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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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)