Education
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2021-2023 MFA - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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2014-2017 BFA- School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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2012-2017 BA Cum Laude Anthropology, Tufts University, Medford, MA
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Selected Exhibitions
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2023- I used to have a favorite tree, CherryKnot, Chicago
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2023- and the home of the [place holder], Comfort Station, Chicago
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2023- Friction and Fusions, SAIC Open Studios, Chicago
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2023- Graduate Exhibitions, SAIC Galleries, Chicago
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2022- Unstable Space, NO NATION, Chicago
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2022- Draw Showing, NO NATION, Chicago
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2022- Whatever Hour You Woke There Was a Door Shutting, SAIC Open Studios, Chicago
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2022- Radial Radiant Arboreal, NO NATION, Chicago
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2021- Slither, Sprawl, and Swallow, SAIC Graduate Open Studios, Chicago
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2021-Picture Consequences, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
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2021- Telephone, Grrl Haus Cinema, Loop Hole Berlin, Berlin
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2020- Lino Kino Television, Automat Gallery, Philadelphia
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2020- Krissy Talking Pictures: Video art pop-up show, Window Room, Philadelphia
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2019- 121st Annual Faculty Exhibition, Fliesher Art Memorial, Philadelphia
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2019- Lino Kino Public Access- Cherry st Pier, Philadelphia
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2019- La Collezione Sinuosa / The Sinuous Collection, Ospizio Giovani Artisti, Rome Italy
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2019- University City Arts League Faculty Show, Philadelphia PA
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2018- Lore Degenstein Gallery Tenth Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition
and Exhibition/Selinsgrove PA
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2018- Motion Pictured/ International House Philadelphia PA, Juried Show: First Place.
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2017-Becoming Post-Human/ Studio 550, Boston MA
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2017-Hydra Effect/Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance/ Midway Artist Studios, Boston MA
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2017- SMFA Senior Thesis Exhibition: DENATURED / School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
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2016-Nasty Women x Tufts: Group show and fundraiser for Planned Parenthood: Medford MA
2016-SMFA Media Arts Annual/ Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston MA.
2016-Congratulations you have a New Match/ North Crackatorium Gallery,Boston MA 2016
2016-She Comes in Rags: SMFA Painting Biannual/ School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Juried Show: Honorable Mention.
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Curatorial
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2025- Boys and Men, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
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2024- More Anxious Bodies, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
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2022- Anxious Bodies, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
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2021- Woven with Silver Thread, SAIC Graduate Open Studios, Chicago
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2021- Slither, Sprawl, and Swallow, SAIC Graduate Open Studios, Chicago
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2021- Sucking the Dirt from Under My Fingernails, SAIC Graduate Open Studios, Chicago
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2021- Cassiopeia's Perspective, SAIC Graduate Open Studios, Chicago
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2021- Krissy Talking Pictures Presents: Double Dare, Rhizome DC, DC
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2020- Krissy Talking Pictures Digital Gallery, KrissyTalkingPictures.net
2020- Frames Per Second Lino Kino Animation Showcase, BOK, Philadelphia PA
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2020-Krissy Talking Pictures Take 2, Video art pop-up, DustBunny, Philadelphia PA
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Artist Residencies
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2025- Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos.
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2019- Film for Artists, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto.
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2018- MISE-EN_PLACE Bushwick, New York.
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Artist Talks
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2021- Solo screening and artist talk with the Black Box at Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA.
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2021- Krissy Talking Pictures screening and artist talk at Haverford University.
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2021- Krissy Talking Pictures screening and artist talk at Oxford University.
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2020- Solo screening and artist talk through The Greenhouse Ensemble, New York.
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Teaching Experience
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College level
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2023-Ongoing- Lecturer University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Courses Taught: Animation 1, Foundation Topics: Film and Animation
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2024- Lecturer Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Course Taught: Non-fiction/Documentary Animation
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Previous experience:
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2023- Guest Lecturer on 16mm film for the class 'Sonics and Optics,' SAIC
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2023- Instructor for Introduction to the Moving Image, SAIC's Early College Program
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2022- Teaching Assistant to the Handmade Cinema class in the Film, Video, New Media and Animation Department at School of the Art Institute Chicago
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2022-2023 Instructor for Animation Studio, SAIC's Early College Program
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2022- Guest Lecturer Legacies of Punk & DIY Methods in Production- SAIC
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2022- Teaching Assistant to the Drawing for Animation class in the Film, Video, New Media and Animation Department at School of the Art Institute Chicago
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2021- Teaching Assistant to the Media Practices class in the Film, Video, New Media and Animation Department at School of the Art Institute Chicago
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2019- 2021 - Faculty at University City Arts League. Designed and Taught classes in the digital
arts department to children and adults.
