AWARDS
2020
Stumptown Artist Fellowship
Regional Arts & Culture Council Professional Development Grant
Oregon Arts Commission & Ford Family Foundation Career Opportunity Grant
New Mexico Humanities Council Grant
2019
LightPress Grant, Interbay Cinema Society
Regional Arts & Culture Council Project Grant, Portland, OR
BAVC Preservation Access Program Grant
2018
Ford Family Foundation Golden Spot Award for Crow’s Shadow Residency
2016
2016 RACC Media Fellowship
RACC Project Grant
TRUE/FALSE FILM FEST Second Take
Pushcart Prize Nominee
2015
RACC Professional Development Grant
Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission
2014
RACC Project Grant
2014 Bonnie Bronson Fellowship
The Delicious Medicine Award, 41st NW Filmmakers' Festival
Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission
Ford Family Foundation Grant
2013
Flaherty Professional Development Fellowship
DIY of All-Time Award from Judge Mike Plante, NW Filmmakers' Festival
2012
Ford Family Foundation Golden Spot Award
2011
Regional Arts & Culture Council Project Grant, Portland, OR
Regional Arts & Culture Council Professional Development Grant, Portland, OR
2010
Food Gatherers Feeding the Soul Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
Oregon Media Arts Fellowship
Portland Stock Grant
2009
Anonymous Was A Woman nominee
2008
Rockefeller Fellowship Nominee
Zooomb Pyle Commission - with Brian Borello
NAAU Couture stipend recipient - The House of Sound
Regional Arts & Culture Council Project Grant, Portland, OR
Career Opportunity Grant Award, Oregon Arts Commission
2007
Poncho Special Recognition Award, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Bike Commute Challenge Winner, Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Portland, OR
The Jim Demulling Speak Out Award for Best Social Awareness Documentary -
Humboldt Film Festival - Portrait 2: Trojan
The Gearhead Portland Filmmaker Award
2006
The Sarah Jacobson Film Grant-The Free History Project
Wolf Recovery Foundation Field Research & Education Grant - The Land Piranhas
2005
Judges Award, Northwest Film and Video Festival - Portrait #1: Cascadia Terminal
Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film, Ann Arbor Film Fest - Britton, South Dakota
