Lucy Kerr
Lucy Kerr is an artist working through performance, film, video, installation, and curation. She received a dual MFA in Film/Video and Art from California Institute of the Arts on the Lillian Disney Scholarship, where she also received a Research and Practice Fellowship. Kerr received a B.A in Philosophy and a B.A. in Dance and Choreography from The University of Texas at Austin and was the grand prize winner of the University Co-op / George H. Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence for her Philosophy thesis. She has received commissions from LA Dance Project and Mono No Aware and the Center for Performance Research. Her projects have been presented by The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, La Mama, The Brooklyn Museum, REDCAT, Anthology Film Archives, Navel Los Angeles, LA Dance Project and Francois Ghebaly Gallery, The MAK Center Los Angeles, The MATCH Houston, Echo Park Film Center, IDIO Gallery, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, The Chimney NYC, and others. Her work has been supported by Dance Films Association and CalArts and her work has been featured in ArtForum, Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Magazine, and VICE. She has curated programs at Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Now Instant Image Hall, Blum and Poe, Vorspiel-transmediale Berlin, and California Institute of the Arts. Kerr is the co-founder and co-curator of the artistic research and curation group OKTA Collective, with Alisi Telengut and Dovile Aleksaite.
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Education
2017 - 2020 California Institute of the Arts, M.F.A. in Film/Video and Art and Technology,
Interschool
2009-2014 The University of Texas at Austin B.A. in Philosophy and B.A. in Theater and
Dance, high honors
Selected Awards
2017-2020 Lillian Disney Award
2018-2019 Special CalArts Film/Video Project Grant
CalArts Interdisciplinary Grant with Claudia Grigg Edo
CalArts Travel Grant
2018 CalArts Research and Practice Fellow
2014-2017 LEIMAY Fellowship
2014 Grand Prize Winner of the 2014 George H. Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence
Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Award
2012-2014 Presidential Scholarship in Drama Phi Beta Kappa
Solo Shows
2020-2021 Thresholds at California Institute of the Arts (postponed indefinitely, upcoming) Sites
of Passage as part of Virtual Care Lab at NAVEL Los Angeles, CA
2019 Four Girl Trick Gallery at C113 California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA
2018 Sensible Ecstasy Gallery C113 California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA
2017 Look For Me at The MATCH Houston, TX
2016 Landscape Study at The Chimney NYC Brooklyn, New York
2014 The World of Wrestling Co-Lab Projects Austin, TX
Commissions
2019 Study for Les Noces at LA Dance Project Los Angeles, CA
CalArts School of Film/Video Juried Showcase Bumper at REDCAT Los Angeles
2016 Look For Me at The Center for Performance Research presented by Mono No
Aware, Center for Performance Research, and Dance Films Association, Brooklyn
Selected Group Shows
2020 @SEA: Thresholds at the Poetic Research Bureau curated by Rebecca Baron Los
Angeles, CA (upcoming)
Slought Atlas of Affects online archive Philidelphia, PA
Time Is Out Of Joint exhibition at The MAK Center Los Angeles, CA
2019 20/20 Art School MFA 2 Group Show California Institute of the Arts Valencia
Physical Education presented by LA Dance Project at Francois Ghebaly Gallery Los
Angeles, CA
Sensible Ecstasy Group Show at Gallery ALSO Los Angeles, CA
La Mama Moves Group Show at La Mama Galleria New York, NY
2017 Performance Studio Open House at The Center for Performance Research
Spring Movement at The Center for Performance Research Brooklyn, NY
INSITU Festival Queens, New York
2015 She/Folk at IDIO Gallery Brooklyn, NY 2015
Festivals and Screenings
