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Screenings • Exhibitions • Artist talks
2026
Catskill Art Space | Drive-In Movie for Leaf Litter (animation/installation) | Livingston Manor, NY | Jan 17-Feb 28, 2026
2025
Anthology Film Archives | Women’s Film Preservation Fund Presents: Sex, Gender And Feminism | Desire Pie | Dec 10, 7pm.
Millennium Film Workshop | Desire and Dystopia: the personal cinema of Lisa Crafts | curated by Michèle Saint-Michel |Brooklyn, NY
Apophenia | Pattern Recognition themed show by Soulstice Sisters | Saugerties, NY
MUBI Desire Pie is now available to stream on MUBI!
Millennium Film Workshop | Between a Frame and a Soft Place | Group show: Screenings, performances, installation | curated by Michèle Saint-Michel |Brooklyn, NY
2024
Block Museum of Art | Northwestern University | Not By Magic: Animated Films by Women from Serious Business Company | Desire Pie | Chicago, Il
Series of VOTE animations to download and share.
New Media Architecture(s): Virtual Topologies in Urban Spaces, ACM Siggraph | 6 Animated Chimeric Portraits | Denver CO | July 2024
Artist Talk | Hampshire College Animation | Amherst, MA | April 2024
The Creative and the Expressive | Panelist with artists Margot McLean, Amy Cutler | Conference on Nothingness, Jungian Psychoanalytic Association
Lisa Crafts: Meanderings and Entanglements | Carnegie Mellon Women in Animation Speaker Series
Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute | An Egg in a Dream in a Landscape| 2 Chimeric Animated Portraits | curated by Emily Apter and Inney Prakash
2023
Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference | Keynote Speaker | Rowan University | June 2023
Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference | 4 Chimeric Animated Portraits - Gallery Installation | Rowan University
Anthology Film Archives | Two Films on Art and Survival | Glass Gardens | curated by Ann Deborah Levy
2022
Urban Soil Institute Symposium | Governor’s Island, NYC | Chimeric Animated Portraits and Stainboys
Art Center Residency | Lower Manhattan Cultural Council | Governor’s Island, NYC
Chan Space New York | Design By Nature | Chimeric Animated Portrait | curated by Deborah Oster Pannell | New York City
Freedman Gallery | Albright College | Lisa Crafts_Glass Gardens, solo show
2021
Spectacle Theater | An Evening of Works by Lisa Crafts | Brooklyn, NY
C24 Gallery Showroom | Selections from On the Inside: Portraiture Through Photography | Chelsea, NY NY | Chimeric Animated Portraits | curated by David Terry
2020
Panel Discussion: On the Inside: Portraiture Through Photography moderated by Margaret Innes
C24 Gallery | On the Inside: Portraiture Through Photography, 5 person show |Chelsea, NY NY| Chimeric Animated Portraits | curated by David Terry
Chehalem Cultural Center | Our Changing Context: Initial Artistic Responses to Covid-19 | Covid Heebie-Jeebies | curated by Carissa Burkett
Artist Talk | Harvard University Animation
2019
Austrian Film Institute | Maria Lassnig and American Avantgarde Film Symposium | Desire Pie | curated by Stefanie Proksch-Weilguni
Playground Coffee Shop | Between Memory & Fiction | Spitopia
Anthology Film Archives | Reflections, Dreams and Experiments: Women’s Film Preservation Fund | Desire Pie
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | Maria Lassnig - Ways of Being | Desire Pie | curated by Stefanie Proksch-Weilguni
Artist Talk | School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
2018
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University | Visual and Environmental Studies Visiting Faculty | Animated Portraits
Barbican Centre, London| Desire, Beauty and the Gaze | Desire Pie | curated by Ann Deborah Levy, Kirsten Larvick
Close-Up, London | Edge of Frame: Bend Me, Shape Me: The Animated Body | Pituitary | curated by Herb Schellenberger
Quad Cinema, NYC | Body Mania, Introspection | Desire Pie, Glass Gardens | curated by Herb Schellenberger
Artist Talk | Dynamic Imagery Seminar | Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
International House, Phil. | Body Mania, Introspection| Desire Pie, Glass Gardens | curated by Herb Schellenberger
2017
London International Film Festival 2017 |Edge of Frame's After Nature (Part One) | Glass Gardens | curated by Edwin Rostron
Labocine | Spotlight: A New Wave of Climate Change Cinematography | Season of Wonder
Irish Film Institute | Independent Frames| Desire Pie | Curated by Herb Schellenberger
Tate Modern | Independent Frames: American Experimental Animation in the 1970s + 1980s | Desire Pie and Glass Gardens |curated by Herb Schellenberger
2016
Borderless: In Time and Borderless: In Perspective | Oil Spill With Bird | NYFA and Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam
+ NYFA with Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
Docu-Animation Workshop, Yangon Film School, Yangon, Myanmar Dec-Jan
The Drawing Center's Online Gallery; The Bottom Line | Glass Gardens
Viten Filmfestival | Bergen Norway | Season of Wonder
Headspace 3D | Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn NY | Departures, Spitopia | Curated by Maya Edelman
Green Screen Environmental Film Festival | Trinidad and Tobago | Season of Wonder
Paper Forest: A Video Art Screening on Swale, Brooklyn, NY | 4 Natures Mortes
Imagine Science Festival | NY City | Season of Wonder | Oct 16
Saville Gallery | Cumberland, MD | The New Normal | 2 video works in group show curated by Chris Sloan
Film Forum | NY, NY | Season of Wonder | playing with feature documentary about Rosamond Purcell by Molly Bernstein
Imagine Science Festival | Paris, France | Season of Wonder
Athens Film Festival | Athens OH | Season of Wonder
Onion City Film Festival | Chicago, IL | Season of Wonder
Arlington Arts Center | Arlington VA | King of the Forest: Adventures in Bioperversity | 3 video works in group show curated by Megan Rook-Koepsel
2015
Artist Talk | Hostos College, Bronx, NY
Indie Night | Group Film Screening | Livingston Manor, NY
The Point Arts and Culture Center + The Art Container | Animals and Botanicals | Group Exhibition | Bronx, NY
Artist Talk | Pace University
Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY | HeadSpace | Group Animation show curated by Maya Edelman
Athens Cultural Center, NY | Shifting Ecologies II | Group Show
Museum of Modern Art, NYC | Desire Pie
Museum of Modern Art, NYC | Glass Gardens
2014
The Academy Theater, NYC | Glass Gardens
In the "Altered Reality" program of The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films in New York
Presented by Academy of Motion Picture and Arts and Sciences and NYU.
Yerba Buena Arts Center | Desire Pie | In the program:"Radical Sex Education Films: San Francisco's Multi-Media Resource Center"
Artist Talk, Lyme Academy, CT.
Light Industry, Brooklyn | Desire Pie | In the program: Radical Sex Education Films: San Francisco's Multi-Media Resource Center
LUMEN 2014 | Still Life With Golden Apple, Spitopia
Arts Westchester | 3 Natures Mortes | in the exhibition entitled STEAM, Art at the Core
International House, Philadelphia | Desire Pie
Part of the program, Free to Love: The Cinema of the Sexual Revolution
2013
NYFA IAP Governor's Island | Oil Spill with Bird
LUMEN 2013 | Oil Spill With Bird, Departures, Desire Pie
NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit | The Flooded Playground, Overgrowth
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