Born 1981 - Oklahoma City, OK
aleepeoples@gmail.com
BIO:
Alee Peoples maintains a varied artistic practice that involves screen-printing, sewing, sculpture and film. Currently living in Los Angeles, she has taught youth classes at Echo Park Film Center and shown her sculpture and film work at GAIT, 4th Wall and elephant. Peoples has shown her films at numerous festivals including Edinburgh, Images (Toronto) and New York Film Festival, and at museums and spaces including SFMoMA, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Pompidou Center, Dirt Palace (Providence) and The Nightingale (Chicago). Started in 2022, Arroyo Seco Cine Club is a thematically programmed film series she co-curates with Mike Stoltz. She is inspired by pedestrian histories, pop song lyrics and invested in the hand-made.
EDUCATION
2010 Rhode Island School of Design - Providence, RI
Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture
2007 School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, IL
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Fiber and Materials
2004 Columbia College Chicago - Chicago, IL
Bachelor of Fine Arts
AWARDS - GRANTS
2024 Juror Award for Hey Sweet Pea - ICDOCs
Best Portrayal of Erasure Award for Hey Sweet Pea - MUFF
German Film Critics Association Award for Hey Sweet Pea - EMAF
2019 800ft. Peoples Pleaser Award for Decoy – MUFF
Light Press Grant via Interbay Cinema Society
2015 Juror Award for Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies - MUFF
Juror Citation for Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies - ICDocs
Juror Award for Waxing and Milking - FLEX Fest
2014 Third Prize, Directors' Choice Award for Them Oracles - Black Maria Film Fest
2013 First Prize for Them Oracles - MUFF
Juror Citation for The Root That Ate Roger Williams - ICDocs
2010 Honorable Mention for Boys of Summer - MUFF
2008 Jacques & Natasha Gelman Graduate Fellowship
2006 Department of Cultural Affairs & Illinois Council of the Arts: Community Arts Assistance Program Grant
2005 Department of Cultural Affairs & Illinois Council of the Arts: Community Arts Assistance Program Grant
RESIDENCIES - PROGRAMS
2019 Chulitna Lodge, Lake Clark, Alaska
2015 ACRE, Steuben, WI in collaboration with Mike Stoltz
2014 LA AIR, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
Institute for Labor Generosity Workers and Uniforms, Long Beach, CA with Danielle McCullough
2010 Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY
2008 Gruber Foundation, Yucatan Mexico
2007 Fabric Workshop and Museum Apprentice Program, Philadelphia PA
2005 Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams MA
FILM SCREENINGS
2024
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Engauge Film Festival, Seattle
Gravitational Lensing, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland
solo screening at Anthology, NY
Binghamton University Cinema Department, NY
Cornell University Cinema, NY
Alternative Cinema, Colgate University, NY
Crossroads, San Francisco
Peripheries Film & Video Festival, Chicago
solo screening at Los Angeles Film Forum
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Canada
ICDOCs, Iowa City
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Athens International Film & Video Festival, Ohio
Experiments In Cinema, Albuquerque
Artists Film Workshop w/ Ross Meckfessel, Melbourne
Cosmic Rays, Chapel Hill, NC
First Look at Museum of Moving Image, NY
Berwick Film & Media Arts, UK
Para by Para w/ Jeremy Kennedy, Human Resources
2023
Crossroads At 14, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Alee Peoples at Visions, Montreal
Arroyo Seco Cine Club - Nu Norms
MicroLights: Walking Towards Shore, Greenbush Growing Coop, WI
Stray With the Body at Woodbine, Queens, NY
Alee Peoples at Roxie Theater, San Francisco
2022
Light Field Los Angeles at 2220 Arts & Archives
Lunch Poems, curated by Jesse Malmed at Nightingale Cinema, Chicago
Light Matter at Alfred Summer Fest
Arroyo Seco Cine Club - DEEP END
Arroyo Seco Cine Club - Pattern, Rhythm, Rock
Arroyo Seco Cine Club - Get Rich Quick!
