JULIE PERINI
b. 1977, Poughkeepsie, NY
SELECTED SOLO SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS
2024 Many Many Minutes, solo exhibition, Millennium Film Workshop curated by Film Diary NYC, New York, NY
2022 It’s About Time, solo screening, Eugene Contemporary Art, Eugene, OR
2020 Arresting Power screening & online panel discussion, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2020 Arresting Power public projection on the Burnside Bridge, Portland, OR
2019 Extra Ordinary: Films & Videos About Everyday Life, Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
2017 Upfor Gallery, screening & exhibition, Portland, OR
2016 Headroom screening series, screening of shorts, Iowa City, IA
2015 Interference Archive, Arresting Power screening, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Kala Art Institute, Arresting Power screening, Berkeley, CA
2015 Hollywood Theater, Arresting Power screenings, Portland, OR
2015 Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum, Arresting Power screening, Portland, OR
2015 Big Muddy Film Festival, Arresting Power screening, Carbondale, IL
2014 The Nightingale, screening of shorts, Chicago, IL
2014 Big Muddy Film Festival, juror screening, Carbondale, IL
2013 Artists’ Television Access, screening of shorts, San Francisco, CA
2013 Microscope Gallery, screening of shorts, Brooklyn, NY
2012 University of Guanajuato, exhibition, Guanajuato, Mexico
2010 Pushdot Studio Gallery, exhibition curated by Ann Ploeger, Portland, OR
2010 Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Nevada College, exhibition curated by Kat Hutter, Lake Tahoe, NV
2009 MK Gallery, Portland State University, exhibition curated by Patrick Rock, Portland, OR
2008 Cascade Gallery, exhibition curated by Jacqueline Ehlis, Portland, OR
2007 Rochester Contemporary Art Center, screening, Rochester, NY
2007 Echo Park Film Center, screening, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED RECENT GROUP SHOWS / SCREENINGS / FILM FESTIVALS / READINGS
2024 Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2024 Film Diary NYC film festival, New York, New York
2023 South Sound Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, Washington
2021 It Did Happen Here, street display of documentary materials as part of Vanport Mosaic “Museum Without Walls” event in downtown Portland, OR
2020 Uncomfortable Club, online exhibition & fundraiser curated by Michelle Kline, Portland, OR
2019Arresting Power screening presented as part of Abigail DeVille exhibition, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2018 Twist Queer Film Festival, Seattle, WA
2016 Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
2016 Exploring Nothing, Compliance Division, screening with David Gracon, Portland, OR
2015 Visible Evidence XXII, Toronto, Canada
2015 Harlem International Film Festival, New York, NY
2015 Local Sightings Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
2014 Self(ie) Portraits, Upfor Gallery, curated by Theo Downes-Le Guin Portland, OR
2013 9th Annual Berlin Directors Lounge Festival for Contemporary Media and Film, Happiness is a Warm Projector, curated by Bryan Konefsky, Berlin, Germany
2013 Disjecta Contemporary, Hits of Sunshine performance, Portland, Oregon
2013 De Vleeshal Gallery, OVP – HNY, curated by Sarra Brill, Middleburg, Netherlands
2013 Elizabeth Leach Gallery Video Window, Signal Fire Videos, Portland, Oregon
2012 Centre Pompidou – Metz, I Have Travelled Far Within Portland, curated by Vanessa Renwick, Metz, France
2012 Artists Television Access, Conversations with the Mirror, curated by Tessa Siddle, San Francisco, CA
2012 Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Consider the Alternatives Documentary Series, curated by Meg Knowles, Buffalo, NY
2011 SOMArts, DIY: Queer it Yourself, part of Queer Arts Festival, collaborative video installation with Cooper Lee Bombardier & Wayne Bund, San Francisco, CA
2010 Hollywood Vintage, Summer Squash, curated by Grand Detour, Portland, OR
2010 Smolny College, Happiness is a Warm Projector, selections from the Experiments in Cinema Film Festivals, St. Petersburg, Russia
2009 UCLA, Gender and the Body in Contemporary Found Footage Filmmaking, screening curated by Jaimie Baron, Los Angeles, CA
Anthology Film Archives, Eye Am, screening curated by Cat Tyc, New York, NY
2009 Buswater on the Boulevard, curated by Stephen Slappe, Charleston, WV
2008 Carnegie Art Center at Riviera Theater, Remembering & Remaking History, Buffalo, NY
2008 Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA
2008 Acts and Actions, curated by the Portland Film & Video Artist’s Collective Zero, Station
2008 Contemporary Art Space, Portland, ME
2008 The Show Starts on the Sidewalk, curated by Nomi Talisman UC Santa Cruz, CA
2007 Beyond/In Western New York, juried regional biennial with catalog, Buffalo, NY
2007 Drake Hotel Underground, Public Space Invaders, Toronto, Canada
2007 Flixation Underground Cinema Club, London, England
2006 Netwerk Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium, Event #5
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS / GRANTS / AWARDS
2024 Harvestworks Workspace Residency, New York, NY
2022 Byrdcliffe Artist Residency, Woodstock, NY
2021 Portland State University Faculty Enhancement Award, Portland, OR
2020 Sou’wester Arts Week Artist Residency, Seaview, WA
2018 Basement Films Archive Residency, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Playa Artist Residency, Summer Lake, OR
2017 Oregon Media Arts Fellowship, Portland, OR
2016 Regional Arts & Culture Council, Professional Development Award, Portland, OR
2016 Signal Culture Residency, Owego, NY
2015 Juror Award, 42nd Northwest Filmmakers Festival, Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Juried by Steve Anker
2015 John Michaels Award for Social Justice Films, 2nd Place, Big Muddy Film Festival
2014 Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant
2014 Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA
2014 Ford Family Foundation Fellowship to attend Djerassi Resident Artist Program
2013 Precipice Fund Project Grant, Portland, OR
2013 Regional Arts & Culture Council, Professional Development Award, Portland, OR
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
2012 Group Artist Residency, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA
2012 Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo Art Colony, Saratoga Springs, NY
2012 Regional Arts & Culture Council, Project Grant, Portland, OR
2012 Regional Arts & Culture Council, Professional Development Award, Portland, OR
2011 Artist-in-Residence, Winter Wren Artist Residency, LaGrande, OR
2011 Artist-in-Residence, Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Sponsored by NYFA, Woodstock, NY
2010 Artist-in-Residence, Signal Fire Summer Residency in Mt. Hood, OR
2009 Fellowship, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
2008 Special Recognition, 35th Northwest Film & Video Festival, Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Juried by Kelly Reichardt
2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for Cross-Disciplinary/Performative Work
CURRENT TEACHING POSITION
2011 - present Portland State University, Professor, School of Art + Design
EDUCATION
2003 – 2006 M.F.A. Media Study. University at Buffalo
1996 – 2000 B.S. Communication. Cornell University