EPIPHANY COUCH SELECTED CV
b. 1987, caləłali (Tacoma, Washington)
Lives and works in Portland, OR
EDUCATION
2010
BFA Sculpture, Asian Studies Designation, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
2005
Photography Emphasis, Tacoma School of the Arts, Tacoma, WA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
č’adac (Inheritance), Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (Forthcoming)
2025
In the Name of Progress, Souvenir, Portland, OR
pədhədəbil/pədhədəb: Spring and Summer Selections from Before the Fire Lit My Dreams, Solas Gallery, Seattle, WA
Strong Spirits Carry Us Forward, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
How to Hold Yourself in the High Country (pop-up exhibition supported by High Country News), Center for Native Arts + Cultures, Portland, OR
2024
Before the Fire Lit My Dreams, Paragon Arts Gallery, Portland, OR
Strong Spirits, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Carrying the Family House, HappenStance, Portland, OR
2023
The History of Forgetting, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2013
strange and beautiful things, Kenton Wellness Center, Portland, OR
2011
i want to tell you everything, The Arbor Lodge, Portland, OR
COLLECTIONS
chaku kumtuks haws, Portland, OR
City of Portland Parks, Portland, OR (Percent for Art in Public Places)
City of Portland Portable Works Collection, Portland, OR
East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, Portland, OR
New York Public Library: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, Photography Collection, New York, NY
Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, Oregon (Percent for Art in Public Places)
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (Percent for Art in Public Places/Oregon Arts Commission)
Portland State University, Portland, OR
Puyallup Tribe of Indians, Tacoma, WA
Recology Collection, San Francisco, CA
Walden Building, Washougal, WA
Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026
Epiphany Couch & Charlie-Anne Hopkins, Belonging Otherwise, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR (Forthcoming)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Temporal, CSMoFA, Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts, Olympia, WA (Forthcoming)
Timothy White Eagle's Once Wild River, Mini Mart City Park, Seattle, WA
Mapping Familiar Territories, Charting New Paths, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland, OR
Coast Salish Creation Stories, Tidelands Gallery, Seattle, WA
PLACEHOLDER: Roots, Rupture & Regeneration, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
2025
uncertainty surrounds the holding of things, after/time, Portland, OR
Sitka Art Invitational, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Woven In Kinship, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
An Invisible Current: Engaging with History, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
GLEAN’s 14th annual Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Portland, OR
Coming Around Again, Lincoln City Cultural Center, Lincoln City, OR
2024
Bumbershoot Contemporary, Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
2024 Oregon Contemporary Artists’ Biennial, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Wonder 2024, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
CSMoFA Future Generations, Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts, Olympia, WA
Composition / Decomposition, SOIL, Seattle, WA
Future Forward, Mini Mart City Park, Seattle, WA
things we lost in the: The Legacy of St. Amelia’s College of Speculative Timbre, Sidle House, Freeport, ME
Materiality Matters, Umpqua Valley Arts, Roseburg, OR
2023
Home Lab, Bellevue Arts Museum Community Education Gallery, Bellevue, WA
Still Here, Still Native, The Arts Center, Fayetteville, NC
Passing by is no longer an option, Yuan Ru Gallery, Bellevue, WA
Around Oregon Biennial, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
Claiming Space: Indigenous & Native Self Portraits, Collab Yakima, Yakima, WA
CSMoFA Fall Arts Walk, Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts, Olympia, WA
Biomass, The Oyster at the Maddox Building, Portland, OR
My Private Property, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2022
Around Oregon Annual Exhibition, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
pəd(d)ukʷibəɫ Time of Transformer Art Showcase, Puyallup Tribe of Indians txʷəlšucid Language Program, Virtual Exhibition
The Extended Ear, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2018
Are You Book Enough Group Show, Studio Editions Gallery, Seattle, WA
SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS
2026
Leon Polk Smith Foundation Residency, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, NY (Forthcoming)
Ford Family Foundation Golden Spot Residency, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
2026 Fields Artist Fellowship semi-finalist
2025
Indigenous Visiting Artist Residency, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
iolair artist residency, iolair, Eastsound Orcas Island, WA
Sou’wester Arts Week Artist Residency, Sou’wester, Seaview, WA
Glean Residency, Oregon Metro, Recology, and Reclaim It, Portland, OR
2024
Studios at MASS MoCA Artist Residency, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
MASS MoCA Oregon Visual Artist Fellowship (The Ford Family Foundation), Roseburg, OR
2024 Fields Artist Fellowship semi-finalist
2023
TAAS Fellowship, The Alternative Art School
Centrum Artist Residency, Centrum, Port Townsend, WA