2019 Stone Shuanmazhuang Award at Students Image Arts Festival China
Crossroads at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA
Process Festival Riga, Latvia
Lightfield San Francisco, CA
Program in Film/Video CalArts Juried Showcase at REDCAT Los Angeles, CA
Cine Marisol Santiago, Chile
2018 Cucalorus Wilmington, NC
Mono No Aware Brooklyn, NY
Yoni Fest at Echo Park Film Center Los Angeles, CA
2017 Cue Mark at Lubov Gallery New York, NY
Radar NYC at Anthology Film Archives New York, NY
Extremely Shorts Shorts Festival Aurora Picture Show Houston, TX
Cucalorus Wilmington, NC
2016 BEAT at The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY
The San Francisco Dance Film Festival San Francisco, CA
Residency
2020 Saas-Fee Seminar
2019 Resident Artist at LA Dance Project Los Angeles, CA
2017 Resident Artist at Cucalorus Wilmington, NC
2014 Resident Artist at Co-Lab Projects Austin, TX
Research Project with Ko Murobushi Impulstanz Vienna, Austria
Curatorial Work
2021 OKTA Collective programming in the Vorspiel program in transmediale Berlin,
Germany
2020 Member of the curatorial committee for the CalArts School of Art post-grad MFA
show - livestream events and film screenings co-coordinator
2019 Co-Curator of film screening All the Little Souvenirs Now Instant Image Hall; Blum
and Poe Acid Free
Co-Curator of Our House at CalArts Bijou featuring Lilli Carre, Malena Szlam,
others
2017 Co-curator and Co-creator of the Dance Film; Deconstructed 7 week festival at
Brooklyn Studios for Dance co-produced with Mono No Aware and Brooklyn
Studios for Dance
2014 Curator of mixed-ability performance series Being With Others featuring artists with
and without disabilities
Teaching
2020 Graduate Critique instructor supervised by James Benning CalArts Valencia, CA
Inside Encounters leader of movement and writing workshops through Virtual Care
Lab at Navel Los Angeles, CA
Teaching Assistant to James Benning for Shooting Landscapes course
2019 LA Dance Project Choreographer in Residence
Teaching assistant to James Benning for Filmmaking Fundamentals and Graduate
Critique courses
Teaching assistant to Berenice Reynaud for Film Curation, Film Today, and
Femininity as Masquerade courses
2018 Teaching Assistant to James Benning for Filmmaking Fundamentals course
Teaching Assistant to Berenice Reynaud for Chantal Akerman course
Mono No Aware 16mm filmmaking course Brooklyn, NY
Mono No Aware negative cutting workshop instructor Brooklyn, NY
Research and Practice Fellowship with Abigail Severance - 3 workshops taught to
performers for project about borders and border walls Valencia, CA
Writing and Research
2020 Research and Writing Assistant to James Benning and Sharon Lockhart
2018 Published writing with LEIMAY in Chapter 34 of The Routledge Companion to
Butoh Performance
2016 Writer/archivist of book accompanying borders by LEIMAY at The Brooklyn
Academy of Music Brooklyn, NY
Selected Engagements
2020 Artist Talk at California Institute of the Arts 2020
2019 Presentation of paper on film program ‘All the Little Souvenirs’ at Now Instant
Image Hall
2016 Artist Talk at The University of Texas at Austin
Dance on camera panelist at the 2016 San Francisco Dance Film Festival
2013 Disability in performance panelist at the 2013 Cohen New Works Festival
Presented by the University Co-op
Publications
2020 Time Is Out Of Joint featured in Hyperallergic
Four Girl Trick featured in ArtForum
2019 All The Little Souvenirs at Now Instant Image Hall Zine
2017 Bridge Piece as part of Cue Mark at Lubov Gallery
2015 The World of Wrestling mentioned in The Best Brooklyn Art of 2015
She/Folk at IDIO Gallery in VICE
2014 George H. Mitchell Award Grand Prize Article
Selected Employment
2016-current Self-employed Somatic Pilates Instructor and Birth Doula
2019 Copywriting and website building for CalArts School of Film and Video
2018-2020 16mm and digital video projectionist at Bijou Theater at CalArts Valencia, CA
