Indie Courtney
Santa Clarita,CA
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Photo Laboratory Technician
California Institute of the Arts
01.2024 - 12.2025
- Assisting in the digital photo lab with: film scanning, fine art print making, large format print making, Photoshop, AfterEffects, PremierPro, and InDesign
- Performing maintenance on printers when needed
Teaching Assistant
CSSSA - California State Summer School for the Arts (& Foundation)
Santa Clarita, California, United States
07.2025 - 08.2025
- Collaborating with other photo faculty to create lesson plans, including making slides, setting up workshops, gathering materials
- Engage with students on a daily basis from 9:00am-4:00pm, going over the lesson plans, teaching workshops, holding critiques, and class discussions
- On certain days, from 5:00pm-9:00pm holding open studio time in which we answer any further questions for students
- Setting up and breaking down the program including doing inventory, setting up classroom with supplies, going over workshops and lesson plans with the faculty.
Communications Associate
Bennington College
Bennington County, Vermont, United States
08.2018 - 01.2019
- Shooting and editing promotional videos, graphics, and animations for the college's ad campaigns
- Promoting their website and social media platforms
- Managing livestreams of college events
- Researching demographics of the school and potential new applicants and creating relevant content
- Photographing college events
- Editing in Photoshop and Lightroom
Creative Specialist
EVBVD Music
New York, NY
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Collaborating with the composer to create video installation work for live performance at the REDCAT theater in Los Angeles
- Archiving physical and digital media
- Shooting and editing video, animation, and photography
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA - Photo And Media
California Institute of The Arts
Santa Clarita, CA12-2025
CV
Exhibitions
The Lights Were Singing Too, thesis exhibition, D301 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, CA, 2025
Of the Machine, solo exhibition, A402 Gallery California Institute of the Arts, CA, 2024
Refractions, A Lenticular Exhibition, group exhibition, Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA 2024
Experimental Documentary, group exhibition, A402 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, 2024
Not Obvious Self Portraiture, group exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, 2024
Neither Here nor There, group exhibition curated by Bibiana Garcia, R.W. & Joyce Witt Gallery, Sacramento State, 2023
Portrait Exhibition, group exhibition, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Scotland, 2023
Made in California Award, Brea Gallery, CA, 2023
I think I've been here before, curator, exhibition design and artist in group exhibition with Emmanuel Dixon and Chiara Wood, Sacramento, CA, 2023
Print
I was born near a river and have been following it my whole life, self published photo book, 2025
Suburban Ghosts, self published photo zine, 2024
I think I've been here before, exhibition zine, 2023
BEAUTIFUL BEAST, self published zine, 2022
dirty river, self published photo book, 2022
Film Screenings
The Lights Were Singing Too, California Institute of the Arts, CA, 2025
Mary of Medjugorje, Stuttgarter Film Winter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgarter, Germany, 2019
flags, SPLICE Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
Slides of Suburbia, Hollywood Screenings Festival, Hollywood, CA, 2016
Awards
Made in California Award, 2023
Herb Alpert Emerging Young Artist Award, 2014
Timeline
Teaching Assistant
CSSSA - California State Summer School for the Arts (& Foundation)
07.2025 - 08.2025
Photo Laboratory Technician
California Institute of the Arts
01.2024 - 12.2025
Communications Associate
Bennington College
08.2018 - 01.2019
Creative Specialist
EVBVD Music
01.2018 - 01.2019
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA - Photo And Media
California Institute of The Arts