Teresita Carson (b. Mexico) is an artist working across disciplines, including moving image, fiber, and installation. Taking an irreverent feminist approach to world and counter-archive building, she explores the abstract intersection between the historical, the speculative, indigenous cosmogonies, and magical peripheries. Recent venues presenting Carson’s work include Mana Contemporary, Hyde Park Art Center, Gallery 400, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, and the 2024 Ground Floor Biennial. She has screened experimental films internationally, notably at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Slamdance Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Light Matter Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos, Antimatter, and Experiments in Cinema. Carson has received grants from DCASE’s Individual Artists Program (IAP), the Artists Run Chicago Fund, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She resides in Chicago, Illinois in the land of the Three Fires Confederacy, Potawatomi, Odawa and Ojibwe Nations.
  • Writer (7 Credits)
    Chucky's Feast
    Short Script
    Shlomo's Night Out
    Short Script
    Monolith2023
    Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Short
    Promised Land2023
    Experimental, Short
    Hanging a Shadow2022
    Experimental
    Where I am, Where I am Not 2021
    Experimental, Short
    She Let Herself Go2018
    Experimental
  • Producer (5 Credits)
    Monolith2023
    Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Short
    Promised Land2023
    Experimental, Short
    Hanging a Shadow2022
    Experimental
    Where I am, Where I am Not 2021
    Experimental, Short
    She Let Herself Go2018
    Experimental
  • Director (5 Credits)
    Monolith2023
    Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Short
    Promised Land2023
    Experimental, Short
    Hanging a Shadow2022
    Experimental
    Where I am, Where I am Not 2021
    Experimental, Short
    She Let Herself Go2018
    Experimental
  • Acting (2 Credits)
    Where I am, Where I am Not 2021
    Experimental, Short
    She Let Herself Go2018
    Experimental
Competition (Experimental Short)
Monolith
Slamdance
Park City, Utah
2024
Official Selection
Monolith
Biophilia International Film Festival
Mexico City
2023
Official Selection
Monolith
AnimAura
Morelia, Michoacan
2023
Official Selection
Monolith
HACER una escuela de Cine Comunitario
Buenos Aires
2023
Official Selection
Monolith
Light Matter Film Festival
Alfred, NY
2023
Official Selection
Monolith
Kansas City Underground Film Festival
Kansas City, Missouri
2023
International Competition
Monolith
Cagliari Film Essay Festival
Cagliari, Sardinia
2023
Winner International Short Documentary
Monolith
Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos (FICMA)
Mexico City
2023
Official Selection
Promised Land
ULTRACinema
Official Selection
Promised Land
Esto Es Para Esto
Monterrey
Official Selection
Promised Land
Cinestesya Film Festival
Porto
Official Selection
Promised Land
Altered Images
London
Winner Best Experimental Film
Promised Land
Festival de Sorocaba
Winner Best Experimental
Promised Land
Cine Festival São Jorge
Official Selection
Monolith
San Diego Latino Film Festival
San Diego, CA
Official Selection
Monolith
Experiments in Cinema v19.8
Albuquerque, NM
Official Selection
Monolith
Cauldron International Film and Video Festival
Salt Lake City, UT
Official Selection
Monolith
Feminist Border Arts Film Festival
Las Cruces, NM
Official Selection
Monolith
TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE - International Screening of Experimental Films and Videopoems
Tranas
Official Selection
Monolith
Ely Film Festival
Ely, MN
Official Selection
Monolith
Defy Film Festival
Nashville, TN
Official Selection
Monolith
Nahui Ollin
Durango
Official Selection
Monolith
Antimatter
Victoria, B.C.
Official Selection
Monolith
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Chicago, IL
College
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BFA
20162018
College
University of Illinois at Chicago
MFA
20212023
Birth City
Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
Current City
Chicago
Zodiac Sign
Libra
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