie Festival.
He has been twice recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation with nominations in the Film/Video/New Media categories for individual fellowships. He has received grants and fellowships from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts; Pollack-Krasner Foundation; LEF Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts, "New Forms": National Endowment for the Arts Regional Artists Projects and has been awarded two residencies at the MacDowell Artist Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire and at i-Park, East Haddam, CT. He is Professor Emeritus of Integrated Media Arts at Hartford Art School, University of Hartford.