Carol Davis Scholarship, Montana Artists Refuge
Rockefeller Fellowship Nominee
2004
Mayor's Creative Initiative Grant, Portland OR
Gecko Prize, Cinematexas -Britton, South Dakota
2003
NW Festival Award from James Benning - Britton, South Dakota
Lilla Jewel Award
Rockefeller Fellowship Nominee
2002
Rockefeller Fellowship Nominee
Best Documentary Video, Microcinefest, Baltimore, MD - Richart
2nd Place Black Maria Film Fest 2002 - Richart
2001
1st Place Peripheral Produce Invitational World Championship, PDX,OR- Richart
1999
Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
1998
1st Place F Word Film Festival, Portland, OR - Crowdog
Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
1983
Weisman Grant, Chicago Illinois - Toxic Shock
RESIDENCIES
2021 The Fellow Ship, Guemes Island, WA
2021 EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, NEW MEXICO
2019 Ucross, Sheridan, WY
2018 Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR
2018 Sou’wester Artist Residency, Seaview, WA
2017 SLDNG GLSS, Astoria, OR
2016 Emma Collaborations, Ness Creek, Saskatchewan
2015 Signal Fire/Umatilla Pack-N-Park
2014 Signal Fire/Afloat The Boundary Waters, MN.
2012 Caldera
2011 Signal Fire/Outpost
2010 Caldera
2009 Signal Fire
2005 Montana Artists Refuge, Basin, MT.
SHOWS
2024
Cadence: Works by Vanessa Renwick Galapago Space, Denver Month of Video .MOV
EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM
2023
Long Haulers, Shapeshifter Cinema, Oakland, Ca
Atomic Bamboozle and Portrait #2: Trojan, Hollywood Theatre Portland, OR
Liquid Form: Water in Experimental Film, No Name Cinema, Santa fe, NM
Atomic Bamboozle and Portrait #2: Trojan, Cinema 21, Portland, OR
HORSEGIRL, Gene Siskal Film Center, Chicago, Il
2022
What’s Old Is New Again: Confronting the Circumstances of Our Time, Museum of the Moving Image, NY,NY
Slippage, 601 Artspace, NYC, NY
2021
Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial: Part I, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
2020
Experiments-In-Cinema Visiting Artist presentation and lecture, Albuquerque, NM
Call The Help Line, Onion City Experimental Film Fest, Chicago, IL
Longing, Portland International Film Festival, Portland, OR
2019
Nothing Has Ended, Punto de Vista Film Festival, Pamplona, SPAIN
Animate Landscapes, Rhizome DC
AGAINST THE IRREVERSIBLE, Tacoma Film festival, Tacoma, WA
Shipwreck Eve Cinema, The Croatian Club, Anacortes, WA
How to Turn a Bicycle into a Record Player, The Root Cellar, Greenfield, MA
Not Sorry: Feminist Experimental Film from the 1970s to Today, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Sixpix3, Other Cinema, ATA, San Francisco, CA
HOW TO MAKE A RECORD PLAYER OUT OF A BICYCLE IN 7 EASY STEPS
The Root Cellar, Greenfield, MA
The Audience is Tested, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Ashland International Film Festival, Ashland, OR
Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, UMASS, Amherst, MA
GSO & Vanessa Renwick, TURN TURN TURN, Portland, OR
POW FilmFest, Portland, OR
The World’s of Ursula K. Le Guin and KESH, NW Film Forum, Seattle WA
The World’s of Ursula K. Le Guin and KESH, Portland International Film Festival, Portland, OR
2018
Outliers and American Vanguard Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Columbia River Correctional Institution, Portland, OR
Not Sorry: Feminist Experimental Film from the 1970s to Today, NW Film Center, Portland, OR
PSYCHO-GEO 2: WXSW, OTHER CINEMA, ATA, San Francisco, CA
NSEW Film Tour, Sou’wester Lodge, Seaview, WA
Unwalking The West/ Signal Fire, PNCA Mediatheque, Portland, OR
Houston CInema Arts Festival, Houston TX
Tacoma Film Festival, Tacoma, WA
The Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies at UCLA. Los Angeles, CA
Holy Fluids and Absent Wounds, Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
NEXT LEVEL FUCKED UP with Vanessa Renwick, Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY
Koerner Camera, Portland, OR
Broadcast II ,Killjoy Collective, Portland,OR
Mothership Music, Portland, OR
UNM ArtsLab & Basement Films, Albuquerque, NM
Zephyr, Santa Fe, NM
The Center for Documentary Arts and Research, UCSC, California
