Jenna Caravello is an artist from Los Angeles working across animation, video games, installation, and mixed reality. A traditionally trained animator, Caravello explores agency-driven storytelling, expanded moving-image forms, and experimental film modalities. Her video games and short films consistently center fallible memory, absurdity, and loss, often through non-human perspectives and ludic systems. These projects frequently lean into uncertainty, repetition, and algorithmic chance as they are uniquely implemented in video games, including explorations of physical and digital impermanence, the identity politics of digital avatars, relationships across networked games, and love, especially. Through her research and art practice, Caravello seeks out humanity, absurdity, and vulnerability where computer culture and daily mundanity intersect.

Caravello received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned an M.F.A. from CalArts in Experimental Animation. She has directed and produced animated sequences for music videos, advertising, and feature films that garnered awards at Sundance, Cannes, and the 2016 and 2020 Emmy Awards.

Caravello’s work has been featured by Noisey (Vice), NPR, Impose, The Fader, Magnet Magazine, Stereogum, Directors Notes, and Gorilla vs. Bear. Her animated, interactive, and performative works have been featured internationally, including at the Melbourne International Animation Festival, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Pacific Design Center, the Nimoy Theater, the National Taiwan Arts Education Center, REDCAT in Los Angeles, the Seoul National University College of Fine Arts Design Gallery, the Raindance Film Festival, the GIRAF International Animation Festival, and Slamdance. She is the recipient of a 2018 Princess Grace Award in Film and a 2026–27 MacDowell Fellow.