| experimental/experiential designer building sensorial & sometimes interactive activations|| interrelated new media artist-curator & researcher with a focus on poststructural ambiguity |
| living in greater tampa bay area |
BIO
Lyndsey Gillespie works across mediums of experimental animation & design, mixed media & fibers art, paired with projection mapped installations to build sites of pleasant resilience. Living in a world with chronic pain, these mediations communicate the reality of her embodied experience and intense desire to transform suffering by loosening the grips we collectively have on interpretation.
Gillespie’s pieces have been presented through exhibitions at venues such as FOMO House for the MicroActs Film Festival (Shoreditch, London), Manhattan Graphics Center (New York), SITE/less (Chicago), and FAR Center for Contemporary Arts (Bloomington). Her research was recently selected to be published for the ISEA2025 symposia, ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic/Emerging Arts). Additionally, she has co-curated shows at KATE OH GALLERY (NYC), throughout the midwest & online internationally; she creates projection designs and music videos for bands and musicians presenting throughout the Midwest and NYC.
She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of South Florida and completed art history studies in Paris, France. She was recently awarded the Mary Jane McIntire Endowed Fellowship for creative excellence by the Eskenazi School of Art and graduated with her MFA in Digital Art.
professional experience
2026
Co-Curator; Writer & Designer | hope)is st anding st.ar : solo show of katy pinke. Kate Oh Gallery, New York City, NY.
Adjunct Faculty, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg FL
[Beginning Printmaking (with digital media applications)]
[Digital Printmaking]
[Beginning Drawing]
[Principles of Animation]
[student work portfolio pdf available upon request]
motion graphics designer for music video, “bloom” by katy pinke, New York City, NY.
owner of lyndseygillespie.designs, greater tampa bay area
[product designer, graphic designer, sales/marketing for online shop]
collaborative partner of the tesseract, Bloomington IN
[creative production company]
[working on further sharing IRL iterations of “cycles of futility” while starting a new collaborative project entitled: “live! from dreamland”}
co-founder of [desiremedia], east coast USA
[multidisciplinary artist collective]
Typographer & Printer’s Assistant, Bleu Acier Inc., Tampa, FL
[for the catalog/inventory of sculptor Dominique Labauvie’s life’s work for the government of France to make a book in his honor]
2025
Adjunct Faculty, University of South Florida, Tampa & St. Petersburg FL
[Beginning Printmaking (with digital media applications)] x2
[Digital Sculpture]
[Digital Modeling]
[student work portfolio pdf available upon request]
Co-Artist~Curator, Co-Developer, Co-Organizer | cycles of futility, IRL showcase hosted by Roses Midwest Gallery (Bloomington), online group exhibition via NewArt.City.
[produced by desiremedia & the tesseract.]
owner of lyndseygillespie.designs, greater tampa bay area
[product designer, graphic designer, sales/marketing for online shop]
co-founder of [desiremedia], east coast USA
[multidisciplinary artist collective]
collaborative partner of the tesseract, Bloomington IN
[creative production company]
designer for the marketing of digital art exhibition entitled “Mimicry & Mirage”, Process Gallery, Gayle Karch Cook Center, Bloomington IN
2024
owner of lyndseygillespie.designs, greater tampa bay area
[product designer, graphic designer, sales/marketing for online shop]
Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington IN
[Survey of Digital Art]
[student work portfolio pdf available upon request]
Co-Curator, Co-Developer, Co-Organizer | let me hear you repeat this tone: a greater presence to things, a greater attention to things, Eskenazi School of Art, NewArt.City.
Graphic Designer | MFA Thesis Catalog, IU, Bloomington, IN
Guest Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington IN
[Portfolio Design & Web Building Basics Workshop]
Digital Art Graduate Assistant, Indiana University, Bloomington IN
2023
Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington IN
[Digital Imagery for Non-Majors]
[student work portfolio pdf available upon request]
Primary Graphic Designer | MFA Thesis Catalog, IU, Bloomington, IN
Digital Art Graduate Assistant, Indiana University, Bloomington IN
Printer’s Assistant, Bleu Acier Inc., Tampa, FL
[for logotype, artist book, gallery material design work]
Co-Artist-Curator | Shadows Shed Light, Tangent Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Co-Artist-Curator | Projections and Reflections, Roses Midwest, Bloomington, IN
Curatorial Assistant | Multiple Bodies, Bridge Chicago, SITE/less, Chicago, IL
2022
Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington IN
[Digital Imagery for Non-Majors]
[student work portfolio pdf available upon request]
Backdrop Designer | Legally Blonde The Musical, Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society.