CALARTS Tuesday Nights, Santa Clarita, CA
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
A-Z West with Tara Jane ONeil and Lucio Menegon, Joshua Tree, CA
Exploded View, Tucson, AZ
First Person Cinema, UC Boulder, CO
Collective Misnomer, Alamo Draft House, Denver, CO
Boathouse Microcinema, Portland, OR
2017
SFO Museum, San Francisco International Airport, S.F. CA
Green-Door Festival, Leitrim, IRELAND
Canyon Cinema Salon, San Francisco, CA
OUT OF SIGHT, Seattle, WA
Art & Ecology, Ecological Society of America, Indivisible Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Unwalking The West/ Signal Fire, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR
Northwest Filmmakers' Festival, Portland Art Museum
Raucous Cinema NOW!, Ypsi Experimental Space, Ypsilanti, MI
Sisters' Pictures, OTHER CINEMA, SF, CA
Ashland International Film Festival, Ashland, OR
Scritti Politti: Dakota Pipeline, OTHER CINEMA, SF, CA
Boathouse Microcinema, Portland, OR
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Black Dog Art Ensemble, Portland, OR
Resistance Isn’t Futile: Films on the Occasion of a Presidential Inauguration, L.A. Film Forum, L.A., CA
2016
Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FRANCE
The Death Film, L.A. Film Forum, Los Angeles CA
Light Field, The Lab, S.F.,CA
Orchestra Becomes Radicalized, Holocene, Portland, OR
Circuit Riders, OTHER CINEMA, San Francisco, CA
Joanie4Jackie4Ever, Interference Archive, Brooklyn, NY
Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle,WA
Orchestra Becomes Radicalized, Holocene, Portland, OR
Detroit Film Theater, Detroit, MI
What's New at TAM, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Do You See What I See?, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR
Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
UW-M Union Cinema, Milwaukee, WI
Edge Hill University, Lancashire, ENGLAND
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal, CANADA
Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, MI
Here, There, Then, GAZE, ATA, San Francisco, CA
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Crossroads 2016, San Francisco, CA
Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
NW Tracking, Northwest Film Center, Portland, Or
2015
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Center for PostNatural History, Pittsburgh, PA
Art & Environment artist talk, Wexner, Columbus, OH
Adelaide Film Festival, Glenside, South Australia
Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY
Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
Dirt Palace, Prividence, RI
University of Chicago, Chicago,IL
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
The Nickelodeon, Columbia, SC
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
The Garden Theater, Frankfort, MI
Quotidian Hypnosis, Great Wall of Oakland, Oakland, CA
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
University of Iowa/ Film Scene, Iowa City, IA
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Temple Live Stream, Temple, ME
NSEW Tour, University of the South,Sewanee, TN
University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, IL
AIDS on Tape and Film: Artists Rage and Mourn in the Age of Thatcher and Reagan, Northwestern, Chgo, IL
The Nightingale, Chicago, IL
Transmodern Festival, Baltimore, MD
Activist Video for the Web,Northwestern University, Film Dept, Chicago, IL
Space Gallery, Portland, ME
Mass Art Film Society, Boston, MA
NaturVision Filmfestival, Ludwigsburg, GERMANY
New Experimental Works/Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Traverse City Film Festival, Traverse City, MI
Hallways Microcinema, Champaign-Urbana, IL
Colgate University Film Screening, Hamilton, NY
Department of Transmedia Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,NY
Artists NOW, Arts Center Lecture Hall, Milwaukee,WI
Experimental Tuesdays, Milwaukee, WI
UW Cinematheque, Madison, WI
Cellular Cinema, Minneapolis, MN
Great Wall of Oakland, Oakland, CA
UC Davis, Davis, CA
U of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Rural Route Film Festival, Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm, Long Island City, N.Y.
