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Education
M.F.A., Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design, OCAD University, 2013
Postgraduate Certificate, Computer Animation, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON, 2009
B.A, Visual Arts Honours, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, 2008
FILM AND DESIGN WORK
2022 Director, Animator - Me Duele Music Video for Bomba Estéreo & Manu Chao.
2021-2021 Creative Producer, Co-Production Designer, Animator - LIDO TV, CBC GEM.
2021 Director, Animation - Momento Presente Music Video for Mas Aya.
2021 Director, Editor - Lido Pimienta Spotify Promo Video, Toronto, ON.
2021 Director, Editor - Lido Pimienta Deezer Promo Video, Toronto, ON.
2021 Director, Editor - Lido Pimienta Libera Awards Performance, Toronto, ON.
2021 Director, Editor - Lido Pimienta Tkaronto Performance, Toronto, ON.
2021 Director, Editor, Animator - Lido Pimienta Beth Morrison Performance, Toronto, ON.
2021 Second Unit Director - Dejame Music Video for Camila Moreno ft. Lido Pimienta and Ximena Sariñana, Toronto, ON.
2021 Director, Editor - Lido Pimienta Kennedy Centre Live Performance, Toronto, ON.
2021 Director, Editor - Lido Pimienta Blues Fest Ottawa Performance, Toronto, ON.
2020 Art Director, Editor – Lido TV Live Performance, Toronto, ON.
2020 Director, Editor, Producer – Lido Pimienta KEXP Performance, Toronto, ON.
2020 Director, Editor -Lido Pimienta Shopify Performance, Toronto, ON.
2020 Director, Art Director – Lido Pimienta Venus Fest Performance, Toronto, ON.
2020 Director, Editor – Humanx 2020 music video for Lido Pimienta, Toronto, ON.
2020 Art Director – The Road to Miss Colombia, Polaris short film, Toronto, ON.
2020 Art Director – Lido Pimienta: NPR’s Tiny Desk Performance, Toronto, ON.
2020 Co-Director – Catch You Music Video for Ricky Reed and Lido Pimienta, Toronto, ON.
2020 Director, Animator – Kaleidoscope Music Video for Damian Taylor ft. Lido Pimienta, Toronto, ON.
2020 Director, Animator – Para Transcribir (Sol), Nada, No Pude, Quiero Que Me Salves, Pelo Cucu, Para Transcribir (Luna) Animated Lyric videos from the Miss Colombia Album by Lido Pimienta, Toronto, ON.
2018 Set Designer - Hot Cuts - SummerWorks Festival, Toronto, ON.
2018 Director, Editor - La Victoria Music Video by Chancha Video Circuito and Lido Pimienta, Toronto, ON.
2016 Designer- Even this Old Town was a Forest, Theatre Centre, Toronto, ON.
2016 Projection Design - Lido Pimienta’s Carnival, Great Hall, Toronto, ON.
2015 Projection Design - Lido Pimienta Presencia, Great Hall, Toronto, ON.
2015 Animator - Agua, music video for Lido Pimienta.
2014 Art Director- The Secret Garden of Lido Pimienta – Summerworks, Toronto, ON.
2014 Director, Animator - Jardines, music video for Lido Pimienta and Chancha Via Circuito.
2010 Illustrator - Expecting To Fly Music video for Metric, Number Four Films, Toronto, ON.
2010 Animator and Art Director - The Run Short Film, Arianne Robinson Productions and Bravo!FACT, Toronto, ON.
2010 Animator and Designer - Collect Call Music video for Metric, Number Four Films and Bravo!FACT, Toronto, ON.
ARTISTIC WORK
SCREENINGS
2022 Borrachero - Houston Latino Film Festival, Houston, TX.
2021 Borrachero - Tacoma Film Festival, Tacoma, WA.
2021 Borrachero - New Tool Who Dis? Tactility in the Digital Age- Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, ON.
2021 Artist Spotlight- Experimental Animations by Gustavo Cerquera Benjumea - Niagara Artist’s Center, St. Catharines, ON.
2021 Borrachero - Alucine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival, Toronto, ON.
2020 Borrachero – San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA.
2020 Borrachero – GIRAF 16 Animation Festival, Calgary, AB.
2020 Borrachero - POFF Shorts Film Festival, Tallin, Estonia.
2020 Borrachero - Motel X Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal.
2020 Borrachero - Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, ON.
2020 Borrachero - LALIFF, Los Angeles, CA.
2020 Borrachero- Florida International Festival, Orlando, FL.
2020 Borrachero - Glas Animation Festival, Berkeley, CA.
2020 Borrachero - Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, UT.
2020 Jardines – Psychedelic Video Museum, Online.
2019 Various Videos - Bump Television, Online.
2019 La Victoria - Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, Austin, Texas.
2018 Various Videos - Exhibitionist in Residence, The Exhibitionist, CBC Arts, Toronto, ON.
2017 Various Videos - Strange Waves Film Festival, Paris, ON.
2017 Starry Eyes - Animation Showcase- Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
2016 11:59 - Canadian Panorama Program at the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival, Ottawa, ON.
2016 11:59 - Animation ABC’s, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
2015 You Should Get that Checked - Animation Showcase, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
2014 Asia in My Mind – Toronto Animated Image Society and the Japan Foundation, Toronto, ON.
2013 Little Islands- Strange New Worlds – Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, NS.
2013 Everybody - K-TOWN- Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON.
2012 Little Fires - Immanent Space: New Toronto Works- Pleasure Dome, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto ON.
