painter + animator + director + professor Lauren Gregory is a painter, animator, director and educator who is best known for her technique of oil paint stop-motion animation, a way of making her paintings move. Born and raised in the mountains of East Tennessee, she began as an observational portrait painter, capturing friends and family in quick one session sittings. Lauren is the fourth in a lineage of southern female painters, following in the footsteps of her mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009, and since then has created GIFs, looped video installations, and narrative animated shorts that have screened at MoMA P.S.1, the New Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, and at museums and film festivals around the world. She has directed and animated music videos for Toro y Moi, Macy Rodman, and Uffie, and has been awarded artist residencies in Budapest, Hungary, in Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy, and in Newburgh, New York. Lauren teaches painting and experimental animation at Parsons School of Design, Temple University and Ox-bow School of Art. She is represented in New York by the Elijah Wheat Showroom, and in Nashville by the Red Arrow Gallery. Lauren lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.