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Clyde Petersen C/V

 

Represented by J. Rinehart Gallery

SUMMARY

Nationally and internationally awarded Filmmaker

World-wide Touring Artist and Musician

LGTQ Activist and Community builder

Teacher with a wide breadth of animation technique and technical knowledge

Founder of The Fellow Ship Artist Residency

 

 

EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS

2024
J. Rinehart Gallery (solo) | Naïve Melody

 

2023
The First 50 Years of the Seattle Civic Art Collection
The 25th Anniversary Exhibition of the Neddy Awards at MOHAI
Steve Gilbert Photo Studio | Fruition Queer Exhibitionism
The Museum of Flight | Art+Flight

 

2022
Seattle Art Fair | As the Twig is Bent, so is the Tree Inclined


2021
J. Rinehart Gallery (solo) | Even Hell has its Heroes
Graveyard Smash | Fantagraphics


2020
Bellevue Arts Museum | Yellow No.5


2019
Party Hat | Kimya Dawson and Clyde Petersen | Road Dogz
Colombia Center | A Queer Art Show, 902 Feet in the Air
Cloud Gallery | Queer


2018
Bellevue Arts Museum (solo) | Merch and Destroy
Shift Gallery | Clyde Petersen & Ellen Forney | Exhale
Cold Cube Press (solo) | Shredders


2017 

AIDS Memorial Pathway | Our Forbidden Country 
Evergreen College (solo) | Clyde-O-Scope
The Factory (solo)
Out of Sight
Seattle Art Fair | Speaker

Martyr Sauce | Out of Sauce


2016
The Neddy at Cornish
Bumbershoot Visual Arts Exhibition | Animation Disaster
Soil Gallery: Invitational

CAM Group Show | Essential Skimming


2015
Clark College Archer Gallery | Sequestered, Together
Martyr Sauce (solo) | Balls Deep: My Year in Florida


2014
The Neddy at Cornish

Henry Art Gallery | Summer Field Studies & Test Site

Seattle Municipal Tower | Artist Residency and Installation

Bumbershoot Arts Festival | Boating with Clyde

Museum of Northwest Art | To Be Alone Together

4Culture Group Exhibition | Seattle Experimental Animation Team

 

2013        

Boating with Clyde, Gallery 4Culture. Seattle, WA
Pride Show, Hard L Gallery, Seattle, WA

 

2012        

Hide//Seek//Difference//Desire//Northwest & Queering the Museum, Tacoma, WA. 
Postcard show, Leslie/Lohman Gallery, New York, NY
Seattle Experimental Animation Team, Zeitgeist, Seattle, WA

 

RESIDENCIES

2018        

Amazon Artist Residency, Seattle, WA             
Cucalorus Film Residency, Wilmington, NC

 

2017        

Seattle Municipal Tower, Seattle, WA

 

AWARDS & GRANTS 

2020
ArtsWA Grant The Fellow Ship Artist Residency

2018        

Amazon Artist Grant 

Seattle CityArtists Grant 
e4c 4Culture Art Grant

 

2017       

4Culture Individual Artist Grant

Ottawa International Film Festival Special Jury Prize: Torrey Pines 



 

2016        

Neddy at Cornish Award in Open Medium 

New England Foundation for the Art's Touring Grant 

TWIST Special Jury Prize: Torrey Pines

Seattle CityArtists Grant

Jack Straw Artist Support Program Audio Recording Grant 

 

2015    

The Stranger Genius Award


 

2014 
     

Artist Trust Innovator Award 

4Culture Individual Artist Grant 

City of Seattle Emerging Artist Roster 2014/2015



 

2013 
     

4Culture / City of Seattle Hazardous Materials Film Project 
Artist Trust GAP Award 

 

2012        

4Culture Individual Artist Grant 
Seattle CityArtists Grant 
Awesome Foundation Grant 

 

2011        

4Culture Individual Artist Grant 
Seattle Youth Arts Grant 
Cannes in a Van - Van d’Or Award for Best Music Film 

 

2010        

Seattle Public Transit Grant 
Humanities of Washington Award 

 

2009        

Seattle CityArtists Grant 

 

 

Selected Film Premieres & Screenings


Ottawa International Animation Festival | SIFF | SXSW | Georama: Tokyo Animation Film Festival | CPH:DOX | London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival | Walker Art Gallery | Henry Art Gallery | Bumbershoot | Seattle Queer Film Festival | University British Columbia | IFC Film Channel | MTV

2018

Tokyo, Japan: Georama Film Festival - Torrey Pines with live score
Emerson College, Boston, MA. - Torrey Pines with live score for 5 nights
Connecticut College - Torrey Pines with live score

PUSH Festival Vancouver, B.C. - PUSH Festival Vancouver, B.C.

