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EDUCATION
2020 MFA Stanford University in Art Practice
2016 BFA Rhode Island School of Design in Film/Animation/Video, with honors
2016 BA Brown University in Modern Culture and Media, with honors
1998-2011 professional training in ballet, modern dance, and folk dance
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
2021 Part-Time Faculty Development Grant, Rhode Island School of Design
for the proposal “Songs to Pierce the Heart” - an album using midi instruments
2020 Pauline Brown Fund for Advanced Research in American Art, Stanford University
to conduct archival research at the Huntington Library, Los Angeles C.A.
2019 Pauline Brown Fund for Advanced Research in American Art, Stanford University
to conduct archival research at the National Museum of American History, Washington D.C.
2019-21 Arthur Bridgman Clark Memorial Fund Fellowship, Stanford University
2018 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts
Fellowship in Film & Video
2017 I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, CT
Artist in Residence
2017 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Artist in Residence
2016 The Eagle Hill School, Hardwick, MA
Artist in Residence
2016 Kenneth Baker ‘69 Memorial Prize, Brown University
graduation award for an outstanding and original honors thesis in Modern Culture and Media
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2021 Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation - Labor of Love
Montréal, Canada
2020 Artists’ Television Access - Labor of Love
San Francisco, CA
2020 aCinema: Tectonic Breaths - ourself
Wisconsin, USA
2017 INVIDEO Festival - Venus Hum
Milan, Italy
2017 Alchemy Film Festival- ourself
Hawick, Scotland
2017 Holland Animation Film Festival - Venus Hum
Utrecht, Netherlands
2017 Screen Dance Film Festival - ourself
Stockholm, Sweden
2017 Two Short Nights, Exeter Phoenix - ourself
Exeter, England
2017 Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation - Boneyard Angel
Montréal, Canada
2017 La Fabrique culturelle, Télé-Québec - Boneyard Angel
Canadian Television
2017 Locomocion / Experimental Animation Festival - ourself
Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Moving-Image-Arts International Short Film Festival - ourself
Toronto, Canada
2016 London Experimental Film Festival - Venus Hum
London, England
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Venus Hum, CCRMA WAVE at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Ten Thousand Movements,
KANNSKI Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
2022 Unbound, Stanford Art Gallery
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2022 Under The Sun and The Moon, Humble Arts Foundation
Humble Arts Foundation, online gallery
2021 RISD Faculty Exhibition and Forum, Chace Center/RISD Museum
Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI
2021 Group Show, Shrine NYC online
New York, NY
2020 Unbound, online MFA thesis highlights
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2019 MFA Now 2019, Root Division
San Francisco, CA
2019 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Warwick Center for the Arts
Warwick, RI
2019 Easy to Love : Stanford MFA First Year Exhibition, Coulter Gallery
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2017 The Sussex Contemporary : Inaugural Group Show, The Sussex Contemporary
Ottawa, Canada
2015-7 F/A/V Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery - RISD
Providence, RI
2014-6 Annual Brown-Rhode Island School of Design Dual Degree Exhibition, Granoff Center
Providence, RI
PRESS and PUBLICATIONS
2021 Hill, Linden. “A Stitch in Time: Embroidery as Trace.” in Unbound - Stanford University Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Catalog, edited by Amber Moyles and Beatrice
Smigasiewicz, 2021, pp. 54–55. (gallery publication)
2021 Root Division Gallery. MFA Revisited: Archive Project, 2021. (gallery publication)
2019 Root Division Gallery. MFA Now 2019: Exibition Catalogue, 2019. (gallery publication)
2017 Associazione Italiana Amici Cinema d’Essai. Origins. Mimesis Edizioni, Milano, 2017.
(festival catalog)
