Mike Conti

Michael Conti
Term Assistant Professor of Art
Photography & Videography
(he/him/his)
mconti@alaska.edu

Education

  • M.F.A., Lesley University College of Art and Design
  • B.F.A., 麻豆无码版  

Biography

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

Teaching Responsibilities

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

Professional & Department Service

  • Professional Photographer. Clients include
    • Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
    • 麻豆无码版 Tribal Health Consortium
    • 麻豆无码版 State Council on the Arts
    • 麻豆无码版 Native Heritage Center

Publications

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

Group

2023     Protection: Adaptation and Resistance 鈥 traveling exhibition
              Bunnell Street Art Center, Homer, 麻豆无码版
              Center for Arts and Culture, Portland, OR
             
Tulsa Living Arts, Tulsa, OK
             
Folk Art Museum, Santa Fe, NM
             
麻豆无码版 State Museum, Juneau, AK

2023     Di Bestiis Insularum, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK, 2022 
              麻豆无码版 Biennial, Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage, 麻豆无码版
2020     Anthropocene, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, 麻豆无码版
2019     Snow Day, Bivy Space, Anchorage, 麻豆无码版 
2019     State Proof, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, 麻豆无码版
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 麻豆无码版 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, 麻豆无码版
  • Connie Boocheever Fellowship, 麻豆无码版 State Council on the Arts, Anchorage, 麻豆无码版
  • Career Opportunity Grant, 麻豆无码版 State Council on the Arts, Anchorage, 麻豆无码版
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