Episode. 15
An AMPAS VFX Executive Branch member, Lyndon boasts a long career in art and animation. His film credits include The Matrix Trilogy, Happy Feet, and The Thing, where he directed pivotal character animation sequences in those features and many others. He currently wins accolades for his unique gum wrapper sculptures and stop-motion animations of historic figures and events, whose portrait and Sportrait films are produced entirely on iPhones. Within the art world, his work has been featured in major institutions from the Pérez Art Museum Miami, to the MOCA Los Angeles, the Massachusetts MOCA, and most recently added to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s permanent collection, and the SRT Foundation in Seoul, Korea.
His subject matters range from gender inclusion and excellence in the FIFA World Cup and Olympics, to past racial uprisings & achievements, and current political or social climates.
A New Orleans native and HBCU graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana, Lyndon serves on the boards of The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, California Institute of the Arts (his MFA Alma mater), and on the Academy Museum’s Inclusion Advisory Committee, fostering programs and supporting exhibitions.