Born in Tucson in 1977, Lucy Raven received a BFA in studio art and a BA in art history from the University of Arizona, Tucson (2000), and an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2008). Primarily grounded in animation and the moving image, Raven’s multidisciplinary practice also incorporates still photography, installation, sound, and performative lecture. Her work deploys image-making processes used in twenty-first-century filmmaking, which often hide the underlying labor in order to investigate the impact of industrial systems and technology within a global infrastructure. Threaded throughout Raven’s oeuvre is an exploration of how images can convey networks of labor. For China Town (2009), Raven created a photographic animation of thousands of still images overlaid with audio recordings of copper sourcing and production from a mine in Nevada to the smelters of China, where raw ore is refined and subsequently converted into wire. In the final film, the still imagery progresses rapidly, and by depicting the creation of a common industrial material across several sites worldwide, the work examines notions of global connectedness as well as chains of production of power and waste. Similarly concerned with labor, Curtains (2014)—a 3-D video installation that traces the conversion of 2-D films to stereoscopic 3-D—reveals the undervalued work performed by outsourced labor in Southeast Asia, London, and Vancouver. Presenting two simultaneous images from different vantage points that converge into a single image before moving apart again, the piece slows to emphasize the isolated frames that make up a movie. For the film projection RPx (2012), an ongoing project with multiple iterations, the artist collected an archive of projection-calibration film and video test patterns that are used to obtain high-quality image and sound. Raven makes visible the patterns that test for focus, framing, aperture, and field steadiness, which are normally seen only by the projectionist, giving weight to the labor of analog cinema in a world increasingly permeated by and obsessed with the digital. Raven has received numerous awards and residencies, including the San Francisco Bay Area component of the Artadia Award (2013) and residencies at the Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles (2011–12), and Oakland Museum of California for Oakland Standard (2012). Her work has been exhibited in numerous international solo presentations, most recently at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (2010); Hammer Museum (2012–13); Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (2014); and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2014). In 2012, her work was featured in the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She has also participated in group shows at the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York (2007); MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (2008–09); Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus (2010); MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2010 and 2013); Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Oregon (2013); and Whitney Museum (2013). Raven lives and works in New York.