Kaeti MacNeil is an American surrealist artist creating paintings and animations. Her film Carasoul: a Portrait in Nth Dimensions (2022) won Best Animated Short at the Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image in New York City. Her work depicts temporal, immaterial sensations and perceptions as spatially material extensions of the body. She earned a BFA with Distinction from OCAD University in Toronto specializing in Drawing & Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation. Her fascination with human origins, particularly our gifts of individual personality, self-awareness, and intelligence, drives her inspired pursuits through art history, cognitive science, and theoretical physics. Her work has been exhibited in Toronto, Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City.
She earned her Associate of Arts in Graphic Design & Illustration at Madison Area Technical College, graduating with a Portfolio of Merit. With her entrepreneurial company, Tyler Poncho Toys, she designed and produced branded soft toy lines with character stories and illustrated books. As a brand manager and senior designer in licensed product development, she worked with major brands Monster High, Barbie, Crayola, DC Super Hero Girls, Dreamworks Trolls, and more. She created original products, licensed packaging, and managed the process from idea to shelf. Her work in children’s toys brings out her playful spirit to share with the world.
Education
2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction. OCAD University. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation
2010 Associate of Arts. Madison Area Technical College. Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Graphic Design and Illustration
Juried Group Exhibitions
2023 Dreams, Heart Soul and Art, Marietta, Georgia
The Color Red, Heart Soul and Art, Marietta, Georgia
2022 The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image, Dobly Cinema, New York City
Salon des Refusés at the OIAF, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Mindfield Film Festival, Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico
GradEx 107, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2020 OCADU Live, Online
2019 InMotion, Handlebar, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2010 Plush You!, Schmancy, Seattle, Washington
Soft Serve, OhNo!Doom, Chicago, Illinois
Candyland, Hot*Pop, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2007 Made in Milwaukee 5, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Awards
2022 Best Animated Short, The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image
2010 Portfolio of Merit, Madison Area Technical College, Class of 2010
Bibliography
2023 Animating the Hallucinogénie, Labocine, September 2023, digital
2013 “Ringmaster Reginald RoponchÓ”, STUFFED Magazine, Autumn 2013, print
“Creatures of the Dwarf Planet”, STUFFED Magazine, Winter 2013, print
2011 “Stuffing Stories into Softies”, STUFFED Magazine, Winter 2011, print
2010 “Double Bears”, STUFFED Magazine, Summer 2010, print
Press
2013 “Not Just Tomatoes”, The Waukesha Freeman, print
2010 “Monster Making pays off for Madison college graduate”, The Clarion, print
“Lindquist a master of sewing, imagination”, The Oregon Observer, print
Kaeti MacNeil is a Luminary in the Science New Wave.
