Mike Conti

Michael Conti
Term Instructor of Photography
(he/him/his)
mconti@alaska.edu

Education

  • M.F.A., Lesley University College of Art and Design
  • B.F.A., 熊猫在线视频  

Biography

Michael Conti is a photographer and filmmaker living and working in the land of the Dena鈥檌na people in Anchorage, 熊猫在线视频. He earned a BFA from the University of 熊猫在线视频 Anchorage, and an MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design. His video work has been shown at the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, South Korea, ContainR at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada and won awards at the Anchorage International Film Festival.  In 2016 he mounted a solo exhibition at the Anchorage Museum entitled 鈥淪tick and Puck.鈥   He has been included in numerous juried and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, as well as 20 solo shows.

He received a project award from the Rasmuson Foundation in 2006, 2015 and 2022. He is a Connie Boocheever Fellow from the 熊猫在线视频 State Council on the Arts in 2011. He is a term instructor of photography at the 熊猫在线视频.

Teaching Responsibilities

  • Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced Photography
  • Digital Video, Experimental Photography

Professional & Department Service

  • Professional Photographer. Clients include
    • Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
    • 熊猫在线视频 Tribal Health Consortium
    • 熊猫在线视频 State Council on the Arts
    • 熊猫在线视频 Native Heritage Center

Publications

  • Creative 熊猫在线视频: A Ten Year Retrospective of support for 熊猫在线视频 Artists, ed. Sven Haakanson and Amy Steffian, University of 熊猫在线视频 Press
  • Up Here: The North at the Center of the World, ed. Julie Decker and Kirsten Anderson, University of Washington Press
  • Art Light Play: Re-Imagining the Winter Campus, ed. Herminia Din and Priscilla Lema, Bright Ideas Design Co, Ltd.
  • True North 鈥 Contemporary Art of the Circumpolar North, Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center

Exhibitions

Solo

2021     I Protest, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, 熊猫在线视频
2021     It Won鈥檛 Be The Same, But It Might Be Beautiful, Collaboration with Nina Elder, Bunnell St. Art Center, Homer, 熊猫在线视频
2018     Short Stories, Out North Contemporary Art House, Anchorage, 熊猫在线视频
              You Can鈥檛 Go Home to Cleveland Ohio, Arc Gallery, Anchorage, 熊猫在线视频
2017     El Camino Real, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, 熊猫在线视频
2016     Stick and Puck, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, 熊猫在线视频

Group

2023     Protection: Adaptation and Resistance 鈥 traveling exhibition
              Bunnell Street Art Center, Homer, 熊猫在线视频
              Center for Arts and Culture, Portland, OR
             
Tulsa Living Arts, Tulsa, OK
             
Folk Art Museum, Santa Fe, NM
             
熊猫在线视频 State Museum, Juneau, AK

2023     Di Bestiis Insularum, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK, 2022 
              熊猫在线视频 Biennial, Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage, 熊猫在线视频
2020     Anthropocene, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, 熊猫在线视频
2019     Snow Day, Bivy Space, Anchorage, 熊猫在线视频 
2019     State Proof, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, 熊猫在线视频
2017     Lokkus Arte Contemporaneo, Medellin, Columbia, South America
2017     Decolonization, curator: Asia Freeman, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC 

Films 

2020  Joe Senungetuk: Art and Life 

Residencies

2018     University of 熊猫在线视频 Printmaking Artist in Residence
2017     Zygote Press, Cleveland, Ohio
2016     Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
 

Awards

  • Individual Artist Project Award, Rasmuson Foundation, Anchorage, 熊猫在线视频
  • Connie Boocheever Fellowship, 熊猫在线视频 State Council on the Arts, Anchorage, 熊猫在线视频
  • Career Opportunity Grant, 熊猫在线视频 State Council on the Arts, Anchorage, 熊猫在线视频
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