KAETI LEILA MACNEIL





INDEPENDENT ARTIST & ANIMATOR
kaeti@kaetimacneil.com
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Kaeti MacNeil is an American artist working at the intersection of painting and animation. Her practice focuses on how perception, memory, and embodied sensation take visual form over time, often translating immaterial or temporal experience into spatial images. Drawing from art history, cognitive science, and process philosophy, her work investigates the emergence of individual personality, self-awareness, and human intelligence.

Her animated film Carasoul: a Portrait in Nth Dimensions (2022) received Best Animated Short at the Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image in New York City. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Aga Khan Museum. She serves as an Advisor to the SPARKS Community Cohort at the Center for Process Studies and is a Luminary with Science New Wave.



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Topology of Sensate Images
Online exhibition, New Art City

C.V. 





Education
2025
Certificate in Process Thought & Practice
Center for Process Studies / Cobb Institute

2022
BFA with Distinction
OCAD University, Toronto
Drawing & Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation

2010
AA, Graphic Design & Illustration
Madison Area Technical College



Appointments & Talks
2026 (forthcoming)
Works in Process, Lightning Talk
18th Triennial Symposium: All Too Human
Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology, Connecticut College

2025
Carasoul: Animating the Imaginal Mind
SPARKS Exchange, Center for Process Studies

2025–present
Advisor, SPARKS Community Cohort
Center for Process Studies

2023–present
Luminary, Science New Wave



Film Festivals & Screenings 2026 (forthcoming)
Carasoul: a Portrait in Nth Dimensions

18th Triennial Symposium: All Too Human
Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology, Connecticut College

2024
Carasoul: a Portrait in Nth Dimensions

25th Dawson City International Short Film Festival
Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Yukon

2022
Carasoul: a Portrait in Nth Dimensions

Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image, Dolby Cinema, New York City
(Best Animated Short)

Salon des Refusés, Ottawa International Animation Festival
SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario

Mindfield Film Festival
Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico



Curated Media Features 2026 (forthcoming)
Sensing the Superject
ODORAMA
, March Issue
Labocine / Science New Wave

2023
Carasoul: a Portrait in Nth Dimensions
The Umwelt
, March Issue
Labocine / Science New Wave

Carasoul: a Portrait in Nth Dimensions
Hallucinogénie
, September Issue
Labocine / Science New Wave



Selected Exhibitions 2025–26
Local Perspectives
Smyrna Community Center and City Hall, Georgia

2024
Light Up the Dark
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

2023
Dreams
Heart Soul and Art, Marietta, Georgia

2022
GradEx 107
OCAD University, Toronto



Awards Best Animated Short
Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image, New York City
2022

Portfolio of Merit
Madison Area Technical College
2010



Writing & Press
2024
Carasoul: The Imaginal Mind,” Novel Becomings Blog, Cobb Institute / Center for Process Studies

2023
Animating the Hallucinogenie,” Spotlight Article, Labocine / Science New Wave




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Last Updated 26.02.18