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^{Paloma Dawkins is a Canadian/Mexican artist and award-winning VR game director that is Known for her hand-drawn animations and immersive worlds. Dawkins captures movement and form with a unique spirit that reflects her deep understanding of motion. Her vibrant immersive worlds focus on the balance between technology and nature, blending mystical themes with futuristic technological advancements.}

2024  International Video Arts Forum | Dammam, Saudi Arabia 
“Psychic Spring” Shown at the 6th edition in the animation catagory
2024  GameBCN | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Participated in an incubator for new video game studios
2024  Phi Center | Montreal, QC
“White Rushes” directed and live performed as part of series Embodied Spaces
2024  Arsenal | Montreal, QC
Presented Apocablyss Studios at Composite #36
2024  Oboro | Montreal, QC
“Steps of Yu” Multi-media live painting performance
2023  Gaia International Assembly | Toronto, ON
3 day symposium for game art curators internationally
2023  Artificial Museum | Toronto, ON 
“Translunar Formations PIX FILM Collective”
2022  Lunenburg School of the Arts| Lunenburg, NS 
“Psychic Spring” solo show
2022  Baby Ghosts | Toronto, ON 
Social Impact Investment Readiness · Weird Ghosts · Digital 2021  Damage Labs Cohort 1 | Toronto, ON 
Incubator to start a game studio · DMG
2021  LikeLike Gallery | Pittsburgh PA 
“Welcome to Apocablyss” Paloma Dawkins Solo show
2020  MAAM MassArt Exhibit | Boston,USA 
“Game Changers: Video Games & Contemporary Art”

2019  Garage Museum of Contemporary art | MOSCOW, Russ 
Hackethon Host “The Coming World”
2019  Arsenal Contemporary Art | Montreal, QC
“Pixelles + Popagenda
2019  Victoria & Albert Museum | London, UK
“Videogames:Design/Play/Disrupt”
2019  Cinekid 2019 | AMSTERDAM Dec 
Winner of Audience Choice award for Best Media Project
2019  Manchester International Festival | Manchester, UK 
Commissioned to create Songs of the Lost 2018  FADU | Argentina Oct 
Speaker
2018  MiM | MTL Aug
Speaker
2018  Future Reality Lab | NYC May 
Animator and artist in residence
The National Film Board of Canada, MTL Nov 2014 –March 2018
Artistic and Creative Director, Animator Museum of Symmetry
CBC Arts October 2017
Exhibitionist in Residence
MUTEK: Future Realities, MTL August 2017
Speaker
Baby Castles Presents: Mind Portals April 2017
“Mind Portals” and various other games
Milieux institute Concordia University, MTL April 2016  
Resident artist
Fantastic Arcade, Austin TX Sept 2015
Video game exhibitor in Spotlight Arcade

TAIS, Toronto July 2015
Workshop Instructor
Beakerhead, Calgary July 2014
Video Game Artist

The National Film Board of Canada, MTL Sept 2013 – Nov 2013
Animator
Imogen Heap and Deadmau5 music video         Jan 2013
Animator

Projects

Oceanarium, Canada Council for the Arts
- premiering at the V&A Museum, UK as part of Videogames:Design/Play/Disrupt January 25th 2019 
- Arsenal Contemporary

Cave, NYU Future Reality labs June 2018
Art Director, animator
- Premiering at Siggraph 2018

Museum of Symmetry, NFB November 2014 – June 2018
Art Director, game designer, animator, writer
- Winner Best MediaLab Project 2019 Audience Choice CineKid 
- Winner Audience choice award Fantasia 2019
- Winner Best Virtual Reality Game Academy of Canadian film and television
- Winner Best Interactive Fiction Award NUMIX 
- Winner of Out of Body experience award North Bend 2018
- Winner of Peoples Choice award Fivars 2018
- Premiering at A-Maze Berlin April 2018
- Article in Kotaku
- Annecy International Animation Festival 2018 Official Selection
- Siggraph 2018 Official Selection
- Fantoche 2018
- Ottawa International Animation Festival 2018 Competition 
- Halcyon Labs Washington DC
- Article in Rock Paper Shotgun
- Article in Moving Stories

Palmystery June-Nov 2016
Animator, programmer
- Official Selection of Amaze Johannesburg 2017
- Official Selection Fantastic Arcade 2017
- Transmundane at Dunlop Gallery
- Vice article ‘Mindlessly Dance Through Cartoon Fantasies in ‘Palmystery’
- Mild Rumpus 2018

Alea, HumbleBundle June – Sept 2015
Video game designer, animator
- Commissioned by Humble Bundle and presented at Fantastic Arcade in Austin TX running from September 28th to October 1st 2015 at the Alamo Theatre
- Day of the Devs in San Fransisco Nov 7th 2015
- BabyCastle’s Gallery, NYC May 1st 2016
- MAGfest January 5th – 8th 2017
- Article on Vice, Rhizome and Killscreen

Egg Boss November 2014
Game design, animation
- Exhibited at the Wellcome Collection July 3rd 2015 in London, UK

Gardenarium July 2014 – Jan 2015
Programming, game design, animation, writing
- EMP museum Seattle, Washington October 2015 – present
- Mild Rumpus March 2 – 6th 2015 during GDC in San Francisco at the Moscone Center
- Articles in Polygon, Killscreen, Rock Paper Shotgun