[learned how to scale for set/experiential design]
Book Maker, Bleu Acier Inc., Tampa, FL
[for artist book, gallery material design work]
Printer’s Assistant, Bleu Acier Inc., Tampa, FL
[for logotype, artist book, gallery material design work]
Typographer, Bleu Acier Inc., Tampa, FL
[for logotype, artist book, gallery material design work]
2021
Book Maker, Bleu Acier Inc., Tampa, FL
[for artist book, gallery material design work]
Printer’s Assistant, Bleu Acier Inc., Tampa, FL
[for woodtype digitization, artist book, gallery material design work]
Typographer, Bleu Acier Inc., Tampa, FL
[for woodtype digitization, artist book, gallery material design work]
2020
Book Maker, Bleu Acier Inc., Tampa, FL
[for woodtype digitization, artist book, gallery material design work]
Printer’s Assistant, Bleu Acier Inc., Tampa, FL
[for woodtype digitization, artist book, gallery material design work]
Typographer, Bleu Acier Inc., Tampa, FL
[for woodtype digitization, artist book, gallery material design work]
Photopolymer Research Assistant to master printmaker Erika Greenberg Schneider of Bleu Acier Inc., USF, St. Petersburg, FL
2019
Design Intern, Mighty Fine Design Co., Tampa, FL
[learned motion graphics and product apparel design]
2019 –
2018
Graphic Artist, IVURI Industries LLC.
[learned digital print production]
exhibition & show history
2026
Mimicry & Mirage, Process Gallery, Gayle Karch Cook Center, Bloomington, IN
[nov-mar]
2025
Mimicry & Mirage, Process Gallery, Gayle Karch Cook Center, Bloomington, IN
[nov-mar]
cycles of futility, IRL showcase hosted by Roses Midwest Gallery (Bloomington), online group exhibition via NewArt.City. | Co-Artist~Curator, Co-Developer, Co-Organizer |
MicroActs 20, FOMO House, Shoreditch, London, UK
2024
Eskenazi School of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition: Another Tower of Babel??, Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Interwoven: Recent Works from IU Fibers, John Waldron Art Center, Bloomington, IN
let me hear you repeat this tone: a greater presence to things, a greater attention to things, Eskenazi School of Art, [a newart.city online exhibition found worldwide].
2023
The Matriarch Band [projection mapping for concert], Blockhouse, Bloomington, IN
Sounds From the Black Hole [projection mapping for concert], The Orbit Room, Bloomington, IN
Too Many Cooks [projection mapping for concert], The Bluebird, Bloomington, IN
Multiple Bodies, Bridge Chicago, SITE/less, Chicago, IL
selected by a group jury of the Indiana University Digital Art program.
Projections and Reflections, Roses Midwest, Bloomington, IN
ArtFest, Upland Brewing Co., Bloomington, IN [June, May, April]
Shadows Shed Light, Tangent Gallery, Bloomington, IN
2023 Visual Arts Competition + Exhibition, The National Society for Arts and Letters along with FAR Center for Contemporary Art, Bloomington, IN
2022
Inaugural Opening, Tangent Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Open Studios: Fiber Arts Show Space, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Recess: A Collaborative Exhibition at the John Waldron Art Center, Bloomington, IN
2021
USF Graphic Arts Program’s 2021 BFA Thesis Show: Retrospect 2021 , St. Petersburg, FL
2019
New York International Miniature Print Exhibition,
Intaglio print selected by juror Sarah Kirk Hanley, NYC, NY
education
2024
Master of Fine Art, Digital Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2021
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Arts | Graphic Design, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL
Minor in Art History, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL
2019
University of South Florida’s School of Art History’s Paris Program and Venice Excursion
2016
Psychology, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT.
2015 –
2014
Psychology, Lasell College, Newton, MA.
publications
2026
|hope)is st anding st.ar : solo show of katy pinke| dialogue between katy pinke & lyndsey gillepie | KATE OH GALLERY, New York City, NY.
2025
ISEA2025 Symposia, ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic/Emerging Arts), Seoul, Republic of Korea.
TITLE: [let’s.have]M[ore]F[un.in]A[rt.but.really.also.all.aspects.of.life]
[[The Roots of Another Tower of Babel??]]
fellowships, honors, awards
2024
Grant-in-Aid of Masters of Fine Arts Projects from The Graduate School Bloomington [Recipient]
2023
Mary Jane McIntire Endowed Fellowship [Recipient]
2022
Friends of the Art Pegram Harrison Memorial Award [Recipient]
2014
Ferrigno-Bell Chapter of the National Honor Society [Member]
2013
Ferrigno-Bell Chapter of the National Honor Society [Member]
leadership
Digital Arts Representative of IU’s MFAO, SEPT 2022 — MAY 2024
Member of IU Digital Art Guild, SEPT 2021 — MAY 2024
Co-President of USFSP Graphic Arts Student Group, SEPT 2020 — MAY 2021
President of Relay for Life of LC, MAY 2016 — DEC 2016
President of Psychology Club of LC, SEPT 2016 — DEC 2016
volunteer
Fibers Revival Volunteer, Becks Mill, Salem, Indiana MAY 2023
Artist Performing Tiltbrush Demonstrations at IU’s monthly art event, First Thursday, April 2022.
Volunteer at Special Olympics, JUNE 2012 — JUNE 2014