2022
Summit Prairie Residency, Tiller, OR
Mother Earth Fund Fellowship, The Alternative Art School
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2025
Precipice Fund Grant: Cyme Collective, PICA, Portland, OR
Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
2024
Precipice Fund Grant: Carnation Contemporary: Arzani, Smith-Claudel, Couch, Espinoza, and Hadley, PICA, Portland, OR
Photography Documentation Support Grant, Oregon Arts Commission and The Ford Family Foundation, Portland, OR
Director’s Honorable Mention Award, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2023
RACC Arts3C Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
Around Oregon Biennial Jurors' Choice Award, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
2022
Around Oregon Annual Jurors' Choice Award, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2026
OR Magazine: Labor: Spring 2026, Oregon Humanities, Portland, OR
Rock & Sling, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
2025
INDIGENOUS VISIONS Chapbook, Yellowelectric, Astoria, OR
International Examiner: Vol. 52 No. 11, International Examiner, Seattle, WA
Tales of Summit Prairie, Alan Richard Colley Publications, Portland, OR
High Country News: March Issue, High Country News, Paonia, CO
2024
Voices of the River Volume III, Confluence, Vancouver, WA
Monument Workbook, Portland, OR
2023
Projections Journal Issue 17: Planning Just Indigenous Futures, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
2020
Fire Season I, Fire Season, Vancouver, BC
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS
2026
Conversation with Alexandra Terry, Epiphany Couch, and Brenda Mallory, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, Portland, OR
Sitka Center Resident Talk, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
2025
Curatorial Exhibitions Panel, Oracle 2025 Curators Gathering, The Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino, CA
Invisible Current Artist Panel: Engaging with History, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
Listening to the Land: A Panel Conversation and Community Discussion on Art, Nature, and the Written Word, Paragon Arts Gallery, Portland, OR
In the Name of Progress Artist Talk, Souvenir, Portland, OR
Re-Cast: Invoking the Past in Contemporary Expression Panel Discussion, The Hive, Spokane, WA
Carlson Commemoration Indigenous Artist Residency Artist Talk, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
GLEAN Artist's Panel Discussion, GLEAN Exhibition Space, Portland, OR
2024
Strong Spirits: Collaborating with Ancestors, Artist Talk, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Burdened With More Beautiful Things: Artist Talk with Epiphany Couch and Cliff Taylor, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Collaborating with Ancestors, Artist Talk, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Collaborating with Ancestors, Artist Talk, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Artist Talk, Archer Gallery at Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2023
Biomass Artist Talk, The Oyster, Portland, OR
2022
Artist Talk, The Alternative Art School, Virtual
2018
Keeping it Real, Artist Panel Discussion, WOMXN House, Portland, OR
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2026
NAYA LEAD Program, Native American Youth and Family Center, Portland, OR
MFA Visual Studies Mentor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Instructor, Native Creative Night Collage Workshop, Native Arts + Cultures Foundation, Portland, OR
Instructor, Beaded Images Workshop, Tidelands, Seattle, WA
2025
Visiting Artist Teaching Resident, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
Instructor, Patterning Place: A Nature Collage Workshop, yəhaw̓, Seattle, WA
Pollinator peer coaching program, Pollinator, Virtual
MFA Visual Studies Mentor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Residency Application Reviewer, Studios at MASS MoCA Artist Residency, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Guest Curator, Future Forward, Mini Mart City Park, Seattle, WA
2024
MFA Visual Studies Mentor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Residency Application Reviewer, Studios at MASS MoCA Artist Residency, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Guest Curator, CSMoFA Future Generations, Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts, Olympia, WA
Host, Community Regalia-Making nights, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
Workshop Instructor, ART 360: Special Topics in Photography: Making Photo Books, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Grant Application Reviewer, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
Instructor, The Alternative Art School, Virtual
2023
Studio Manager, Wendy Red Star Fine Art Inc., Portland, OR
Instructor, The Alternative Art School, Virtual
2022
Student Life Host, The Alternative Art School, Virtual
Studio Manager, Wendy Red Star Fine Art Inc., Portland, OR
2021
Studio Assistant, Wendy Red Star Fine Art Inc., Portland, OR
2019
Co-host, So, What Are You Working On? Podcast
ONGOING MEMBERSHIP
Member, yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Roster, Seattle, WA
Member, Cyme Collective, Portland, OR
Member, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
Member, Columbia Basin Basketry Guild, Portland, OR
PAST MEMBERSHIP
Member, ArtMa, Bellevue, WA
Member, Art Books Collective Northwest, Portland, OR
Member, Puget Sound Book Artists, Tacoma, WA