2017 Solondz, Simone. “Pursuing a Career in Film.” RISD News. June 15, 2017.
ARTIST TALKS
2021 Time, Light, and Sound, Film/Animation/Video visitng lecture series
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
2019 Dialogues in Art, Anderson Collection
Stanford University, CA
2016 Art Tea Series, talk given at the Eagle Hill School
Hardwick, MA
2016 Silver Cord, talk given at the Brown-RISD Dual Degree Capstone Presentations
Brown University, RI
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 - Fall Intermediate Studio: Open Media
Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Film/Animation/Video
students discover the potentialities of non-cinematic, time-based work exploring sound, performance,
installation, and projection
2022 - Fall Animation Practices
Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Film/Animation/Video
students explore the fundamentals of animated movement, timing, and materials through various animation techniques, including flipbooks,
drawing on paper, pixilation, cut-out animation, and modified-base processes
2022 - Spring Animation Practices
Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Film/Animation/Video
*see above*
2022 - Spring Film Practices
Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Film/Animation/Video
students learn 16mm film processes, skills, and techniques - as a material and conceptual
foundation necessary for every time-based practice
2021 - Fall Video and Multimedia
Instructor, University of Rhode Island, Department of Art and Art History
students use the camera as tool for personal artistic expression: exploring intentional observation, the camera’s
relationship to the body, editing, sound, and digital compositing
2021 - Fall Animation Practices
Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Film/Animation/Video
*see above*
2021 - Fall Technical Workshop: Animation
Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Film/Animation/Video
course exploring the multifaceted materialities of animation
2021 - Spring Technical Workshop: Animation
Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Film/Animation/Video
course exploring the multifaceted materialities of animation
2019 - Fall Interdisciplinary Animation
Instructor, Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History
course exploring the inherent interdiscplinarity of animation - touching on filmmaking, sculpture, puppetry,
installation, and sound design
SUBSTITUTE TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 - Spring Intermediate Studio: Animation
for Gina Kamentsky, in RISD’s FAV department
2022 - Fall Stop-motion Animation
for Bryan Parcival, in RISD’s FAV department
MENTORSHIP EXPERIENCE
2019-20 MFA Graduate Student Mentor, Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History
selected by Art Department faculty to mentor two undergraduate students as they completed their senior honors theses in art practice
QUALIFIED TO TEACH
Experimental Animation
Installation
Sound Design
Video Art
Digital Photography
Performance Art
16mm Filmmaking
Drawing
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION/SKILLS
embroidery
self-taught
sewing
self-taught
bobbin lace
course taken at the Textile Art Center (Brooklyn, NY) with Elena Kanagy-Loux
machine knitting
continuing education course at RISD
live puppetry
learned during workshops with Janie Geiser at Brown University
puppet animation
significant coursework at RISD in the FAV department
darkroom photography
learned with Sommer Wood - Photography Lab Manager at Stanford University
projection mapping
self-taught for workshop led during Camille Utterback’s Sculptural Screens course at Stanford Universtiy
3D printing
continuing education course at RISD
3D scanning
coursework at RISD in the FAV department
laser cutting
continuing education course at RISD
introductory arduino
coursework at RISD in the Digital+Media department
basic woodshop skills
coursework at RISD in the Furniture department
lost wax casting
continuing education course at RISD
TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS
2020 - Spring Arts and Electronics
Graduate Teaching Assistant for Anja Uldfelt
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
2020 - Winter Intermedia Workshop
Graduate Teaching Assistant for Jarosław Kapuściński and Paul DeMarinis
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics and Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
(cross-listed)
2019 - Summer Drawing Outdoors
Graduate Teaching Assistant for Neil Griess
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
2019 - Spring Sculptural Screens/Malleable Media
Graduate Teaching Assistant for Camille Utterback
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
2019 - Winter Future Media - Media Archaeologies
Graduate Teaching Assistant for Paul DeMarinis
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
2018 - Fall Photography II : Black and White
Graduate Teaching Assistant for Jonathan Calm
Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
2016 - Fall Advanced Video Production
Teaching Assistant for Harold Burnett
The Center at Eagle Hill, Eagle Hill School : School for Diverse Learning Profiles
2015 - 2016 Intermediate Animation
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Amy Kravitz
Department of Film/Animation Video, Rhode Island School of Design
2014 - Fall Communicating Science Through Visual Media
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Steven Subotnick and John Stein
Brown University’s Science Center and Rhode Island School of Design’s Department of Film/Animation Video
(cross-listed)
2013 - Spring Spatial Dynamics
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Kai Franz
Department of Experimental and Foundation Studies, Rhode Island School of Design
2013 - Fall Drawing
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Daniel Lefcourt
Department of Experimental and Foundation Studies, Rhode Island School of Design
2012 - Fall Drawing
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Daniel Lefcourt
Department of Experimental and Foundation Studies, Rhode Island School of Design
PERTINENT WORK EXPERIENCE
2019-20 MFA Catalog Editor, Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History
coordinated process, designed layout, edited essays
2017 Music Video Director for “It Sure Was Good!”, Sean Kiely
director, producer, animator
2015 Head of the Multi-Media Committee for the Annual Brown-RISD Dual Degree Show
installed multi-media works in the gallery at Brown’s Granoff Center
2014 Researcher for Cunningham, Alla Kovgan, NYC
archival research in the Merce Cunningham Trust and New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
2014 Assistant to Janie Geiser, Brown University
puppetry performance, live animation, and fabrication during her residency at Brown University
2013 Festival Intern at Animator Animation Festival, Poznan, Poland
workshop assistant
2013 Multimedia Intern at WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
video editing, documentation, After Effects animation