aemi tour: The Model, Sligo, Ireland
aemi tour: VISUAL, Carlow, Ireland
aemi tour: WORM, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
aemi tour: Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
aemi tour: Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland
aemi tour: Pálás Cinema, Galway, Ireland
2021
Videodrome2, Marseille
Light Material, Alfred, NY
Cork International Film Festival, Ireland
Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, OH
Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro VT
A Concrete Cloud - Nightingale Cinema at Hyde Park Art Center
First Look Festival - Museum of Moving Image, NY
Get In Bitches - Nightingale Cinema at Hyde Park Art Center
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (online)
Iowa City Documentary Film Festival - Juror Screening (online)
European Media Arts Festival - Osnabrück (online)
2020
Cámara Lúcida - Quito (online)
Fracto Film Festival - Berlin (online)
Alee Peoples & Karissa Hahn - Microscope Gallery, NY (online)
European Media Arts Festival - Osnabrück (online)
San Francisco International Film Festival (online)
Ann Arbor Film Festival - Ann Arbor, MI (online)
Onion City - Chicago (online)
Zumzeig Cine Co-op with Amy Halpern - Barcelona
Cosmic Rays - Chapel Hill
New Works Salon - Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles Mix Tape - L’etna, Paris
2019
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrüeck
Light Field, San Francisco
USC Cinematheque 108, Los Angeles
Frenkel Defects, Ontario
Artists Film Workshop w/ Mike Stoltz, Melbourne
2018
Recover In the Ether - Microlights, Milwaukee
Ski Club via High Desert Test Sites - Yucca Valley
Spotlights On A Brick Wall - LaborBerlin, Berlin
Spotlights On A Brick Wall - WORM, Rotterdam
Spotlights On A Brick Wall - Cavia, Amsterdam
Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies - Iris Film Collective, Vancouver
Fire Freeway & Flood - West Coast touring program
Fronteras Destruidas, Lima Independiente Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Crossroads, San Francisco
Acid Free Los Angeles, Art Book Market at Blum & Poe
Iowa City Documentary Film Festival
Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Journal screening
Athens International Film & Video Festival
IV Frontieira International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Brazil
San Francisco International Film Festival
Onion City, Chicago
New Works Salon, Echo Park Film Center
2017
Festival International del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericana, Havana
Light Field, San Francisco
Bridgeport Art Trial, Bridgeport, CT
Back To The Future: Project!, Rotterdam
She Makes Noise, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
San Diego Underground Film Fest
Supernormal via BEEF, Oxfordshire, UK
End of the World Garden, Cornwall, UK
Nonplussed Film Fest, Los Angeles
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival - solo screening
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Iowa City Documentary Film & Video Festival
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque
Kiev International Short Film Festival, Ukraine
Athens International Film Festival, Athens OH
Big Ears Festival, Knoxville
Plastik Festival, Dublin
$100 Film Festival, Calgary
Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Australia
Cave Festival, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2016
Light Field, San Francisco
Festival of Different & Experimental Cinema, Paris
Grand Union First Friday, Birmingham UK
New Works Salon, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
Segueing, Character Projects, Los Angeles
Projections, 54th New York Film Festival
Queer City Cinema, Regina, Canada
Gold Hill/Boulder
Iris Collective, Vancouver
Fields Festival, Baltimore
Unexposed Microcinema, Durham
Oracles, Light Movement, Berlin
Nonplussed Fest, Non Plus Ultra, Los Angeles
Institute for Labor Generosity Workers and Uniforms, Long Beach, CA
Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan
Shobi University, Saitama, Japan
Future Projections, MOOG Fest, Durham, NC
New Works Salon, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival – Juror Screening, Milwaukee
Salon, Women's Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles
Feminism & Co., Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
Films from the Echo Park Film Center, ATA, San Francisco
The 8 Fest, SPK Polish Combatants Hall, Toronto
2015
Echo Park Film Center Marathon, Los Angeles
Rick Bahto & Alee Peoples, RedCat, Los Angeles
MIX NYC, New York
AntiMatter Media Art Festival, Victoria, Canada
Projections, 53rd New York Film Festival
Hit That Long Lunar Note, People's Liberty, Cincinnati
LAX >>> YWG, Open City Cinema, Winnipeg, Canada
New Works Salon, Echo Park Film Center
WUFF, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Backup Fest, Weimer, Germany
Queer City Cinema Film Festival, Regina, Canada
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Juror Award for Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque
Images, Toronto
ICDOCS, Iowa City - Honorable Mention for Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies
FLEX, Gainesville, FL - Juror Award for Waxing and Milking
Espacio Labruc, Madrid, Spain
Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain
The 8 Fest, SPK Polish Combatants Hall, Toronto
Frames from the Golden State, NDSM Treehouse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Frames from the Golden State, Sign Gallery, Groningen Netherlands
