Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

EDUCATION
2002 Master of Fine Art in Fiber and Material Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1996 Bachelor of Fine Art with honors in Textiles, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence,  RI
1995 Textile design, Winchester School of Art, Winchester, England
1991-93 Liberal arts with emphasis on creative writing, Brown University, Providence, RI

SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Move 16 : (don't paint your teeth)a show that likes to draw, curated by Rich Jacobs, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  Fifteen, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC

Fair Game, estudiotres, Chicago, IL

Begin Beginning Now, Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch, Youth Wing, Brooklyn, NY (solo exhibition)

11th Annual Platte Clove Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Catskill Center Erpf Gallery, Arkville, NY

Site Specifics ‘08, The Carriage House, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2007 Wit on Wry, curated by Karen Shaw, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

These Bagels are Gnarly: a ballpoint pen group drawing show, curated by Rich Jacobs, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 2005 Juried Show, Mark Dion and J. Morgan Puett, jurors. Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
2004 open studios, Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India

sketchbook 2004, Collaboraction, Chicago, IL

small victories, Modest Contemporary Art Projects, Chicago, IL

We Need to Talk: uncomfortable props and propositions, Three Walls, Chicago, IL
2003 what a wonderful world, SOIL, Seattle, WA

Princess Lula Travels Alone, Lula Café, Chicago, IL

Lacking/Nothing, Divinity School, Swift Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Unleashed, Ed Paschke, juror. The Anti-Cruelty Society, Chicago, IL

Really Real, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL

Abstraction, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2002 MFA Thesis Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 847 West Jackson Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Right on the Wall, Merwin Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL

Lil’ MFA Show, Modest Contemporary Art Projects, Chicago, IL
2000 Three Women: a Parallel Aesthetic, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1999 5th Annual Exhibition of Women’s Art, SOHO20 Gallery, New York, NY

Viridian Artists Inc. Tenth National Juried Exhibition, Viridian Artists, Inc., New York, NY
1998 Raleigh Fine Arts Society Artists Exhibition 1998, Rotunda Gallery, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
1997 Lindsay Packer; Oil Pastels, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC (solo exhibition)

Souvenirs: fiber, latex and metal sculpture by Lindsay Packer, Lead Gallery Annex, Seattle, WA (solo exhibition)
1996 Senior Invitational, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Textile Department Senior Show, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

RESIDENCIES, GRANTS AND DISTINCTIONS
   
2008 Artist in Residence, Acadia National Park, Schoodic Education and Research Center, Winter Harbor, ME
2008 Artist in Residence, Margo-Gelb Shack, Outer Cape Artists in Residence Consortium (OCARC), Provincetown, MA
2008 Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2007 Artist in Residence, Platte Clove Catskill Center Nature Preserve, Platte Clove, NY
2006 Visiting Artist, The Randolph School, Wappingers Falls, NY
2004 Artist in Residence, Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India
2002 Fulbright Student Grant, awarded by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board for the project Site-Specific: Substance, Intention and Meaning of Ephemeral Imagery in India. Research and residency in India 2003-04 in affiliation with Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Visiting Artist Lecturer, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2001 Artisan of the Month, Martha Stewart Living Magazine, February 2001

Visiting Artist Lecturer, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1999 Visual Arts Sea Grant awarded by the Visual Arts Program of Sea Grant through the University of Rhode Island in support of the original installation Sea Level Project

PUBLICATIONS
   
2006 filaments, masses, colonies, poem published in Diagram.2, Ander Monson, editor. Del Sol Press.

Space Between, Lesser Birds of Paradise.  Contraphonic Records. Compact Disc and LP artwork.
2003 Knit: left glove by machine, a sound project in collaboration with Tim Joyce, published in DIAGRAM/New Michigan press, thediagram.com, vol.3.6, December issue.

filaments, masses, colonies, poem published in DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, thediagram.com, vol. 3.3, July issue.
2002 4 poems. Preling, Issue 2. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Spring issue, pp.53-56.
2001 Fast Eddie, King of the Bees by Robert Arellano. Akashic Books. Illustrations.

REVIEWS AND CATALOGS
   
2008 Janet M. Goleas. “Why did the artist cross the road?” http://www.islipartmuseum.org/review11.html

Karen Shaw, Wit on Wry. Exhibition Catalog. Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

Kaleb Sadder, Album and artwork review: “Lesser Birds of Paradise, Space Between.” http://sctas.com/2.0/LesserSpace.html, July issue.
2004 Terence J. Hannum, On-line Review: “We Need to Talk: Uneasy Props and Propositions @ ThreeWalls.” http://panel-house.com/archives/00000052.htm, February issue.
2000 Michele Natale, “Review: Group Gropings: ‘Three Women’ grace Lee Hansley Gallery.” Spectator, July19-25 issue.