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Lydia Greer
b. 1979
Artist
Artistic Director of Facing West Shadows
Education
2009 M. F. A. New Genres/Mixed Media, U. C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2008 Fellowship, Electronic Arts/Film/Animation, The Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, ME
2007 B.A. Printmaking/Drawing Major and studied Time-Based Arts, Portland State University School of Art & Design, Portland, OR
Artist’s Residencies
2017/18 Media Arts Residency Award, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2014 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2012 The Sou-wester Artist's Residency, Seaview, WA
2012 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2011 Golden Snail Artist’s Residency, Siskiyou National Forest, Brookings, OR
2008 The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Select Exhibitions/Projects
2024
Facing West Shadows: Lysistrata (solo show as Facing West Shadows (Lydia Greer & YaWen Chien) MeMeraki Exhibition Space, Limassol, Cyprus
Lydia Greer/Facing West Shadows presents The Endless End at the NaFilm Museum in Prague, Czech Republic and the Industry Programme of Film and Audio-Visual Education at the Summer Film School Festival in Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic
Extended Cinema: Lydia Greer and Madison Brookshire, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2018
Skinnable Shadows, Media Arts Residency Award Exhibition, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2017
After Dark: Immerse, Featured performances of The Euphoria of Walt Whitman (artistic director) and Hallucinations (artistic director) Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA
Other Cinema: Optron3: Toons~Tunes~Tones (Jeremy Rourke, Tommy Becker and Lydia Greer) with opera singer Shauna Falihee, Artists Television Access-curated by Craig Baldwin. San Francisco, CA
Extended Cinema, multimedia puppetry, Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA
Facing West Shadow Opera performance of The Euphoria of Walt Whitman (artistic director) Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, CA
2016
Skowhegan WATCH, (A SELF MADE HOUSE, 17 min, 2009) video art online exhibition curated by Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY
Choreographies of Disclosure at Songs for Women Living with War, Jadelynn Stahl with Lydia Greer, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Expanded Cinema: Facing West Shadow Opera & Short films by Lydia Greer at Shapeshifter's Cinema, Oakland, CA
The Exploratorium: After Dark: Extended Cinemas featured main stage performance: Facing West Shadow Opera (extended cinema, animation and puppetry with live opera), Artistic Director: Lydia Greer (created story, experimental animation, video projection and puppets) with Opera Singer William Sauerland and Cellist Adam Young, live performance, San Francisco, CA
Art Direction & Scenography for Puppetry & Shadow Theatre for Director Andy Byer’s experimental 25 minute 8 song music video cycle for Raj, Cosmic Dreamer Music, Los Angeles, CA
Other Cinema at Artists Television Access: Facing West Shadow Opera, Artistic Director: Lydia Greer (created story, experimental animation, video projection and puppets) with Opera Singers William Sauerland, Shauna Fallihee and Cellist Adam Young, live performance, San Francisco, CA
Shapeshifters Cinema, featured artist with screenings of video art and animation by Lydia Greer and a performance by Facing West Shadow Opera, Temescal Art Center, Oakland, CA
Co-filmmaker with Maureen Masters on original experimental documentary: Gay Dad, about our gay parents coming out in the ultra conservative Reagan era. In production and post production in 2016, Brooklyn, NY
Artist in Residence: Shadow Animation for feature film: Robin Lung’s Finding Kukan in collaboration with ShadowLight Productions, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii
Group Exhibition, Lumina Studio Projects, Alameda, CA
Performer for The Great Nickelodeon by Russell Merritt at the Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Illustration for The Zinester’s Guide to Portland, republished in 2016.
Correspondences: 7 months, 9 days, 2 hours an exhibition of collaborative/cumulative experimental film/video art with new media artist Azin Seraj, Oakland, CA
April, 2016, Artist in Residence, working on new body of work with paper, video and animation experiments at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2015
Co-filmmaker with Maureen Masters on original experimental documentary: Gay Dad, about gay parents coming out in the ultra conservative Reagan era. In production & principle photography in Summer 2015.