2017                  
British Film Institute – Torrey Pines with live score at Flare Film Festival (Centerpiece film)
Irish Film Institute – Torrey Pines with live score

Ottawa International Animation Film Festival - Special Jury Award
Mix Copenhagen
Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Cucalorus Festival
Roze Filmdagen: Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival
Holland Animation Film Festival
Bellingham Music Film Festival

Anthology Film Archives

Frameline Film Festival
Rio Festival Gay de Cinema

2016 

TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival: Opening Night Gala Film - Torrey Pines (Special Jury Award)

2014                  

SIFF – My Last Year With the Nuns
Rio Theater Vancouver BC – Gender Failure

PUSH Festival Vancouver, BC – Gender Failure

 

2013                 

Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival – Boating with Clyde

Local Sightings – Make Good Choices, Harsh Tokes and Bong Jokes

London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival – Gender Failure

Translations Film Festival – Gender Failure

Chan Centre at UBC – Gender Failure

Dixon Place – Gender Failure

 

2012                 

Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival – 13 Wayz to Get Hard
Out in the Desert, Tucson Gay Film Festival – 13 Wayz to Get Hard

Transitions Film Festival - On Becoming a Man: Fanning the Flames

Western Washington University - Fanning the Flames Film Program

Portland State University – NLAOF, Already Gone

March First Thursday ArtWalk – Zeitgiest - Not Like Any Other Feeling, Stegosaurus

NWFF - On Becoming a Man: Fanning the Flames - Animated Short Films

Henry Art Gallery – Children of the Maize, Not Like Any Other Feeling, Stegosaurus

 

2011                  

OneReel Bumbershoot Film Festival - Not Like Any Other Feeling
Local Sightings – NWFF - Not Like Any Other Feeling & Red Light Bulb
Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – Red Light Bulb
IFC – Tiny Hands
Walker Art Gallery – Not Like Any Other Feeling
Transitions Film Festival – Black Velvet

Cannes in the Van – Not Like Any Other Feeling                 

 

2010                  

NWFF Larval Amps Screening – Roaming the Earth & Tallymarks

Zietgiest Coffee Art Walk - SEAT Funtacular Animation program

Artist Trust Members BBQ - SEAT Funtacular Animation program

Olympia Film Festival - The Unspeakable

Olympia Film Festival – Last Night on Earth – Shorts Program

NWFF Local Sightings -  Laizzes Les Bon Temps Rouler – Music Video Program

NWFF Local Sightings -  Belly of June - Music Video Program

NWFF Local Sightings -  Gentle Giants – Animated Shorts Program

Northwest Film Forum - The Unspeakable

ATA (Artists Television Access) - Shaky Hands (Already Gone)

Animated Art Program (NWFF&PDXFilm) - Shaky Hands (Already Gone)

Tall Beers and Shirt Shorts Festival (Seattle) – Shenandoah Davis (We;Camera)

 

2009                 

Cannes in the Van – Shenandoah Davis (We;Camera)

 

2008                  

Premier of Bag of Hammers with The Film Brigade (Chicago, IL)

 

2007                  

Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Selection: Cast a Hook in me. (music by Laura Veirs)

 

2006                  

SXSW Music Video selection: Secret Someone’s (music by Laura Veirs)

 

2004                 

Plan-It-X Fest Video selection. Bloomington, Indiana.

 

2001                 

Best-Selling Author of Queer Non-fiction. Whatcom County, Washington.

Projections Film Festival Music Video selection. Whatcom County, Washington.

 

2000                 

Projections Film Festival Super-8 selection. Whatcom County, Washington.

 

Feature Films 

Even Hell has its Heroes (2023) Super8mm, 110 minutes
Torrey Pines (2016) Stopmotion Animation, 60 minutes 
My Last Year with the Nuns (animated segments)
Showoff or Shutup! documentary
Plan-it-x Fest, the movie documentary for Plan-It-X Records
Travel Queeries (animated segments) 

 

Music Videos 


The Thermals Not like any other feeling 
Forbidden Friends Tiny Hands
Quasi Laizzes Les Bon Temps Rouler 
Deerhoof Chandelier Searchlight
Aye Nako Nightcrawler

Bad Moves Crushed Out
Nana Grizol Mississippi Swells
R. Ring Cutter
Laura Veirs Cast a hook in me
Laura Veirs Secret Someone’s
Sean Nelson Make Good Choices
Kimya Dawson Solid and Strong
Portland Cello Project and Thao Tallymarks
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down Bag of Hammers
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down Swimming Pools
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down Travel
Horse Feathers Belly of June
Anais Mitchell Flowers (Eurydice’s Song)
The Shaky Hands Already Gone
The Paper Chase What should we do with your body?
Strong Killings How come you never want to dance?/Stegosaurus

Madeline Red Light Bulb
Triumph of Lethargy, Skinned Alive to Death The Dirty Street

