Projects
Animation
Education
2021- Ongoing- MFA - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014-2017- BFA- School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2012-2017 BA Cum Laude Anthropology, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Selected Exhibitions
2022- Radial Radiant Arboreal, NO NATION, Chicago
2021- Slither, Sprawl, and Swallow, SAIC Graduate Open Studios, Chicago
2021-Picture Consequences, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
2021- Telephone, Grrl Haus Cinema, Loop Hole Berlin, Berlin
2020- Lino Kino Television, Automat Gallery, Philadelphia
2020- Krissy Talking Pictures: Video art pop-up show, Window Room, Philadelphia
2019- 121st Annual Faculty Exhibition, Fliesher Art Memorial, Philadelphia
2019- Lino Kino Public Access- Cherry st Pier, Philadelphia
2019- La Collezione Sinuosa / The Sinuous Collection, Ospizio Giovani Artisti, Rome Italy
2019- University City Arts League Faculty Show, Philadelphia PA
2018- Lore Degenstein Gallery Tenth Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition
and Exhibition/Selinsgrove PA
2018- Motion Pictured/ International House Philadelphia PA, Juried Show: First Place.
2017-Becoming Post-Human/ Studio 550, Boston MA
2017-Hydra Effect/Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance/ Midway Artist Studios, Boston MA
2017- SMFA Senior Thesis Exhibition: DENATURED / School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
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.
Curatorial
2021- Woven with Silver Thread, SAIC Graduate Open Studios, Chicago
2021- Slither, Sprawl, and Swallow, SAIC Graduate Open Studios, Chicago
2021- Sucking the Dirt from Under My Fingernails, SAIC Graduate Open Studios, Chicago
2021- Cassiopeia's Perspective, SAIC Graduate Open Studios, Chicago
2021- Krissy Talking Pictures Presents: Double Dare, Rhizome DC, DC
2020- Krissy Talking Pictures Digital Gallery, KrissyTalkingPictures.net
2020- Frames Per Second Lino Kino Animation Showcase, BOK, Philadelphia PA
2020-Krissy Talking Pictures Take 2, Video art pop-up, DustBunny, Philadelphia PA
Artist Residencies
2019- Film for Artists, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto.
2018- MISE-EN_PLACE Bushwick, New York.
Artist Talks
2021- Solo screening and artist talk with the Black Box at Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA.
2021- Krissy Talking Pictures screening and artist talk at Haverford University.
2021- Krissy Talking Pictures screening and artist talk at Oxford University.
2020- Solo screening and artist talk through The Greenhouse Ensemble, New York.
Teaching Experience
2022- Animation Studio, SAIC's Early College Program
2022- Guest Lecturer Legacies of Punk & DIY Methods in Production- SAIC
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
2021- Teaching Assistant to the Media Practices class in the Film, Video, New Media and Animation Department at School of the Art Institute Chicago
2019- 2021 - Faculty at University City Arts League. Designed and Taught classes in the digital
arts department to children and adults.
2019- Instructor at Fleisher Art Memorial teen program, experimental animation.
2017- Workshop Leader at The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. Lead a collaborative
workshop with children and parents, entitled We The People.
2017- 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
June 2022- May 2023- Curatorial assistant for the Conversations at the Edge series at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Jan. -May 2022- Graduate curatorial assistant for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival.
Jan. - Dec. 2020: Artist assistant for Gerri Spilka.
Dec. 2018- Mar. 2021- Artist assistant for Jeffrey Mcmahon.
Mar.- Aug. 2019 Artist assistant for Josey Seung-Ah Lee.
Feb.- Nov. 2018 Post production and animation on Feel Memory, a hand painted animated documentary.
Jun. Aug. 2016- Art and Image Research at Tikkun Magazine
Filmography
The Sound of Sinking Ships (2020)
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
A Place to Rest, Syncopated (2019)
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)
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
Matter out of Place (2017)
1st Place: Experimental Competition: Saint Frances Women's Film Festival: New York.
Best Animated Film: The Somerville International Film Festival: Boston
3rd Place: Experimental Competition: 2019 Athens Animfest: Athens, Greece.
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