Alison Chernick

Who is Alison Chernick?

Alison Chernick is a New York based writer/director and filmmaker.

Chernick's first film on contemporary artist Jeff Koons, titled The Jeff Koons Show is distributed by Microcinema International. It is available on Amazon.com.

Chernick followed this with her second feature length documentary on artist Matthew Barney, titled Matthew Barney: No Restraint, which premiered at the Berlin film festival and was acquired for theatrical distribution by The Weinstein Company. It is now available on Netflix.

Diagram of an Arist: Roy Lichtenstein, Chernick's documentary on Roy Lichtenstein was featured in Tate Modern's exhibition Lichtenstein: A Retrospective.

Her documentaries have also been screened at various museums around the world, including the five Guggenheims, The Smithsonian, SFMOMA, and The Walker. She is the recipient of The Patricia Highsmith-Plangman award and a Promax award for HBO. Chernick's past writing credits include the Sundance Channel, Showtime, Sci-Fi, MTV, VH1, The History Channel, and National Geographic. She is a frequent contributor to Louis Vuitton/LVMH's online magazine Nowness.com.

She is currently working on a narrative film.

Chernick signed to a White Label Product for global representation in 2011.