Skip to main content

California Institute of the Arts

Lilli Carré

Pronouns: School of Film/Video

Faculty, Experimental Animation

Lilli Carre
Email address: lcarre@calarts.edu
Office address:
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, California 91355
Degrees:
  • MFA
    Art Theory & Practice, Northwestern University
  • BFA
    The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Personal website: Website

Lilli Carré is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, working primarily in experimental animation, ceramic sculpture, print, and textile. Her films have shown in festivals throughout the US and abroad, including the Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Annecy, 25FPS, European Media Arts Festival, New Chitose Animation Festival, Guanajuato Intl Film Festival, and Pictoplasma. 

She is the Co-Director of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, held annually in LA, Chicago, and NY since 2010. For over a decade she has contributed comics and illustrations for The New York Times and The New Yorker. She has published several graphic novels with Fantagraphics Books and other presses, and has had work included in various editions of Best American Comics (Houghton Mifflin). Solo exhibitions of her drawing, animation, and sculpture include shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Western Exhibitions, and the Columbus Museum of Art.