Kelly Sears

In 2015 she works as a new wave animator and an Assistant Professor of Film at The University of Colorado Boulder. Her work is based on politics and culture in America.

Sears was associated with Glassell School of Art as a Core Fellow. and held a and Galveston Artist Residency (September 2011 – August 2012). She received two grants, the Russell Grant and Waggerman Grant. She worked as Director of Media Studies Production at Pitzer College. She was Media Arts Instructor and an advisory board member at Aurora Picture Show.

After graduation, Sears worked at several universities teaching about techniques in animation, video art, and film. She was an Artist-in-Residence with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (September 2009 – June 2011), and was associated with the museum as a Fellow at the Core Program.

The Body Besieged created in 2009, created from work out books, reveals creepy, unrealistic body maneuvers. Another film from the same year titled Voice on the Line comments on how technology shapes communication, fears and desires.

Sears gathers resources for images in her artwork and animations from discarded periodicals, books, encyclopedias, archival films, old magazines and advertisements and collages them together to create science fiction tales, horror movie narratives, and animated documentaries. These films are assembled using both of analogue and digital animation techniques. One of Sears earlier pieces made in 2003 is entitled Charles and Christopher.

Sears was born in Massachusetts She studied at Hampshire College from 1996-2000 where she attained a B.A. in Film and Video. Sears then studied from 2001-2005 at the University of California, San Diego, graduating with an M.F.A. in Film, Video, and Animation. In 2003, during her studies, Sears was part of a group exhibition named Domesticity at the Herbert Marcuse Gallery and two screenings: Video Scoring, Machine Project and Becomings, Museum of Contemporary Art.

Kelly Sears (born 1978) is an American animator and filmmaker. In 2015 she lives in Los Angeles, California and is Assistant Professor of Film at University of Colorado Boulder. Her work consists of video, digital animation, stop-motion animation, digital imaging, and sound design.