13th Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Iowa City, IA
Feldman Gallery, PNCA, Portland, OR
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Festival Chromatic, Mont Royal, Montreal, CANADA
The 50 Foot Challenge, NW Film Center, Portland, OR
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, GERMANY
Earth Day Shorts Program, International House, Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco International Film Festival, SF, CA
53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Keene State College, Keene, NH
Boise State, Boise, ID
Hallways Microcinema, Champaign, IL
Cage in Search of Bird- MIX screening, Classon Social Club, Brooklyn, NY
Portland International Film Festival, Portland, OR
SIgnal Fire Leaf Litter, Mother Foucault's, Portland, OR
Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Flex Fest, Gainesville, FL
Charismatic Megafauna, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
TRUE/FALSE Film Festival, Columbia, MO
Archiving the Avant Garde, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
2014
Portland International Film Festival, Portland, OR
41st Northwest Filmmakers' Festival, Portland, OR
AVANT TO LIVE/Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Animal Madness, Creative Growth, Oakland, CA
17th Annual Antimatter, Victoria, B.C., CANADA
To Its Logical Conclusion:Films on Debris, Decay and Demolition, L.A. Film Forum, CA
Ross Ragland Theater, Klamath Falls, OR
Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
Treefort Music and Film Festival, Boise, ID
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT
Josephy Center, Joseph, OR
Scagway Arts Council. Scagway, AK
Eastern Oregon Film Festival, La Grande, OR
Eltrym Theater, Baker City, OR
Reed College Film Forum, Portland, OR
Roxy Theater, Missoula, MT
Hoffman Center, Manzanita, OR
Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, B.C.
Magic Lantern Theater, Spokane, WA
JUMP Society, Juneau, AK
Willamette University, Salem, OR
Juneau Underground Motion Picture Society, Juneau, AK
Granada Theater, Alpine, TX
El Cosmico, Marfa, TX
Public Trust, Dallas, TX
Tornado Gallery, Lubbock, TX
Sister, Albuquerque, NM
Downtown Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM
Trunk Space, Phoenix, AZ
Exploded View Microcrinema, Tuscon, AZ
Little Toad Creek, Silver City, NM
Central School Project, Bisbee, AZ
Double Wolf Bill!, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR
Xtra Tuf #6.75- Report from Uyak Bay, IPRC, Portland, OR
Alonzo Gallery, Houston, TX
Hallways Microcinema, Champaign, IL
PDX-CHI:Portland Experimental Film and Video Makers, The Nightingale, Chicago,IL
Publication Studio presents:Concrete Floor, Lava Rock, Vanessa Renwick & UFOFBI, Pieter Performanceartspacedance, L.A.,CA
Alien She, Vox Populi Gallery,Philadelphia, PA
Alien She, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
2013
Alien She, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
NYC Mix Festival, NY, NY
Hunters Moon Festival, Carrick on Shannon, Ireland
Atomic Surplus, Center for Contemporary Arts, Sante Fe, NM
Flaherty Fellows Screening, Flaherty Seminar, Hamilton, NY
Futurefarmers/Flatbread Society/ Tinders, UKS, Oslo, Norway
Hellenic Art of the Lovejoy Columns, The Hellenic-American Cultural Center & Museum, Portland, OR
World Naked Bike Ride, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Onafhankelijk Cultureel Centrum In It, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Focus on Locus : Psycho-Geography, Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Cascadia, The Reach, Abbotsford, B.C., CANADA
Northern, Olympia, WA
Heartland, Seattle, WA
NW Film Forum, Seattle, WA
Frames Per Second, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO
The Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin, GERMANY
Raw, Raucous and Sublime: 30 Years Of Vanessa Renwick, An Oregon Department of Kickass Retrospective, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR
The Unknown Music Series #3, Anacortes, WA
Films by Vanessa Renwick, CCA, Santa Fe, NM
30th Annual Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA
2012
The Museum of Jurassic Technology, L.A., CA
Streetopia, The Luggage Store Gallery, S.F., CA
Brighton CineCity Film Festival, Brighton, ENGLAND
Peripheral Produce Auto-Cinematic screening, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR
Helsing Junction Sleepover, Rochester, WA
Director's Lounge, Z-Bar, Berlin, GERMANY
The Anacortes Unkown Music Series #1, Anacortes, WA
Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Houston, TX
The Wayfarers: Films on Solitary Migration, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
The Noyes Museum of Art Film Festival, Oceanville, NJ
Structuring Strategies, CalArts, Valencia, CA
EFF Portland 2012, Portland, OR
Jumptown, Project Grow, Portland, OR
The Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture, Weed, CA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, FRANCE
Centre Pompidou- Metz, France
Gaite Lyrique, Paris, FRANCE
Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
Portland 2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art
New Experimental Works, Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
2011
Sapporo Short Fest 2011, Sapporo, JAPAN
Moving Wartime- Occupation/Preoccupation,PICA/TBA, Portland,OR
Pripyat-Chernobyl 25, Kommunales Kino, Freiburg, GERMANY
microCINEMA: Place, Community, and Cinema!, Smith College,Northampton, MA
Burton Theatre, Detroit, MI
38th NW Film & Video Festival, Portland, OR
The New American Landscape, Kahnaway, SW WA
Red Hook Cine Soiree, BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
Helsing Junction Sleepover, Rochester, WA
Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Waypost, Portland, OR
Cherry Sprout Produce, Portland, OR
Forest Limit, Hatagaya, JAPAN
Out Of The Great Northwest, The Horse Hospital, London, England
Overlap, San Francisco, CA
Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Kinoprogramm Z-inema, Z-Bar, Berlin, GERMANY
Best of the Flex! Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
What The Heck Fest, Anacortes, WA
FLEX FEST, Gainesville, FL
Monster Island Basement, Brooklyn, NY
Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY
49th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
Flaherty,Anthology, New York, N.Y., N.Y.
2010
The EAST/WEST Project, Berlin, Germany
The Horse Hospital, London, England
L.A. Film Forum
Race and Pedagogy National Conference, Tacoma, WA
Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Kent State University, Kent, OH
Grand Detour, Portland, OR
Bijou Theater, Iowa City, Iowa
Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
Arsenal. Berlin, Germany
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
BAM Cinematek, Brooklyn, NY
Capri Theater, Montgomery, AL
Manitou Arts Festival, MI
What The Heck? , Anacortes, WA
Gaycation, Holocene, Portland, OR
Sound Unseen International, Duluth, MN
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
Odds & Ends, A.T.A, San Francisco, CA
The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Portland International Film Festival, NWFC, Portland, OR
Odds and Ends, NW Film Forum, Seattle, WA
39th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Marfa Film Festival, Marfa, TX
Cascadian Facts and Fictions, Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
NW Passage. The Dill Pickle Club, Portland, OR
Hello Neighbor, City Hall, Portland, OR
Courtisane Festival 2010, Kunstencentrum, Ghent, Belgium
Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico
48th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Secret Life of Animals, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2009
Amsterdam Biennale, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Marfa Book Co. Monday Night Movies, Marfa, TX
The Possibility of Nature, Hope in Pure Sound, and Faith in Magnetism, Vivo Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC
Signal + Noise Festival, Vancouver, BC
MIX Festival, N.Y., N.Y.
