EDUCATION
2019 MFA Visual Art, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Merit Scholarship
1993 Graduate studies in Visualization, Texas A&M University
1991 Bachelor of Environmental Design, Texas A&M University, cum laude, President’s Endowed Scholarship
RESIDENCIES
2024 Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Interdisciplinary Residency Fellow
2024 PLAYA Summerlake, Art and Science Awarded Residency
2023 Virginia Center for Creative Arts
2023 Alternate, Special Wildfire and Water Residency, PLAYA
2022 Joshua Tree Center for Photographic Arts
HONORS
2022 Honorable Mention, Digital Manipulation and Collage, Julia Margaret Cameron Award
2022 Shortlisted, Belfast Photo Festival
2017 Juror Award, Sense of Place, Truro Center for the Arts
2016 Juror Award, Encaustic, A. Smith Gallery
Juror Award, Photo Encaustic, Sage Gallery
2015 Juror Award, Buenaventura Open Encaustic Competition
2013 Outstanding Alumni, Texas A&M University College of Architecture
VES awards nominee, Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture, Vanellope, Wreck-It Ralph
2012 ArtSlant showcase winner, mixed media
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS
2024 No Place Launch LA, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Kenopsia Roswell Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 You Are (Not) Here Cecelia Coker Bell Art Gallery, Coker University, SC
You are (Not) Here Keystone Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 You are (Not) Here Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH
2017 Transmission Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO.
2018 Transmission Yavapai College Art Gallery, Prescott, AZ
2015 Transmission Wright Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
2012 Employee Gallery, Disney Animation Studios
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
2024 Desert Forest at MOAH, Lancaster (with accompanying book)
Menagerie, VITA Arts Center, Ventura, CA
2023 Investigations: Zombie Forest at Intersect Palm Springs, CA
Sequence Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC
Open Call, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
By Degrees: Art and our Changing Ecology, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA
A Complexity of Joys, MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY
Our River: City Floodplain, Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cabinet of Curiosities, Yiwei Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Dream House (a special publication in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Womanhouse)
Indistinct Chatter, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Intimacies, MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY
Made in California, Brea Gallery, CA
Kipaipai Group show, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
12th Anniversary Show, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
Surrealism Now! Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Old Broads West, Roswell Space, Los Angeles, CA
Make Plain, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
CA 101, Redondo Beach, CA
Resilience, Upstart Modern, Sausalito, CA
2021 Landscapes of Material and Mind, SciArt at New York Hall of Science
Horizon 2.0 at Shoebox Projects, LA
2020 In Real Life, Keystone Art Space group show, Los Angeles, CA
Culture Of Contamination, December Issue, magazine of SciArt Initiative
2019 Pixel Rot (essay), PRECOG volume 5
Tapped 9, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2018 Response: Paired works by TAMU College of Architecture artists and their professors, Reynolds Gallery, TX
On-Site In Sight, Curated by Sherman Finch, Jones Gallery, Houston, TX
Photosynthesis, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
Keystone Art Space group show, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Strings Attached, Coastline Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
Manmade, Curated by Shannon Currie-Holmes, Brand Library Gallery, Glendale, CA
Sense of Place, Juried by Patricia Miranda, Truro Center For the Arts, Truro, MA
Keystone Art Space group show, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Little Boxes, Georgetown Arts Center, Georgetown, TX
Places and Spaces, Sugar Mynt Gallery, South Pasadena, CA
Art of Encaustic, Ventura Government Center Gallery, CA
Keystone Art Space group show, Los Angeles, CA
Photo Encaustic, Sage Gallery, Portland, OR
Round 'em Up, SugarMynt Gallery, South Pasadena, CA
5th Annual Encaustic Exhibition, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL
Encaustic, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
Collective Dissent, Dab Art, Ventura, CA
2015 LAND: Interactions, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Show of Hands, A1LabArts, Knoxville, TN
Alternative Processes, Photoplace Gallery, VT, juried by Amy Holmes George
