Hali Autumn is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in super 8 film and fine art photography. Her work has been exhibited at Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Contemporary, The Reser, Northwest Film Forum, PamCut, and The 8 Fest. She is the founder and director of the South Sound Experimental Film Festival where she curates annual film screenings & performances. Hali holds a BFA in Intermedia Arts from Pacific Northwest College of Art. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon where she researches alternative photographic processes, text and image, & the history of early analog techniques.
2025 BFA Thesis Abstract
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Selected Publications
- The Buckman Journal 014, Trance (July 2025)
- Lit Magazine, Lit39, Featured Post. Magus: A Tribute in Poetry and Film to Donald Miller by Vanessa Skantze and Hali Autumn (Spring 2025)
Group Exhibitions
- untitl3d coll3ctive: Untitl3d Photography (January 2025)
- Blue Sky Gallery: Seeing Time (April 2024)
- The Reser Art Center: Dialogues: An Emerging Artist Showcase (January 2024)
- The Royal Nebeker Art Gallery at Clatsop Community College: Mind and Hand: PNCA Community Showcase (October 2023)
- Lightbox Photographic Gallery: New Visionaries (May 2023)
- Oregon Contemporary, Small Talk: Light Conversations Vol. 4. (April 2023)
- Blue Sky Gallery: Playing with Photography (April 2023)
- Carnation Contemporary, The Extended Ear: Fertile Collision (March 2022)
Solo Exhibitions
- Pacific Northwest College of Art: Thesis Defense Exhibition: A Lineage of Spectral Femininity (November 2026)
- Pacific Northwest College of Art: I Write with the Body (October 2025)
Film Screenings
- South Sound Experimental Film Fest Encore at PamCut Tomorrow Theater: The Incantation of Gradiva (February 2026)
- Portland Camera Club: The Incantation of Gradiva (December 2025)
- Katabatik Konclave: Super 8 Collage (August 2025)
- UNFIX NYC 2025: Disturbance: MAGUS ft. Vanessa Skantze (2025)
- EUFF.01 Experimental Short Film & Video Festival, Alberta, Canada: The Feminine Napkins & TWO (October 2024)
- Teatro de la Psychomachia: Text Films (August 2024)
- The Dream House: Text Films (June 2024)
- PNCA + CCAC: Until It Is Done with Nina Elder (December 2023)
- South Sound Experimental Film Fest at Northwest Film Forum: Twin Seas, performed with To End It All (November 2023)
- Pacific Northwest College of Art, 2x2: Crossover Experiments in Time-Based Media: Cyanotype 8mm Films (November 2023)
- Lunasia Cascadia. Dundee Lodge: Twin Seas (July 2023)
- 510 Oak, University of Oregon: The Feminine Napkins (February 2023)
- South Sound Experimental Film Fest at Northwest Film Forum: Cyanotypes in 8mm (November 2022)
- The 8 Fest Small Gauge Film Festival. Toronto, Canada: TWO (August 2022)
- The Karate Church: Three Films by Hali Autumn with Ceremonial Abyss, Katrena Marie, and Identity Theft (April 2022)
- Gallery 1412: Three Films by Hali Autumn with Amy Denio, Circadies, Ceremonial Abyss, and Katrena Marie (April 2022)
- South Sound Experimental Film Fest at Northwest Film Forum: ONE (November 2021)
- NW Film Center, Whitsell Auditorium: TWO (2021)
Photo Books
- Portraits In Ectoplasm. Self-published, handbound. Edition of 3 (May 2025)
- Playing Dice with Persephone: From Kore to Persephone. Self-published, perfect bound. Edition of 2 (March 2025)
- Ectoplasm Portraits: Vanessa Skantze. Self-published, accordion booklette. Edition of 1 (June 2023)
- NC-VA 2021 Zine. Self-published (March 2023)
- The Dissonance Stage. Self-published. Edition of 10, handbound. (January 2023)
- Fertile Collision. PALM, perfectbound. Edition of 100 (May 2021)