What is Clare Langan?
{{COI|date=August 2023}} {{complex|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Clare Langan | birth_date = ̺{{birth year and age|1967}} | occupation = Filmmaker, visual artist | years_active = 1992-present | website = https://www.clarelangan.com/ }} '''Clare Langan''' (b. 1967) is an [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] artist and movie maker. She has shown her movies at many festivals and museums such as: [https://kinoderkunst.de/en/ ''Kino der Kunst'' Festival], Munich (2020); ''Physical Cinema Festival'', Reykjavik (2019); ''Shaping Ireland,'' [https://www.nationalgallery.ie National Gallery of Ireland], Dublin (2019); ''The Best of Kino der Kunst,'' Dirimart, Istanbul (2018), ''B3 Biennial of the Moving Image'', Frankfurt (2017), ''Lyon Biennale'' (2007), and ''Film Trilogy'', [[MoMA]], New York (2004).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Reporter|first=Staff|date=2011-02-16|title=Going to extremes: Langan’s post-apocalyptic world|url=https://group.irishecho.com/2011/02/going-to-extremes-langans-post-apocalyptic-world-2/|access-date=2023-08-24|website=Irish Echo}}</ref> Her movies have won many awards, including the ''Prix Video Formes'' 2014, Clermont-Ferrand; the ''Principle Prize'' at the ''Oberhausen International Short Film Festival'' (2007) and she represented Ireland at the ''25th Bienal de São Paolo'' (2002). In 2019, she was elected a member of [http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie Aosdána]. == Life and Work == Clare Langan studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.<ref>{{Cite web|title=What's on in the Arts|url=https://artscouncil-ni.org/news/whats-on-in-the-arts-8|access-date=2023-08-24|website=Arts Council NI|language=en}}</ref> She completed a film workshop at NYU on a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright]] Scholarship. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from The [[National University of Ireland, Galway|National University of Ireland]]. She has represented Ireland in many international Biennales. Her movies and photographs are in a num