Free Play Media, Two-Person video installation exhibition with Azin Seraj: Group Exhibition, Lumina Studio Projects, Alameda, CA
Facing West Shadow Opera, Co-Artistic Directors/Artists, Lydia Greer & Jessica Eastburn, live performance, Lumina Studio Projects, Alameda, CA
Disclose Art Collective Group exhibition, Oakland, CA
Artist/Ensemble member creating shadow animation for feature film: Finding Kukan for ShadowLight Productions, San Francisco, CA in collaboration with Blind from Los Angeles, CA
Select Exhibitions/Projects
2014
Facing West: A Shadow Theatre Opera, Co-Directed by Artists, Lydia Greer & Jessica Eastburn with Countertenor & Musical Arrangement directed by William Sauerland, commissioned multimedia piece for artists Sara Bright and Andy Byers, Ventana, Big Sur, CA
Shades of Impact, curated by Disclose Art Collective, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Artist in Resident, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Open Studio: artists Azin Seraj and Lydia Greer, Clement Street Studios, Alameda, CA
2013
Internal Cinema group video exhibition, curated by Hadassa Goldvitcht, The Mamuta Art and Media Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Night Light, group exhibition focused on multi-media, site-specific light-based luminous art installations, live music, performances and digital and cinematic projections, SOMArts, San
Stop/Motion, exhibition, animation workshop educator and screening curator: Splitting the Frame, Interface Gallery, Oakland, California
Temescal Street Cinema-Film Festival, curator, selected shorts, Oakland, CA
Conversation Continuum, group exhibition, Martina-Johnston Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Open Studio-New Video & Projects from Azin Seraj and Lydia Greer, Clement Street Studios, Alameda, CA
Interventions in Taxonomy-new work at The Sou-wester Artist's Residency, Long Beach, Washington
2012
Solo Exhibition: In Praise of Shadows, Cabin Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois
PDX Experimental Film Festival Video, Video Installation: A Self Made House, Rumblings at Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon
Magic Lantern: documentary/social practice/installation: What happens at Fairyland at Night? premiere, Children's Fairyland, Oakland, California
Artist in Resident: Project Space, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
2011
Create: the artists are present: member of documentary filmmaking team commissioned by UC Berkeley. Premiere, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
stacked/multiplied: group exhibition co-curated by Katie Hood Morgan and Devon Bella, Adobe Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, California
The Golden Snail Artist's Residency: an artist's residency/social experiment in a rustic WPA forest service cabin on the Winchuck River in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, Oregon
Opera, Artistic Director (animation and puppetry), San Francisco, CA
2010
Solo Exhibition: BEAUTY FORMS, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
Memory Mine, curated by Rose Khor, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Heliography, Invisible City Audio Tours, Landmark 10: Koffee Pot, 2532 Telegraph Avenue
Lending Library, curated by BAM Matrix curator Dena Beard, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
Night and Day with John Greer, Martina>Johnston Gallery, Berkeley, CA
A Self-Made House, Temescal Street Cinema Film Festival, Oakland, CA
Velvet Light Trap: Storytelling at the Library with Lydia Greer, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
Guest Artist-Experimental Animation for Professor Russell Merritt's Animation Course, Film Studies Department, U. C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Good For Nothing Lover, Production Manager, Light Puppeteer & Consultant, SF Arts Fest, ShadowLight Productions, Cowell Theatre, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2009
What We Can Live With, The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
The Secret of the Ninth Planet, Galleria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
Four-Channel Video Installations with the Hello Lovers Orchestra, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY
A Self Made House, 20 min, 2009, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
American Magician, The Gazpacho Sisters, A Self-Made House, Galleria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
Ghosts of the River by Octavio Solis directed by Larry Reed, Ensemble Member, Voice Actor, Light Operator, ShadowLight Productions, San Francisco, CA
2008
Audition: video installation, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Something That Brings Us Together -Worth Ryder Gallery- University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Sleeper in the Valley and American Magician, The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
The Fisherman and the Bear, Artistic Director-The Tin Can Carousel Project, live shadow theatre/new media performance in collaboration with Artist Greg Niemeyer, the Hearst Mining Building, commissioned for CITRIS/Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Kindershmootezen, Visual Director with Choreographer Marc Boucai, Lab Run: Experimental Theatre, Zellerbach Hall, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Ghosts of the River Workshop Production Assistant/ Voice Actress/Puppeteer-ShadowLight Productions- directed by Larry Reed and written by Octavio Solis at the Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2007
Exit 07, Littman Gallery-The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Juried by Kristen Kennedy Portland, OR
Exchange, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Worm Food, Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR
Puppetry Consultant for UC Berkeley Engineering Professor Maneesh Agrawala, Berkeley, CA
Sleeper in the Valley, Director, live shadow theatre performance at Rake Gallery, Portland, OR
Sleeper in the Valley, live shadow puppet performance, Autzen Gallery, PSU, Portland, OR
2005/ 2006
Solo Exhibition, Glass Mountain, Center Space Gallery, Portland, OR
Print Zero-Basil Hallworth Gallery, Portland, OR
Overlapping Lines, Juried Group Show, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea
And Then You Were Born, Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR
Handmade Books, Owatonna Arts Center, Owatonna, Minnesota
The Drawing Club, MK Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
