Lily Prillinger was born in Peoria, Illinois in 1973. Having grown up in the United States and Australia, she studied at Melbourne University and later at Princeton University. In 1997, she graduated with Honors from Princeton University where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Art History. At Princeton, she received both the Louis Sudler Prize for the Arts awarded to the outstanding Princeton undergraduate in the Arts, as well as the Francis LeMoyne Page Award for the best undergraduate thesis in the Princeton Visual Arts Department. In 2001, Lily received her Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and was the Commencement Speaker for her graduating class. Selected group exhibitions include shows presented by 111 Minna Street, The Lab, Four Walls Gallery, The Diego Rivera Gallery, The Melting Point, The IPW Gallery, and Microsoft in San Francisco. Selected solo exhibitions include shows at The Drake Hotel in Toronto, Canada, The Pacific Film Archive / The Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley, California, The Lucas Gallery in Princeton, New Jersey and The Diego Rivera Gallery in San Francisco. Her film projects in collaboration with Brett Simon have been screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and International Exposure Series as presented by Microcinema International. Selected private collectors of her work include writer, editor, and record producer, David Breskin and the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author,Toni Morrison. Lily's work is in the public collections of the Pacific Film Archive and Princeton University. She is currently living and working in San Francisco.