View Full CV Here
b. 1987, caləłali (Tacoma, Washington)
Lives and works in Portland, OR
EDUCATION
2010
BFA Sculpture, Asian Studies Designation, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
2005
Photography Emphasis, Tacoma School of the Arts, Tacoma, WA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
č’adac (Inheritance), Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (Forthcoming)
2025
In the Name of Progress, Souvenir, Portland, OR
pədhədəbil/pədhədəb: Spring and Summer Selections from Before the Fire Lit My Dreams, Solas Gallery, Seattle, WA
Strong Spirits Carry Us Forward, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
How to Hold Yourself in the High Country (pop-up exhibition supported by High Country News), Center for Native Arts + Cultures, Portland, OR
2024
Before the Fire Lit My Dreams, Paragon Arts Gallery, Portland, OR
Strong Spirits, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Carrying the Family House, HappenStance, Portland, OR
2023
The History of Forgetting, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2013
strange and beautiful things, Kenton Wellness Center, Portland, OR
2011
i want to tell you everything, The Arbor Lodge, Portland, OR
COLLECTIONS
chaku kumtuks haws, Portland, OR
City of Portland Parks, Portland, OR (Percent for Art in Public Places)
City of Portland Portable Works Collection, Portland, OR
East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, Portland, OR
New York Public Library: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, Photography Collection, New York, NY
Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, Oregon (Percent for Art in Public Places)
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (Percent for Art in Public Places/Oregon Arts Commission)
Portland State University, Portland, OR
Puyallup Tribe of Indians, Tacoma, WA
Recology Collection, San Francisco, CA
Walden Building, Washougal, WA
Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026
Epiphany Couch & Charlie-Anne Hopkins, Belonging Otherwise, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR (Forthcoming)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Temporal, CSMoFA, Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts, Olympia, WA (Forthcoming)
Timothy White Eagle's Once Wild River, Mini Mart City Park, Seattle, WA
Mapping Familiar Territories, Charting New Paths, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland, OR
Coast Salish Creation Stories, Tidelands Gallery, Seattle, WA
PLACEHOLDER: Roots, Rupture & Regeneration, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
2025
uncertainty surrounds the holding of things, after/time, Portland, OR
Sitka Art Invitational, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Woven In Kinship, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
An Invisible Current: Engaging with History, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
GLEAN’s 14th annual Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Portland, OR
Coming Around Again, Lincoln City Cultural Center, Lincoln City, OR
2024
Bumbershoot Contemporary, Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
2024 Oregon Contemporary Artists’ Biennial, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Wonder 2024, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
CSMoFA Future Generations, Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts, Olympia, WA
Composition / Decomposition, SOIL, Seattle, WA
Future Forward, Mini Mart City Park, Seattle, WA
things we lost in the: The Legacy of St. Amelia’s College of Speculative Timbre, Sidle House, Freeport, ME
Materiality Matters, Umpqua Valley Arts, Roseburg, OR
2023
Home Lab, Bellevue Arts Museum Community Education Gallery, Bellevue, WA
Still Here, Still Native, The Arts Center, Fayetteville, NC
Passing by is no longer an option, Yuan Ru Gallery, Bellevue, WA
Around Oregon Biennial, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
Claiming Space: Indigenous & Native Self Portraits, Collab Yakima, Yakima, WA
CSMoFA Fall Arts Walk, Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts, Olympia, WA
Biomass, The Oyster at the Maddox Building, Portland, OR
My Private Property, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2022
Around Oregon Annual Exhibition, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
pəd(d)ukʷibəɫ Time of Transformer Art Showcase, Puyallup Tribe of Indians txʷəlšucid Language Program, Virtual Exhibition
The Extended Ear, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2018
Are You Book Enough Group Show, Studio Editions Gallery, Seattle, WA
SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS
2026
Leon Polk Smith Foundation Residency, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, NY (Forthcoming)
Ford Family Foundation Golden Spot Residency, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
2026 Fields Artist Fellowship semi-finalist
2025
Indigenous Visiting Artist Residency, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
iolair artist residency, iolair, Eastsound Orcas Island, WA
Sou’wester Arts Week Artist Residency, Sou’wester, Seaview, WA
Glean Residency, Oregon Metro, Recology, and Reclaim It, Portland, OR
2024
Studios at MASS MoCA Artist Residency, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
MASS MoCA Oregon Visual Artist Fellowship (The Ford Family Foundation), Roseburg, OR
2024 Fields Artist Fellowship semi-finalist
2023
TAAS Fellowship, The Alternative Art School
Centrum Artist Residency, Centrum, Port Townsend, WA
