2011
Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Department of Film, Video, New Media & Animation
2002
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY; concentration in Video and Sound Art (Cum Laude)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019 -
Adjunct Professor, New York University, Brooklyn, NY, Tandon School of Engineering, Department of Technology, Culture and Society, Integrated Design & Media Program (Documentary Cinema, Experimental Cinema, Real-Time A/V, Still and Moving Images, Studio Courses). Additional Duties: IDM Video Lab Research, Development, Design & Maintenance
2017
Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Film/Video Department (Digital Cinema I, Studio Course, Fall)
Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Foundation Art Department (4-Dimensional Design II, Studio Course, Spring)
2016
Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Foundation Art Department (4-Dimensional Design I, Studio Course, Fall)
Adjunct Lecturer, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, Art Department (Digital Video, Studio Course, Spring)
Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Foundation Art Department (4-Dimensional Design II, Studio Course, Spring)
Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Foundation Art Department (4-Dimensional Design II, Studio Course, Spring)
2015
Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Foundation Art Department (4-Dimensional Design I, Studio Course, Fall)
2013
Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Department of Film, Video, New Media & Animation (Real-Time A/V Systems, Studio Course, Fall)
2010
Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Department of Film, Video, New Media & Animation (Video Installation II, Studio Course, Assistant to Tirtza Even, Fall)
Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Department of Film, Video, New Media & Animation (Video Production I, Studio Course, Assistant to Eric Fleischauer, Spring)
2009 - 07
Project Coordinator, New York City Department of Education, Office of the Arts and Special Projects, New York, NY
2007 - 03
Administrative Assistant, New York City Department of Education, Office of the Arts and Special Projects, New York, NY (Assistant to Dr. Sharon Dunn, Senior Instructional Manager for Arts Education)
2002
Intern, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY (Residency Assistant to artists Darrin Martin & Torsten Zenas Burns)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES
2023
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Harper Theater, Chicago, IL
VIDEODOME, Lucky 13 Saloon, Brooklyn, NY
Les Femmes Underground Film Festival, WHAMMY! Analog Media, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Shockfest Film Festival, Online
Intermediale Festival, Art Gallery Ring, Legnica, Poland
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, Spool Contemporary Art Space, Johnson City, NY
HEXAFLORALIA, Phase Space, Brooklyn, NY
2021
Portland Underground Film Festival, The Clinton Street Theater, Portland, OR
2019
Penthimeron Festival of Greek and International Cinema, Theater Embros, Athens, Greece
This is not a ROBOT Film Festival, Orizontas Gegonoton, Athens, Greece
Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Logan Theatre, Chicago, IL
Pári Mpé Nimer Siuxyin, Lavamoatumbá, Bogotá, Colombia
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg Cinematheque, Winnipeg, Canada
Portland Underground Film Festival, The Clinton Street Theater, Portland, OR
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Company Brewing, Milwaukee, WI
Experiments in Cinema, Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
That One Film Festival, Cornerstone Center for the Arts, Muncie, IN
No Nation Art Laboratory, Lavamoatumbá, Bogotá, Colombia
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, Spool Contemporary Art Space, Johnson City, NY
Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Logan Theatre, Chicago, IL
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Cringe, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014
SPECULATION (ELATION) 5, Parsons Hall Project Space, Holyoke, MA
19th International Bremen Film Conference, City 46, Bremen, Germany
Tooth and Nail, Vanity Projects, New York, NY
Performance Art for the Camera, Parsons Hall Project Space, Holyoke, MA
Knobcon, Open Circuit, Chicago, IL
Chicago Loves Detroit: Recent Short Film & Video Work from Chicago, Trinosophes, Detroit, MI
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Video Playlist: Speechless, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Florida Oasis, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL
2011
Chicago Loves Iowa City: Recent Short Film & Video Work from Chicago, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
Short Circuits, Porter Butts Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
RETCON, Parsons Hall Project Space, Holyoke, MA
Chicks on Speed Show, Internet Cafe, Linz, Austria
Dallas VideoFest, Dallas, TX
Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers X, Joe’s on Weed St., Chicago, IL
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
LoadBang: Live Media Projects, DFBRL8R Performance Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
The Way We Move, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
Other People’s Projections, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
Chicago Women of Noise Showcase, Transistor, Chicago, IL
Mega-Watts, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA
Xperiments in Real Time, Hotti Biscotti, Chicago, IL
World of Queercraft, Craftland, Providence, RI
HHORRRAUTICA 4: CRYPTO, Parsons Hall Project Space, Holyoke, MA
video_dumbo, D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
UNDEREXPOSED.SIX, Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
2003
THE UNPROFESSIONALS, Discount Cinema, Chicago, IL, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY, Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA
SPARK VIDEO: BEACON, Chthonic Clash Coffeehouse, Beacon, NY
WRO Media Art Bienniale, Wroclaw, Poland
Init.two, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
5th Annual Video Marathon, Art in General, New York, NY
2002
CLICK! Buffalo, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY
Goes Festival, Goes, the Netherlands
Media Art Festival Friesland, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
SELECTED BIBILIOGRAPHY
Nick Allen, “Preview of the 26th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival”, RogerEbert.com, June 4, 2019.
Dana Bassett, “What’s the T?”, Bad At Sports, October 27, 2014.
Parsons Hall Project Space, Magazine 1: The Uncanny Pioneer Valley, Holyoke: Lake Hitchcock Center for the Book Arts, 2013.
Erica Peplin, “Insights into the Experimental: A Conversation with Christy LeMaster”, DIY Film.com, July 20, 2011.
Matt Christy, “The Way We Move”, Art Papers, May/June 2011.
Laura Hutson, “The Way We Move”, Number: an independent arts journal, Winter 2011, 67.
Nick Briz, “F Studio Visits: Monica Panzarino”, F Newsmagazine, Chicago, IL, January 26, 2011.
Laura Hutson, “Two fascinating shows at Cheekwood exemplify trends in the current world of art", Nashville Scene, December 9, 2010.
Elizabeth B. Reese, “Other People’s Projections,” Art Lies, Summer 2010, 66.
Rani Woolpert, Interview, Transistor Radio, Chicago, IL, July 25, 2010.
LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS & CRITIQUES
2022
Guest Critic, New York University, Brooklyn, NY, Tandon School of Engineering, Department of Technology, Culture and Society, Integrated Design & Media Program, March 30.
2021
Visiting Artist Lecture & Guest Critic, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Online, October 25.
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, Online, February 2.
2018
Visiting Artist Lecture & Workshop, “Real-Time Audiovisual Feedback”, Connecticut College, New London, CT, April 23.
COLLECTIONS
Netherlands Media Art Institute (Montevideo/Time-Based Arts), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Signal Culture, Owego, NY
DISTRIBUTION
Vtape, Toronto, Canada