The New Fluvial World,“Take it EZ” video and animation festival, HollywoodTheatre, Portland, OR
The Glass Mountain, live shadow theatre, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Do I Need to Draw You a Map, The Glass Mountain, The Euphoria of Mr. OK and the Huff Boys, The “Lets Dance” Shadow Theatre Showcase and amateur magician night, Valentines, Portland, OR
The Glass Mountain, The Sixth Annual Puppetganza, Nocturnal, Portland, OR
The Euphoria of Mr. Ok and the Huff Boys, Portland Independent Puppet Night, Acme, Portland, OR
The Euphoria of Mr. OK and the Huff Boys, Mega-Fest, with Vladimir and Miss Pussycat, Dunes, Portland, OR
2004
The Euphoria of Mr. Ok and the Huff Boys (version 1), Orlo Dirty Rotten Puppet Festival, Orlo Exhibition Space, Portland, OR
Untitled Original Shadow Theatre/ Projections for the musician Momus, Holocene, Portland, OR
The Bible Salesman: Original Shadow Puppet Theatre and Film Projection with the band Schicky Gnarowitz, Holocene, Portland, OR
2003
Solo Exhibition: Novelties! Fun!, The Beehive, Portland, OR
The Cosmetic Factor, Cameron Gallery, Portland, OR
The Famine, original live shadow puppet performance, Little Texas Artist’s Collective, Portland, OR
Cornucopia Parade and Performance, Lil Texas Artist's Collective (City Signs Building) and Cameron Gallery, Portland, OR
2001-2002
Sunshine Bread Girl, Performed with Haley Lou Yah Puppet Company, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Cave Ponies, Original Full Length Play, The Staree Rose, Portland, OR
Puppetry Performances with The Circus of Tiny Invisibility, New Orleans, LA
2001/02
New Orleans Small Press Book Fair, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Oval Lavo/Beatrice Lenore, Higgins Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Contact me at lydiakgreer@gmail.com
Lydia Greer
b. 1979
Artist
Artistic Director of Facing West Shadows
Lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, California
www.lydiagreer.com www.facingwestshadows.com
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www.lydiagreer.com www.facingwestshadows.com
c: 510-978-6215
e: lydiakgreer@gmail.com
Education
2009 M. F. A. New Genres/Mixed Media, U. C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2008 Fellowship, Electronic Arts/Film/Animation, The Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, ME
2007 B.A. Printmaking/Drawing Major and studied Time-Based Arts, Portland State University School of Art & Design, Portland, OR
Artist’s Residencies
2024 MeMeraki Artist Residency, Limassol, Cyprus
2022 The Exploratorium Museum of Art & Science, Kanbar Forum, Artist Residency for Facing West Shadows (Lydia Greer, Artistic Director of the FWS collective with Caryl Kientz, Theatrical Director and artist YaWen Chien and puppeteer Fred C. Reilly III)
2020 DEAR Artist Residency for Facing West Shadows (Lydia Greer, Artistic Director of the FWS collective with Caryl Kientz, Theatrical Director) interdisciplinary, time-based arts residency for Dresher Ensemble Artists Residency, Oakland, CA
2022 The Exploratorium Museum of Art & Science, Kanbar Forum, Artist Residency for Facing West Shadows (Lydia Greer, Artistic Director of the FWS collective with Caryl Kientz, Theatrical Director and artist YaWen Chien and puppeteer Fred C. Reilly III)
2020 DEAR Artist Residency for Facing West Shadows (Lydia Greer, Artistic Director of the FWS collective with Caryl Kientz, Theatrical Director) interdisciplinary, time-based arts residency for Dresher Ensemble Artists Residency, Oakland, CA
2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2014 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2012 The Sou-wester Artist's Residency, Seaview, WA
2012 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2011 Golden Snail Artist’s Residency, Siskiyou National Forest, Brookings, OR
2008 The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Select Exhibitions/Projects
2024
Facing West Shadows: Lysistrata (solo show as Facing West Shadows (Lydia Greer & YaWen Chien) MeMeraki Exhibition Space, Limassol, Cyprus
Lydia Greer/Facing West Shadows presents The Endless End at the NaFilm Museum in Prague, Czech Republic and the Industry Programme of Film and Audio-Visual Education at the Summer Film School Festival in Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic
Extended Cinema: Lydia Greer and Madison Brookshire, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2023
The Exploratorium Museum, Great Wide Web of Life (screening, lecture, workshop and performance with Jess Nguyen), for Bernie Kraus’ Great Animal Orchestra, San Francisco, CA
Strangloscope - International Exhibition of Audio, Video/Film, and Experimental Film Performance FlorianoĢpolis, Brazil, Special Guest and a representative from the USA, performance, screening, lecture, and workshop representing her work and the work of her collective: Facing West Shadows
“Sojourner ZY” (Lydia Greer, lighting/ensemble) is an original play written by Eugenie Chan with new music composer Paul Dresher performed by ShadowLight Productions in their signature large-scale cinematic shadow theater style, directed by Larry Reed. Sojourner ZY is co-produced by ShadowLight Productions, New Performance Traditions/Paul Dresher Ensemble, and The Presidio Theater. The Presidio Theater, San Francisco
GOOD PUPPETS, Lydia GREER/FACING WEST's THE ENDLESS END + Lotte REINIGER + Bruce BICKFORD Screening, Other Cinema curated by Craig Baldwin, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Animated Shorts by Lydia Greer (and Facing West Shadows) & Luca Dipierro, Screening, Shapeshifter’s Cinema, curated by Kathleen Quillian, Oakland, CA
2022
Solo Museum Exhibition (Facing West Shadows Collective), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICASJ)
Facing West Shadows Collective (Lydia Greer, Artistic Director/Animation/Editor), The Endless End (large scale, immersive, cinematic, multiple channels (video, film, animation, and sound) sculptural installation) San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Museum (James Leventhal Director, Zoë Latzer, (originally curated by Christine Knoppe) April -July 2022 San Jose, California
Premiere Performance/Commission: Phantasmagoria-Facing West Shadows Collective at the Exploratorium Museum (Lydia Greer, Artistic Director of FWS Collective) (NEA grant funded) Performance dates alongside Manual Cinema at the Kanbar Theatre, Summer 2022, Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA.
