Lilli Carré
Lilli Carré (born 1983) is a contemporary artist, filmmaker, and cartoonist from Los Angeles. She now lives and works in Chicago. Early life and education. Carré was born and grew up in Los Angeles. Her mother is a graphic designer and her father, who died when Carré was a teenager, was a designer and forensic animator. She has said that a "major activity throughout my childhood was when my parents would roll out a big sheet of butcher paper on the apartment floor, and my sister and I would amuse ourselves quietly for hours by drawing images and  stories all over it". Carré transferred to an arts high school in her senior year and then left Los Angeles, initially to study sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and become a sound artist, but she became interested in creative writing, film, and printmaking. While studying she also worked in the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection. As part of her creative writing classes she read various short story writers and cites Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar as having inspired her very much. She received her BFA from SAIC in 2006 and settled in Chicago  where she currently lives and works. Carré worked part-time at the Facets Multi-Media film library for several years, an experience she has said influenced her filmmaking. Work. Her books of comics include "Nine Ways to Disappear", "The Lagoon", and "Tales of Woodsman Pete". An excerpt from "The Lagoon" was chosen to be included in "The Best American Comics 2010" and "The Carnival" was nominated for Outstanding Story at the 2009 Ignatz Awards. Carré's film "How She Slept at Night" screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Carré has collaborated with artist and filmmaker Alexander Stewart on a  number of works including slide installations, works on paper, and animations. "Where Did I Leave the Thing Itself", an exhibition of their collaborative works, was held at the Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, in 2012. The commercial contemporary art gallery, Western Exhibitions, in Chicago, has represented Carré since 2012, and exhibits her work. Carré participated in the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art's "Ten x Ten 2013", which "investigates the relationship between color and sound...exploring the underlying concepts of synesthesia". In 2013, she produced an "entirely new body of work in animation, sculpture, and drawing" for her first  solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Awards & Residencies. 2020 Artist in Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE 2017 Best Film US Competition, GLAS Animation Festival 2016 Newcity Chicago, 2016 Breakout Artist 2015 Ignatz Award for online comic, The Bloody Footprint, created for the New York Times Festival Special Guest, BilBOLBul Festival, Bologna Italy 2014 James Thurber House / Columbus Museum of Art Graphic Novelist in Residence First Prize, Punto y Raya Festival, Reykjavik Center for Visual Music, Reykjavik, Iceland 2013 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize Honoree Pierre Feuille Ciseaux #4, experimental comics residency, Minneapolis MN Eisner  Award Nominee for Best Short Story and Best Graphic Album Harvey Award Nominee for Best Graphic Album Previously Published Festival Special Guest, Helsinki Comics Festival, Helsinki Finland Special Guest, Comics/Illustration/Animation conference at Dartmouth College 2012 Yaddo Artist Residency Festival Special Guest, Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, NY 2011 Propeller Fund Grant, Administered by Gallery 400 & ThreeWalls, funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Best Experimental Film, The Light Factory Filmmaker's Showcase, Charlotte NC Follett Fellowship, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago 2010 Festival Special Guest, Small Press Expo, Stockholm, Sweden Artist  In Residence, CSSSA Animation Program at CalArts Artist In Residence, Spudnik Press, Chicago 2009 Best Emerging Artist, Chicago Reader 2008 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story, The Thing About Madeline 2006 Fellowship Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Best Animation Award, Chicago Underground Film Festival Fred A. Hillbruner Artists’ Book Fellowship Award Honorable Mention 2005 Scholarship for Research and Travel, endowed scholarship of the art history class Integrated Visions: 20th Century Art Environments