Visible Histories, Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Outlaw Cinema Series, Clubkeller, Frankfurt, Germany
Eiszeit Kino Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Anything That Moves, Buswater on the Blvd., Charleston. West Virginia
What The Heck Fest, Anacortes, WA
Helsing Junction Sleepover, Helsing Junction Farm, WA
Portland Zine Symposium Movie Night,Hawthorne Hostel
Movies in the Pearl, Portland, OR
WHERE AM I AND HOW DO I KNOW YOU?, Play Studio, ISTANBUL
Paper Magazine/ PICA NY, Ace Hotel, NYC, NY
Off The Map, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
PDX Film Fest, Clinton St. Theater, Portland, OR
A Lens With A Conscience, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, Moscow, ID
Washington State University, Pullman,WA
Ross Ragland Theater, Klamath Falls, OR
Pickford Theater. Bellingham, WA
Panoramica. Vidas iluminadas, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Flex Fest, Gainesville, FL
Brattle Theater, Cambridge, MA
Agitprop Gallery, San Diego, CA
Art of This, Minneapolis, MN
Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
The Hideout, Austin, TX
UCP's La Esquina, Kansas City, MO
London Gay and Lesbian Film, Festival, London, England
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
minicine, Shreveport, LA
Post-Post Apocalypse, The Loft, San Pedro, CA
First Person Cinema,U of C, Boulder, CO
The Waypost, Portland, OR
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
DIVA, Eugene, OR
ATA, SF, CA
Echo Park Film Center, LA, CA
Soul Inviticus, Phoenix, AZ
Basement Films, Albuquerque, NW
Domy Books, Houston, TX
Zeitgeist Films, New Orleans, LA
Chicago, Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
Scagway Arts Council, Scagway,AK
Yellowstone Arts Center, Billings, MT
2008
Iowa City Experimental Film Festival, Iowa City, IO
25th Annual Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA
The Nightingale, Chicago, IL
The Art of This, Minneapolis, MN
Darling Hall, Milwaukee, WI
The Project Lodge, Madison, WI
Select Media Festival, Chicago, IL
NW Film Center, Portland, OR
Man Versus Nature, Ed Media Arts Centre, Guelph,Ontario, CA
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Magic Lantern, Providence, RI
Microcinefest 2008, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Los Angeles Film Forum, L.A., CA
SF Cinematheque, SF, CA
Soutwest Film Center, Albuquerque, NM
Expanded Frames, Cinema Project, Portland, OR
ABC No Rio , Manhatten, NY
Citizen Jane Film Festival, Columbia, MO
Dear Joanie, I made a Movie: a survey of the Joanie4Jackie Chainletter Tapes from 1995-2007, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC, CANADA
Joanie For Jackie: the Lady Glitterati of the New Movie Uprising, Gene Siskal Film Center, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Needles and Pens, San Francisco, CA
Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Bunnell Strett Gallery, Homer, AK
Cornell Cinema. Ithaca, NY
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
University of Tennessee, Knoxille, TN
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
BGSU Gish Theater, Bowling Green, OH
Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
Astoria International Film Festival, Astoria, OR
Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI
Best of the NW Film and Video Festival, Portland, OR
The Village Building Convergence, Portland, OR
Short Attention Span, IFC Center, NY, NY
Pedalpalooza, Dead Baby Bikes, Portland, OR
Helsing Junction Sleepover, Rochester, WA
54th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
CHANNELING: an invocation of spectral bodies and queer spirits,Alogon Gallery, Chicago, IL
Ghosting The Image, Courtisane Festival 2008, Ghent, Belgium
Chicago Anarchist Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
The Way That We Rhyme, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Lokomotiva, Skopje, Macedonia
The Hunker Down To Rise Above Cinema Show, Village Building Convergence, Portland, OR
Alphabet Soup : Labeling, Identity, Stigma, Pride, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
46th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Picture Industries, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Arts of Alaska, Out North, Anchorage, AK
Grand Illusion/Little Theater, Seattle, WA
Indie Memphis Microcinema Club, Memphis, TN
Diva, Eugene,OR
Portland Community College, Portland,OR
Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Mix at Collective:Unconscious, NY, NY
University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chicago, IL
Odds & Ends, Vol. 2, Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR
Focus The Nation, PNCA, Portland, OR
Olsen, Leeds,England
Caldera Salon, Sisters, OR
Art Beat, Salem, OR
2007
Art Basel , Miami, FL
OUT/EX, Salt Lake City, UT
DetroitDocs International Film Festival, Detroit, MI
34th NW Film & Video Festival, Portland, OR
Local Sightings Film Festival, Seattle, WA
Ice Film Fest, Iowa City, IA
Expresion en Corto, Mexico City, Mexico
Nova Cinema, Brussels, Belgium
Chroma Festival, Guadalajara, Mexico
Milepost 5, Portland, OR
Bicycle Film Festival, Portland, OR
Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, B.C.
Green Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
Naturvision, Neuschonau, Germany
B.A.B.E.fest PDX, Portland, OR
San Francisco Cinematheque, S.F., CA
Odds and Ends, Portland, OR
Changing Landscapes, City Club of Portland, OR
Images Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee, Scotland
40th Humboldt Film Festival, Arcata, CA
PDX Fest, Portland, OR
Pageant Theatre, Chico, CA
Contemporary Gallery, Reno, NV
The Red & Black, Portland, OR
The Capitol Theater, Olympia, WA
The Fried Chicken Barge, Seattle, WA
National Hobo Convention, Britt, IO
Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA
The Replay, Lawrence, KS
The Backyard Monument, Los Angeles, CA
Birdhouse Laboratory, Knoxville, TN
The Badlander, Missoula, MT
Fools Foundation, Sacramento, CA
The Dome, Marfa, TX
Soundstage, Shreveport, LA
Warphaus, Gainesville, FL
Athens Cine, Athens, GA
The Werehouse, Winston-Salem, NC
Somecafe, Lynchburg, TN
Cinema 1818, Baltimore, MD
Union Arts, Athens, OH
The Royale, St Louis, MO
Helsing Junction Sleepover, Rochester, WA
What the Heck Fest, Anacortes, WA
MIART, Milan, Italy
TAKE OVER!, The Artistery, Portland, OR
AK Press, Oakland, CA
Mixed Company, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Siskiyou Environmental Film Festival
Dissecting Portland, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY & Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY
Mix Show, Art In General, NYC, NY
TRUE/FALSE Film Festival, Columbia, Mo (my favorite film festival EVER ANYWHERE!)
