Edgar Howard is the Founder and President of Checkerboard Films, a non-profit foundation established in 1979 to document the American arts for archival and educational purposes. He has produced and/or directed over 45 films, beginning with his first profile on painter Brice Marden in 1977.
2022Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in MemoryMovieDirector
2021Julie Mehretu: PalimpsestMovieDirector · Producer
2019Frank Stella: Black Aluminum CopperMovieDirector
2019James Rosenquist Up CloseMovieDirector
2018On The Wings of BrancusiMovieProducer · Director2018The Architecture and Art of Cornell TechMovieDirector2015Inventing Cornell Tech: The VisionMovieDirector · Producer
2014Jeff Koons: The Whitney RetrospectiveMovieDirector2013Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High LineMovieProducer
2012Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of ArtMovieDirector2010Sol LeWitt: Wall DrawingsMovieDirector
2009Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular EvolutionMovieProducer
2008Steven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch BuildingMovieProducer
2007Ellsworth Kelly: FragmentsMovieDirector
2003Rudy Burckhardt: Man in the WoodsMovieProducer1985Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn ExpansionMovieDirector
1978Duane Michals (1939-1997)MovieDirector—Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among ArchitectsMovieProducer
—Peter Eisenman: University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona CardinalsMovieProducer—Studio Gang Architects: Aqua TowerMovieProducer
—Thom Mayne: U.S. Federal Office Building, San FranciscoMovieProducer