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.





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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