木瓜直播

Education

• M.F.A., Lesley University College of Art and Design
• B.F.A., 木瓜直播  

Biography

Michael Conti is a photographer and filmmaker living and working in the land of the Dena鈥檌na people in Anchorage, 木瓜直播. He earned a BFA from the University of 木瓜直播 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 木瓜直播 State Council on the Arts in 2011. He is a term instructor of photography at the 木瓜直播.

Teaching Responsibilities

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

Professional & Department Service

• Professional Photographer. Clients include
  • Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
  • 木瓜直播 Tribal Health Consortium
  • 木瓜直播 State Council on the Arts
  • 木瓜直播 Native Heritage Center

Publications

• Creative 木瓜直播: A Ten Year Retrospective of support for 木瓜直播 Artists, ed. Sven Haakanson and Amy Steffian, University of 木瓜直播 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, 木瓜直播
2021     It Won鈥檛 Be The Same, But It Might Be Beautiful, Collaboration with Nina Elder, Bunnell St. Art Center, Homer, 木瓜直播
2018     Short Stories, Out North Contemporary Art House, Anchorage, 木瓜直播
              You Can鈥檛 Go Home to Cleveland Ohio, Arc Gallery, Anchorage, 木瓜直播
2017     El Camino Real, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, 木瓜直播
2016     Stick and Puck, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, 木瓜直播

Group

2023     Protection: Adaptation and Resistance 鈥� traveling exhibition
              Bunnell Street Art Center, Homer, 木瓜直播
              Center for Arts and Culture, Portland, OR
              Tulsa Living Arts, Tulsa, OK
              Folk Art Museum, Santa Fe, NM
              木瓜直播 State Museum, Juneau, AK

2023     Di Bestiis Insularum, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK, 2022 
              木瓜直播 Biennial, Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage, 木瓜直播
2020     Anthropocene, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, 木瓜直播
2019     Snow Day, Bivy Space, Anchorage, 木瓜直播 
2019     State Proof, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, 木瓜直播
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

Awards

• Individual Artist Project Award, Rasmuson Foundation, Anchorage, 木瓜直播
• Connie Boocheever Fellowship, 木瓜直播 State Council on the Arts, Anchorage, 木瓜直播
• Career Opportunity Grant, 木瓜直播 State Council on the Arts, Anchorage, 木瓜直播