Fusion, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA curated by LAXWAX board
Ode to a Bridge, Art Share-LA, CA, curated by Dale Youngman and Tanner Blackman
FLUX, Chaffey Museum of Art, Ontario, CA, LAX WAX Art Member Show
Another Way of Keeping a Diary, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, juried by David Limrite
Encaustic Open, Buenaventura Gallery, juried by Pamela Smith Hudson
2014 Diffusion: A Matter of Light Annual
Alternative Processes, The Center for Fine Art Photography, CO, juried by Christopher James
Highway 2 - The Journey and the Destination, Modest Fly Gallery, Tujunga and Towns Burr Gallery, Burbank
The Hand, Issue 5
Layered, CAA member juried exhibition, West Gallery. CSUN
The Hand, Issue 7
2013 The Hand, Issue 2
1996 Elastic Light, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1994 National Gallery of Victoria film festival
IMAGINA special session for student work, Monaco
17th International Film Festival, Creteil, France
Anima Mundi 94, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
AFI National Video Festival, AFI, Hollywood
1993 Vente Exhibition Hall, Fujita Corporation, Tokyo
FISEA 93, Walker Art Center
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas Museum of Art
Images du Futur 93, Montreal
SIGGRAPH small animation theater, Anaheim
Montage 93, The New Images, Rochester, NY
Florida Film Festival
Fort Worth Main Street Arts Festival, Video Arts Competition
CURATORIAL/JUROR PROJECTS
2023 Curator, A Thread in the Hollow, Katie Prock at Shoebox Projects
2022 Juror, Telling Stories, Shoebox Projects
2021 Juror, A Digital Art Salon, and Digital Shorts Film Festival, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA
2015 Co-curator, Fusion, Keystone Art Space Gallery
2015-22 Juror for emerging artist and project grant awards for International Encaustic Artists
2014 Juror, Gaming/Computer Graphics/Animation Track, Grace Hopper Celebration
1999 Juror, Sketches and Applications Committee, SIGGRAPH
EXPERIENCE
2020-23 Head of Characters, Walt Disney Animation Studios
2011-20 Look Development Supervisor, Walt Disney Animation Studios
1993 -11 Look Development Artist and Lighting Artist, Walt Disney Animation Studios
2001-02 Lecturer, California Institute of the Arts
1991-93 Instructor of Record, Texas A&M University
1990-91 Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University
LECTURES, TALKS, AND PANELS
2024 Speaker, Career Development Series, CCA
2023 Speaker, Siggraph Student Chapter, TAMU
2022 Speaker, Pasadena City College
Speaker, Let’s Talk About Bruno, SIGGRAPH
Speaker, The Characters of Encanto, Disney Inspire Days
Speaker, ENDS101, Texas A&M University
Speaker, Hancock College
Artist Talk, Landscapes of Material and Mind
2021 Artist Talk, Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery
Artist Talk, Keystone Art Space Gallery
2020 Artist Talk, The New School, NY
2017 Artist Talk, Dairy Arts Center, CO
Speaker, SINFO
2016 Panelist, Zootropolis. London ACM Siggraph Chapter
Panelist, Zootopia. Women in Animation
Panelist, Disney Animation Technistas. Mill Valley Film Festival
Speaker, Zoomania. FMX
Speaker, From Armadillo to Zebra: Creating the Diverse Characters and World of “Zootopia.” SIGGRAPH
2014 Panelist, An Evaluation of University Education as it Relates to the VFX, Animation, and Game Industries. SIGGRAPH
Panelist, Frozen: an Evening with the Filmmakers. Women in Animation
Panelist, Other Educational Models, FMX
Presenter, Under the Hat: Walt Disney Studios, FMX
2013 Speaker, Women in STEM Program, Mirman School
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND OUTREACH
2023-24 Monte Vista Projects Curatorial Collectice
2022-23 Exhibitions Committee, Women’s Caucus for the Arts
2020-23 Exhibitions Director, International Encaustic Artists
2019 Co-Lead, Summer Internship Program, Disney Animation Studios
Mentor, New Leadership Mentorship Program, Disney Animation Studios
Mentor, Disney Talent Development Program
Visiting Instructor, Summer Production Course, Texas A&M University
2018 Mentor, Emerging Leadership Mentorship Program, Disney Animation Studios
2015-20 Treasurer, International Encaustic Artists
2015-19 Treasurer, LAX WAX Art (Los Angeles Chapter of IEA)
2015 Visiting Instructor, Summer Production Course, Texas A&M University
2012-23 Industry professional mentor for independent study and capstone courses, Visualization Department, TAMU
2012 Visiting Instructor, Summer Production Course, Texas A&M University
2011 Mentor, Disney Talent Development Program
2009 Mentor, Disney Talent Development Program
Visiting Instructor, Summer Production Course, Texas A&M University
2008-23 Visualization Industry Partners Advisory Board, Texas A&M University
AFFILIATIONS
Monte Vista Projects
College Art Association
Women's Caucus for the Arts
Textile Arts, LA
Los Angeles Art Association
International Encaustic Artists
Kipaipai Fellows
Ecoartspace