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
36th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Nevada City, CA
2006
The Big Top, New Orleans, LA
Mix Festival, NYC, NY
Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA
Budafest, Kortrijk, Belgium
Viennale, Vienna, Austria
Other Cinema, Telling Topographies, S.F., CA
Black Floor Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Outsider Art & Music Film Series, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Zeitgeist, New Orleans, LA
The Pit, Jacksonvlle, FL
The Creative Music and Film Society, Columbia, SC
The Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC
Flying Brick House, Richmond, VA
Ottobar, Baltimore, MD
Pleasuredome/Cinecycle, Toronto, ONTARIO
ABC NO RIO, NY, NY
The Sanctuary. Troy, NY
Jefferson Presents, Pittsburgh, PA
Detroit Film Coalition, Detroit, MI
South Union Arts, Chicago, IL
Darling Hall, Milwaukee, WI
The Belfry Center, Minneapolis, MN
Trasa Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Half Moon Bay,CA
The Empty Vessel, Brooklyn, NY
Psychedelic Logging, Reed College, Portland, OR
Mission Creek Music Festival, A.T.A., San Francisco, CA
What-The-Heck Fest, Anacortes, WA
TBA/PICA, Audioworks, Portland,OR
Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland,OR
Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, B.C.
Pesaro Film Festival, Rome, Italy
L.A. Film Forum
Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Cal Arts, Valencia, CA
The Red Vic Theater, S.F., CA
Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, WA
The Smell, L.A., CA
Echo Park Cinema, L.A.,CA
New York Underground Film Festival
Big Sky Documentary Festival, Missoula, MT
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
Media City, Windsor, Ontario
40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
Railroad Blues, Alpine, TX
The Red Light, Bisbbe, AZ
Guild Cinema, Albq., NM
7 Dudley Cinema, L.A., CA
2005
Worm, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Viennale, Vienna, Austria
PEK Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
Premieres, Museum of Modern Art, NY
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Other Cinema, S.F., CA
Needles and Pens, S.F., CA
Northwest Film and Video Festival, Portland, OR
Montana Artists Refuge, Basin, MT
Asagaya Art School, Tokyo,Japan
TRUE/FALSE FILM FEST, Columbia, MO
Bibliograph Zine Library, Montr�al, QC
Museum of Unfine Art, Eugene, OR
Pants Off/Party On, Casa del Popolo, Montreal, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Siskiyou Environmental Film Festival, Ashland, OR
Images Festival, Toronto, ONT.
SanFrancisco Exploratorium, SF. CA
San Francisco Cinematheque, SF, CA
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
2004
Cinematexas, Austin, TX
NWFC, Portland, OR
Capital Theater, Olympia, WA
Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Recombinant Labs Compound, SF, CA
NY Underground Film Festival
TRUE/FALSE Doc Fest, Columbia, MO
DeComposer, Guild Theatre, Portland, OR
Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
2003
30th NW Film & Video Festival
24/7: Vilnius-New York, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
M7M Proyectos/Fortaleza 302 cine series, San Juan, PR
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Chicago Underground Film Festival
The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Apotik komik, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Shipwreck Days, Anacortes, WA
Venice International Short Film Festival, Venice, Italy
Cinematheque, Brighton,England
Other Cinema, SF, CA
Evergreen State College, Olympia,WA
Bikefest, L.A.,CA
Aurora Picture Show, Austin,TX
2002
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Taos Talking Pictures Film Fest, Taos, N.M.