2014
Sommerfilme, Kurz & Knapp, 8 cities, Switzerland
Black Maria Film & Video Festival, New Jersey City & traveling program
And The Beat Goes On, Gallery 400, Chicago
Images Film Festival, Toronto
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Burning Bungalows Film Tour, 13 cities across Southern US
High Concept Laboratories at Mana Contemporary, Chicago
LA AIR (Artist In Residence) screening, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
Alee Peoples & Mike Stoltz, Mono No Aware, Brooklyn
Alee Peoples & Mike Stoltz, AS220, Providence
MIX NYC, 27th Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York
Waiting For The Big One, Regional Support Network at VideoFag, Toronto
Comfort Station, Chicago
2013
New Works Salon Marathon, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
Cinematheque 108, USC, Los Angeles
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - First Place, Them Oracles
Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, Albuquerque
Iowa City Documentary Fest - Juror Citation, The Root That Ate Roger Williams
Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Alee Peoples and Janis Crystal Lipzin, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
Blasts From The Past: Best of Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
2012
New Works Salon, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
Alee Peoples Films, Nightingale Theater, Chicago
Yankee Clutter, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
Yankee Clutter, Black Hole, Oakland
Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, Albuquerque
2011
Shadowbox Cinema III, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
The Ones That Got Away Part II: CUFF Salonathon, Chicago
Radical Adults Lick God Head Style, Artists Television Access, San Francisco
Crossroads Festival, San Francisco
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
2010
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Honorable Mention, Boys of Summer
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Rutgers University Film Co-Op Super 8 Festival
Creole Cabaret, Dirt Palace
2009
Watch Yourself, Show Me What You Got - Providence RI
AS220 - Providence RI
2008
Light Industry, Curator Sabrina Gschwandtner - Brooklyn NY
2007
Boris Karloft, Chicago IL
SOLO EXHIBITION
2023
General Projects/Insert Press, Los Angeles
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBTIONS
2023
L.A. Driveway - Ingrams, Los Angeles
Yours & Mine - Hermon Hall/Art In The Park
2021
Cara Levine & Alee Peoples - Elephant, Los Angeles
2019
EPFC @ HR - Human Resources, Los Angeles
2017
Alee Peoples & Bob Dornberger - GAIT, Los Angeles
2016
"Scenario II: Let's Get This Thing Going" - ACRE, Chicago
Western Pole, Chicago
2015
"Hello, World!" - ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
"Doppelgänging" - Work Release, Norfolk, VA
"Chronic Mini-Series" - Atwater World, Los Angeles
"Cash Machine" - FatherSons, Los Angeles
"Alee Peoples and Justin Seigel" - The Fourth Wall, Los Angeles
2013
"Va Ders" - Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles
"North East Los Angeles Bicycle Art Show" - Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles
2011
"Wassaic Summer Festival" - Wassaic, NY
"Revel, Revel" - Cave, Detroit MI
"Let Me Pull Your Coat To This" - Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA
"We Are The History Because We Tell Us" - Primo Piano Gallery, Lecce Italy
2010
"Public Records" - Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
"Brand New Bag" - Recess, Inc., New York NY
"After Image" Curator Jamillah James - Frontier Projects, Baltimore MD
"Episodic" Curator Anne Reinhardt - Cave Space, Detroit MI
"WTF" Curator Rosalinda Gonzalez - Kunz, Viz, Gonzalez, Chicago IL
2009
“This Is A Show About Rock N’ Roll”
Curators Brett Day Windham & Kat Vogt Hodges w/ catolouge - Gelman Gallery, Providence RI
“Salute” Curator Elise Robison - Accidental Gallery, Chicago IL
“PYT: Pretty Young Thing” - 235 Westminster, Providence RI
“We’ve Killed It, Mounted It, Cut It’s Flesh, Just So That Your Face Might Be Slightly More Kissable” - Sol Koffler Gallery Providence, RI
2008
“Hecho de Mano en Mexico” - Rainbo Club, Chicago IL
2007
“Do Not Disconnect” - G2 Space SAIC, Chicago IL
“Re:Fuse” Curator Annie Holm - New Orleans Gallery, St.Charles IL
“The Show Show” - East Bank Storage Center, Chicago IL
MFA/Post-Baccalaureate Exhibition - G2 Space SAIC, Chicago IL
“Version Fest” Curator Lumpen - Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago IL
2006
“Open Catalouges” - Manual Labor, Chicago IL
“Emerald City” Curator Michele Gambetta - Rider Project, Chicago IL
Installation Cases - Rainbo Club, Chicago IL
“Air Raid Abstinence with Elise Robison” - Elastic Arts Foundation, Chicago IL
“Ben Driggs, Alee Peoples and Miklos P. Simon” - Wizard Island, Chicago IL
2005
“Made In NA, MA” - The Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams MA
2004
“It’s the _____ That Matters” - Ante-Room Gallery, Chicago IL
“Ante-Thesis Release Party” - Ante-Room Gallery, Chicago IL
“Rapid Decay” - 404 S. Mississippi Blvd., St.Paul MN
“Where I End And You Begin” - A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago IL
2003
“Shelter” - C33 Space, Columbia College, Chicago IL
“Hokin Honors Awards” - Hokin Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago IL
“Thirteen” - Station Thirteen, Chicago IL