The Films that Sang and Cried, Alternative Visions film series curated by Kathy Geritz and Jeffrey Skollar, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Unproud Warrior, by Cass McCombs, Music/Lyric Video by Facing West Shadows (Lydia Greer, artistic director/editor, Caryl Kientz Theatrical Director) commission by Anti Records, Los Angeles, CA
Interdisciplinary Voice, group exhibition, Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art (SMCMOA), Moraga, CA
Artists in Conversation about Climate Change, Panelist, panel discussion at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (Museum)
Screening, Other Cinema curated by Craig Baldwin, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2021
A Night of Experimental Animation, Van Der Plas Gallery, Lower East Side, New York, New York, curated by Eric Leiser
Glow Fest, Facing West Shadows at Glow Fest, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA Emerge, You are sitting here with us, but you are also out walking in a field at dawn by Facing West
The Exploratorium Museum, Great Wide Web of Life (screening, lecture, workshop and performance with Jess Nguyen), for Bernie Kraus’ Great Animal Orchestra, San Francisco, CA
Strangloscope - International Exhibition of Audio, Video/Film, and Experimental Film Performance FlorianoĢpolis, Brazil, Special Guest and a representative from the USA, performance, screening, lecture, and workshop representing her work and the work of her collective: Facing West Shadows
“Sojourner ZY” (Lydia Greer, lighting/ensemble) is an original play written by Eugenie Chan with new music composer Paul Dresher performed by ShadowLight Productions in their signature large-scale cinematic shadow theater style, directed by Larry Reed. Sojourner ZY is co-produced by ShadowLight Productions, New Performance Traditions/Paul Dresher Ensemble, and The Presidio Theater. The Presidio Theater, San Francisco
GOOD PUPPETS, Lydia GREER/FACING WEST's THE ENDLESS END + Lotte REINIGER + Bruce BICKFORD Screening, Other Cinema curated by Craig Baldwin, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Animated Shorts by Lydia Greer (and Facing West Shadows) & Luca Dipierro, Screening, Shapeshifter’s Cinema, curated by Kathleen Quillian, Oakland, CA
2022
Solo Museum Exhibition (Facing West Shadows Collective), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICASJ)
Facing West Shadows Collective (Lydia Greer, Artistic Director/Animation/Editor), The Endless End (large scale, immersive, cinematic, multiple channels (video, film, animation, and sound) sculptural installation) San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Museum (James Leventhal Director, Zoë Latzer, (originally curated by Christine Knoppe) April -July 2022 San Jose, California
Premiere Performance/Commission: Phantasmagoria-Facing West Shadows Collective at the Exploratorium Museum (Lydia Greer, Artistic Director of FWS Collective) (NEA grant funded) Performance dates alongside Manual Cinema at the Kanbar Theatre, Summer 2022, Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA.
The Films that Sang and Cried, Alternative Visions film series curated by Kathy Geritz and Jeffrey Skollar, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Unproud Warrior, by Cass McCombs, Music/Lyric Video by Facing West Shadows (Lydia Greer, artistic director/editor, Caryl Kientz Theatrical Director) commission by Anti Records, Los Angeles, CA
Interdisciplinary Voice, group exhibition, Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art (SMCMOA), Moraga, CA
Artists in Conversation about Climate Change, Panelist, panel discussion at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (Museum)
Screening, Other Cinema curated by Craig Baldwin, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2021
A Night of Experimental Animation, Van Der Plas Gallery, Lower East Side, New York, New York, curated by Eric Leiser
Glow Fest, Facing West Shadows at Glow Fest, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA Emerge, You are sitting here with us, but you are also out walking in a field at dawn by Facing West
Shadow Opera (2021, 5 min.) Silhouette Animation Film commissioned by the Exploratorium Museum for their 2021 Gala themed “Emerge”.
Something Wonderful . . .Short Films Presented by Cinema Arts, curated by Liz Keim Thursday, July 1–Sunday, October 31, 2021Phyllis C. Wattis Studio, You are sitting here with us, but you are also out walking in a field at dawn by Facing West Shadow Opera (2021, 5 min.) The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2020
Invocation Democracy, Facing West Shadows, Invocation Democracy curated by Monet Clark, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
DEAR residency Installation-Facing West Shadows (Lydia Greer, Artistic Director with Caryl Kientz Theatrical Director) at Dresher Ensemble Rehearsal Space, Oakland, CA
Ensemble Artist, Shadows for Carlos Villa, ShadowLight Productions with Bindlestiff Studios at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2019
Facing West Shadow Opera presents: Purcell in Shadows, Commissioned by the Institute of Advanced Uncertainty at McCroskey Mattress Company, San Francisco, CA
Lydia Greer & Shauna Fallihee present Hallucinations, an animated, multichannel opera at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Life or Theatre? A puppet performance and lecture on artists Lotte Reiniger and Charlotte Salomon, Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Choreographies of Disclosure: What the Mind Forgets curated by Jadelynn Stahl (featured artist screening the long-form version of the film Hysteria for
performance), ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Hysteria, screening of the short film at Other Cinema with SANDRA DAVIS/GEORGE KUCHAR + GRETA SNIDER + PUSSY RIOT, San Francisco, CA
