Kathleen Sweeney, a media artist and writer, holds a B.A. in French Literature from New York University (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Prix Librairie de France) and a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State University.

Sweeney's video installations and curatorial projects have screened at 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; San Francisco Cinematheque; Colgate University; Ithaca College; Hamilton College; Jacob Burns Films Center; and Summit 2000: Children, Youth and the Media Beyond the Millennium, Toronto.

Since 2004, as artist-in-residence at DIA: Beacon, Sweeney has developed "Seeing Like a Camera," an educational art history and media project about the DIA collection in collaboration with Beacon High School. With funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, she helped establish Seattle's highly successful Reel Grrls media literacy and video production initiative, exposing multi-cultural teenage girls to film history, contemporary photography and experimental applications of digital media.   Reel Grrls invited her to participate in the 2002 Gen-Y Conference at the Sundance Film Festival.

Over the past ten years, Sweeney's video art has shown at Mill Valley Film Festival; Denver International Film Festival; Women in the Director's Chair; South by Southwest;   Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts; Walker Art Center; The Knitting Factory; Museo de Arte Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain; and Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2000, her work was nominated for a Rockefeller Foundation Grant in New Media.   2005 exhibitions include Centro de Arte de Sevilla, Spain; The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art;   DiVA, Digital Video & Art Fair, NY; and Barbes, NY.

Reviews of her work have appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Independent Film and Video Monthly, National Public Radio and she has published articles in Afterimage, including "Grrls Make Movies" (Winter 2005) and "Supernatural Girls" (Spring 2006).

Kathleen Sweeney has served on video panels for the New York Foundation for the Arts; San Francisco Film Festival/Golden Gate Awards; and The National Educational Film and Video Festival. She is currently writing a book about teenage girls in popular culture entitled Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age,   (New York: Peter Lang Publishers, Fall 2006).