Philly based artist working in animation, paint and mixed media
Featured animated music video made in 2025 for the song Sleeping on the Back Porch for Echo Kid
About
Lindsay Kovnat is a Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, and animation. Her work explores vulnerability, humor, and transformation through surreal characters that blend human, animal, and mythic forms. Drawing from animation, underground comics, and feminist art traditions, Kovnat creates luminous, mischievous worlds where emotional intensity and absurdity coexist.
Her animated music video for Plastic Little won Best Experimental Short at the Philadelphia Film Festival, and she received First Place in the Super Girl themed competition at the 48 Hour Film Project. Her first solo exhibition, Temporary Sanctuary, was held at Solas Studio in 2023. She has participated in exhibitions in New York, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Philadelphia.
Upcoming
Stop Motion Animation Workshop
Main Branch, Free Library of Philadelphia
April 23rd and 21st at 5:30pm
Main Branch, Free Library of Philadelphia
April 23rd and 21st at 5:30pm
Feral Form Fantasy - 3 artist show
October 2026
Utility Works, Landsdown, PA
October 2026
Utility Works, Landsdown, PA
Let’s Work Together
Available for animation collaborations, commissions, and teaching workshops.
Feel free to get in touch if you’d like to work together.
Feel free to get in touch if you’d like to work together.
SELECTED ART EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
1-3 Person Shows
2026 — Feral Form Fantasies, Utility Works, Lansdowne, PA
2026 — Created Frames for Alex Spalding’s show*, Parktown Place, Philadelphia, PA
2023 — Solas Studio, NY, NYC
Group Shows
2026
Germantown Art and Sound, Germantown, Philadelphia, PA
Win(ter) Black & White Show, Funhouse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2025
Goth Gala, The Jane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Off the Wall, Dirty Franks, Philadelphia, PA
Creativity in Chaos, Off the Wall Dirty Franks, Philadelphia, PA
Fur Babies, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA
LAUGH IT OFF, Comedy Village, NY, NY
Fruit Salad, The Canopy Studio, Chelsea, NYC
Two-by-Two, Cerulean Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2024
Support Through Assembly, Anonymous Society, Redding, CT
5853 Pop-Up Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023
Winter Showcase, SOLAS Studio, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, SOLAS Studio, New York, NY
2022
The Patriot Show, O’Flaherty’s, NY, NY
The Monster Within, SOLAS Studio, New York, NY
188 Allen Street Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Picture Consequences, Collaborative animation projected onto the facade of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2019
GAIN GREEN: Portraits of Heavy-lifting Horticulture, The Fairmount House, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Got it For Cheap, David Risley Gallery in Copenhagen at Steinsland Berliner in Stockholm, and at Agnes B’s Galerie du Jour in Paris
2012
Kinder Schont in Der Nacht, Know More Games, Brooklyn, NY
CK1, South Philadelphia, PA
2011
Trenton Ave Arts Kinetic Festival, Philadelphia, PA
Making-it, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Out of Phase, Bodega Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Works from the Nettle Fizz, Curated by Lindsay Kovnat, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
Papermill Community of Artists, Curated by Lindsay Kovnat, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Slow Mo, Germ Book Store, Philadelphia, PA
PIFAS Town, PIFAS, Philadelphia, PA
PIFAS, Padlock Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Multi-Faceted Female, The Barat Foundation, Newark, NJ
Film Festivals
2026
ASIFA East Animation Festival, School of Visual Arts, NYC, NY
Femmes in Film, Fireball Printing, Philadelphia, PA
Philly Animation Festival, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Sideworld Festival, Philadelphia Brewing Company, Philadelphia, PA
2025
Sideworld Festival, Philadelphia Brewing Company, Philadelphia, PA
2014
Plastic Little Reunion Show, film screened, Underground Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, screened “Haze for Days”
Moviate Arts Film Festival, screened film, “Haze for Days,” Harrisburg, PA
Videopolis, screened film, Baltimore, MD
2009
SAGE film screening, SAGE Gallery Project, Philadelphia, PA
48 Hour SuperGirl Film Festival, won 1st place, Philadelphia, PA
Cupcake Bandit Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
Red Stick International Animation Festival, Baton Rouge, LA
2008
North American Cultural Institute of Chile, focusing on US Contemporary Music Videos
Philadelphia Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
2006
Nicktoons Network Animation Festival
Franklin Institute’s Animated Shorts Program, Philadelphia, PA
ChannelFrederator.com, featured animation
Animation World Network online TV station
Amsterdam TV station, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005
Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Art Community Building
2010–2011
Papermill Art Community, Philadelphia, PA
Curated art exhibits, open house variety shows, painted a mural on the facade of the warehouse building, and managed art studio rentals