Hali Autumn is a intermedia artist specializing in film-making, fine art photography, and darkroom
techniques;
developing her own methods to create visual-poetics.
Her work has been exhibited at Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Contemporary, The Reser, Northwest Film Forum, and The 8 Fest. She is the founder and director of the South Sound Experimental Film Festival where she curates annual
film screenings & performance.
Currently, based in Portland, Oregon, Hali is pursuing a BFA in Intermedia Arts at Pacific Northwest College of Art
where she experiments in alternative photographic procedures and researching ideas of repression, trance, and the history of early analog processes.
developing her own methods to create visual-poetics.
Her work has been exhibited at Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Contemporary, The Reser, Northwest Film Forum, and The 8 Fest. She is the founder and director of the South Sound Experimental Film Festival where she curates annual
film screenings & performance.
Currently, based in Portland, Oregon, Hali is pursuing a BFA in Intermedia Arts at Pacific Northwest College of Art
where she experiments in alternative photographic procedures and researching ideas of repression, trance, and the history of early analog processes.
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Film Screenings:
2025- Film Screening, UNFIX NYC 2025: Disturbance. Virtual Screening. MAGUS ft. Vanessa Skantze
2024- Film Screening, EUFF.01 Experimental Short Film & Video Festival. Alberta, Canada. The
Feminine Napkins, TWO
2024- Film Screening, Teatro de la Psychomachia. Seattle, WA. Text Films
2024- Film Screening, The Dream House. Portland, OR. Text Films
2023- Film Screening, South Sound Experimental Film Fest at Northwest Film Forum. Seattle,
WA. Twin Seas with live score by To End It All
2023- Film Screening, PNCA + CCAC, Portland, OR. Until It Is Done with Nina Elder
2023- Film Screening, PNCA, Portland, OR. 2x2: Crossover Experiments in Time-Based Media. Hand-painted 8mm Films
2023- Film Screening, Lunasia Cascadia. Dundee Lodge. Gaston, OR. Twin Seas
2022- Film Screening, South Sound Experimental Film Fest at Northwest Film Forum, Seattle,WA. Cyanotypes in 8mm
2022- Film Screening, The 8 Fest. Small Gauge Film Festival. Toronto, Canada. TWO
2022- Film Screening, The Karate Church, Bellingham, WA. Three Films by Hali Autumn with
live score from Ceremonial Abyss, Katrena Marie, and Identity Theft
2022- Film Screening. Gallery 1412, Seattle, WA. Three Films by Hali Autumn with live score from
Amy Denio, Circadies, Ceremonial Abyss, and Katrena Marie
2021- Film Screening, South Sound Experimental Film Fest at Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA. ONE
2020- Visual Projections, Olympia,WA. ALVA Presents: Imbolc Ritual Dance Show
2020- NW Film Center Student Screening Showcase. Whitsell Auditorium, Portland, OR. TWO
2019- Visual Projections, ALVA Arts Collective. Portland, OR. & Olympia, WA. ALVA Presents
2019- Visual Projections, Pe Ell, WA. Hypnagogia
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025- untitl3d coll3ctive, Portland, OR. Untitl3d Photography
2024- Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR. Seeing Time
2024- The Reser Art Center, Beaverton, OR. Dialogues: An Emerging Artist Showcase
2023- The Royal Nebeker Art Gallery at Clatsop Community College. Astoria, OR. Mind and Hand: PNCA Community Showcase
2023- Lightbox Photographic Gallery. Astoria, OR. New Visionaries
2023- Oregon Contemporary, Small Talk Pop-Up Projection Show, Portland, OR. Light Conversations Vol. 4
2023- 510 Oak, University of Oregon. MFA Student Performances and Tape Variants by Ceremonial Abyss. Portland OR. The Feminine Napkins
2023- Blue Sky Gallery, Portland OR. Playing with Photography
2022- Carnation Contemporary, The Extended Ear, Portland, OR. Fertile Collision
Selected Publications:
2025- forthcoming - The Buckman Journal
2025- Lit Magazine, Lit39, Spring 2025. Featured Post. Magus: A Tribute in Poetry and Film to Donald Miller by Vanessa Skantze and Hali Autumn
Books:
2025- Playing Dice with Persephone: From Kore to Persephone. Self-published. Maquette. 22 pages.
2024- Ectoplasm Portraits: Vanessa Skantze. Self-published. Accordion booklette. Edition of one.
2023- NC-VA 2021. Self-published. 12 pages.
2023- The Dissonance Stage. Self-published. Edition of 10. 15 pages.
2021- Fertile Collision. Published by PALM. Edition of 100. 38 pages.
Presenter:
Selections from "Stage Exit: The Resurrection of Lizzie Bougatsos" – Aestheics of Survival, Cultures of Capitalism, Cultural Studies Symposium.
Pacific Northwest College of Art [Critical Studies Program] | [Portland, Oregon]
December 2024