2019 MFA Visual Art, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Merit Scholarship
1993 Graduate studies in Visualization, Texas A&M University
1991 Bachelor of Environmental Design, Texas A&M University, cum laude, President’s Endowed Scholarship
RESIDENCIES
2024 Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Interdisciplinary Residency Fellow
2024 PLAYA Summerlake, Art and Science Awarded Residency
2023 Virginia Center for Creative Arts
2023 Alternate, Special Wildfire and Water Residency, PLAYA
2022 Joshua Tree Center for Photographic Arts
HONORS
2022 Honorable Mention, Digital Manipulation and Collage, Julia Margaret Cameron Award
2022 Shortlisted, Belfast Photo Festival
2017 Juror Award, Sense of Place, Truro Center for the Arts
2016 Juror Award, Encaustic, A. Smith Gallery
Juror Award, Photo Encaustic, Sage Gallery
2015 Juror Award, Buenaventura Open Encaustic Competition
2013 Outstanding Alumni, Texas A&M University College of Architecture
VES awards nominee, Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture, Vanellope, Wreck-It Ralph
2012 ArtSlant showcase winner, mixed media
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS
2024 No Place Launch LA, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Kenopsia Roswell Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 You Are (Not) Here Cecelia Coker Bell Art Gallery, Coker University, SC
You are (Not) Here Keystone Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 You are (Not) Here Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH
2017 Transmission Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO.
2018 Transmission Yavapai College Art Gallery, Prescott, AZ
2015 Transmission Wright Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
2012 Employee Gallery, Disney Animation Studios
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
2024 Desert Forest at MOAH, Lancaster (with accompanying book)
Menagerie, VITA Arts Center, Ventura, CA
2023 Investigations: Zombie Forest at Intersect Palm Springs, CA
Sequence Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC
Open Call, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
By Degrees: Art and our Changing Ecology, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA
A Complexity of Joys, MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY
Our River: City Floodplain, Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cabinet of Curiosities, Yiwei Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Dream House (a special publication in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Womanhouse)
Indistinct Chatter, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Intimacies, MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY
Made in California, Brea Gallery, CA
Kipaipai Group show, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
12th Anniversary Show, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
Surrealism Now! Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Old Broads West, Roswell Space, Los Angeles, CA
Make Plain, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
CA 101, Redondo Beach, CA
Resilience, Upstart Modern, Sausalito, CA
2021 Landscapes of Material and Mind, SciArt at New York Hall of Science
Horizon 2.0 at Shoebox Projects, LA
2020 In Real Life, Keystone Art Space group show, Los Angeles, CA
Culture Of Contamination, December Issue, magazine of SciArt Initiative
2019 Pixel Rot (essay), PRECOG volume 5
Tapped 9, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2018 Response: Paired works by TAMU College of Architecture artists and their professors, Reynolds Gallery, TX
On-Site In Sight, Curated by Sherman Finch, Jones Gallery, Houston, TX
Photosynthesis, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
Keystone Art Space group show, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Strings Attached, Coastline Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
Manmade, Curated by Shannon Currie-Holmes, Brand Library Gallery, Glendale, CA
Sense of Place, Juried by Patricia Miranda, Truro Center For the Arts, Truro, MA
Keystone Art Space group show, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Little Boxes, Georgetown Arts Center, Georgetown, TX
Places and Spaces, Sugar Mynt Gallery, South Pasadena, CA
Art of Encaustic, Ventura Government Center Gallery, CA
Keystone Art Space group show, Los Angeles, CA
Photo Encaustic, Sage Gallery, Portland, OR
Round 'em Up, SugarMynt Gallery, South Pasadena, CA
5th Annual Encaustic Exhibition, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL
Encaustic, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
Collective Dissent, Dab Art, Ventura, CA
2015 LAND: Interactions, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Show of Hands, A1LabArts, Knoxville, TN
Alternative Processes, Photoplace Gallery, VT, juried by Amy Holmes George
