Dmitry Kemell

Dmitry Kemell (formerly Kmelnitsky) is a Professor of Multimedia Arts within the Studio Arts program at Loyola Marymount University. He is also the founding director of Lustre, an interdisciplinary art studio that develops work for the gallery, the screen, the stage and the city. These works include video art installations and environmental projections, concert visuals, music videos and animated digital films. Professor Kemell's diverse artistic repertoire explores the fusion of myth, memory, culture and transcendent states through creative media transformation of surface, form and space. In addition to his artistic repertoire, he is also a composer and music producer with credits on diverse video, animation, and multimedia projects.

Dmitry Kemell's creative work has been featured in numerous online publications and art reviews as well as in Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly and CNN, and has been exhibited widely at venues such as: Art Platform, Art Basel, Glow-Santa Monica, Boston Jewish Music Festival, Autumn Lights, Athens Video Art Festival, ISEA, 404 Festival of Art and Technology, Optronica, Digital Graffiti, Festival Miden, Nanjing Institute of Visual Arts Museum, Archaeological Museum of Messenia, The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Bell-Roberts Contemporary Art Gallery, e4c media gallery, Gallery 825,The Standard Hotel, Highways Performance Space, Ford Theatre, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Grand Performances, Los Angeles Theater Center.