Triumph of Lethargy, Skinned Alive to Death RC and Whiskey

SuperDrum Yes Yes Yall In
SuperDrum Roaming the Earth
Andrew Bird Imitosis (2nd camera)
Jeff Hanson If Only I Knew
Shenandoah Davis We Camera
Low Hums It’s in the air
Low Hums Sunflowers of Doom

Low Hums Night Magic Wine
Tomo Nakayama Undying Light
Your Heart Breaks Harsh Tokes and Bong Jokes
Johanna Kunin Fireflies
Dennis Driscoll Zombiez
Racetrack Pretty 

 

Short Films 

 

When Home was a Blue Sky

Little Potato (Animated Segments)
We’ve Been Around Film Series (Animated Segments)
Dylan Carlson Falling with a 1000 Stars
The Wild World of Pesticides – PSA with 4Culture and the King County HazMat Dept. 

Gender Failure: Live performance with animated films

Boating with Clyde Internet series

Children of the Maize

Spring Training. Short film co-directed w/Nate Powell

After Terminal Velocity

13 Wayz to Get Hard  

Films for live performance

 

Gender Failure with Rae Spoon and Ivan Coyote 

Tomby Survival Guide with Ivan Coyote and Sarah McDougall
Shady Grove Short Film/Karaoke Performance


 

Selected Performances/Tours
 

2023 
Your Heart Breaks US Tour with Kimya Dawson

 

2022
Your Heart Breaks West Coast Tour

2018 
Torrey Pines Japan Tour
Torrey Pines East Coast USA College Tour
PUSH Festival Vancouver, B.C.


2017
Torrey Pines United Kingdom/Ireland Tour
West Coast Your Heart Breaks Tour with Nana Grizol and Wizard Apprentice

 

2016
Torrey Pines North American Tour October-December
Your Heart Breaks European Tour with Kimya Dawson and Little Wings 

 

2014

West Coast Your Heart Breaks Tour

 

2012

West Coast Your Heart Breaks / Nana Grizol tour

Plan-it-X Festival

Your Heart Breaks at the Henry Art Gallery w/Tender Forever
Midwest Your Heart Breaks tour with Kimya Dawson

European Tour with Dylan Carlson


2011

US Tour with Kimya Dawson and Aesop Rock/Rob Sonic/DJ Big Wiz
Your Heart Breaks US Tour with Defiance, Ohio, Nana Grizol and Toby Foster

 

2010
Your Heart Breaks US Tour with Kimya Dawson

 

2009
Your Heart Breaks US Tour with Kimya Dawson
Your Heart Breaks US Tour with Angelo Spencer et les Hauts Sommets

2008
Your Heart Breaks European Tour with Kimya Dawson
Your Heart Breaks European Tour with Laura Veirs

2007
Your Heart Breaks European Tour with Laura Veirs
Your Heart Breaks US tour with Sex Workers Art Show
The amazing history of Pie: a historical presentation

2006
US tour with Laura Veirs
Your Heart Breaks US tour with Karl Blau
Your Heart Breaks US tour with June Madrona
US tour with Sex Workers Art Show

2001-2005 Various Tours and shows in the United States and Europe


 

Discography/Recordings

2023 Your Heart Breaks The Wrack Line (Kill Rock Stars)
2019 Your Heart Breaks Drone Butch Blues (Sofaburn Records)
2016 Your Heart Breaks Greatest Hits Dance Remix Album
2016 Your Heart Breaks America
2016 Torrey Pines Soundtrack

2012 Your Heart Breaks Harsh Tokes and Bong Jokes (Our Summer Records)

2011 Kimya Dawson Thunder Thighs
2011 Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets World Garage (K records)
2010 Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets S/t (K records)
2008 Your Heart Breaks Tour EP w/Karl Blau and Madeline Adams (Do it for the girls)
2008 Your Heart Breaks Love is a long dark road, Love is all you need (MightyMo Records)
2007 Your Heart Breaks Live in Berlin (Do if for the girls)
2006 Your Heart Breaks Sailor System (Don’t Stop Believin’ Records)
Your Heart Breaks New Ocean Waves (Plan-it-x Records)
2005 Your Heart Breaks & The Steve Moore Agency Split CD (KELP! Monthly Audio Zine)
2004 The Milkcrate Rustlers & The Saw Wheel Split 7 inch (Hillbilly Stew Records)
2003 Your Heart Breaks Tales from the Gimli Hospital (MASA Records)
2002 The Milkcrate Rustlers s/t
2001 Your Heart Breaks Kittens
1999 Your Heart Breaks Hula-hoops
1998 Your Heart Breaks s/t


Publications
2000–2005 Music & Travel-based Zine. In Your Room. Issues 1-11.

                   

Education

2001 - B.A in Film & Music Production, Western Washington University. Bellingham, Washington. 

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