Kinetic sculptor Anne Lilly uses carefully engineered motion to shift and manipulate our perceptions of time, space and self. Her ordered and precisely constructed interactive sculptures move in strikingly organic, fluid and mesmeric ways. Employing opposing modalities -- analytical and intuitive, rational and emotional -- Lilly's sculptures elicit new connections between the physical space outside ourselves and our own private, psychological domain. They are fabricated in machined stainless steel, but require the viewer's touch to initiate movement: pressing clinical qualities against the sensuous response of each piece.

Lilly holds a Bachelor of Architecture, magna cum laude, from Virginia Tech, and has taught at MIT and Massachusetts College of Art.  She received the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Grant Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Blanche E. Colman Grant, visiting artist positions at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Art Institute of Boston. Her work was included in a landmark 14-month exhibition of kinetic art at the MIT Museum, and her work has been collected by the DeCordova Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Middlebury College Museum of Art, and numerous corporate and private collections internationally. In March 2017, she was the invitational lecturer and guest critic at Lebanese American University, in Beirut, Lebanon.

Education
Bachelor of Architecture:
Five Year Degree with Thesis. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, 1990.
Magna Cum Laude.
Virginia Masonry Prize, First Place with Special Distinction, 1990.
AIA Medal and Certificate for Excellence in the Study of Architecture, 1990.
Otis Elevator International Competition, Special Commendation, 1989.
First Place, Harold Hill Memorial Competition, 1986.
Civil Engineering:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1984-1985.

Solo Exhibitions
2017 Seattle Art Fair, Sponder Gallery, Boca Raton, FL.
To See, curated by John Guthrie, VERY, Boston, MA.
Mortui Vivos Docent, Roxbury Latin School, Boston, MA.
2016 Situating Movement: Anne Lilly, New Work, Suffolk University Art Gallery, Boston, MA.
To Wreathe, Lunder Art Center, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.
2014 New Work, William Baczek Fine Art, Northampton, MA.
2013 Bleaching Field, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Time Tendril, Hunter Gallery, Saint George’s School, Middletown, RI.
Temporal Tincture, Galerie Swanström, New York, NY.
2011 Nimbus, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA.
Anne Lilly: Kinetic Sculpture, Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ.
2010 Sleights, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2008 Kinetic Sculpture by A. M. Lilly, Hammond Gallery, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA.
Anne Lilly: Kinetic Sculpture, Tunnel Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
2007 Aristotle Series, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Silent Sonnets, Arden Gallery, Boston, MA.
2005 Laden-Light, Artists’ Foundation, Boston, MA.
2004 Viscosity, Artspace, New Haven, CT.
2003 Order & Change, Mariani Gallery, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Ordinary Time (upcoming in Sept) two person show with painter Grace DeGennaro,
curated by Stephanie Walker, Bundy Modern, Waitsfield, VT.
WATER + COLOR (upcoming in Sept) curated by Elli Crocker, Clark University, Worcester, MA.
(upcoming in Sept) two person show with painter Phyllis Berman,
curated by Ellen Wineberg, Room 83 Spring, Watertown, MA.
Reciprocity, curated by Audrey Goldstein, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA.
2016 Sculptures et Reliefs, curated by Denis Kilian, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France.
Pulse Miami Beach, William Baczek Fine Art, Northampton, MA.
Tough Art, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
2015 Massachusetts Cultural Council Awardees, New Art Center, Newton, MA.
Cinétique et Numérique, curated by Denis Kilian, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France.
Scene & Unseen, curated by Susan Oliver Heard, Cinnabar Art, San Antonio, TX.
2014 Constructive Art - Kinetic Art, curated by Denis Kilian, Espace Expression, Wynwood, Miami, FL.
AQUA Art Miami, William Baczek Fine Art, Northampton, MA.
The Poetics of Motion, curated by Jay Williams, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL.
Relativity, curated by Kelly Eberly, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT.
Winter, curated by Jenn Harrington & Sarah Berstler, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, MA.
Flash of an Instant, curated by Caitlin Moore and Sarah Pollman, New Art Center, Newton, MA.
2013 AQUA Art Miami, William Baczek Fine Art, Northampton, MA.
5000 Moving Parts, four person exhibition curated by Laura Knott, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.
The Delight of Movement: Six Kinetic Sculptors, curated by Philip Palmedo, Gallery North, Long Island, NY.
SCOPE!Basel, Galerie Swanström, New York, NY.
SCOPE!New York, Galerie Swanström, New York, NY.
Invitational Exhibition, two person exhibition with painter Fran Bull,
curated by Michele Gagnon, University Gallery, UMass Lowell, MA.
2012 SCOPE!Miami, Galerie Swanström, New York, NY.
Mechanics of Nature, two person exhibition with sculptor Michael Meilahn,
curated by Kay Arneson, Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI.
Breathing Spaces, two person exhibition with painter Joel Janowitz,
curated by Bonnell Robinson, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA.
2011 About the Sea, South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY.
Paintings, Drawings, & Sculpture, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA.
2010 Icons & Altars, New Art Center, Newton, MA.
Sensed/Unseen, curated by Ashley Billingsley, GASP Gallery, Brookline, MA.
2009 Opening Lines, curated by Susan Goldwitz, New Art Center, Newton, MA.
2008 Move Me: Kineticism in Art, Cushing Martin Gallery, Stonehill College, Easton, MA.
2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, curated by Rachel Lafo & Nick Capasso, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.
2006 Private Universes, curated by Kathleen Bitetti, Lillian Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA.
Art for the Garden, curated by Julie Levesque, Newton, MA.
2005 2 person exhibition with painter Linda Lowe, Arden Gallery, Boston, MA.
Art for the Garden, curated by Julie Levesque, Newton, MA.
2004 Spiritual Geometry, curated by Susan Goldwitz, New Art Center, Newton, MA.
2003 ArtSpace Sculpture Walk, curated by Denise Markonish, Farmington Canal Trail, New Haven, CT.
Unfolding Geometries, two person exhibition with photographer Don Eyles, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA.
Frag, curated by Jed Speare, Evos Arts, Lowell, MA.
The Ballad of Wires & Hands, curated by Dana Moser, New Art Center, Newton, MA.
2002 Gadgets, Gizmos & Games, curated by Craig Bloodgood, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA.
The Experiment Show, curated by Jeff Smith, The Revolving Museum, Boston, MA.
2001 Touchable Stories: Fort Point, curated by Shannon Flattery, Touchable Stories Group, Boston, MA.
2001: a Space Artessey, curated by Jed Speare, Mobius Artists’ Group Fundraiser, Boston, MA.
Internal Drive, curated by Joanne Kaliontsis, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA.
Schematically Inclined, curated by Roland Smart, Gallery Bershad, Somerville, MA.
1999 Mobility, Zeitgeist Gallery, two person exhibition with painter Karsten Kunert, Cambridge, MA.

