Jeremy Drummond is an artist, filmmaker, and curator/programmer who lives in Richmond, Virginia where he/they is a professor of experimental film, video art, and alternative media in the Department of Art & Art History, University of Richmond.
Rooted in single-channel film and video, Drummond's work extends across a variety of media and is informed by interdisciplinary research and fieldwork. Since 2015, Drummond has also worked with artist David Poolman (Toronto) as Never Met A Stranger -- a collaborative platform for the production of art and experimental media, a publisher of vernacular arts and culture, and an ongoing archive of field recordings, interviews, and documentary resources that collectively explore relationships between perception and representation, industry and the environment, and landscape and culture that exist beyond the confines of mainstream media; particularly in central Appalachia and the rural American south.
Drummond's work has been exhibited in festivals, galleries and museums worldwide. His films and videos have received awards such as the National Film Board of Canada Award at the Images Festival of Independent Film, Video and New Media (Toronto), Best Experimental Video at the Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, the People's Choice Award at the New Forms Festival (Vancouver), and the No Budget Award at the Cinematexas Festival of International Film & Video (Austin). He has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, the National Film Board of Canada, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Drummond's films and videos are distributed internationally by LIMA (Amsterdam), Videographe (Montreal), Video Out (Vancouver), Video Pool Inc. (Winnipeg), and Vtape (Toronto). His printed works are/have been available from Art Metropole (Toronto), Printed Matter Inc. (NYC), and the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC).
In addition to his own work, Drummond is the organizer and curator of the annual Frames of Reference program of artists' film and video. With support from the University of Richmond's Department of Art & Art History, University Museums, and School of Arts & Sciences; Frames of Reference showcases some of the most creative, challenging, thoughtful and visionary artists working in film, video, and alternative media today. Programs feature artists and artworks that resist conventions and ideologies of mainstream media; explore creative, innovative approaches to narrative and experiments in time-based media; and embrace unique viewpoints, perspectives, or frames of reference. To date, Frames of Reference has presented intimate screenings and discussions with Angelo Madsen Minax, JJJJJerome Ellis, Jesse McLean, Steve Reinke, Deborah Stratman, JP Sniadecki, Kevin Jerome Everson, Brett Story, Tiffany Sia, and Tom Sherman.