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About

Lily (Basil) MacLachlan is a comics and fiber artist originally from North Carolina. They now reside in Chicago, IL, and attend School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the BFA program. Currently, they are creating an experimental comic on fabric. It can be viewed here

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Curriculum vitae

Exhibitions
SAIC BFA Show / School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL / 2024
Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free / Hazroom Gallery
Chicago, IL / 2024
WHIM Cares: Gay Beach / Stage 773
Chicago, IL / 2024
We See You: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in 2024 / Oak Park Artist’s League
Chicago, IL / 2024
Oxbow Open House / Oxbow School of Art
Saugatuck, MI / 2023
Iridescent Footprints: Intergenerational Queer Art Exhibition / Center on Halsted
Chicago, IL / 2023
Pages In Between - A Sketchbook Exhibition / RHE Siragusa Gallery
Chicago, IL / 2021
Mining Words - An Artists’ Books Exhibition / The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection
Chicago, IL / 2021
Group Thesis Exhibition / Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
Winston Salem, NC / 2019
Juried Exhibition / UNCSA Library
Winston Salem, NC / 2019
Intensive Arts Exhibition / UNCSA 4th floor Workplace
Winston Salem, NC / 2019


Publications
Untitled Yuri Comics Volume One / Self-Published Riso Zine / 2024
I Love You And Everything Dies & Decays & Fades Away, So Let’s Be Friends Until The Bitter End, OK? / Self-published Riso Zine debuted at SAIC BFA show / 2022-2024
Bishounen (Short Fiction) / Published in Mouth Magazine / 2023
Untitled (Quarantine Zine) / Self-published Zine / 2021
Being Zine / Self-published Zine / 2018
Painstar Zine / Self-published Zine / 2018


Residencies and Achievements
Northwestern Gender Pathways Artists’ Residency / 2024
Oxbow School of Art / 2023
SAIC’s Presidential Scholarship, renewed yearly / 2019 - 2024
SAIC First Year Scholars program / 2019 - 2020
Kenan Foundation Penland fellowship / 2019


Work/Volunteer Experience
Northwestern Gender Pathways / Chicago, IL
2024 / Internship / Resident Artist
School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Chicago, IL
2023-2024 / Paid part-time position / Teaching Assistant
Governor’s School of North Carolina / Winston Salem, NC
2021-2022 / Paid full-time position / Visual Art Teaching Assistant, Counselor


Additional Experience
Tabled at Zine Not Dead Festival / 2024
Tabled at SAIC’s fall and spring art sales / 2022 - 2024
Tabled at MANA Contemporary Museum of Art / 2022
SAIC Student-run Critique Group / 2019
Designing album covers for acclaimed music artists such as Cartier God / 2020 - 2024


Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Undergraduate Bachelor of Fine Arts
Graduated with a BFA in 2024
University of North Carolina School of the Arts / High school visual arts program
Graduated 2019


Coursework
Deep Risography / Conor Stechulte / 2024
Risograph printing
Advanced Print for Fiber and Material Studies / Amy Yoes / 2023
Screenprinting, Sewing Machine Proficiency
Offset Printing / Thomas Denlinger / 2022
Offset Print, Book Construction
The Artist Formerly Known as Starving: Professional Practice / Beth Hetland / 2021
Professional writing, Formulating contracts and book deals, Networking
Artists’ Books / Florence Liu / 2021
Book construction and maintenance

 

portrait of the artist

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