Amie Siegel was born 1974 in Chicago, Illinois. The artist and filmmaker lives and works in New York and Berlin. Exhibitions and screenings include The Russian Linesman, The Hayward Gallery, London;  2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art; Forum Expanded, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Austrian Film Museum, Berlin International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Andy Warhol Museum, BFI Southbank, London; Frankfurt Film Museum and Film Forum in New York. Siegel has been an artist-in-residence of the DAAD Berliner-Künstlerprogramm, and is a recent recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.