hali autumn
Upcoming Exhibitions:I Write with the Body
October 1- 14, 2025
Opening Reception -
October 2, 5-8pm
PNCA, Portland
Hali Autumn, b.1987, 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, and The 8 Fest. She is the founder and director of the South Sound Experimental Film Festival where she curates annual film screenings & performances.
Living in Portland, Oregon, Hali is pursuing a BFA in Intermedia Arts at Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she researches alternative photographic processes, text and image, while examining ideas of trance and the history of early analog techniques.
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Film Screenings:
Katabatik Konclave. Pe Ell, WA. Super 8 Collage. 2025
UNFIX NYC 2025: Disturbance. Virtual Screening. MAGUS ft. Vanessa Skantze. 2025
EUFF.01 Experimental Short Film & Video Festival. Alberta, Canada. The
Feminine Napkins / TWO. October 2024
Teatro de la Psychomachia. Seattle, WA. Text Films. August 2024
The Dream House. Portland, OR. Text Films. June 2024
PNCA + CCAC, Portland, OR. Until It Is Done with Nina Elder. December 2023
South Sound Experimental Film Fest at Northwest Film Forum. Seattle,
WA. Twin Seas with live score by To End It All. November 2023
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR. 2x2: Crossover Experiments in Time-Based Media. Hand-painted 8mm Films. November 2023
Lunasia Cascadia. Dundee Lodge. Gaston, OR. Twin Seas. July 2023
510 Oak, University of Oregon. MFA Student Performances by Mary Evans, Ashley Campbell, and Agnese Cebere, Tape Variants by Ceremonial Abyss. Portland OR. The Feminine Napkins. February 2023
South Sound Experimental Film Fest at Northwest Film Forum, Seattle,WA. Cyanotypes in 8mm. November 2022
The 8 Fest. Small Gauge Film Festival. Toronto, Canada. TWO. August 2022
The Karate Church, Bellingham, WA. Three Films by Hali Autumn with
live score from Ceremonial Abyss, Katrena Marie, and Identity Theft. April 2022
Gallery 1412, Seattle, WA. Three Films by Hali Autumn with live score from Amy Denio, Circadies, Ceremonial Abyss, and Katrena Marie. April 2022
South Sound Experimental Film Fest at Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA. ONE. November 2021
NW Film Center Student Screening Showcase. Whitsell Auditorium, Portland, OR. TWO. 2021
Selected Group Exhibitions:
untitl3d coll3ctive, Portland, OR. Untitl3d Photography. January 2025
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR. Seeing Time. April 2024
The Reser Art Center, Beaverton, OR. Dialogues: An Emerging Artist Showcase. January 2024
The Royal Nebeker Art Gallery at Clatsop Community College. Astoria, OR. Mind and Hand: PNCA Community Showcase. October 2023
Lightbox Photographic Gallery. Astoria, OR. New Visionaries. May 2023
Oregon Contemporary, Small Talk Pop-Up Projection Show, Portland, OR. Light Conversations Vol. 4. April 2023
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland OR. Playing with Photography. April 2023
Carnation Contemporary, The Extended Ear, Portland, OR. Fertile Collision. March 2022
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
Books:
Portraits In Ectoplasm. Self-published. Limited Edition of 3. 8 pages. May 2025
Playing Dice with Persephone: From Kore to Persephone. Self-published. Maquette. 22 pages. March 2025
Ectoplasm Portraits: Vanessa Skantze. Self-published. Accordion booklette. Edition of one. June 2023
NC-VA 2021. Self-published. 12 pages. March 2023
The Dissonance Stage. Self-published. Edition of 10. 15 pages. January 2023
Fertile Collision. Published by PALM. Edition of 100. 38 pages. May 2021
Presenter / Panelist:
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