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, and PamCut. She is the founder and director of the South Sound Experimental Film Festival where she curates annual film screenings and performances. Hali earned her BFA in Intermedia Arts from Pacific Northwest College of Art, Willamette University, where she researched ideas of trance, lineage, text/image, and the history of early analog techniques. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at University of Iowa School of Art, Art History, and Design.
Her current project, A Lineage of Spectral Femininity, works within durational portraiture. Based on conceptual approaches to 19th and 20th century spirit photography, the series reflects the greater studies of occult, spiritualism, and the methodological advances of mediumship within feminist visual art. The first book exploring this series will be self published in May, 2026, in an edition of 20.
Her current project, A Lineage of Spectral Femininity, works within durational portraiture. Based on conceptual approaches to 19th and 20th century spirit photography, the series reflects the greater studies of occult, spiritualism, and the methodological advances of mediumship within feminist visual art. The first book exploring this series will be self published in May, 2026, in an edition of 20.
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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 2025) BFA Thesis Abstract
- Pacific Northwest College of Art: I Write with the Body (October 2025)
- Film Screenings
- Word Virus Books: The Incantation of Gradiva, scored by Angelo Scott (March 2026)
- 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)