Molly Schwartz was born in Manhattan and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She received her BFA in painting from the Art Institute of Chicago. She has lived in Chicago, Katmandu, Los Angeles, Torino, and since 1999, Brooklyn.

After school and travels, she returned to Chicago and studied traditional methods of paper conservation. She then moved to LA where she learned digital compositing and special effects. Here in New York, Schwartz currently freelances as a designer and compositor for independent film and television. She has taught at NYU and was a resident artist at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and I-Park Artist's Residency

Her artwork merges painting, drawing and digital collage computer animation. She has shown her drawings and animated videos in many exhibitions and screenings, including the Brooklyn Int’l Film Festival, Brooklyn Arts Council, Jersey City Museum/Victory Hall, and Pierogi’s Flat-files. This spring she created a site-specific public installation at the Brooklyn Central Library: an animated video projection titled “Reading Light,” a floor to ceiling projected bookshelf, full of books and animated dioramas, each animation a tiny travelogue through Brooklyn, conveyor-belt dioramas freely shifting through history, perspectives and neighborhoods.

Artist website: http://www.phlea.tv