Something Wonderful . . .Short Films Presented by Cinema Arts, curated by Liz Keim Thursday, July 1–Sunday, October 31, 2021Phyllis C. Wattis Studio, You are sitting here with us, but you are also out walking in a field at dawn by Facing West Shadow Opera (2021, 5 min.) The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2020
Invocation Democracy, Facing West Shadows, Invocation Democracy curated by Monet Clark, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
DEAR residency Installation-Facing West Shadows (Lydia Greer, Artistic Director with Caryl Kientz Theatrical Director) at Dresher Ensemble Rehearsal Space, Oakland, CA
Ensemble Artist, Shadows for Carlos Villa, ShadowLight Productions with Bindlestiff Studios at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2019
Facing West Shadow Opera presents: Purcell in Shadows, Commissioned by the Institute of Advanced Uncertainty at McCroskey Mattress Company, San Francisco, CA
Lydia Greer & Shauna Fallihee present Hallucinations, an animated, multichannel opera at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Life or Theatre? A puppet performance and lecture on artists Lotte Reiniger and Charlotte Salomon, Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Choreographies of Disclosure: What the Mind Forgets curated by Jadelynn Stahl (featured artist screening the long-form version of the film Hysteria for
performance), ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Hysteria, screening of the short film at Other Cinema with SANDRA DAVIS/GEORGE KUCHAR + GRETA SNIDER + PUSSY RIOT, San Francisco, CA
2018
Skinnable Shadows, Media Arts Residency Award Exhibition, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Photofairs San Francisco, Connected: The Channel of Democracy: Womanhood, Power & Freedom in Video Art curated by Justin Hoover Fort Mason Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Choreographies of Disclosure: What the Mind Forgets curated by Jadelynn Stahl, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Lotte Reiniger & Friends: New Animation & Extended Cinema by Lydia Greer & An Experimental Lecture on Lotte Reiniger, Shapeshifter's Cinema, Oakland, CA
Songs of Bilitis, Premiere, video, and animation for Opera, a collaboration with Shauna Fallihee and Caryl Kientz
Lotte Reiniger & Friends: New Animation & Extended Cinema by Lydia Greer & An Experimental Lecture on Lotte Reiniger, Shapeshifter's Cinema, Oakland, CA
Songs of Bilitis, Premiere, video, and animation for Opera, a collaboration with Shauna Fallihee and Caryl Kientz
2017
After Dark: Immerse, Featured performances of The Euphoria of Walt Whitman (artistic director) and Hallucinations (artistic director) Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA
Other Cinema: Optron3: Toons~Tunes~Tones (Jeremy Rourke, Tommy Becker and Lydia Greer) with opera singer Shauna Falihee, Artists Television Access-curated by Craig Baldwin. San Francisco, CA
Extended Cinema, multimedia puppetry, Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA
Facing West Shadow Opera performance of The Euphoria of Walt Whitman (artistic director) Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, CA
2016
Skowhegan WATCH, (A SELF MADE HOUSE, 17 min, 2009) video art online exhibition curated by Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY
Choreographies of Disclosure at Songs for Women Living with War, Jadelynn Stahl with Lydia Greer, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Expanded Cinema: Facing West Shadow Opera & Short films by Lydia Greer at Shapeshifter's Cinema, Oakland, CA
The Exploratorium: After Dark: Extended Cinemas featured main stage performance: Facing West Shadow Opera (extended cinema, animation and puppetry with live opera), Artistic Director: Lydia Greer (created story, experimental animation, video projection and puppets) with Opera Singer William Sauerland and Cellist Adam Young, live performance, San Francisco, CA
Art Direction & Scenography for Puppetry & Shadow Theatre for Director Andy Byer’s experimental 25 minute 8 song music video cycle for Raj, Cosmic Dreamer Music, Los Angeles, CA
Other Cinema at Artists Television Access: Facing West Shadow Opera, Artistic Director: Lydia Greer (created story, experimental animation, video projection and puppets) with Opera Singers William Sauerland, Shauna Fallihee and Cellist Adam Young, live performance, San Francisco, CA
Shapeshifters Cinema, featured artist with screenings of video art and animation by Lydia Greer and a performance by Facing West Shadow Opera, Temescal Art Center, Oakland, CA
Co-filmmaker with Maureen Masters on original experimental documentary: Gay Dad, about our gay parents coming out in the ultra conservative Reagan era. In production and post production in 2016, Brooklyn, NY
Artist in Residence: Shadow Animation for feature film: Robin Lung’s Finding Kukan in collaboration with ShadowLight Productions, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii
Group Exhibition, Lumina Studio Projects, Alameda, CA
Performer for The Great Nickelodeon by Russell Merritt at the Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Illustration for The Zinester’s Guide to Portland, republished in 2016.
Correspondences: 7 months, 9 days, 2 hours an exhibition of collaborative/cumulative experimental film/video art with new media artist Azin Seraj, Oakland, CA
April, 2016, Artist in Residence, working on new body of work with paper, video and animation experiments at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2015
Co-filmmaker with Maureen Masters on original experimental documentary: Gay Dad, about gay parents coming out in the ultra conservative Reagan era. In production & principle photography in Summer 2015.