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2019- Instructor at Fleisher Art Memorial teen program, experimental animation.
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2017- Workshop Leader at The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. Lead a collaborative
workshop with children and parents, entitled We The People.
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2017 + 2021 - Animation teacher at the Essex Art in Lawrence MA. Designed and taught a
variety of different animation classes, including traditional and digital animation
techniques as well as video and sound editing.
Professional Experience
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June 2022- May 2023- Curatorial assistant for the Conversations at the Edge series at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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Jan. -May 2022- Graduate curatorial assistant for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival.
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Jan. - Dec. 2020: Artist assistant for Gerri Spilka.
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Dec. 2018- Mar. 2021- Artist assistant for Jeffrey Mcmahon.
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Mar.- Aug. 2019 Artist assistant for Josey Seung-Ah Lee.
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Feb.- Nov. 2018 Post production and animation on Feel Memory, a hand painted animated documentary.
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Jun. Aug. 2016- Art and Image Research at Tikkun Magazine
Filmography
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This Train is Invisible until it Crashes (2023)
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Official Selection: Streetside Cinema: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Picture Farm Film Festival: New York
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio
Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago
2023 SAIC Graduate Thesis Show, SAIC Galleries, Chicago
Draw Showing, No Nation, Chicago
Open Air Media Festival: Iowa City, Iowa
Post-Cinema: Sicily
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Agitator Animation, Agitator Gallery, Chicago
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer;(2023)
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Official Selection: Onion City Experimental Film Festival: Chicago
Open Air Media Festival: Iowa City, Iowa
//sense, Gene Siskel Film Center: Chicago
Beijing International Short Film Festival: Beijing
Antimatter [Media Art]: Victoria
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Reflective Surfaces(2022)
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Official Selection: The Greenhouse Ensemble Film Festival: New York
//Sense’s Screening for Experimental Film, Video, Animation
Gene Siskel Film Center: Chicago
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The Sound of Sinking Ships (2020)
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Official Selection: Interface Video Festival: Zagreb, Croatia
IMAJITARI International Dance Film Festival: Jakarta, Indonesia
Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Calm and Punk Gallery: Tokyo
GRRL HAUS // Let's have a party!, Brattle Theater, Boston
Context.film: Moscow
Streetside Cinema: a/perture cinema, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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A Place to Rest, Syncopated (2019)
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Official Selection: IFFY-Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti Michigan
Squat Betty Avant Garde Film Night: London
Kinolikbez: Saint-Petersburg
Rush Process at The Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia
NOFLASH Video Show: New Brunswick
Tease (2018)
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Official Selection: TEAS’R Short Film Festival,Sculpture Resource Center, Tuscan
The Somerville International Film Festival: Boston
Videopride: Madrid
GRRL HAUS CINEMA: Berlin, Germany
OUTsider Fest: Austin, Texas
Hacker Porn Festival: Rome, Italy
IV Erotic&Bizarre Art Film Festival: Alicante, Spain
Medusa Underground Film Festival: Las Vegas
Anilogue International Animation festival: Budapest, Hungary
LINOLEUM Animation Festival: Kyiv, Ukraine
SIP Post-Porn Projections: Montréal, Québec
Crema Helada: Tijuana, Baja California
Hot Bits Film Festival: Philadelphia and Baltimore
Art All Night-Trenton: Trenton
WANDA: Feminism and Moving Image: Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Matter out of Place (2017)
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1st Place: Experimental Competition: Saint Frances Women's Film Festival: New York.
Best Animated Film: The Somerville International Film Festival: Boston
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3rd Place: Experimental Competition: 2019 Athens Animfest: Athens, Greece.
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Official Selection: Sydney World Film Festival: Sydney
Kino pleme / Live Soundtrack: Belgrade, Serbia
Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival: Hong Kong
The Greenhouse Ensemble Film Festival: New York
Brussels Independent Film Festival: Brussels
The Unforeseen/International Experimental Film Festival: Belgrade, Serbia
Medusa Underground Film Festival: Las Vegas
Amimation Marathon 2018: Athens, Greece
Crema Helada: Tijuana, Baja California
Anim!Arte: Brazil
IVY Film Festival: Providence
First Takes Shorts Series: Philadelphia
Popup Anthology: Trenton
Women's Film Festival: Philadelphia
Cefalù film festival: Cefalu Italy
Locomocion / Experimental Animation Festival: Mexico City
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