RESUME

BIO:

Brooklyn-based light and color improviser Lindsay Packer was a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, 2019 Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room, two-time Artist-in-Residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Fulbright Fellow to India. She performed her interactive new-media project 'light work' as part of MoMA’s Modern Mondays series and brought a solo iteration of her analog/digital performance ‘Viewfinder’ to ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 12, an international conference focusing in 2021 on John Cage’s legacy. Her performance, photography and videos have been featured in Cream City Review, Line Death Dance: Performances for a Theater’s Space Transformations by Melanie Maar, Caddisfly Projects, and The Hoosac Institute Journal among other publications. Packer received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

RESUME:

EDUCATION         

2002   MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1996   BFA with honors, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES

2022   Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Arts Center at Governors Island Residency, New York, NY

2019   ISSUE Project Room Residency, Brooklyn, NY

2019   NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design

2019   Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) Grant for Distribution/Exhibition Support awarded by NYSCA & Wave Farm

2015   Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, New York, NY

2014   Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Tough Art Residency, Pittsburgh, PA

2013/14  Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency, Bethany, CT

2012   BRIC Media Arts Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY

2002   Fulbright Fellowship to India in Installation Art awarded by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board

SELECTED SOLO & COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCES

2022   Fire Over Heaven at Outpost Artist Resources, Ridgewood, NY: Lindsay Packer with Lathan Hardy

2021   The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY: Modern Mondays: An Evening with Lindsay Packer, solo performance of light work, an interactive new-media project, presented in collaborative conversation with MoMA Film Curator Sophie Cavoulacos on MoMA’s Virtual Cinema

2021   ReVIEWING Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC: live solo performance of Viewfinder at ReVIEWING 12, an international conference focusing in 2021 on John Cage’s legacy, co-hosted by the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and UNC Asheville

2021   Essex Flowers, New York, NY: The Moving Company: Vernal Equinox (livestreamed event including a solo performance of light work in March) and Summer Showers (live event including a performance of Viewfinder in collaboration with Lathan Hardy in August)

2019   ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY: Call and Response: DEPTH OF FIELD, TRANSPOSITION & ECHOLOCATION, three separate Artist-in-Residency performance commissions in collaboration with Melanie Maar (Depth of Field/April), Anaïs Maviel (Transposition/ September) & Fan Letters (Echolocation/December)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020   MONO NO AWARE, Brooklyn, NY: Motion at a Distance: Dusk to Dawn

2020   James Madison University, Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art, Harrisonburg, VA: Phase Space (catalog)

2018   ChaShaMa Space to Present at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY: Parallel Universe

2018   Custom Program Project Space, Brooklyn, NY: Start Cancel

2018   Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY: Day for Night

2015   The Re Institute, Millerton, NY: Reverse Engineer

SELECTED TWO-PERSON & GROUP EXHIBITIONS

022     Kohl Gallery, Washington College, Chestertown, MD: Radiant Material

2022   Project: ARTspace, New York, NY: Color Forms

2022   drj art projects, Berlin, Germany: Street Screening Programme

2022   Phillips Exeter Academy, Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH: Informing Memory: Process, Place and Notion

2019   Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY: Solstice

2019   dr. Julius | ap, Berlin, Germany: CENTURY. idee bauhaus

2019   Sunny’s Bar, Brooklyn, NY: Earth Wheel: Lindsay Packer & James Sheehan

2018   Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Brooklyn, NY: Order My Steps, curated by Ryan Frank & Amelia Brod

2017   Stony Brook University, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook, NY: ANTIFORM: Packer, Patrick & Ros

2016   Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY: The Lives of Forms, curated by Ksenia Nouril

2016   Artspace, New Haven, CT: I Like the Sound of That, curated by Ryan Frank

SELECTED FILM FESTIVALS & FILM SCREENINGS

intuition proposition (2022, single channel video, 3 mins 35 sec, color, sound): 2022 Rockaway Film Festival (Queens, NY)

Motion at a Distance (2018, 16mm, 3 mins, color, sound. Image by Lindsay Packer, sound by Andrew Yong Hoon Lee): 2020 Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI), MONO NO AWARE Open Air 2020 (Brooklyn, NY), 2019 New Orleans Film Festival (New Orleans, LA), 2019 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation (LA, Chicago, Brooklyn), 2019 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI), World premiere: MONO NO AWARE XI Festival of Cinema Arts 2018 (NY, NY)

SELECTED ARTIST TALKS & WORKSHOPS

2022   Washington College, Gibson Center for the Arts, Chestertown, MD: Color & Light Workshop Leader

2021   Phillips Exeter Academy, Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH: Artist Talk

2020   James Madison University, Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art, Harrisonburg, VA: Artist Talk

2019   New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Undergraduate Film & Television Color Course, New York, NY: Visiting Artist, Color & Light Workshop Leader

2018   Pratt Institute, Foundation Studies, Brooklyn, NY: Visiting Artist, Color & Light Workshop Leader

2018   Rhode Island School of Design, Experimental & Foundation Studies, Providence, RI: Visiting Artist, Color & Light Workshop Leader

2017   Stonybrook University, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery Salon Series, Stony Brook, NY: Artist Talk

2016   Yale University, Progressive Art Education Seminar, New Haven, CT: Guest Artist, Color & Light Workshop Leader

SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

2021   The Hoosac Institute, Journal 9

2021   Caddisfly Project, Vol. 3: Abyss (Conveyor Studio, Jersey City, NJ)

2021   Melanie Maar, Line Death Dance: Performances for a Theater’s Space Transformations (Masse, Vienna, Austria)

2020   Cream City Review, Volume 44, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2020, pages 90-93 (U. Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI)

2019   PORTFOLIO: CENTURY. idea Bauhaus, CENTURY. idea Bauhaus, dr. Julius | ap, Berlin, Germany

2014   Melanie Kress, Alchemy and the Anthropocene, CultureHall, Issue 109, May 7 - June 3