Free Play Media, Two-Person video installation exhibition with Azin Seraj: Group Exhibition, Lumina Studio Projects, Alameda, CA
Facing West Shadow Opera, Co-Artistic Directors/Artists, Lydia Greer & Jessica Eastburn, live performance, Lumina Studio Projects, Alameda, CA
Disclose Art Collective Group exhibition, Oakland, CA
Artist/Ensemble member creating shadow animation for feature film: Finding Kukan for ShadowLight Productions, San Francisco, CA in collaboration with Blind from Los Angeles, CA
Select Exhibitions/Projects
2014
Facing West: A Shadow Theatre Opera, Co-Directed by Artists, Lydia Greer & Jessica Eastburn with Countertenor & Musical Arrangement directed by William Sauerland, commissioned multimedia piece for artists Sara Bright and Andy Byers, Ventana, Big Sur, CA
Shades of Impact, curated by Disclose Art Collective, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Artist in Resident, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Open Studio: artists Azin Seraj and Lydia Greer, Clement Street Studios, Alameda, CA
2013
Internal Cinema group video exhibition, curated by Hadassa Goldvitcht, The Mamuta Art and Media Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Night Light, group exhibition focused on multi-media, site-specific light-based luminous art installations, live music, performances and digital and cinematic projections, SOMArts, San
Stop/Motion, exhibition, animation workshop educator and screening curator: Splitting the Frame, Interface Gallery, Oakland, California
Temescal Street Cinema-Film Festival, curator, selected shorts, Oakland, CA
Conversation Continuum, group exhibition, Martina-Johnston Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Open Studio-New Video & Projects from Azin Seraj and Lydia Greer, Clement Street Studios, Alameda, CA
Interventions in Taxonomy-new work at The Sou-wester Artist's Residency, Long Beach, Washington
2012
Solo Exhibition: In Praise of Shadows, Cabin Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois
PDX Experimental Film Festival Video, Video Installation: A Self Made House, Rumblings at Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon
Magic Lantern: documentary/social practice/installation: What happens at Fairyland at Night? premiere, Children's Fairyland, Oakland, California
Artist in Resident: Project Space, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
2011
Create: the artists are present: member of documentary filmmaking team commissioned by UC Berkeley. Premiere, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
stacked/multiplied: group exhibition co-curated by Katie Hood Morgan and Devon Bella, Adobe Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, California
The Golden Snail Artist's Residency: an artist's residency/social experiment in a rustic WPA forest service cabin on the Winchuck River in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, Oregon
Opera, Artistic Director (animation and puppetry), San Francisco, CA
2010
Solo Exhibition: BEAUTY FORMS, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
Memory Mine, curated by Rose Khor, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Heliography, Invisible City Audio Tours, Landmark 10: Koffee Pot, 2532 Telegraph Avenue
Lending Library, curated by BAM Matrix curator Dena Beard, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
Night and Day with John Greer, Martina>Johnston Gallery, Berkeley, CA
A Self-Made House, Temescal Street Cinema Film Festival, Oakland, CA
Velvet Light Trap: Storytelling at the Library with Lydia Greer, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
Guest Artist-Experimental Animation for Professor Russell Merritt's Animation Course, Film Studies Department, U. C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Good For Nothing Lover, Production Manager, Light Puppeteer & Consultant, SF Arts Fest, ShadowLight Productions, Cowell Theatre, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2009
What We Can Live With, The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
The Secret of the Ninth Planet, Galleria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
Four-Channel Video Installations with the Hello Lovers Orchestra, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY
A Self Made House, 20 min, 2009, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
American Magician, The Gazpacho Sisters, A Self-Made House, Galleria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
Ghosts of the River by Octavio Solis directed by Larry Reed, Ensemble Member, Voice Actor, Light Operator, ShadowLight Productions, San Francisco, CA
2008
Audition: video installation, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Something That Brings Us Together -Worth Ryder Gallery- University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Sleeper in the Valley and American Magician, The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
The Fisherman and the Bear, Artistic Director-The Tin Can Carousel Project, live shadow theatre/new media performance in collaboration with Artist Greg Niemeyer, the Hearst Mining Building, commissioned for CITRIS/Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Kindershmootezen, Visual Director with Choreographer Marc Boucai, Lab Run: Experimental Theatre, Zellerbach Hall, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Ghosts of the River Workshop Production Assistant/ Voice Actress/Puppeteer-ShadowLight Productions- directed by Larry Reed and written by Octavio Solis at the Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2007
Exit 07, Littman Gallery-The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Juried by Kristen Kennedy Portland, OR
Exchange, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Worm Food, Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR
Puppetry Consultant for UC Berkeley Engineering Professor Maneesh Agrawala, Berkeley, CA
