Painted animation, visual music, art that moves

Exhibitions


EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, AND HONORS

2024 Solo Exhibition, ‘The Animated Art of Exuberance’ at the Janet Hennessey Dilenschneider Gallery, NYC

Manhattan Arts Grant 2024 Awardee Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), NYC

Animation Speak/Easy Presenter, guest filmmaker for community animation event, Brooklyn, NY

Concert Visuals, ‘Jazz and Animation: The Christopher Zuar Orchestra and Anne Beal Animation’ at the Sheen Center, NYC

Stop-Gap Projects, Animation Microdose in Columbia, MO (Positioning (2016) was invited to showcase)

2023 SouthSide Film Festival, USA (Sixteen Kings’ Daughters (2021) was invited to screen)

Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences Residency April 2023

2022 Tricky Women Film Festival, Feminist Interventions (Positioning (2016) was invited to showcase) Vienna

         London International Animation Festival Music Video Program (Sixteen Kings’ Daughters)

         Festival Kinomurale, Poland Immersive Art screening, Balance and Swing (2012) and Positioning (2016)

Ottawa International (OIAF), I created a tribute to Amy Kravitz, honoring her as the 2022 Honorary President

2021 Ottawa International Animation Festival, RISD Retrospective (Balance and Swing (2012) invited to showcase)

2019 Platform Project Space Brooklyn Screened in a group show of “painters who make films”

2019 Skillshare Teacher of the Month Won September 2019 Teacher of the Month for my ‘Make a Paper Puppet’ animation class

2018 150 Media Stream Featured Artist on the 150-foot video sculpture in downtown Chicago, with collaborator, Christopher Zuar Orchestra. October 2018 - January 2019. 

2018 Yaddo Fellow 2018, awarded a 5-week Artist Residency to generate new work

2017 MacDowell Fellow 2017, 7-week Artist Residency, awarded the Andrew Carnegie Scholarship 

2017 Animation Block Party, NYC, Positioning 

Indie Grits Film Festival, Columbia SC, Positioning 

Midwest Independent Film Festival, USA, Singing So Sweetly 

Shorts on Tap London:Women in Revolt, UK, Positioning 

Touch Sensitive, London, UK, Positioning 

Cape Fear Independent Film Festival, USA, Positioning 

FILE Festival of Electronic Language, Brazil, Positioning, Balance and Swing 

2016 Chicago International Film Festival, Positioning 

Ladies With Lenses, Vimeo Channel, Positioning 

Utah Arts, Music and Film Festival, Positioning 

Southeast New England Film Festival, Positioning 

Animation Block Party, Wishing Well 

2015 Animation Block Party, Head Games 

Animae Caribe,Trinidad and Tobago, Head Games, *Best Art Film, finalist 

Plymouth State University, “Contemporary Video Artists” exhibit; Head Games, Balance & Swing 

2014 Annecy International Animation Festival, France, Singing So Sweetly

London International Animation Festival, UK, Singing So Sweetly 

             ReAnimania International Animation Festival, Armenia, Singing So Sweetly 

Animator Festival, Poland, Singing So Sweetly

2013 Annecy International Animation Festival, France, Balance and Swing 

             Rhode Island Comic Con, USA, Balance and Swing 

Female Eye Film Festival, Canada, Balance and Swing 

ReAnimania International Animation Festival, Armenia, Balance and Swing 

Southeast New England Film Festival, USA, Balance and Swing, *Best Animated Film

Cinema Le Festival Anima’Zik, France, Balance and Swing 

Scored Silent Film Festival Chicago, USA, Balance and Swing 

2012 Thomas Edison Film Festival, USA, Balance and Swing, *Director’s Choice Award 

         Les Nuits Magiques Film Festival, France, Balance and Swing 

          Woods-Gerry Gallery Film/Animation/Video FAV Triennial Exhibit, USA, TWELVE SECONDS


Anne Beal (left) discusses the animation artwork she created for the Christopher Zuar Orchestra album, Exuberance, which she projected and controlled live in concert, May 2024.

Anne Beal, Blooming Flowers Sequence, 34 x 50 inches, comprised of 42 watercolor animation frames, each frame 4.5 x 6 inches.