Sunny Allis is a queer multimedia artist, director, designer, and musician. Through an interdisciplinary approach, they utilize installation, animation, painting, sound, and sculpture to explore interactive participation in dreamworld spaces for people of all ages. With a BFA in Theater Direction and Set Design from New York University and an MFA in Integrated Media and Experimental Sound from California Institute of the Arts, they create paintings, videos, objects, music, and dynamic environments that are activated through play. Their colorful, tactile, nostalgic, and joyful work gives the viewer permission to engage with their imagination and brings groups of people together in the process. They explore themes of transformation, malleability, the absurd, the ecstatic, animism, and ways of finding portals to hidden worlds.

Sunny’s animations have won awards internationally, including at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Madrid Experimental Film Festival, and the Linoleum Festival in Moscow. Their installations have been exhibited at Occidental College, Kidspace Children’s Museum, the City of Santa Monica, and several galleries and colleges in Massachusetts. They’ve received grants from the Mellon Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Assets for Artists, and MASSCreative.  

Sunny authored and illustrated a bilingual children’s book called Hooray, What A Day!/¡Viva,Qué Día!, which follows ten-year old non-binary Frankie and their best friend Jesse through a joyful day in their queer and colorful community. The bookhas been included in Gender Inclusive Classrooms' curriculum resource list of books for teachers who want to foster safe, welcoming gender-inclusive classrooms. They currently live in Western Massachusetts.