I'm an artist working solo & collaboratively. I co-founded Cybertwee with Gabriella Hileman & May Waver, a collective that explores the intersections of technology & cuteness. You might remember my solo project, Vickie, an ongoing photo-essay of my sister that I started in 2011. I used to be a freelance front-end developer in Chicago, then I lived in Berlin and worked at Volkswagen Future Design Center Europe doing UX Design and prototyping for self-driving vehicles. Now I'm back in Miami working on art full-time making NFTs, and sometimes take freelance projects :)
~* Violet Forest *~
Curriculum Vitae
Born 1990 in Miami, FL.
Currently in Miami.
info(at)violetforest.com
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Education
- ♡ M.F.A School of the Art Institute of Chicago { Art & Technology, 2016 }
- ♡ B.A Florida International University { Photo, Video, Performance, 2012 }
- ♡ A.S Miami Dade College { Graphic Internet Technologies, 2009 }
- 2019
- ♡ Web Art Group Exhibition { East Middlelands, UK }
- ♡ Group Exhibition { Birmingham Open Media, UK }
- ♡ Cybertwee Solo Show { Birmingham Open Media, UK }
- 2018
- ⊹ CTHQ PC with Wild Rumpus (London), Game Developers Conference, San Francisco
- ⊹ Transmediale Vorspiele: Internet Fame, Panke Gallery, Berlin
- 2017
- ⊹ The Wrong Digital Biennale: Internet Fame Pavillion, http://iamthefamous.me
- ⊹ cybertwee dark web handbook, pre-future,
- ⊹ CTHQ vive, Virtually Real @ VR World, NYC
- ⊹ CTHQ vive, spam’s — the internet, museum of human achievement, Austin
- ⊹ CTHQ vive, ORD camp, Chicago
- ⊹ CTHQ vive, bit x bit, digital art demo space, Chicago }
- 2016
- ♡ Digital Artist Residency { Welcometomyhomepage.net }
- ♡ Group Exhibition { Cybertwee @ Public Access Gallery, Chicago }
- ♡ Solo Exhibition { Cybertwee @ Godine Gallery, MassArt, Boston }
- ♡ Group Exhibition { M.O.M.A NYC 'New Photography Newstand Installation' }
- 2015
- ♡ Cybertwee Deep Web Bakesale { The Dark Net }
- ♡ Rhizome.org Feature { May Waver, 'Embedded Lullabies' }
- ♡ Group Exhibition { M.O.C.A North Miami, 'Temporary Autonomous Zone' }
- ♡ Print Feature { Dazed Digital Magazine, 'Cybertwee' }
- 2014
- ♡ Teaching Assistant @ SAIC { Web Art, Embodying Code }
- ♡ Victory Zine { sold at Quimby's Chicago & Printed Matter NYC }
- 2013
- ♡ Solo Exhibition { Photo + Video by Violet Forest, 6th St. Container, Miami }
- ♡ Group Exhibition { Pretty Thieves Three, Washington, D.C. }
- ♡ Web Feature { Top Photography Films: Emerging Artist }
- 2012
- ♡ Group Exhibiton { Underage @ Photoville, Brooklyn } NY. ---New Yorker, Lost at E Minor, Feature Shoot, Lenscratch.
- ♡ Group Exhibition { XX, As in Female Chromosomes, Strange Loop Gallery, NYC }
- ♡ Group Exhibition { Photography by Women, 6th Street Container, Miami }
- ♡ Group Exhibition { Silent Auction at Dina Mitrani Gallery. Wynwood, Miami }
- ♡ Web Feature { Feature Shoot, Violet Forest's Raw & Revealing Photographs of her Sister Vickie }
- ♡ Web Feature { Vickie, VICE UK }
- ♡ Web Feature { Lomography.com: The Verisimilitude of Violet Forest's Film Photography }
- ♡ Web Feature { Artisabout.com: A conversation with Violet Forest }
- ♡ Web Feature { Violet Forest | Youth Novels - Art is About }
- ♡ Writing { Culture Close-Up: Dogan Arslanoglu at 6th Street Container Gallery }