B. 1990, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY 

a.t.bonaiuto@gmail.com

[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