Fusion, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA curated by LAXWAX board
Ode to a Bridge, Art Share-LA, CA, curated by Dale Youngman and Tanner Blackman
FLUX, Chaffey Museum of Art, Ontario, CA, LAX WAX Art Member Show
Another Way of Keeping a Diary, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, juried by David Limrite
Encaustic Open, Buenaventura Gallery, juried by Pamela Smith Hudson
2014 Diffusion: A Matter of Light Annual
Alternative Processes, The Center for Fine Art Photography, CO, juried by Christopher James
Highway 2 - The Journey and the Destination, Modest Fly Gallery, Tujunga and Towns Burr Gallery, Burbank
The Hand, Issue 5
Layered, CAA member juried exhibition, West Gallery. CSUN
The Hand, Issue 7
2013 The Hand, Issue 2
1996 Elastic Light, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1994 National Gallery of Victoria film festival
IMAGINA special session for student work, Monaco
17th International Film Festival, Creteil, France
Anima Mundi 94, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
AFI National Video Festival, AFI, Hollywood
1993 Vente Exhibition Hall, Fujita Corporation, Tokyo
FISEA 93, Walker Art Center
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas Museum of Art
Images du Futur 93, Montreal
SIGGRAPH small animation theater, Anaheim
Montage 93, The New Images, Rochester, NY
Florida Film Festival
Fort Worth Main Street Arts Festival, Video Arts Competition
CURATORIAL/JUROR PROJECTS
2023 Curator, A Thread in the Hollow, Katie Prock at Shoebox Projects
2022 Juror, Telling Stories, Shoebox Projects
2021 Juror, A Digital Art Salon, and Digital Shorts Film Festival, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA
2015 Co-curator, Fusion, Keystone Art Space Gallery
2015-22 Juror for emerging artist and project grant awards for International Encaustic Artists
2014 Juror, Gaming/Computer Graphics/Animation Track, Grace Hopper Celebration
1999 Juror, Sketches and Applications Committee, SIGGRAPH
EXPERIENCE
2020-23 Head of Characters, Walt Disney Animation Studios
2011-20 Look Development Supervisor, Walt Disney Animation Studios
1993 -11 Look Development Artist and Lighting Artist, Walt Disney Animation Studios
2001-02 Lecturer, California Institute of the Arts
1991-93 Instructor of Record, Texas A&M University
1990-91 Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University
LECTURES, TALKS, AND PANELS
2024 Speaker, Career Development Series, CCA
2023 Speaker, Siggraph Student Chapter, TAMU
2022 Speaker, Pasadena City College
Speaker, Let’s Talk About Bruno, SIGGRAPH
Speaker, The Characters of Encanto, Disney Inspire Days
Speaker, ENDS101, Texas A&M University
Speaker, Hancock College
Artist Talk, Landscapes of Material and Mind
2021 Artist Talk, Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery
Artist Talk, Keystone Art Space Gallery
2020 Artist Talk, The New School, NY
2017 Artist Talk, Dairy Arts Center, CO
Speaker, SINFO
2016 Panelist, Zootropolis. London ACM Siggraph Chapter
Panelist, Zootopia. Women in Animation
Panelist, Disney Animation Technistas. Mill Valley Film Festival
Speaker, Zoomania. FMX
Speaker, From Armadillo to Zebra: Creating the Diverse Characters and World of “Zootopia.” SIGGRAPH
2014 Panelist, An Evaluation of University Education as it Relates to the VFX, Animation, and Game Industries. SIGGRAPH
Panelist, Frozen: an Evening with the Filmmakers. Women in Animation
Panelist, Other Educational Models, FMX
Presenter, Under the Hat: Walt Disney Studios, FMX
2013 Speaker, Women in STEM Program, Mirman School
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND OUTREACH
2023-24 Monte Vista Projects Curatorial Collectice
2022-23 Exhibitions Committee, Women’s Caucus for the Arts
2020-23 Exhibitions Director, International Encaustic Artists
2019 Co-Lead, Summer Internship Program, Disney Animation Studios
Mentor, New Leadership Mentorship Program, Disney Animation Studios
Mentor, Disney Talent Development Program
Visiting Instructor, Summer Production Course, Texas A&M University
2018 Mentor, Emerging Leadership Mentorship Program, Disney Animation Studios
2015-20 Treasurer, International Encaustic Artists
2015-19 Treasurer, LAX WAX Art (Los Angeles Chapter of IEA)
2015 Visiting Instructor, Summer Production Course, Texas A&M University
2012-23 Industry professional mentor for independent study and capstone courses, Visualization Department, TAMU
2012 Visiting Instructor, Summer Production Course, Texas A&M University
2011 Mentor, Disney Talent Development Program
2009 Mentor, Disney Talent Development Program
Visiting Instructor, Summer Production Course, Texas A&M University
2008-23 Visualization Industry Partners Advisory Board, Texas A&M University
AFFILIATIONS
Monte Vista Projects
College Art Association
Women's Caucus for the Arts
Textile Arts, LA
Los Angeles Art Association
International Encaustic Artists
Kipaipai Fellows
Ecoartspace