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Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson
www.gwynethvzanderson.com • gwyneth.anderson@gmail.com


EDUCATION
Expected: 2026
MFA in Sculpture, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA
2018
Deep Listening Certificate, Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer, online
2009
BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Graduated with Fellowship
2007, 2008
Sculpture and Sound Art Courses, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist’s Residency, Saugatuck, MI


SOLO and 2-PERSON EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS
2024
Tender mouth tissue, Hedonist Artisan Ice Cream, Rochester, NY
2022
BeauTown Cabaret, Facility Theater, Chicago, IL
2021
In-betweening, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
2018
Solid Air (with Kristin Abhalter), STNDRD, Granite City, IL
Other Birthdays, streets of Chicago, IL
2017
Thaumatropes, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
Crust Theory (with Alicia Puglionesi), St. Charles Projects, Baltimore, MD
2016
Distance (with Li HuiHui), FRISE, Hamburg, Germany
2015
Double Exposure Screening (with Tommy Heffron), Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL
Patricia Bosshard / Gwyneth Anderson, @ptt, Geneva, Switzerland
2014
Qualiascope, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
2013
Detent & Stow (with Brian Rush), Adult Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2011
Gwyneth Anderson: Laughing Video, XL Art Space, Helsinki, Finland
A Microscopic View of Invisible Things, Harrison Park, Chicago, IL


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS
2024
Fleeting, Flower City Arts Center, Rochester, NY
Prose/Poetry/Performance, Little Shop of Hoarders, Rochester, NY
2023
Elastro AV Fest, Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL
Eating Sharp Fruit, CAN TV, Chicago, IL & Online
For Those Without Choice, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL
BeauTown Cabaret, Facility Theater, Chicago, IL
2022
Elastro AV Fest, Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL
2021
Successful Failures: Thirty Years of Lumpens, Radical Media and Building Communities of the Future, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
The Great Pause, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago IL
Virtual Movie Night… But with a Twist!, PO Box Collective, Chicago, IL
2020
Return to the Everywhere, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019
Performance with Carol Genetti, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL
Sensitive circuits, listening ground, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL
Alexa Dexa/Creature Fur/Gwyneth Z. Anderson/C. Manion/El Mañana, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
Careful Material, The Back Room at Kim’s Corner Food, Chicago, IL
Chyme (release performance with Carol Genetti), Constellation, Chicago, IL
Outside In, Peephole Cinema, San Francisco, CA
2018
Community-Hosted Art Collections Preview, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Water Music, 6018 North and Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
Up like a sun, down like a pancake., Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD
2017
Rhythmic, All Things Projects, New York, NY
2016
Wild is the Wind, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
Luminarts Visual Arts Exhibition, Union League Club, Chicago, IL
Tenth Anniversary Film & Video Screening Celebration, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL
Blueprints, Chicago Industrial Arts and Design Center, Chicago, IL
Creature Comforts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Formidable Dreams, Silent Funny, Chicago, IL
2015
Connections, ALLGOLD at MoMA PS1 Print Shop, New York, NY
Consensual Forms, Red Rover Reading Series, Chicago, IL
Streetlight, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
Soirée Portes Ouvertes, Utopiana, Geneva, Switzerland
ExTV Web Program 2.3: Animated Soup, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014
Mind the Gap, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Joshua Kent: On the impossibility of a singular hand, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
Artist Residency Program Showcase, Audible Gallery, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL
Streetlight, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
International Brecht Festival, DANK Haus, Chicago, IL
2013
Of the Land, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Detent & Stow, Midwood House Concerts, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Amiens Comics Festival, curated by Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Amiens, France
AvantKino, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany
2011
The Happiness Project, 6018 NORTH, Chicago, IL
This Is a Recording, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2010
Bridgeport Festival of New Motion Picture, The Ballroom, Chicago, IL
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, DePaul CDM Theater, Chicago, IL
Humboldt Park Moving Picture Show, Chicago, IL
2009
SAIC Undergraduate Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
Performative Ventures, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
4D2, Deckelew & Bensley, Chicago, IL
2008
Opto-Mystic, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
4D, Deckelew & Bensley, Chicago, IL
2007
Nashville Show, Elegant Mr. Gallery, Chicago, IL
Undergraduate Film/Video Festival, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL


RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, and AWARDS
2024
Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Academic Scholarship tuition remission and stipend, Philadelphia, PA
Institute for Electronic Arts, grant and residency, Alfred, NY
2023-24
Flower City Arts Center, grant and residency, Rochester, NY
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, Chicago, IL
2021
Chop Wood, Carry Water, Pachamanka, Freeport, IL
2016
Mall of Found, New Lebanon, NY
Lacawac Sanctuary & Field Station, Lake Ariel, PA
Luminarts Foundation Visual Arts Finalist, Chicago, IL
2015
FRISE, grant and residency, Hamburg, Germany
Utopiana, grant and residency, Geneva, Switzerland
2013-14
Experimental Sound Studio, grant and residency, Chicago, IL
2011, 2012, 2013
Harold Arts, Chesterhill, OH
2011
Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL
Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland
2009
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Undergraduate Fellowship, Chicago, IL
2008
Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist’s Residency, Merit Scholarship, Saugatuck, MI
2006
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, First Year Merit Scholarship, Chicago, IL


