Angelique Ellyn Anderson is a New York City based, multidisciplinary digital artist is a graduate of School of Visual Arts (MFA) and Pratt Institute (BA). She develops interactive augmented & virtual reality (AR/VR) experiences, models 3D environments, creates NFTs and loves designing fabric prints. Her background is in fashion, motion graphics and publishing. Her multi-faceted career has spanned from working with Sony, FOX, TimeWarner developing broadband content/websites to illustrating book covers for publishers to fabric prints for various apparel manufacturers. Angelique founded LIQUE Story Studio to develop immersive VR/AR content, children's picture-books, and interactive apps.
After an artist residency with Snapchat 2020, Angelique is an AR Creator contributor. She participated in Oculus Launch Pad in 2017 - 2019, an intense 3-month program, sponsored by Facebook and Oculus to help creators develop their AR/VR projects. She is now an ongoing Oculus Start fellow. She continues to exhibit art projects in New York City at Chelsea galleries. Her work has been published in the Leonardo, the ISEA catalogue and adorns the covers of Avalon Books -Thomas Bouregy, NY (Amazon). As an Asst. Art Director at Harlem School of Arts, NYC, she taught youth and conducted workshops in traditional printmaking, digital art and web-design. She mentored HarlemLive, a teen outreach-afterschool program.
E X H I B I T I O N S
2026 – Dandy La Femme - Pen & Brush · NYC, NY
2025 – Dancing Dandy and Ancestors - NFT.NYC & Searchlight - Times Square, NY
2024 – ..cotton & rope - NFT.NYC & Searchlight - Times Square, NY
2022 – Augmented Patterns - 5Myles Gallery · Bklyn, NY
2022 – Venus - NFT.NYC & Searchlight - Times Square, NY
2022 – Venus - Searchlight group show title Figure Glyphs on Voxel virtual gallery
2021 – The Gift group show - Viridian Artists Gallery · Chelsea, New York, NY
2020 – Sira – Snapchat residency submission – Santa Monica, CA
2020 – Hope group show - Viridian Artists Gallery · Chelsea, New York, NY
2019 – ZodiacVR - presentation w/NYVR at National Arts Club, · New York, NY
2018 – ZodiacVR - YouTube preview for Oculus Launch Pad submission – San Jose, CA
2017 – Humpty Dumpty-VR Timewave Fest, Fall Time, Inc. (VRLab – NYU)
2016 – Timewave Fest, Spring Hearst Corp. (VRLab – NYU)
2016 – Enchanted Universe of Children Illustrators, Interchurch Cntr. Treasure Gallery, NYC
2016 – VRLab - NYU sponsored by Hearst Corp.
2015 – Actual to Virtual - Viridian Artists Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
2015 – It’s Hot - Viridian Artists Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
2015 – Fairy Tales - Brooklyn Public Library, NY
2015 – Master Storytellers - Poe Park Visitors’ Center, NY
2014 – Director’s Choice - Viridian Artists Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
2013 – Mother Goose RE-Imagined, Greenwich Library, Greenwich, Conn.
2011 – Art-Bridge semi-finalist, NY
2005 - Group Show - Montserrat Gallery, NY
2004 - Group Show - Montserrat Gallery, NY
2003 - Group Show - Montserrat Gallery, NY
2001 - Hermione–Artoconnecto, Wash., D.C.
2000 - Orishas-Garden VR installation – Revelation ISEA, Int'l Symposium Electronic-Art, Paris, FR
1999 - International Women's View On Masculinity UFA Gallery, NY
1998 - Olokun's-DomainVR - installation Computerworld-Smithsonian Awards, Wash. DC
1997 - Women & Art of Multimedia Conference, Natl. Mus. of Women in the Arts, Goethe-Inst, Wash. D. C.
1997 - Orishas-Garden VR - "Pixels" SVA Gallery, NY.
1996 - Olokun's-Domain VR - SIGGRAPH 4thAnnual Digital-Salon, NY
A W A R D S
2020 Snapchat AR Creator Residency – Santa Monica, CA
2017 & 2019 Oculus Launch Pad Fellowship – San Jose, CA
Smithsonian-Computerworld Laureate Award – Wash., D.C.
Rockefeller Foundation nominations twice
Girl Gamers Scholarship – Seattle, WA
World Studio Foundation – Make the World a Better Place
A F F I L I A T I O N S
NYVR
Snapchat AR Creator
Oculus Launch Pad / Start Fellow
Volumetric Filmmakers NYC – VFNYC
CLARA database of Women Artists, Natl Museum of Women’s Artists, Wash.,D.C.
Children’s Media Association
Children's Book Illustrators Group (CBIG)
KidLit.tv
Pat Cumming’s CBBC
