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| 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 symposium, ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic/Emerging Arts), Seoul, Republic of Korea. 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. 

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education

Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art: Digital Art
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

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

USF School of Art & Art History Paris Program & Venice Excursion

Additional coursework in Psychology
Lasell University & Central Connecticut State University

Adjunct Faculty, School of Art & Art History
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg & Tampa, FL | 2025–2026
[Courses taught: Beginning Printmaking, Digital Printmaking, Principles of Animation, Beginning Drawing, Digital Sculpture(Tampa), Digital Modeling(Tampa)]

Associate Instructor, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | 2021–2024
[Courses taught: Survey of Digital Art; Digital Imagery for Non-Majors]

Guest Instructor, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | 2024
[Workshop: Portfolio Design & Web Building Basics]

Guest Lecturer
University of South Florida & University of Tampa, FL | 2020
Lectures focused on Hilma af Klint and contemporary artistic practices

Co-Curator; Writer & Designer
hope)is st anding st.ar : solo show of katy pinke.
Kate Oh Gallery, New York City, NY. | 2026

Co-Artist-Curator & Developer
cycles of futility,
IRL showcase hosted by Roses Midwest Gallery (Bloomington), online group exhibition via NewArt.City. | 2025
[produced by desiremedia & the tesseract.]

Co-Artist-Curator & Co-Developer
let me hear you repeat this tone: a greater presence to things, a greater attention to things, Eskenazi School of Art, NewArt.City. | 2024

Co-Artist-Curator
Shadows Shed Light
Tangent Gallery, Bloomington, IN | 2023

Co-Artist-Curator
Projections and Reflections
Roses Midwest, Bloomington, IN | 2023

Curatorial Assistant
Multiple Bodies
Bridge Chicago, SITE/less, Chicago, IL | 2023

Render Me Softly Film Festival
Cleveland, OH | 2026

MicroActs 20 Film Festival
FOMO House, Shoreditch, London | 2025

Mimicry & Mirage
Process Gallery, Gayle Karch Cook Center, Bloomington, IN | 2025

Eskenazi School of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition: Another Tower of Babel??
Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, IN | 2024

Interwoven: Recent Works from IU Fibers
John Waldron Art Center, Bloomington, IN | 2024

Multiple Bodies
Bridge Chicago / SITE/less, Chicago, IL | 2023

Visual Arts Competition + Exhibition
National Society for Arts and Letters & FAR Center for Contemporary Arts
Bloomington, IN | 2023

ArtFest
Upland Brewing Co., Bloomington, IN | [June, May, April]  2023
[projection mapped installation]

Inaugural Opening
Tangent Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | 2022

Open Studios: Fiber Arts Show Space
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | 2022

Recess: A Collaborative Exhibition
John Waldron Art Center, Bloomington, IN | 2022

Retrospect 2021: USF Graphic Arts Program BFA Thesis Exhibition
St. Petersburg, FL | 2021

New York International Miniature Print Exhibition,
Intaglio print selected by juror Sarah Kirk Hanley, NYC, NY | 2019

Printer’s Assistant, Web Designer, Typographer & Book Maker
Bleu Acier Inc., Tampa, FL | 2020–Present
Designed the Bleu Acier website; designed logotype for atelier; produced artist books, exhibition materials, and typographic systems; digitized wood typefaces; assisted with photopolymer and letterpress production; and typeset archival publication materials documenting sculptor Dominique Labauvie’s oeuvre for a publication commissioned by the French government, as well as helping to expand ongoing archival development and future web design initiatives for Labauvie.

Collaborative Partner
The Tesseract Creative Production Company, Bloomington, IN | 2025-Present

Owner & Designer, lyndseygillespie.designs
Greater Tampa Bay Area | 2024–Present
Product design, branding, graphic design, marketing, and e-commerce management

Co-Founder, desiremedia
Multidisciplinary artist collective, East Coast, USA | 2025–2026

Motion Graphics Designer/Animator/Graphic Designer/Collaborator
for Katy Pinke:
Louie(experimental surreal film to accompany music album)
Bloom (music video)
Wonder (album cover, animated title sequences & social media campaign)
New York, NY | 2026-Present

Graphic Designer
Mimicry & Mirage exhibition marketing
Process Gallery, Bloomington, IN | 2025

Graphic Designer
MFA Thesis Catalog, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, Bloomington, IN | 2023–2024

Digital Art Graduate Assistant
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | 2023–2024

Motion Graphics/Animated Projection Map Designer
The Matriarch Band, Blockhouse, Bloomington, IN | 2023 || Sounds From the Black Hole, The Orbit Room, Bloomington, IN | 2023 || Too Many Cooks, The Bluebird, Bloomington, IN | 2023

Backdrop Designer
Legally Blonde The Musical
Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Washington, D.C. | 2022
[learned how to scale for set/experiential design]

Photopolymer Research Assistant to master printer, Erika Greenberg Schneider
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL | 2020

Design Intern
Mighty Fine Design Co., Tampa, FL | 2019
[learned motion graphics and product apparel design]

Graphic Artist
IVURI Industries LLC, St. Petersburg, FL | 2018–2019
[learned digital print production]

publications & writing

“katy pinke: hope)is st anding st.ar; dialogue between lyndsey gillespie & katy pinke”
Kate Oh Gallery, New York, NY | 2026

ISEA2025 Symposia
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??]]
ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic/Emerging Arts), Seoul, Republic of Korea. | 2025

artist residencies

Free Columbia Artist Residency
Columbia County, NY | 2026

fellowships, honors, awards

Grant-in-Aid of Master of Fine Arts Projects
Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design [Recipient] | 2024

Mary Jane McIntire Endowed Fellowship for Creative Excellence
Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design [Recipient] | 2023

Friends of the Art Pegram Harrison Memorial Award
Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design [Recipient] | 2022

Ferrigno-Bell Chapter of the National Honor Society [Member] | 2013-2014

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

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