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Angelo Madsen

He // Him // His

Interdisciplinary Filmmaker

Burlington, Vermont

Headshot of an artist in his studio. He looks directly at the camera and wears a gray blue T-shirt that is torn along some of the seams. He has light tan skin, a shaved head, and a thick brown mustache.

Photo by Brandon Dill.

Angelo Madsen (previously known as Madsen Minax or Angelo Madsen Minax 2005-2024) is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and academic. He also curates, writes, performs, composes, and assembles. His projects weave personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinships, with interests in self-mythologies, perception, embodiment, and the politics of desire. Madsen's works have shown at Berlinale, Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Tribeca, De La Warr Pavilion, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, REDCAT, Museum of Moving Image, Anthology Film Archives, British Film Institute, and dozens of documentary, LGBT, and experimental film festivals around the world. He is a Creative Capital Fellow (2025), a United States Artists Fellow (2023), a Guggenheim Fellow (2022), and has participated in residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Pioneer Works, Headlands, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and others. His film, "North By Current" (2021), aired on season 34 of POV (PBS), was nominated for an Independent Spirit award, and won the Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight award, Best Writing award from the IDA and numerous festival jury prizes. A New York Times Critics Pick, "North By Current" has been called "A beautiful, complex wonder of a film," by Rolling Stone and "A titanic work" by Criterion. His newest feature film "A Body to Live In," premiered at True/False Film Festival and BFI in 2025 and is currently in theaters nationwide. It has been praised as "Carnal knowledge" by Art Forum and "A cinema of devotion," by Film Comment.

Madsen is an an Associate Professor of Time-Based Media at the University of Vermont. Single channel film and video works are available from the Video Data Bank, Grasshopper Film, Mubi, and the New York Times.

Donor -This award was generously supported by the Barr Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 03.31.2026

<em>A Body to Live In</em> by Angelo Madsen Minax thumbnail.

Teaser for the feature film A Body To Live In by Angelo Madsen Minax.

Video courtesy of the artist.

An elaborate documentation set up where a work of art is placed in front of a green screen and photographed through a ring light. The artwork itself is a photograph of a dark forest with a hand reaching upward toward the trees holding an even smaller photo.

In Flight, Vietnam, 1968, by Angelo Madsen Minax, 2022. Inkjet print, dimensions 36 × 24 inches.

Image courtesy of the artist.

From a bird's eye view, three photographic objects lie on a piece of plywood. A lightbox with a black and white photo, a torn photograph of sky, and a photo that is almost entirely obscured by a piece of paper.

Doris with Broken Arm, 1961 by Angelo Madsen Minax, 2022, Inkjet print, dimensions 36 × 24 inches.

Image courtesy of the artist.