2022
Summit Prairie Residency, Tiller, OR
Mother Earth Fund Fellowship, The Alternative Art School
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2025
Precipice Fund Grant: Cyme Collective, PICA, Portland, OR
Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
2024
Precipice Fund Grant: Carnation Contemporary: Arzani, Smith-Claudel, Couch, Espinoza, and Hadley, PICA, Portland, OR
Photography Documentation Support Grant, Oregon Arts Commission and The Ford Family Foundation, Portland, OR
Director’s Honorable Mention Award, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2023
RACC Arts3C Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
Around Oregon Biennial Jurors' Choice Award, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
2022
Around Oregon Annual Jurors' Choice Award, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2026
OR Magazine: Labor: Spring 2026, Oregon Humanities, Portland, OR
Rock & Sling, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
2025
INDIGENOUS VISIONS Chapbook, Yellowelectric, Astoria, OR
International Examiner: Vol. 52 No. 11, International Examiner, Seattle, WA
Tales of Summit Prairie, Alan Richard Colley Publications, Portland, OR
High Country News: March Issue, High Country News, Paonia, CO
2024
Voices of the River Volume III, Confluence, Vancouver, WA
Monument Workbook, Portland, OR
2023
Projections Journal Issue 17: Planning Just Indigenous Futures, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
2020
Fire Season I, Fire Season, Vancouver, BC
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS
2026
Conversation with Alexandra Terry, Epiphany Couch, and Brenda Mallory, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, Portland, OR
Sitka Center Resident Talk, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
2025
Curatorial Exhibitions Panel, Oracle 2025 Curators Gathering, The Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino, CA
Invisible Current Artist Panel: Engaging with History, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
Listening to the Land: A Panel Conversation and Community Discussion on Art, Nature, and the Written Word, Paragon Arts Gallery, Portland, OR
In the Name of Progress Artist Talk, Souvenir, Portland, OR
Re-Cast: Invoking the Past in Contemporary Expression Panel Discussion, The Hive, Spokane, WA
Carlson Commemoration Indigenous Artist Residency Artist Talk, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
GLEAN Artist's Panel Discussion, GLEAN Exhibition Space, Portland, OR
2024
Strong Spirits: Collaborating with Ancestors, Artist Talk, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Burdened With More Beautiful Things: Artist Talk with Epiphany Couch and Cliff Taylor, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Collaborating with Ancestors, Artist Talk, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Collaborating with Ancestors, Artist Talk, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Artist Talk, Archer Gallery at Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2023
Biomass Artist Talk, The Oyster, Portland, OR
2022
Artist Talk, The Alternative Art School, Virtual
2018
Keeping it Real, Artist Panel Discussion, WOMXN House, Portland, OR
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2026
NAYA LEAD Program, Native American Youth and Family Center, Portland, OR
MFA Visual Studies Mentor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Instructor, Native Creative Night Collage Workshop, Native Arts + Cultures Foundation, Portland, OR
Instructor, Beaded Images Workshop, Tidelands, Seattle, WA
2025
Visiting Artist Teaching Resident, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
Instructor, Patterning Place: A Nature Collage Workshop, yəhaw̓, Seattle, WA
Pollinator peer coaching program, Pollinator, Virtual
MFA Visual Studies Mentor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Residency Application Reviewer, Studios at MASS MoCA Artist Residency, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Guest Curator, Future Forward, Mini Mart City Park, Seattle, WA
2024
MFA Visual Studies Mentor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Residency Application Reviewer, Studios at MASS MoCA Artist Residency, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Guest Curator, CSMoFA Future Generations, Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts, Olympia, WA
Host, Community Regalia-Making nights, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
Workshop Instructor, ART 360: Special Topics in Photography: Making Photo Books, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Grant Application Reviewer, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
Instructor, The Alternative Art School, Virtual
2023
Studio Manager, Wendy Red Star Fine Art Inc., Portland, OR
Instructor, The Alternative Art School, Virtual
2022
Student Life Host, The Alternative Art School, Virtual
Studio Manager, Wendy Red Star Fine Art Inc., Portland, OR
2021
Studio Assistant, Wendy Red Star Fine Art Inc., Portland, OR
2019
Co-host, So, What Are You Working On? Podcast
ONGOING MEMBERSHIP
Member, yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Roster, Seattle, WA
Member, Cyme Collective, Portland, OR
Member, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
Member, Columbia Basin Basketry Guild, Portland, OR
PAST MEMBERSHIP
Member, ArtMa, Bellevue, WA
Member, Art Books Collective Northwest, Portland, OR
Member, Puget Sound Book Artists, Tacoma, WA
View Full CV Here