Black Maria Film Festival
Other Cinema, San Francisco,CA
New York Underground Film Fest,NY
Mini-cine?, Shreveport, LA
Baton Rouge Arts Center, Baton Rouge, LA
The a.r.k., New Orleans, LA
The Underground, Walla Walla, WA
Sotanos, Boise, ID
Trasa Urban Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Broken Glass Gallery, Denver, CO
Taos Talking Pictures Pest, Taos, NM
Max's Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Basement Films, Albq., NM
Marfa Theatre, Marfa, TX
Notsuoh, Houston, TX
Forbidden Gallery, Dallas, TX
Alternate Current Gallery, Austin, TX
Modified, Phoenix, AZ
Congress Hotel, Tucson, AZ
Earwig Factory, Bisbee, AZ
Airpower, L.A., CA
Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, CA
The Luggage Store Gallery, S.F., CA
The Capitol Theatre, Olympia, WA
The Little Theatre, Seattle, WA
The Blinding Light!!, Vancouver, B.C., CANADA
Ragtag Cinema, Columbia, MO
Museum of Modern Art, Iowa City, IA
Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hi-hat, Milwaukee, WI
The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
The Fat Back, Chicago, IL
Pittsburgh Filmmakers & Jefferson Presents, Pittsburgh, PA
Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
MIT, Boston, MA
Emerson College, Boston, MA
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, N.Y., NY
David Gatten presents, Ithaca, NY
LaCasa, Washington, DC
The G Spot, Baltimore, MD
Virginia Filmfest/ plan 9, Charlottesville, VA
Center for Documentary Studies, Raleigh, NC
PS211, Winston-Salem, NC
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Electric Eye Cinema, Madison, WI
Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY
Cinecycle, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bright Rectangle, East Hampton, MA
Oni Gallery, Boston, MA
The Bakery, Providence, RI
Other's Studio, Montreal, QC, Canada
Bread & Puppet Theatre, Glover, VT
No Exit, Chicago, IL
Not My House, Eugene, OR
The Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
University of Oregon, Eugene
The Smithsonian, Wash. D.C.
Reed Arts Week, Reed College, Portland,OR
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,NM
Portland State University,OR
2001
McMurdo Station, Antartica
Melbourne Underground Film Festival,Australia
Baton Rouge Gallery, La.
The A.R.K., New Orleans, La.
Minicine, Shreveport,La.
Vancouver Underground FilmFest. Vancouver, B.C.
Smartcinema, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cinematheque, Brighton,ENGLAND
5th Annual Portland Queer fest,Portland,OR
OtherCinema Outsider Art, San Francisco,CA
Olympia Film Festival, Olympia,WA
Peripheral Produce Invitationals, Portland,OR
Independent Exposure, Minneapolis, MN
Fringefest, Minneapolis,MN
HipMama, Portland, OR
BikeFest, Vancouver,B.C.
Sound Unseen Undercinema, Minneapolis,MN
Independent Exposure,Monterrey,Mexico
New York Underground Film Festival, N.Y.,N.Y.
Robert Beck Memorial Theatre, N.Y.,N.Y.
Peripheral Produce, Portland,OR
Other Cinema A.T.A., San Francisco,CA
The Blinding Light, Vanvouver,B.C.
Reed Arts Week/Exposure, Portland,OR
KinoKino, Lucerne,Switzerland
Black Chair Productions, Seattle,WA
2000
Catacomb-microCinema, Winnipeg,CANADA
Other Cinema, A.T.A., San Franciso CA
27th Northwest Film and Video Festival, Portland, OR
Underground Cinema of Vanessa Renwick, Cinema 21, Portland, OR
Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
The Kitchen, N.Y.,N.Y.
Ladyfest, Olympia, Washington
Sarah Lawrence College Experimental Festival, Bronxville NY
5th Season Premiere-Independent Exposure, Seattle WA
5th Annual Bicycle Film & Video Festival, Berkeley, CA
Roe vs. Wade, Q Hut Gallery, Portland, OR
The Truck Show, Q Hut Gallery, Portland, OR
Peripheral Produce, Clinton Street Theatre, Portland, OR
1999
Orlo Bike In, Portland, OR
Hallowierd, Independent Exposure, Seattle, WA
Halloween Indies, Blackchair Productions, Prague
Bellevue Art Museum Film & Video Festival, Bellevue, WA
Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA
Peripheral Produce, Portland, OR
Film Fatale, The Palms, Los Angeles, CA
Art Beat, PCC, Portland, OR
The Blinding Light, Vancouver B.C.
Other Cinema, A.T.A., San Francisco, CA
Peripheral Produce Experimental Movie Night, Vancouver B.C.
