Lyndon J Barrois, Sr is an artist, animation director, filmmaker, and Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Visual Effects Executive Branch member with film credits that include major motion pictures The Matrix Trilogy, Happy Feet, and The Thing. As an artist, he is known for his unique gum wrapper sculptures and stop-motion animation of contemporary and historic figures and events, with portrait and “Sportrait” films produced entirely with an iPhone. His work includes themes of gender inclusion and excellence in the FIFA World Cup and Olympics; the Covid-19 crisis; racial uprisings; racial achievements; and political and social issues. He is well-versed in the worlds of VR, AR, VP, and he has created within the AI space as an OpenAi Sora artist. His work has been featured in such institutions as the Pérez Art Museum Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA); MassMOCA; Hammer Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA); and is included in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the SR Foundation in Seoul, Korea.
He is a New Orleans native who received his BFA from HBCU Xavier University, Louisiana and MFA from California Institute of the Arts (CALARTS). He has served on the boards of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; CALARTS; Young Aspirations/Young Artists, Inc. (YA/YA); Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ Inclusion Advisory Committee; Smithsonian Institution’s Regents Advancement Committee; and the Black Trustees Alliance.