Roland Becerra
Education
1999-01 MFA, Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT
1998-99 The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1996-98 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1993-95 The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Teaching
2020 – Present Boise State University, School of Design and Visual Studies (Assistant Professor)
2003-20 Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, University of New Haven (Associate Professor)
2007-08 SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY (Adjunct Professor)
2006-08 Paier College of Art, Hamden, CT (Adjunct Professor)
2005-06 Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT (Adjunct Professor)
2003 Yale University, School of Art, New Haven CT (Adjunct Professor)
Awards
2023 Creative Quarterly – Selected for the 100 Best Annual
American Illustration 42 - Chosen Winner, included in the AI-AP ARCHIVE
Society of Illustrators – Selected for Annual Book and Exhibition
2022 3x3 International Illustration Show No. 19
Silver Award Winner: Comics, Cartons, Sequential
Silver Award Winner: Animation/Motion Series
Merit Winner: Fine Art Professional
Creative Quarterly 68 - Runner-up: Fine Art Professional
IJungle Illustration Awards - Gold Medal: Comics
2021 Grant recipient, Connecticut Commission of the Arts and Tourism
2015 Grant recipient, Connecticut Commission of the Arts and Tourism
2008 Audience Choice Award, Toronto After Dark Film Festival
2007 Winner of Moving Pictures Magazine Animated Short film competition,
2007 Grant recipient, Connecticut Commission of the Arts and Tourism
2001 Ralph Mayer Prize, Yale School of Art, New Haven CT
1999 Schickle-Collingwood Prize, Yale School of Art, New Haven CT
1998 Mable Wilson Woodrow Memorial Award, P.A.F.A. Fellowship Show
Film Festivals and Film Awards
2023 New York Science Fiction Film Festival, New York, NY
Winner for Best Animated Feature
Apocalypse Later International Fantastic Film Festival, Phoenix AZ
Winner for Best Director
LA International Horror Film Festival
Winner for Best Experimental Film
The Pittsburgh Moving Picture Festival, Pittsburg PA
Winner for Best Experimental Feature
Fright B Wary, Portland OR
Winner for Best Narrative
The NYC IO Film Festival, Brooklyn NY
Winner in the Horror Film Category
Horror ShowFest, Florence, Italy
Winner for Best Horror Feature
The Nutmeg Film Festival, Seymore CT
Winner for Best Connecticut Featur
Film Maudit 2.0, Las Angeles CA
Romford Horror Festival, London UK
MidWest WeirdFest, Eau Claire, WI
The Halloween Picture Show, Orlando FL
HorrorHound Film Festival (Spring 2023 Edition) Sharonville, Ohio (3 award nominations)
Bay of Blood, Ontario Canada
Weekend of Fear festival, Erlangen Germany
Toronto International Spring of Horror & Fantasy Film Festival (TISH)
The International Horror Hotel, Strongsville OH
Festival Internacional de Cine de Terror Caligari, Madrid Spain
The Indie Horror Film Festival, Chicago IL
Popcorn Frights Film Festival, Fort Lauderdale FL
Phobia Film Fest, Kansas MO
Sin Film Festival, Shelbyville, IN
Port of Fear Film Festival, Kenosha WI
Hysteria Fest Film Festival, St. Louis MO
The Dark Fest, Antioch CA
Wasteland Film Festival, Mojave CA
Lil’ Spooky Fest, Los Angeles CA (Semi-Finalist)
Mistress Mary Horror Film Festival, New Port FL
2022 Chicago Horror Fest, Chicago IL
Winner for Best Feature Editing (5 nominations)
Macabre Faire, Lebanon TN
Winner for Best Special Effects (6 nominations)
Frights and Horror Fears Film Festival, North Beach MD
Winner for Best Cinematography
Bloody Horror International Film Festival, Quebec Canada
Winner for Best Feature
Metropolis, Milan Italy
Winner for Best Short film
16th Annual Atlanta Horror Film Festival, Atlanta GA
Winner for Best Animated Feature
The Thing in the Basement, Seattle WA
Winner for Best Animation
Canadian Cinematography Awards
Winner for Best Animation Cinematography
Winner for Best Animation Film
White Deer International Film Festival, Saint Peter’s Hill UK
Winner for Best Experimental Film
Independent Horror Movie Awards (Winter Awards)
Winner for Best Animated Film (10 nominations)
Winner for Best Sound
Winner for Best Original Concept
Winner for Best Twist
Winner for Best Kill
South African HorrorFest, Cape Town South Africa
Nominated for Best Editing
DarkVeins Film Fest, Lecce, Italy
Winner for Best Animation
American Filmatic Awards, Brooklyn, NY
Winner for Best Experimental Feature
HP Lovecraft Film Festival, Portland OR
SLAUGHTER: The International Festival of Art Horror Film, Niš Serbia
Pumpkin Fantasy Film Festival, Beijing China
Horror Origins, Tuscan AZ
Milwaukee Twisted Dreams Film Festival, Milwaukee WI
Death Parade Film Fest, Red Bluff CA
Terror in the Bahia, Vina Del Mar Chile
41st Molins Horror Film Festival, Barcelona Spain
Phenomena Festival, Sao Paulo Brazil
San Francisco Another Hole in the Head, San Francisco CA
Sognielettrici Electricdreams international film festival, Milan Italy
LA Indie Horror Fest, Los Angeles CA (honorable Mention)
Cyprus Horror Society, Limassol Cyprus (honorable Mention)
FilmQuest, Provo UT (Finalist)
Frights! Camera! Action! Film Competition (Honorable Mention)
2020 51st Nashville Film Festival, Nashville, TN
2010 Florida Film Festival, Maitland, FL
2009 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France
Winner of Moving Pictures Magazine Animated Short film competition
Las Angeles International Short Film Festival, CA
Housatonic Museum of Art, CT
New Jersey International Film Festival, NJ
Vision Fest, Tribeca Cinemas NY
Toronto After Dark International Film Festival, Canada
2005 New Haven Film Fest, New Haven, CT
“10 annual film festival” Preview Screening at the Criterion
2020 51st Nashville Film Festival, Nashville, TN
2010 Florida Film Festival, Maitland, FL
2009 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France
Winner of Moving Pictures Magazine Animated Short film competition
Las Angeles International Short Film Festival, CA
Housatonic Museum of Art, CT
New Jersey International Film Festival, NJ
Vision Fest, Tribeca Cinemas NY
Toronto After Dark International Film Festival, Canada
2005 New Haven Film Fest, New Haven, CT “10 annual film festival” Preview Screening at the Criterion
Group Exhibitions
2022 Museum of Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, New York, NY - Society of Illustrators 65, Annual Exhibition
OHO PROJECTS at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts - Group show within the “Philip Guston Now” show at the Boston MFA
OHO PROJECTS 943 Dixwell Ave. Hamden CT 06514, Hamden, CT
2015 Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery, Stamford CT - 5th Annual Thank You Connecticut” Group Exhibition
2013 Seton Art Gallery/Dodds Hall, University of New Haven - “Local Industry: Reflections of nearby Desolation”
2012 Gallery at Constitution Plaza, Hartford CT - “Individual Common” Group Exhibition
2011 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL -“Cinematic Bodies” Group Exhibition
2010 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY - Private (dis)play” Group Exhibition (Traveling)
2009 Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, NY; Center of Creative Arts, MO - “Private (dis)play” Group Exhibition
2006 Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT - “Camera Works” Group Exhibition
Solo Exhibitions
2004 Rodger Lapelle Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “A New Haven PT 1”
2003 Rodger Lapelle Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “Follow Me”
2002 Rodger Lapelle Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “Intruders”
2001 Rodger Lapelle Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “Kids in a Swimming Pool and other new paintings”
2000 Rodger lapelle Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “Artificial light and other new paintings”
1999 Rodger Lapelle Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “Point Unseen and Other New Paintings”
Artist Lectures/Panels
2022 Panel Speaker, HP Lovecraft Film Festival, Portland OR
Panel Speaker, Death Parade Film Fest, Red Bluff, CA
Panel speaker, Film Maudit 2.0, Las Angeles, CA
2018 Manifatture Digitali Cinema (Making Paintings Move), Prato, Italy
Panel Speaker, CT Arts Day (Resiliency through the Arts), Hartford, CT
2016 Guest Speaker, UNH Dept. of Communication, West Haven, CT
2015 Visiting Artist, Penn State University, State College, PA
2014 Guest Lecturer, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield NJ
2013 Visiting Artist, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2008 Visiting Artist and Critic, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
2007 Guest speaker, Housatonic Museum of Art, CT
2006 Visiting Artist, Critic and Guest Lecturer, Hartford Art School, CT
2005 Guest Lecturer, Wesleyan University, CT
2004 Guest Lecturer, Pier College of Art, CT
2001 Visiting Artist: Southern Connecticut University, CT
Publications
Society of Illustrators 65 book – 2023
100 Best Annual, Creative Quarterly – 2023
IJungle Illustration annual – 2023
The Cheltenham Illustration annual – 2023
3x3 Annual No.19, book of contemporary Illustration – 2022
Rue Morgue Issue #83 - March, 2009 Pg. 90
“Abbreviated Terrors” Stuart Andrews
FOX 61 CT Morning News - January 2009
“Local filmmakers go to Sundance” Logan Brynes
Connecticut Post - January 11, 2009
“Sundance Bound” Joe Meyers
The Fairfield SUN – Thursday, July 24th 2008 Pg. 17
“Dear Beautiful Screening discussion with Director”
The Lyme Times – January 24th 2008 Pg 12
“Their own works” Suzanne Thompson
Pulse Magazine - September, 2007
“Drawn Together” Keith Carne
Connecticut Post - May, 2007
“Film that lands at Cannes” Joe Meyers
WTNH channel 8 - May 2007
“Local professor shows film at Cannes” Tina Detelj
Fairfield Weekly - May 2007
“Beauty and the Beastlys” Mike Falcgno
The Lyme Times – February 2004 Pg. 8
“Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man” Sharma Howard
Art Matters - August, 2003 Pg. 20
“Toxic, Dark and Monstrous” R.B. Strauss
The Weekly Press - July 30, 2003 Pg. 8
“First Friday, Almost a August of August” R.B. Strauss
Philadelphia Weekly - July, 2003
“Scary Tactics” Roberta Fallon
Daily Local News - August 16, 2002 Pg. 3 & 11
“Alien Invaders and the End of the World” R.B. Straus
Artnet.com - August, 2002
“Brush with Death” Roberta Fallon
Philadelphia Style, August, 2002 pg. 131
“Cover Your Assets” R.B. Strauss
Philadelphia Weekly, August 2002
“Brush with Death” Roberta Fallon
Blogs/Websites
Morbidly Beautiful – January 15, 2023 The Angry Princess
“Film Maudit 2.0: AGATHA 2022”
Horror DNA – January 20, 2023 Stephen McClurb
“Agatha Movie Review”
Projected Figures Film Bits and Bobs – January 19, 2023 AntBit
“AGATHA 2022”
Only Honest Movie Reviews – January 13, 2023 Chris Jones
“You’ve Never seen this before”
Scariest The Things – December 16, 2022 LIGHTNINLI
“Eric’s review of AGATHA (2022)”
B&S About Movies – November 24, 2022 bandsaboutmovies
“Another Hole in the Head Film Festival: AGATHA (2022)”
FilmTV – December 15, 2023 Undying
“Agatha”
aintitcoolnews.com – January 17th 2009 Roxanne
“Animation Spotlight at Sundance!”
aintitcoolnews.com - May 2007 Scott Green
“Independent Animation Spotlight”