Sleeper in the Valley, Director, live shadow theatre performance at Rake Gallery, Portland, OR
Sleeper in the Valley, live shadow puppet performance, Autzen Gallery, PSU, Portland, OR
2005/ 2006
Solo Exhibition, Glass Mountain, Center Space Gallery, Portland, OR
Print Zero-Basil Hallworth Gallery, Portland, OR
Overlapping Lines, Juried Group Show, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea
And Then You Were Born, Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR
Handmade Books, Owatonna Arts Center, Owatonna, Minnesota
The Drawing Club, MK Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
The New Fluvial World,“Take it EZ” video and animation festival, HollywoodTheatre, Portland, OR
The Glass Mountain, live shadow theatre, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Do I Need to Draw You a Map, The Glass Mountain, The Euphoria of Mr. OK and the Huff Boys, The “Lets Dance” Shadow Theatre Showcase and amateur magician night, Valentines, Portland, OR
The Glass Mountain, The Sixth Annual Puppetganza, Nocturnal, Portland, OR
The Euphoria of Mr. Ok and the Huff Boys, Portland Independent Puppet Night, Acme, Portland, OR
The Euphoria of Mr. OK and the Huff Boys, Mega-Fest, with Vladimir and Miss Pussycat, Dunes, Portland, OR
2004
The Euphoria of Mr. Ok and the Huff Boys (version 1), Orlo Dirty Rotten Puppet Festival, Orlo Exhibition Space, Portland, OR
Untitled Original Shadow Theatre/ Projections for the musician Momus, Holocene, Portland, OR
The Bible Salesman: Original Shadow Puppet Theatre and Film Projection with the band Schicky Gnarowitz, Holocene, Portland, OR
2003
Solo Exhibition: Novelties! Fun!, The Beehive, Portland, OR
The Cosmetic Factor, Cameron Gallery, Portland, OR
The Famine, original live shadow puppet performance, Little Texas Artist’s Collective, Portland, OR
Cornucopia Parade and Performance, Lil Texas Artist's Collective (City Signs Building) and Cameron Gallery, Portland, OR
2001-2002
Sunshine Bread Girl, Performed with Haley Lou Yah Puppet Company, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Cave Ponies, Original Full Length Play, The Staree Rose, Portland, OR
Puppetry Performances with The Circus of Tiny Invisibility, New Orleans, LA
2001/02
New Orleans Small Press Book Fair, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Oval Lavo/Beatrice Lenore, Higgins Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Teaching
Select Awards & Publications
Professional Activities
- 2023-2024, Assistant Professor of Animation and Fine Art (Tenure Track) California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- 2022-2023 Assistant Professor of Art Practice (full-time adjunct), St. Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA
- 2022-Lecturer, Video: Animation, University of California, Davis
- 2021-2022 Visiting Professor of Art Practice (Interdisciplinary Art, Experimental Film, Art and Media History, Animation, Advanced Drawing, & Digital Drawing, Studio Art, Senior Capstone) St. Mary’s
College of California, Moraga, CA - 2021(Summer) Faculty Mentor, Independent Study for MFA student, California College of
the Arts. - 2021 (Fall) Faculty, Adjunct II Professor, (Experimental Animation) California College of the
Arts, San Francisco, CA - 2021 Faculty, Adjunct Assistant Professor, St. Mary’s College of California (Studio Art-(2
sections), Digital Drawing and Animation, Art History: Animated Art) - 2021 Faculty, Adjunct Professor II, (Experimental Animation) Department of Animation,
California College of the Arts, Oakland, California - 2020 Faculty, Bridges Program, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, CA
- 2020, Faculty, Adjunct Professor II, (Experimental Animation) Department of Animation,
California College of the Arts, Oakland, California - 2020 Faculty, Adjunct Professor, (Digital Drawing and Animation, Art, Technology and Visual
Culture) Department of Art and Art History, Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA - 2019 Faculty, Bridges Program, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, CA
- 2019 Guest Artist, Visual Arts Department. CCSF, San Francisco, CA
2019 Guest Juror, student reviews, Animation Department, California College of the Arts,
Oakland,CA - 2018-2019 Teaching Artist, ShadowLight Productions, San Francisco, CA
- 2014-2018-Founding Faculty for Bay Area BlendEd Consortium teaching Bay Area Cinema
and Filmmaking, San Francisco, CA - 2010-2018- Lick-Wilmerding High School, Visual Arts Faculty: teaching Film History & Video
Production, Animation & Art serving on multiple committees and advising, San Francisco, CA - 2014-2017-Guest Artist, Architecture of Time: Video Art, UC Berkeley department of Art
Practice, Berkeley, CA - 2012- Guest Lecture on Film for Elizabeth Bernstein’s Night Photography course at San
Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA - Guest Lecture & Artist’s talk for Russell Merritt’s Animation History Course at Film Studies
Dept at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - 2008-2011-UC Berkeley Art Practice Department & Film Studies Department-Instructor
teaching Video Production, Animation & Puppetry in Time Based Art, Visual Thinking and Art
Practice and Film Studies GSI, Berkeley, CA - 2004-2007-Art Instructor, Youth Program, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
- • 2005-2007, Art Instructor, Youth Program, Oregon College of Arts & Crafts, Portland, OR
- 2003-2005- Art Instructor, Curriculum &
Environment Designer, The Portland Children’s Museum, Portland, OR
Select Awards & Publications
- 2022-Santa Claran -Review of The Endless End at ICASJ https://www.thesantaclara.org/blog/life-and-death-in-the-age-of-climate-change
- 2022-Bay Nature Magazine Facing West Shadows: The Endless End, feature article Apocalypse Not: Confronting Extinction with Art by Matthew Harrison Tedford https:// baynature.org/article/apocalypse-not-confronting-extinction-with-art/
