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Ryan Jeffery

CV

born 1978

Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts
2000-Lewis & Clark College Portland OR

Screenings
2009
Optica Festival, Selected Works, Madrid, Spain
Performance Installation, Younger, Time Based Arts Festival, Portland OR
2008
Independent Exposure Houston, TX/San Francisco, CA
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
2007
"Local Sightings" NW Film Forum Seattle, WA
Independent Exposure Houston, TX/San Francisco, CA
2006
International Short Film Festival Leuven, Belgium
Festival Nouveau Cinema, Montreal Canada
NW Film + Video Festival, Portland OR
Peripheral Produce, Portland OR
2005
Olympia Film Festival, Olympia WA
"Best of the NW" Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle WA
TBA Festival, "How We Investigate" Portland OR
"Microcosmos" The Films of Ryan Jeffery, NW Film Center, Portland OR
Portland International Film Festival, Portland OR
Peripheral Produce Film Festival, Portland OR
2004
NW Film + Video Festival, Portland OR
Texas Ballroom, Chicago IL
Peripheral Produce Film Festival, Portland OR
2003
NW Film + Video Festival, Portland OR
San Diego Experimental Film Festival, San Diego CA
Peripheral Produce Film Festival, Portland OR

Group and Solo Exhibitions
2009
Group Exhibition/Performance, "Younger" TBA Festival, Portland OR
2008
Group Exhibition, "Optofonica" Elektra Festival Montreal, Canada
2007
Video Installation, "Origin" PDX Gallery, Portland OR
Video Installation Flow Fair, Miami FL
Group Exhibition "Optofonica" Sonar Festival Barcelona, Spain
Group Exhibition "Optofonica" 5 Days Off Festival, Amsterdam Netherlands
Group Exhibition "Mixed Media" PDX Contemporary, Portland OR
2006
Video Installation Flow Fair, Miami FL
Video/Sculpture Installation "Fallen" PDX Contemporary, Portland OR
2005
Video Installation "Ceiling Songs/Window" Hall Gallery, Portland OR
Video Installation RX Gallery, San Francisco CA
2004
Video/Sculpture Installation "Recollection" Gallery 500, Portland OR
Video/Sculpture “3 Channels” Installation Portland Building, Portland OR
2003
Video Installation SoundVision Gallery, Portland OR
Video Installation Gallery 500, Portland OR

Grants & Honorariums
2009
RACC Project Grant video/film "Younger"
2008
Independent Exposure San Francisco 1st place short film "Rise"
2006
RACC project Grant video installation 'Rise"
2005
RACC project Grant "Small Sails multi media performance"
2004
RACC project Grant video Installation "Fallen"
RACC Portland Building Honorarium video installation "3 Channels"
2003
RACC project Grant video/sculpture Installation "Recollection"
2002
RACC project Grant video Installation "Circles Inside"

Special Collections
ARTV "Mange ta ville" Montreal Canada
The Getty Research Institute Library, Los Angeles, CA
Stanford University Library, Palo Alto, CA
Special Collections, Knight Library, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Bibliography
Pop Matters "I Know You Now" 2010
Paste Magazine Video Feature "Younger" 2010
PlayGround Magazine Video Mix Especiales 2009
MTV Subterranean mix "As White As Diamonds" Alela Diane 2009
Stereogum video premier "Pity Dance" DM Stith February 2009
PitchforkTV video premier "As White As Diamonds" Alela Diane January 2009
Fader Magazine "Ragged Tint" Benoit Pioulard October 2008
xlr8r Magazine "Ragged Tint" Benoit Pioulard October 2008
PitchforkTV video premier "Ragged Tint" Benoit Pioulard October 2008
Sweet Dreams Issue #2 Ryan Jeffery: Sounds Images Histories & Narratives Spring 2008
Portland Monthly Dec 2007
Portland Mercury "Rise" Dec 2007
Portland Mercury "Magical People" Sept 2006
San Francisco Guardian "Sweet 16mm" July Sept 2006
Portland Tribune May 2006
Oregon Live Is it Art "Angeles and Monsters" March 2006
P.O.R.T. "Fallen Debut" March 2006

Filmography
The Practice of Living (8 min) 2011
I Know You Now (4.5 min) music promo, Tu Fawning, City Slang Records 2010
Dog Palm, CA (3 min) 2010
We're Almost There (1 min) 2010
Younger, music promo Laura Gibson Ethan Rose, Holocene records (7 min) 2009
Pity Dance, music promo DM Stith Asthmatic Kitty Records (4 min) 2009
Ragged Tint music promo Benoit Pioulard, Kranky Records (3 min) 2008
Alela Diane "As White As Diamonds", Holocene Records (4 min) 2008
Rise (7 min) 2007
Music Machine (3 min) 2006
Fallen (7 min) 2006
The Crown (2 min) ongoing episodic installments
Continuum (6 min) 2004
Small Parts (3 min) 2001
Palabra (2 min) 2001