Luca Ogawa Depardon is an animator and illustrator from NYC. His animations are playful fusions of traditional and experimental animation techniques, daydreams, inventive editing, and funky characters. His work has been featured internationally at places such as the Centré Pompidou, The Ottawa Internation Film Festival, The Bucheon Internation Animation Festival, LoopdeLoop Melbourne, and the Animation Block Party at BAM.
Luca has also done freelance work for such clients as VICE, The Children’s Museum of the Arts in NYC, The Wall Street Journal and Adult Swim. He earned his BFA in Illustration from RISD.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Guzzle Blood screened at Bucheon International Animation Festival, in Bucheon South Korea
2024 - Guzzle Blood screened at Ottawa International Animation Festival, in Ottawa Canada
2023 - UTAKATA wins Transfiguration Festival Audience Award in Providence, RI - also screened in Los Angeles and Toronto
2023 - thum 8Ball TV Screen Time, in Brooklyn NYC
2023 - HAPPY ROAD shown in group show "Car Show" at Fleisher Art Memorial, PA
2020 - thum screened at the Animation Block Party 2020
2020 - UTAKATA, CLOUD CUTTER shown as part of the Centré Pompidou’s Mon Oeil series
2018 - UTAKATA screened at Bizarre, in Brooklyn NYC
2018 - Circle Without Breaks, charity gallery event to benefit Puerto Rico for hurricane relief
2017 - Vertical Horizons at the Gelman Gallery at the Rhode Island School of Design
2017 - Featured in the Film/Video/Animation Triennial at the Gelman Gallery at the Rhode Island School of Design
2016 - Dead Dead Dog screened at LoopDeLoop UNTIED in Melbourne
2016 - Bye Bye Planet screened at Punktum animation festival in Berlin
2016 - Society of Illustrators Animation Award, Third Place
2016 - Curated and Organized Cabin Fever, a student run 48 hour art making event followed by a Gallery Show
2015 - Featured in the Illustration Triennial at the Gelman Gallery at the Rhode Island School of Design
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