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Institute of Contemporary Art Library, Baltimore, MD
Community-Hosted Art Collections, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
FRISE, Hamburg, Germany


PUBLICATIONS & INTERVIEWS
2024
Mouth Sounds, interview with Tate Shaw. WAYO Community Radio, June 2024.
2022
Inside the Edition, interview with Dan Manion. Chicago Printmakers Guild, March 2022.
2021
Spontaneous Vegetation, interview with Nance Klehm. Lumpen Radio, October 2021.
2020
Ruby T and Latham Zearfoss, editor Danny Giles, Survey for White Artists. Monday Journal. Vol.4: White Pictures, April 2020. Pages 123-124.
Return to the Everywhere booklet, Weinberg/Newton Gallery. April 2020.
Ciera Mckissick, Return to the Everywhere at Weinberg/Newton Gallery. Chicago Artist Writers. March 29, 2020.
Kerry Cardoza, The Tenuity of Truth: Weinberg/Newton Exhibition Situates Art in Our Post-Factual Era. Newcity Chicago. Volume 35, Number 1401, March 2020. Pages 40 - 41.
2019
Editor Robin Hustle, Careful Material. March 2019. Pages 5 - 11.
Bill Meyer, Berlin-based violinist Biliana Voutchkova comes to Chicago for two exploratory shows. Chicago Reader. Volume 48, Number 22, March 7, 2020. Page 33.
Bill Meyer, Chyme review. Dusted Magazine. Volume 5, Number 3, March 1, 2019.
2014
Stacia Yeapanis, OtherPeoplesPixels Interviews Gwyneth Anderson. OtherPeoplesPixels Blog. December 4, 2014.
Millicent Bradleigh , The Art of Measurement: Qualiascope by Gwyneth Anderson. Written in Thread: A Fiber Arts and Print Media Blog.
2011
Lauren Weinberg, Tricia Van Eck curates the Happiness Project. TimeOut Chicago. November 8, 2011.
Arteles Catalog 2010-2013. Arteles Creative Center. Pages 252 - 253.
Heather Youkhana, Work by Five ‘Happiness Project’ Artists: Five contributors whose work you should not miss this November. Chicago Magazine. October 31, 2011.
Suzanne Scanlon, Pretty Smart, Poetic at Odradek Theatre Company, TimeOut Chicago. March 22, 2011.


VISITING ARTIST
2021, 2022
Research Studio courses. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019
2nd Wednesday Lecture. Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago, IL
2012
Motion Graphics course. DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Parlor Series: Activation. The Milk Factory, Chicago, IL
2011
Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland


SELECTED COLLABORATION and FREELANCE EXPERIENCES
2023
Animator, romansusan.org/AUX, Roman Susan Art Foundation
2020
Animator, 132 Calls, collaboration with The Confined Arts, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Definition Theatre, Zealous, & Make Yourself Useful
2019
Illustrator, The Soil Keepers: Interviews with Practitioners on the Ground Beneath Our Feet, author Nance Klehm
2018
Illustrator, Co-Editor, and Contributor, Sonic Meditations for Immersive Ecological Entanglement, with Brett Bloom
Author and Illustrator, You are a Pattern of Sounds/Space is a Body Responding to You, exhibition book in response to Bodies in Sounded Space, artists Katie Shlon & Fionn Duffy, School 33, Baltimore, MD
2016
Telekinetic choreographer, The Calls, director Julia Gladstone, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
Animator, Formidable Dreams, expanded cinema event and short film, directors Sara Zalek and Eugene Sun Park
2014
Animator and Performer, Cold in all the Sunshine, feature length film, director Tommy Heffron
Illustrator, awesome camera, author laaura goldstein
2011
Animator, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago logo for videos on saic.edu
2008
Animation Intern, Consuming Spirits, feature-length animation, director Chris Sullivan
2007 - 2008
Founder and Administrator, Xerox Candy Bar comics/zine publication, Chicago, IL


COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCES
2018 - 2022
Member of Make Yourself Useful, Chicago, IL
2017 - 2019
Board member, Roman Susan Art Foundation, Chicago, IL


SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCES
2012 - current
Experimental Comics and Animation Instructor, After School Matters, Chicago, IL
2017 - 2023
Experimental Comics and Animation Instructor, Baltimore Youth Film Arts, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2022 - 2023
Experimental Comics and Animation Instructor, Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago, IL
2015 - 2022
Teaching Artist, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, Chicago, IL
2013 - 2016
Artist Guide, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2014
Experimental Animation Instructor, Ox-Bow School of Art & Artist Residency, Saugatuck, MI