Resume — Julie Perini

born in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Lives and works in Portland, Oregon

SELECTED SOLO SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS

2024 Minute Movies, solo exhibition, Millennium Film Workshop, Portland, OR
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 Hollywood Theater, The Gentleman Bank Robber screening, Portland, OR
2017 Upfor Gallery, screening & exhibition, Portland, OR
2016 Headroom screening series, 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
2014 The Nightingale, screening, Chicago, IL
2014 Big Muddy Film Festival, solo juror screening, Carbondale, IL
2013 Artists’ Television Access, screening, San Francisco, CA
2013 Microscope Gallery, screening, 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 GROUP SHOWS / SCREENINGS / FILM FESTIVALS / READINGS

2025 “Tempo Giusto,” Littman Gallery, curated by Simeen Anjun, Portland, OR
2025 Panorama Film Festival, Portland, OR
2024 “Millennium Film Journal: Strata” screening, Close-Up Cinema, London, England
2024 “Millennium Film Journal: Strata” screening, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
2024 Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2024 Film Diary NYC film festival, New York, NY
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
2019 Arresting 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 Big Muddy Film Festival, Arresting Power screening, Carbondale, IL
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 DeVleeshal 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
2009 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
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

2025 Playa Awarded Artist Residency, Summer Lake, OR
2024 Harvestworks Workspace Residency, New York, NY
2023 Arts3C Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
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 Awarded 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, 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

Professor, Schnitzer School of Art, Art History & Design, Portland State University

EDUCATION

2026 M.F.A. Creative Nonfiction. Creative Writing. Portland State University (expected)
2006 M.F.A. Experimental & Documentary Media. Department of Media Study. University at Buffalo
2000 B.S. Communication. Cornell University

Julie Perini is a filmmaker and artist in Portland, Oregon.