Lilly Handley is an interdisciplinary artist. She received her MFA from Parsons The New School for Design and her BFA from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. Handley has taught at universities in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In her work, she uses sculpture, images, sound, video, drawing, and physical computing to look at value, perception, identity and loss.
Handley’s work has been shown in exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Select exhibitions include the 2021 White Columns registry juried show, White Columns Online: GMT, curated by Sahal Hassan and Well Now WTF, an online exhibition curated by Faith Holland, Lorna Mills, & Wade Wallerstein. Her work was also included in reCONNECTION at the Roberts Gallery in the Lunder Arts Center at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA in 2020. Handley is a contributing artist to Ways of Something (Episode 4), curated by Lorna Mills, which was included in Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905 - 2016 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and has screened in other venues, such as the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, IL and The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA.