About
Carey Lin and Gabriel Gilder are San Francisco-based visual artists who have collaborated since 2016. Their practice has taken the form of film and video, animation, sound compositions, publications and walking tours for the social practice project Stairwell’s. They are interested in exploring different tools and processes with each new project, and the concepts behind their work often include local landscapes and playful or humorous elements.
Lin and Gilder’s work has been presented at Palo Alto Art Center, Roxie Theater, Artists Television Access, Your Mood Gallery, Aggregate Space Gallery, Incline Gallery, New Parkway Theater, Screen Share Video Gallery, Tropical Contemporary, and elsewhere.
In 2021 their film “Shelter in Play” was an official selection at the San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival. Their film “Lift and Oscillate” was featured in the 2025 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival.
Festivals
- Official Selection (“Lift and Oscillate”), West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV (2025)
- Official Selection (“Selected Findings”), West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV (2024)
- Official Selection (“Roundabout”), Persian Independent Experimental Short Film Festival, Tehran, Iran (2023)
- Official Selection (“Shelter in Play”), San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival, Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA (2021)
- GAZE Animation Spectacular IV (“Getting Into Shapes”), Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA (2019)
- Aggregate Animated Shorts (“Getting Into Shapes”), Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA (2019)
Exhibitions & screenings
- Almaty Underground Screening Series (“Just Say When”), 101 Dump Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan (2025)
- What’s Cookin’? Art about food, culture and community (“Cavalcade”), Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA (2024)
- APAture 2023 Visual Arts Showcase (“Selected Findings”), Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2023)
- Vehicles of Concern (“Roundabout”), Your Mood Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2022)
- This is Where We Are Right Now (“Shelter In Play”), Eighth Annual International Video Open Call, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA (2021)
- Serious Business (“Getting Into Shapes”), Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR (2018)
- Late Night (“Getting Into Shapes”), Screen Share Video Gallery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2018)
- California Walkscapes (“Listen Lab Sound Club”), Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2018)