- 2022-7x7: 7 Small Museums With Mighty Offerings in the Bay Area
By Sochi Parks https://www.7x7.com/best-small-museums-bay-area-2656496565/mills-college- art-museum - 2021-Pandemic Pedagogy Award for innovative hybrid teaching during the pandemic Saint Mary’s College of California
- 2020-SF/ARTS-invocation democracy at ProArts
- 2020-Critics at Large The Democratic Muse: Invoking the Future review Facing West Shadows in Invocation Democracy at ProArts
- 2019 Spin Magazine Cass McCombs Streams New Album Tip of the Sphere,Releases Eerie“Absentee” Video (Lydia Greer & Caryl Kientz of Facing West Shadows, Music Video Directors)
- 2019 Thyme in the Studio Podcast, Lydia Greer on Shadow Theater 50 seconds sagas and collaboration, Featured Artist Interview, Podcast, Thyme in the Studio, Available on Apple Podcasts
- 2018 Animation World Network Peephole Cinema To Present ‘Supersymmetry Exhibit (Lydia Greer, Curator), Animation World Network https://www.awn.com/news/peephole-cinema- present-supersymmetry- exhibit
- 2018 Juror’s Choice: Non-Narrative Runner-up, Lydia Greer, Aggregate Animated Shorts, Second Annual Film Festival, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
- 2018 artsy.net Cutting Edge Video Artists at PhotoFairs SF
- 2018 Helen Hill Award Finalist, Orphan Film Symposium, New York University,
- 2018 Toca Studio Award Nomination, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
- 2018 Huffington Post, Sexual Assault Survivors Share Powerful Message With President Trump #WeWillNotBeSilent
- 2011-2017 Skowhegan Alumni Bulletin (featured)
- 2012-In Praise of Shadows, exhibition booklet for the solo show published by Cabin Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois
- 2010 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award-Art Practice Department, University of California-Berkeley
- 2010-Lending Library Catalogue by Dena Beard, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
- 2007-2009 Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, ART/FILM NOTES
- Henry Ford Lord Award in Art Practice-University of California-Berkeley
- Eisner Prize in Film and Video--University of California-Berkeley
- Eisner Award for Creative Achievement-University of California-Berkeley
- Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture-Full Merit Based Fellowship
- Juried Show by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art curated by Kristan Kennedy, Exit 07, Littman Gallery, Portland, OR
- 2007-Juried exchange show, PSU/PNCA, Portland, OR
- 2006-Juried traveling show to University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea
- 2000-2001-Robert T. Lee Printmaking Scholarship-Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Professional Activities
- 2023-Second Round, Creative Capital Grant, New York, NY
- 2022-SFMOMA SECA Award Nomination, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
- 2022-NEA Grant Awarded through the Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA
- 2021-Pandemic Pedagogy Award for innovative teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic, Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA
- 2021/2022 Jurist, Bay Area Student Shorts Film Festival, Moraga, CA
- 2021 Panelist, First Year Program student review, CCA, San Francisco, CA
- 2020/2019 Jurist, Junior Review, Animation Department, CCA, Oakland, CA
- 2019 Absentee, Music Video, (Co-Director, Art Director, Producer with Caryl Kientz), Absentee from Album Tip of The Sphere by Cass McCombs, Anti Records, Los Angeles, CA
- 2019 The Cloud, Animator in collaboration with artist Hadassa Goldvitcht, BimBam, Berkeley, CA
- 2019 Video Editor, Obscura Digital Media/Madison Square Garden, San Francisco, CA
- 2019 Video Editor, Media Artist, ShadowLight Productions. San Francisco, CA
- 2019 Artists Archive & Media Consultant, ShadowLight Productions, San Francisco, CA
- 2019 Artists Archive Consultant, Artist Archive: Katherine Sherwood for Farley Gwazda Art Services, Rodeo, California
- 2019 Panelist, Final Reviews, Animation Department, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
- 2019 Panelist & Jurist, Media Arts Award at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
- 2019 Professional Development, San Francisco: Integrated Learning Specialist Program, San
Francisco, CA - 2018 Guest Curator, Supersymmetry (animation program), Peephole Cinema SF, San Francisco, CA
- 2013 Guest Curator, Selected shorts, Temescal Street Cinema Film Festival, Oakland, US
- 2012 Harvard Project Zero Professional Development Arts Education Program, Summer 2012, Cambridge, MA
- 2011 Guest Curator, Stop/Motion: Splitting the Frame, animation workshop and screening, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
- 2010 Guest Curator, Temescal Street Cinema-Film Festival, curator of selected shorts (animation, experimental, live-action, documentary), Oakland, CA
- 2008-2015 Ensemble Member, Creative Consultant, ShadowLight Productions, San Francisco, CA
- 2012-In Praise of Shadows, exhibition booklet for the solo show published by Cabin Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois
- 2010-Lending Library Catalogue by Dena Beard, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
- 2009-Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive ART/FILM NOTES
- 2008-Artists Spotlight, Cal Literature & Arts Magazine, Fall 2008, Volume XIV.I
- 2006-Three Mile Radius-newspaper and website in community collaboration with Harrell Fletcher, Portland, OR
- 2006-Overlapping Lines: A Faculty and Student Exhibition of the College of Fine Arts at The University of Ulsan and the Department of Art at Portland State University, University of Ulsan Press, 2006
- 2004-The Zinesters Guide to Portland, illustration, Portland, Oregon
- 2001-The Daily Texan, Comics published regularly, Austin, TX
Contact me at lydiakgreer@gmail.com
