EDUCATION
Storyboarding Mentorship, CGMA, 2024
MFA, Concentration Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2009
BA, Studio Art, Pomona College, Claremont, California, 2004
AWARDS
2018 Best Animation, Female Eye Film Festival. Toronto, Ontartio
Best Animated Short, Cinema on the Bayou. Lafayette, Louisiana
Best Animated Work, Santa Cruz Film Festival. Santa Cruz, CA
2017 Best Animated Documentary, Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival
2016 Canada Council for the Arts Film and Video Artist Production grant, awarded for “Elizabeth Sees”
2016 Ontario Arts Commission Emerging Media Artist Grant, awarded for “Elizabeth Sees”
2007 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Travel Grant
2004 Louisa Moseley Fine Arts Prize, Pomona College, Claremont, CA Flintridge Foundation Project Grant
2001 Mary Drew Art Prize, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
RESIDENCIES
2012 Toronto School of Art Residency
2010 The Wassaic Project Residency, Wassaic, New York
ACRE Residency, Steuben, Wisconsin
FILM FESTIVALS
2018 Hamptons International Film Festival, East Hampton, New York
Tallgrass Film Festival, Wichita, Kansas
Sarasota Film Festival, Sarasota, Florida
Toronto Independent Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario
Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario
Fargo Film Festival. Fargo, North Dakota
Indie Grits, Columbia, South Carolina
Santa Cruz Film Festival, Santa Cruz, California
Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival
Tacoma Film Festival, Tacoma, Washington
Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema, Idyllwild, California
Cinema on the Bayou, Lafayette, Louisiana
2017 DOC LA, Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival
2013 North by Northeast Festival (large outdoor projection of animations), Toronto, Ontario
2006 Animation World’s Fair, ICE Factory, Chicago, Illinois
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 North York Central Library, Toronto, Ontario
2011 Blips & Hiccups, ACRE exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois
2010 Valerie Magarian: Recent Paintings and Animations, President’s Gallery,
Harold Washington College, Chicago
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Nine Blinks: Narrating the Body, West Windsor Arts Center, Princeton, New Jersey
2013 Art Gallery of Ontario, Sales and Rental Galleries, Toronto, Ontario
2011 Wassaic Summer Exhibition, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York
2010 Cuore Pop, Primo Piano LivinGallery, Lecce, Italy
A Fine Point, Lotus Salon, New York, New York
2009 Frontiers, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA thesis show
Summertime, Gaucho Social Club, Chicago
2007 Neither Here Nor Now, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, New York
You’re in My Space, Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Hudson Art Walk, Hudson, New York
Forks, Tables & Napkins, Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006 Brooklyn Underground Film Festival Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York
2005 Jan Larsen Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York
By the Numbers, The Brooklyn Artist’s Gym, Brooklyn, New York
PUBLIC LECTURES
2017 California State University Fresno, Visiting Artist talk
2016 Alliance Française, Toronto, ON, Artist Talk
2014 North York Public Library, Toronto, ON, gallery talk and children’s program
2013 Art Toronto, Akimbo/Wondereur Mystery Artist Talk
2010 Harold Washington College, Chicago, guest artist lecture and studio workshop
2008 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, slide lecture of personal works
2007 ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, New York, gallery talk and slide lecture
Gallery 2, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, gallery talk
PUBLICATIONS
‘Elizabeth Sees’: How we often see the bigger picture, Animation World Network, https://www.awn.com/blog/elizabeth-sees, 11/17/17
Artist of the Week: Wondereur. iphone/ipad App that features a new artist per week, telling their story as a photojournalistic piece, with artwork available for direct purchase. Wondereur.com, 11/01/2013
Review: Valerie Magarian/Harold Washington College President’s Gallery, Newcity Art, art.newcity.com, 7/12/2010
Review of Neither Here Nor Now: Transformation in Time and Space at the ISE Cultural Foundation, artdaily.org, 3/17/2007
SELECT WORK EXPERIENCE
Ontario Arts Council, Media Arts Jury panelist, 2020
Director, Elizabeth Sees, an award winning independent animation, 2015-2018
Guggenheim Museum, Gallery and Studio Workshop Educator, 2010-2020
Art Gallery of Ontario, School and Family Programs Educator, 2014-2015
The Museum of Modern Art, Family Programs Educator, 2011-2012
Free Arts NYC, Bilingual (Spanish/English) Facilitator, 2009-2012
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Undergraduate Figure Drawing Instructor, 2008