B. 1990, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
[EDUCATION]
2015-2018, Master of Fine Art, Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2008- 2012, Bachelor of Fine Art, Fine Art, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, Medford
[AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES]
Wassaic Projects, New York, 2026
Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, 2026
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York, 2025
Body and Place Residency, Bristol, 2024
Arts Letters and Numbers, New York, 2024
Gamli Skoli Artist Residency, Iceland, 2013
Professional Development Grant, Princess Grace Foundation USA, 2025
School Based Fund Award, Parsons School of Design,New York, 2025
Best Animated Film, Firenze Film Festival, Confetti, 2026
Best Animated Short Film, Venice Film Week, Confetti, 2025
Best Animated Short Film, Boston Short Film Festival, Confetti, 2025
Parsons Student Research Assistant Fund, Research Support, New York, 2024
Award for Best Music Video, Fest Anča, Slovenia, 2024
Academy Award Nomination, My Year of Dicks, Animator, 2023
Award for Best Commissioned Animation, Animest Romania, 2023
Annual Poster Design Award, Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2021
Film Grant, GLAS Animation Festival, California, August 2019
Award for Best Student Film, Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2018
Professional Development Grant, Princess Grace Foundation USA, 2018
Honorarium in Film, Princess Grace Foundation USA, 2018
Jules Engel Award, MFA Scholarship, CalArts, 2017
Best Animated Film, Stockholm Experimental & Animation Film Festival, 2017
Best Animated Short Film, Venice Film Week, 2017
Best Student Film, PRIMANIMA, 2016
Best Animated Short Film, Boston Short Film Festival, 2016
Grant in Film and Video, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Massachusetts, 2013
Emerging Artist Award, St. Botolph Grant Foundation,Massachusetts, 2013
Grant Recipient, Springborn Fellowship, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2010
[SELECT PRESS]
Directors Notes, Film Premiere and Interview, 2025
Edge of Frame, Artist Interview by Edwin Rostrin, December 2024
Cartoon Brew, 9 Animated Shorts You Won’t Want To Miss At Ottawa, September 2024
Evergreen Review, Material Worlds, Artist Interview by Case Jernigan, August 2024
Great Women Animators, Artist Feature by Heather Kai Smith, 2023
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Guide to Schools Interview, 2021
It’s Nice That, Butterfly 3000 Video Premiere, September 2021
Zippy Frames, Written Feature and Interview, July 2021
Animation Nights New York, Podcast Interview by Evan Vernon, July 2021
Girls in Film, Written Feature Interview, June 2021
The New Yorker, Noble Planta, Animation Director, February 2021
Boiled Over, Podcast Interview, 2021
It’s Nice That, Feature by Alif Ibrahim, October 2019
It’s Nice That, Feature by Lucy Bourton, March 2019
Girls in Film, Feature, August 2018
Cartoon Brew, Feature by Amid Amidi, August 2018, 17
Short video for Breakfast, Collator.al, by Giulia Pacciardi, March 2017
Bant. Mag, The Short of the Day Feature, March 2017
TV Booooooom, Feature, March 2017
[SELECT FESTIVALS]
Annecy International Animated Film Festival, France, 2023, 2019, 2017
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada, 2024, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
Animest, Romania, 2024, 2023, 2019
Las Cruces International Film Festival, New Mexico, 2025
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, California, 2025, 2024, 2019
Edge of Frame presents: Collision #1, London, 2025
Florida Film Festival, 2025
Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, 2025, 2017
Fest Anča, Slovakia, 2025, 2024, 2017
London International Animation Festival, London, 2024, 2017, 2016
Kaboom Animation Festival, Netherlands, 2024
New Chitose International Animation Festival, Japan, 2024
Tricky Women Tricky Realities, Austria, 2025, 2019, 2017
Slamdance, USA, 2019, 2017
Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2019, 2017
GLAS Animation Festival, USA, 2019, 2017
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany, 2017
Pictoplasma, Germany, 2017
IndieLisboa, Portugal, 2017
Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia, 2017
Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA, 2017
PRIMANIMA, Hungary, 2016
Grafixx, Belgium, 2016
Animated Dreams, Estonia, 2016
ReAnimania, Armenia, 2016
LINOLEUM International Festival of Animation, Ukraine, 2016