CV
born 1992 new york ny
based in los angeles ca
EDUCATION
Associates Degree, Pasadena City College, 2015
Art Center at Night, 2014-2015
RESIDENCIES / FELLOWHIPS
Frieze LA x Deutsche Bank x Ghetto Film School Fellow, 2020
Women’s Center for Creative Work Artist in Residence, 2020
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, 2017
By Us For Us / Eyebeam Gallery, NYC, 2018
EDUCATIONAL WORK
Video Art + Film Workshops
California Institute of the Arts, Winter Practicum 2020
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, 2018 and 2019
Artist Lectures
California State University, Long Beach Spring 2020
California Institute of the Arts, Spring 2020
ART + PRACTICE, Spring 2019
SCREENINGS + EXHIBITIONS
Red Bull Center Channel Film Festival
“On Mattering” Dir. Alima Lee, 02.2019
ART + PRACTICE
Time Is Running Out Of Time 02.02.2019-09.14.2019
“Portals 1” (2018) Dir. Alima Lee
“Naia” (2017) Dir. Alima Lee
“La Fleur Noir” (2017) Dir. Alima Lee
Martos Gallery, EBSPLOITATION
“The Worst Witch” (2018) Dir. Alima Lee
“I’m Not In Love” (2019) Dir. Alima Lee
“On Mattering” (2019) Dir. Alima Lee
June 21 - August 3, 2019
Shoot The Lobster, LA
“The Worst Witch” (2018) Dir. Alima Lee
October 2018-March 2019
Black Radical Imagination
“Garden” (2017) Dir. Alima Lee
Opening: MOCA, Los Angeles 2018
Ann Arbor Film Festival
articule, Montréal
ICA Boston
Smithsonian African American Film Festival
MCA Chicago
MOCA Screen
“Garden” (2017) Dir. Alima Lee
April-May 2018
Echo Park Film Center
LA Artist In Residency Screening August 2017
“Garden”
“La Fleur Noire”
“Naia”
“BRWN”
HVW8 Gallery Los Angeles
“Cosmic Perspective” (2016) Dir. Alima Lee
Video Installation + Screening
August 2016
HVW8 Gallery Berlin
City of Quartz group show
Video Installation + multimedia works
March 2020
CURATORIAL
Films For Isolation
Featuring Short Films by Rikkí Wright, Clifford Prince King, Sydney Canty and Alima Lee, curated by Alima Lee
“Ever since society’s respective shut down, I have been constantly reminded of the importance of community. Our presence is vital and this series is a representation of that notion. Films for isolation includes time-based works of four Black queer artists and their exploration of the self as it is perceived internally. Investigation themes of visibility and home, every piece aims to bring us all closer to the source; remembering what truly matters.
April 8- May 5, 2020
Notes On Intimacy
Shoot The Lobster, Los Angeles
Video Art Show
Opening: October 18, 2019 - March 2020
Rhythm Frequencies Screening
Red Bull Center Channel Film Festival
February 20,2019
Rhythm Frequencies explores the nuances of black thought, sound and movement. It is a visceral snapshot into the minds of contemporary femme and gender nonconforming filmmakers evaluating the roles of sound and image as they play their composite positions in storytelling.
Martine Syms - Notes On Gestrure
Ja’Tovia Gary - Giverny I (NÉGRESSE IMPÉRIALE)
The Uhuruverse - Bomaye!
Kandis Williams - Fountains
summer fucking mason - Linoleum
Zakkiyyah Najeebah - DE(LIBERATE)
Rhea Storr - Junkanoo Talk
Rhea Dallion - Black Angel
Alima Lee - Garden
Nontsikelelo Mutiti with Dyani Douze - Pain Revisited