GROUP AND SOLO SHOWS
2019 Borrachero- Nuit Blanche Toronto, Toronto, ON.
2018 Specimen- Art Spin: Holding Patterns- Toronto, ON.
2017 Bad Air- The Living City Art Show- BrickWorks, Toronto, ON.
2017 Las Delicias - Glory Hole Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2016 Nápoles - In the Soil Festival, St. Catharines, ON.
2015 San Vicente - Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, ON.
2013 Queer Zoology (Group Show)– Videofag, Toronto, ON.
2013 Family Story - Summerworks, Toronto, ON.
2013 Tranquilandia - Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NL.
2013 Tranquilandia –Black Box Theatre, OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
2012 Archaean (In Collaboration with Tahireh Lal and Marian Wihak)- Fly by Night, Nuit Blanche at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON.
2012 Tres Esquinas part of Lucky 13 - Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON.
2012 Napoles (Group Show) - Grunge Texture- Xpace, Toronto, ON.
2012 Under the Radar (Group Show) - OCAD U Graduate Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2011 Hive (Group Show)- Graduate Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
2011 So Deep (In Collaboration with Halley Rigbey) - Fly By Night, Nuit Blanche at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON.
2010 Artist Emergency, Lower Ossington Theatre, Toronto, ON.
2010 Strutt, Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, ON.
2010 The Armies –Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, ON.
2008 Beds that Dream of Bodies (Group Show)–Rodman Hall, St. Catharines, ON.
2008 DETRITUS (Group Show)-2223 Queen St., Niagara Falls, ON.
2008 DON’T DRINK THE WATER (Group Show)– Rodman Hall, St. Catharines, ON.
2008 Intents (Group Show)–St. Catharines, ON.
CURATION AND PROGRAMMING
2022 Animation Shorts Program, Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, UT.
2021 Annual TAIS Animation Showcase, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
2021 Narrative Shorts Program, Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, UT.
2020 Annual TAIS Animation Showcase, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
2019 Annual TAIS Animation Showcase, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
2018 Annual TAIS Animation Showcase, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
2017 Annual TAIS Animation Showcase, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
2017 Local Exposure, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
2016 ArtAttack! Auction at Buddies in Badtimes Theatre, Toronto, ON.
2016 LITTLE SPELLS, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
2016 Annual TAIS Animation Showcase, Screening at the Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
COMMITTEES
2016- present. Chair of Programming Committee and Board Member, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
2016 – present. Selection Committee for National and International Artist in Residency Programs, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
2016 Internal External Committee member for IAMD graduate Yasmin Ocu, OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
2016 Selection Committee for incoming GART and Drawing and Painting students, OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
2013 Selection Committee for incoming IAMD graduate students at OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
ART AUCTIONS
2017 Art Attack Auction at Buddies in Badtimes Theatre, Toronto, ON.
2016 YTB Auction, Toronto, ON.
2016 Art Attack Auction at Buddies in Badtimes Theatre, Toronto, ON.
2011 Art Attack Auction at Buddies in Badtimes Theatre, Toronto, ON.
2011 Small Feats, Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, ON.
RESIDENCIES
2018 Exhibitionist in Residence, The Exhibitionist, CBC Arts, Toronto, ON.
2016 Animation ABC’s- Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON.
2014 Artist in Residency, Imagine Science Films Festival, New York, NY.
LECTURES
2020 Masterclass Experimental Animation, LALIFF and Latinx in Animation, Online.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2EoWC6EB8Y
2017 Crit Night, Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON
2016 YYZ Lab Artist Residency, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON
2016 “Technology of 3D Archaeology”, Anthropology Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2016 Artist Talk, Animazing! Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON
2016 Artist Talk, BAKOTA Project, Békéscsaba, Hungary
2015 Guest lecturer 4th year DPXA Capstone Program. Instructor: Luke Painter, OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
2013 Artist talk and critiques with 3rd year Expanded Animation students. Instructor: Philippe Blanchard, OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
2012 Artist talk for 4th year thesis Integrated Media students. Instructor: Paulette Philips and Judith Boyle OCAD University.
RESEARCH AWARDS AND GRANTS
2016 Emerging Media Arts, Ontario Arts Council.
2015 Exhibition Assistance, Ontario Arts Council.
2011 Exhibition Assistance, Ontario Arts Council.
2009 Exhibition Assistance, Ontario Arts Council.
REVIEWS
2018 “You're not hallucinating — you're just watching a film by this week's Exhibitionist in Residence”, CBC ARTS Website, Nov 8.
2017 “The Living City Artist Spotlight”, TRAC Website, YouTube, Nov 22.
https://reportcard.trca.ca/living-city-art/air-quality/
2016 Papouchina, Alexandra. “TAIS Animation ABC Residency Spotlight”, Canadian Animation Blog, March 6.
http://www.canadiananimation.com/2016/03/tais-animation-abcs-residency-spotlight_18.html
2014 Slater, Russel “ EXCLUSIVE: CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO FEAT. LIDO PIMIENTA “JARDINES”, Sound and Colours Website, Sept 2014.
2013 Cooley, Alison “Wildlife: Queer Zoology”, Art & Science Journal Website.
https://www.artandsciencejournal.com/post/67581790803/wildlife-queer-zoology-humboldt-magnussen