Collections
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
New Britain Museum of American Art
Middlebury College Museum of Art
DeCordova Sculpture Park & Museum
Raytheon Corporation
Hotel Commonwealth
Sheraton Hotel
Meditech Corporation

Public Commissions
Memorial for Benjamin Thompson, FAIA, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA, 2007.
Watercross, South Bay Harbor Trail, Boston, MA, awarded 2005, awaiting funding.
Us & Them, Ramsay Park and Boston Common (temporary installation), City of Boston, 2001-2002.
Long Arms, Summer Street Bridge (temporary installation), Fort Point Public Art Series, Boston, MA, 2001.

Awards & Residencies
2017 Roxbury Latin School STEAM artist-in-residence
2016 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Guest Artist, Polly Thayer Starr Artist Series
Massachusetts Cultural Council STARS Artist in Residence
2015 Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist in Sculpture/Installation/New Genres
2014 MIT Visiting Artist
2013 Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Grant Award for Lifetime Achievement
2012 Art Institute of Boston Artist in Residence
2011 Blanche E. Colman Award Recipient
2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize Nominee

Teaching & Lectures
Time as Material, Guest Lecturer & Guest Critic, School of Architecture & Design, Lebanese American University,
Beirut, Lebanon, March 2017.
Mortui Vivos Docent, Morning Lecture, Roxbury Latin School, West Roxbury, MA, January 2017.
Conversation with mathematician Edith Cook, Suffolk University, Boston MA, November 2016.
Oratorio Brunneis Sacculi, presentation to staff, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, November 2016.
Guest Critic, Massachusetts College of Art 3D MFA Program, Boston, MA, November 2015.
Complexities of Interaction, Lecture at the Newton Free Library, Newton, MA, October 2015.
Guest Lecturer, Museum Studio, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 2015.
Guest Lecturer in 3D undergraduate program, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, November 2014.
Guest Lecturer on time-based media, Boston University, Boston, MA, January 2014.
Exhibiting Science, guest critic & student mentor, MIT, Spring 2014.
Catalyst Conversations Lecture with Harvard mathematician Michael Hopkins, Broad Institute at MIT, 2014.
Working with Movement, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2008, 2012, 2013.
Abstract Principles of Sculpture, Art Institute of Boston, Spring 2012.
Panel Discussion, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, June 2011.
Drawing in the Fourth Dimension, Maud Morgan Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA, 2011 - 2012.
Machining for Artists, Studio Class, Somerville, MA, 2011 - 2013.
Engaging with Movement, Maud Morgan Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA, Fall 2010.
Kinetic Sculpture & the Art of Wind Dynamics, Summer Institute for Teachers, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA,
August 2005, 2006, 2007. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Kinetics & the Art of Motion, DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln, MA, April 2006.
Guest Lecturer, College of Performing & Visual Arts, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, 2003.

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