LILY DESAUSSURE
EDUCATION
2008 MFA Painting, American University
2003 BFA Drawing and Painting, California College of Arts and Crafts and University of San Francisco
Areas of Specialization: Drawing, Embroidery, Installation, Photography
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013 Senior Lead Instructor, Galileo Learning; Painting and Comic Books, Summer
2012 Lead Instructor, Galileo Learning; Digital Photography, Painting and Cartooning, Summer
Adjunct Faculty, Montgomery College, Drawing 101, Spring
Adjunct Faculty, Northern Virginia Community College; beginning, intermediate and advanced drawing,
Spring
2011 - 2012 Adjunct Faculty, College of Southern Maryland; beginning, intermediate and advanced drawing and painting
2010 Curator, Fathom Gallery, Washington, DC
Assistant Director, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2008 - 2010 Director/Assistant Director, Project 4, Washington, DC
2007 - 2009 Art Curriculum Writer, Galileo Learning; Modern, Ancient Egyptian and African Art
2006 - 2008 Teaching Assistant, American University, Studio Experience, Fall 2006 and 2007
Teaching Assistant, American University, Advanced Painting, Spring 2007 and 2008
2007 Senior Lead Art Instructor, Galileo Learning, Summer 2007
2005 - 2006 Lead Art Instructor, Galileo Learning, Summers
2006 Interning Artist in Residence, Leap... Imagination in Learning, Spring 2006
AWARDS
2011 Honorarium, Transformer, Washington, DC
2008 Artist Fellowship Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Honorarium, Transformer, Washington, DC
2007 Mellon Research Grant
2006 - 2008 Graduate Merit Scholarship, American University
EXHIBITION RECORD
SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2011 Double Dare Ya, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC
2008 Live to Tell (collaboration with Graham Childs), Meat Market Gallery, Washington, DC
2006 Friends of Mine (with Katie Taft), Cruz Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Don't Forget to Listen, Hotel Biron, San Francisco, CA
2005 Oddball Gallery, Portland, OR
2004 Ver Unica, San Francisco, CA
2003 Bruce Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Bruce Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Art Show!, Bruce Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Against the Bias, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC
2011 You Are Here: Washington, DC, Dorian Grey Gallery, New York, NY
8th Annual Transformer Auction, invitational, Washington, DC
Adjunct Faculty Exhibition, College of Southern Maryland, La Plata, MD
2010 Sew Me Up (curated by Susan Jamison), Dialogue Gallery, Roanoke, VA
7th Annual Transformer Auction, invitational, Washington, DC
2009 Hand of Fate, Red Dirt Studio, Mt. Rainier, MD
2008 Aqua Wynwood, with Project 4, Miami, FL
5th Annual Transformer Auction, invitational, Washington, DC
BOX 13 ArtSpace, invitational, Huston, TX
Hot, Sizzling Art, invitational, Katzen Art Center
Here & Now (collaboration with Graham Childs), invitational, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC
Proximity, Katzen Art Museum, Washington, DC
2007 Aqua Wynwood, with Meat Market Gallery, Miami, FL
Other, Katzen Art Museum, Washington, DC
Performance Week, invitational, Meat Market Gallery, Washington, DC
Sketch Tuesday (curated by Kelly Tunstall), 111 Minna, San Francisco
2006 Business Minded, invitational, Renowned Gallery, Portland, OR
Works on Paper , invitational, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2005 Another Witty Remark, invitational, Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Urban Bird II, invitational, Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Secret Robot Project, invitational, Idle Hand Tattoo Studio, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Night is Black and White (curated by Alika Cooper), San Francisco, CA
Urban Crush, invitational, Belcher Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Witty Remarks, invitational, 1333 Bush, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Emerging Artists (curated by Jeremy Chase Sanders), 710 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
2003 Taste Test (curated by Kelly Lynn Jones), Umbrella Gallery, Oakland, CA
A Delicate Balance (juried by Richard Kamler), Thacher Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Thresholds (juried by Fr. Thomas Lucas, S.J.), Thacher Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 One Big Step, Club Indochine, San Francisco
A.U.R.A.L., Club Bas, San Francisco, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mark Jenkins, "Lily deSaussure", Washington Post, January 12, 2012
NBC's LXTV 1st Look featuring Transformer Gallery and "Double Dare Ya", aired January 14, 2012
Kimberly Bender, "Lily deSaussure's 'Double Dare Ya' at Transformer", DCist, December 2011
"Preview and Curated Q&A: You Are Here: Washington, DC at Dorian Grey Gallery", Curated Magazine, October 13, 2011
Kriston Capps, "DC2NY: The Exhibit", Washington City Paper, September 13, 2011
Ryma Chikhoune, "Meet the Gallery Girls Part 2", Brightest Young Things, interview, April 7, 2010
Philippa P.B. Hughes, "Ecstatic Chromatic", DC Modern Luxury, December 2009
Kriston Capps, "Here and Now", Sculpture Magazine, January/February 2009 (Vol. 28, No. 1)
Maura Judkis, "Closed Call", Washington City Paper, May 23 - 29, 2008 (Vol. 28, No. 21)
Kriston Capps, "City Shutters Art Space, Locks Up Goldfish Inside", DCist, May 20, 2008
Studio Visit Magazine (juried by Carl Belz), Fall 2008 Edition
Lana Stephens, "'Chromophobia' at Meat Market Gallery", Artifice, February 21, 2008
LECTURES
1999 University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2008 Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC (with Kristen Hileman)
Imaging Memory, American University, Washington, DC
2009 Project 4, Washington, DC
2010 Project 4, Washington, DC
2011 Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC (artist talk in conjunction with Double Dare Ya)
2015 Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2015 Arrowmont Pentaculum, Gatlinburg, TN
2009 Red Dirt Studio, Mt. Rainier, MD
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2009 & 2010 Auction Artist Nominating Committee, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
College Art Association
Artists Advisory Group, Gateway Community Development Corporation, Brentwood, MD
2010 - present
2010 - present