NW Visions-Texas Women's University, Denton, TX
Midnight Sun, Olympia, WA
1998
OR Department of Kick Ass, 5th Avenue Cinemas, Portland, OR
oVoid Video Screening, The Drawing Studio, Portland, OR
25th Northwest Film & Video Festival, Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
Lady X's Freak Du Jour Sideshow Cabaret, Satyricon, Portland, OR
Peripheral Produce Clinton Street Experimental Movie Night, Portland/Eugene OR, Olympia, WA
Film Fatale, LaLuna, Portland, OR and The Palms, Santa Monica CA
The 2nd Annual F Word Festival, Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR
Tidbit Gallery, Portland, OR
Map Show, The Maul, Portland, OR
Portland Cable Access 1993-1998, Portland, OR
1997
Newer Collective 1997-1998, Oak Street Art Center, Berbatis Pan, Portland, OR
Show-Off Gallery, Bellingham ,WA
History Show, The Maul, Portland, OR
Peripheral Produce, Paris Theater Show, Portland, OR
24th Northwest Film & Video Festival, Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
Peripheral Produce, Experimental Movie Night, Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR
Portland's Queer Film Festival, Cinema 21, Portland, OR
1996
Froelick Adelhart/ACLU Uncensored Celebration, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
1995
Plazm Media/ACLU Uncensored Celebration, Clinton Street Theater, Portland, OR
1994
Mind Over Matter, Basement Films, Albuquerque New Mexico
Montreal Film Festival, Image et Nation, Montreal Canada
II Festival of Expression of the Sexualities, Muse de Imagem e do Som, Sao Paolo Brazil
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Pacific Film Archives, Cinematheque, San Franciso, CA
1993
The 7th New York Mix Festival, The Kitchen, New York City, NY
Punkalingus, Roxie Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Olympia Film Festival, Capitol Theater, Olympia, WA
1983
The Ninth Festival of Illinois Film & Video Artists, Biograph Theater, Chgo.IL
INSTALLATIONS
2019
WOODSWOMAN, The Niche, Fine Arts Library at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2016
NEXT LEVEL FUCKED UP, Portland Art Museum
A Stand of Pine in a Tilled Field: 21 Years at PDX, Portland, OR
What's New at TAM? Recent Gifts to the Collection,Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
EMMA BOUND, Saskatchewan Craft Council Gallery, Saskatoon SK CANADA
2015
University Art Gallery, Sewanee, TN
2014
Hunting Requires Optimism. Jordan Schnitzer Museum, Eugene, OR
Medusa Smack, Jordan Schnitzer Museum, Eugene, OR
layover, The Art Gym, Portland, OR
2013
WOODSWOMAN, Onafhankelijk Cultureel Centrum In It, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Medusa Smack, MIX Festival, NYC, NY
2012
Medusa Smack, Portland 2012
Portland Biennial, The White Box, Portland, OR
2010
The EAST/WEST Project- Resplendency, Berlin, Germany
The Dirt Bird, Portland, OR
FULL ON LOG JAM, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
WOODSWOMAN, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2009
The People's Bike Library of Portland, Portland,OR
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
The House of Sound, New American Art Union, Portland, OR
2007
Retinal Reverb, PDX Film Festival, Portland, OR
Snap Trap, Half & Half, Portland, OR
2006
Mix Festival, NYC, NY
Melancholy for Five Rooms, Buda Arts Center, Kortrijk, Belgium
Museum Boijmans von Beuningen Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2004
Hunting, Ritual and Narrative, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
Lovejoy Lost, PDX Window Project, Portland, OR
Rising Up, Tollbooth Project, Tacoma, WA
The Absent Album, Department of Safety, Anacortes, WA
Case Studies, Reed College, Portland, OR
In The Streets, Luggage Store, SF
Tollbooth Project, Tacoma, WA
Drawing Resistance, Liberty Hall, Portland, OR
2003
Coresample, Portland, OR
2002
Beamsplitters, PDX Festival Portland, OR
2001
Northwest Narrative, PICA, Portland OR
2000
Lovejoy, Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR
Taking Space, Making Place, American Institute of Architecture, Portland, OR
Open Walls, PICA, Portland, OR
Disintegration:Contemporary Landscape, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Rerun, Manual Izquierdo Gallery, Portland, OR
1999
Yawn, Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR
1998
Eye Candy Show, Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland, OR
Multi-Mini, 333 Studios, Portland, OR
electriCity, Tidbit Gallery, Portland, OR
1997
Waste Management Systems, The Show Off Gallery. Bellingham, Wa.
ART SHOWS
Prints from Crow’s Shadow Press, Arts Center East, July 12-August 31, 2019, LaGrande, OR
SELECTED FILM AND VIDEO PROJECTS
Miranda July, Joanie4Jackie.com, Portland Spaces Magazine, Literary Arts, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Split Screen/Independent Film Channel, Euro MTV,American Civil Liberties Union, Flying Focus Video Collective,American Torture Theater Company
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Fidelity Investments: Corporate Art Collection
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at University of Oregon
Portland Art Museum, Graphic Art Council
Whitman University, Sheehan Gallery Permanent Collection
E. Blake Byrne
Bronson Collection
The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Harvard Library
Sarah Miller Meigs
Tacoma Art Museum
Stanford University
Emerson College
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of British Colombia
Reed College Library
Marfa Public Library
Multnomah County Library
Evergreen State College
Portland Art Museum