Lilli Carré

2020 Artist in Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE

Carré provided the illustrations in Andrew Sean Greer's 2017 novel Less, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

2017 Best Film US Competition, GLAS Animation Festival

2015 Ignatz Award for online comic, The Bloody Footprint, created for the New York Times

2014 James Thurber House / Columbus Museum of Art Graphic Novelist in Residence

Carré participated in the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art's Ten x Ten 2013, which "investigates the relationship between color and sound...exploring the underlying concepts of synesthesia". In 2013, she produced an "entirely new body of work in animation, sculpture, and drawing" for her first solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Carré has collaborated with artist and filmmaker Alexander Stewart on a number of works including slide installations, works on paper, and animations. "Where Did I Leave the Thing Itself", an exhibition of their collaborative works, was held at the Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, in 2012.

The commercial contemporary art gallery, Western Exhibitions, in Chicago, has represented Carré since 2012, and exhibits her work.

2011 Propeller Fund Grant, Administered by Gallery 400 & ThreeWalls, funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Her books of comics include Nine Ways to Disappear, The Lagoon, and Tales of Woodsman Pete. An excerpt from The Lagoon was chosen to be included in The Best American Comics 2010 and "The Carnival" was nominated for Outstanding Story at the 2009 Ignatz Awards. Carré's film How She Slept at Night screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

2010 Festival Special Guest, Small Press Expo, Stockholm, Sweden

2008 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story, The Thing About Madeline

Carré was born and grew up in Los Angeles. Her mother is a graphic designer and her father, who died when Carré was a teenager, was a designer and forensic animator. She has said that a "major activity throughout my childhood was when my parents would roll out a big sheet of butcher paper on the apartment floor, and my sister and I would amuse ourselves quietly for hours by drawing images and stories all over it". Carré transferred to an arts high school in her senior year and then left Los Angeles, initially to study sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and become a sound artist, but she became interested in creative writing, film, and printmaking. While studying she also worked in the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection. As part of her creative writing classes she read various short story writers and cites Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar as having inspired her very much. She received her BFA from SAIC in 2006 and settled in Chicago where she currently lives and works. Carré worked part-time at the Facets Multi-Media film library for several years, an experience she has said influenced her filmmaking.

2006 Fellowship Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2005 Scholarship for Research and Travel, endowed scholarship of the art history class Integrated Visions: 20th Century Art Environments

Lilli Carré (born 1983) is a contemporary artist, filmmaker, and cartoonist from Los Angeles. She now lives and works in Chicago.