CV/BIO

Molly Schwartz was born in New York City, raised in Oklahoma. She earned her BFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by a semester studying art, language, history and mountains in Nepal. After school she studied art conservation & restoration of works of art on paper, learning about qualities of paper and the cumulative effects of time. In Los Angeles she learned digital effects and time in fractions of seconds. She has lived in Chicago, Katmandu, Los Angeles, and since 1999, Brooklyn. Schwartz shows her animated videos and drawings in public art installations, festivals, and exhibitions worldwide, and currently freelances for independent film and television. She is currently in graduate school studying visual programming and physical computing at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

education
MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University 2011, Dean's Fellowship
BFA, Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1993, Advanced Painting Institute, Merit Scholarship
SANN Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal 1993
Marie Walshe Sharpe Art Scholar 1988

curated gallery files
Pierogi Gallery Flatfiles, Brooklyn
NURTUREart Curated Registry, Brooklyn

selected exhibitions & screenings
2009
Hunter Museum of American Art, POLYMER, Chattanooga
ADA Gallery, Stimulus Package, Richmond
AM Richard Fine Art, All Roads Lead to Coney Island, Brooklyn
Floor Length and Tux, FLAT Debut Show, Chicago
LOOP Festival, VIDEOAKT VideoArt Show, Barcelona
Carabar, NOW Festival, Music For Silent Films, Columbus
2008
ADA Gallery, Drawings & Animated Video, *Solo show*, Richmond
LMAK Projects, Coloring Book, Brooklyn
artXposium, Spiderbug: "the pH show", Chicago,
BBC Big Screen, Sizemology, curated by Bren O’Callaghan, Liverpool
GlogauAIR, VIDEOAKT International Videoart Show, Guest Artist, Berlin
Galerie Vanessa Quang, “Co-Curated By” video series, Curated by Christina Ray of Glowlab, Paris
Zeitgeist Arts Center, Music for Silent Films, New Orleans
Festival International de l’Image Environnementale, Artport, Paris
SpiderBug: The "Rube Goldberg Failures" Screening Exhibition, Chicago, St.Louis, Kansas City
Brooklyn International Film Festival, Cinergy 2008, Brooklyn
Live With Animals, Music for Silent Films, Brooklyn
Lincoln Center, ARTPORT_Making Waves, New York
SCOPE Art Fair, [PAM] Perpetual Art Machine: Featured Program: "Best of the Next", New York
Bridge Art Fair, Special Project: ARTPORT "Cool Stories", New York
ADA Gallery, Music For Silent Films, Richmond
Long Island Film Festival 2008, Montauk
Red Saw Gallery, Filmedio #1, Newark
Red Saw Gallery, Filmedio #3: Insanity, Victims, and Childhood, in Short, Curated by Gallery Aferro, Newark
ATHICA:Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Ingest Film Smorgasbord, Athens
2007
Brooklyn Central Library, Reading Light, *Solo* Site-Specific Video Installation, Brooklyn
Conflux Festival, Brooklyn
Dumbo Arts Center, Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival: Simultaneous Projections, Brooklyn
ScopeBasel, Marc dePuechredon Galerie, Artport_Making Waves, Basel
Chelsea Art Museum, PAM@CAM: Featured Single Channel Program, New York
Jersey City Museum and Victory Hall, 99¢, Jersey City
Dionysium, Austin
JAM ART, Artport_Making Waves, Palma de Mallorca
Valencia Art Fair, Artport_Making Waves, Valencia
DiVA Art Fair, Paris
PooL Art Fair, Miami
Visual Aid, Get Out of Jail Free, San Francisco
Zwinktopia, Artport_Making Waves, www.zwinky.com
Studio 111, Music for Silent Films, Brooklyn
2006
Brooklyn Artists Gym, Plastic Bag Screenings, Brooklyn
Visual Aids Benefit, Postcards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Brooklyn Arts Council, Here Was New York, Brooklyn
Art.B.Q, Curated by Bart de Koning Gans, Pirate Screening, Brooklyn
Fine Arts Work Center, Fellows Invitational, Provincetown
Art in General, FAAN: Fine Art Adoption Network, New York
SECCA, Eat My Dust: Brooklyn Gravity Racers vs. The Fine Arts Race Team, Winston-Salem,
2005
Barrett Art Center, New Directions ‘05: Curated by Steven Evans (of DIA Beacon), Poughkeepsie
Viridian Gallery, 16th Annual Juried Exhibition: Curated by Robert Rosenblum, New York,
Brooklyn Int’l Film Festival, Opinion8, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Arts Council 39th Int’l Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
Urban Literary Film Festival, Greensboro
Anchorage Int’l Film Festival, Anchorage,
Artists Space, Night of 1000 Drawings, New York
Gormley Gallery, National Drawing Competition, Notre Dame, Baltimore
Visual Aids Benefit, Postcards from the Edge, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Local Project, Queens
Soho Photo Gallery, Krappy Kamera VII, New York
2004
Pierogi Gallery, Pierogi a Go-Go, Brooklyn
Visual Aids Benefit, Postcards from the Edge, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York
Houseworks, H.Bakers House, Brooklyn
2002
Curious Pictures, Bottles, *Solo* New York
1998
Hollywood DMV, While U Wait, Hollywood
Gallery 207, The $100 Show, West Hollywood
1997
George's, Art Dogs, Los Angeles
1993
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Thesis Show, Chicago
1992
Cicero Gallery, Bombs Away, Chicago
1990
Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago

artist-in-residence
VCCA: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, 2006
I-Park, East Haddam, CT, 2006

teaching
Adjunct Instructor, NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, New York 2003-2004
Course taught: Titles and Special FX. Undergrad Film & TV, Animation Dept.

Guest Lecturer: Art & Process of Digital Compositing & Special FX
SVA, New York 2002

Thesis Critique Guest, MFA/BFA Digital Arts
New School, New York 2001, 2002
Parsons School of Design, New York 2001, 2002, 2005

professional experience
Freelance Digital Compositor/Animator/Designer, New York 2003-present
Compositing, animation, painting, design, and special effects for independent film and TV.

Lead Compositor, Curious Pictures, New York 1999-2003
Senior staff. Compositing, animation, painting, design and special effects for film and TV.

Digital Matte Painter, Los Angeles 1997-1998
Matte painting, compositing and special effects for film and TV.

Art Conservator, Kenyon Oppenheimer, Chicago 1994-1996
Conservation and restoration of works of art on paper.