Anita Thacher

Anita Thacher
Born1940 or 1936
DiedSeptember 8, 2017(2017-09-08) (aged 76–77)
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • Visual Artist
  • Installation Artist
  • Painter
Spouse
Ken Nochimson
(until 2017)
WebsiteAnita Thacher

Anita Thacher (died September 8, 2017) was an American visual artist and experimental filmmaker based in New York. Her work has been displayed around the world and included in the collections of many museums such as the MoMA in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

She is known for films such as Homage to Magritte (1974), Loose Corner (1986) and the trilogy of shorts, Cut (2013), Chase (2015), and The End (2015). She is also known for the installation piece "Illuminated Station" at the Greenport Long Island train station.