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EDUCATION
Pacific Northwest College of Art | Portland, OR | 2009-2013 | Intermedia
THEATRE / ART PERFORMANCE
2024
Drag Clown in Residence, Jeffrey Gibson’s the space in which to place me, US Pavilion, 2024 Venice Biennale
Ask Dr. Carla, Tomorrow Theater (PAM CUT)
2023
Looking for Tiger Lily, Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre / Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, OK
Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Portland Drag Theatre Workshop (director, host), Risk/Reward at The Judy
The Weight of the World, Portland Art Museum
Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP, OUTstages, Intrepid Theatre, Victoria, BC
Carla Rossi Does Drag, Reed College
2022
Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP, The Whiteside Theatre, Corvallis, OR
Clown Down 2: Clown Out of Water, TBA 2022, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Looking for Tiger Lily, Palikū Theatre, Kaneohe, HI
Looking for Tiger Lily, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Kahului, HI
Looking for Tiger Lily, University of Hawaii at Hilo
Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP, Portland Center Stage
2021
Carla Rossi Does Drag, Stanford Live
Queer Horror: Gravest Hits, Stanford Live
The Carlalogues (audio play), Artists Repertory Theatre
Nobody’s going to fund this (audio essay), Artists Repertory Theatre
Looking for Tiger Lily, UNO Fest, Intrepid Theatre, Victoria, BC (Virtual)
The Tax Day Telethon with Carla Rossi & Pepper Pepper, Risk/Reward (Virtual)
Refuge: Our Lady of Primeval Chaos, Shaking the Tree Theatre
Looking for Tiger Lily, 2021 Reflections of Native Voices Festival, La Mama, NYC (Virtual)
2020
On Art, Camp, and Human Sacrifice (A Lecture), Willamette University
Looking for Tiger Lily, Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Olympia, WA
On Art, Camp, and Human Sacrifice (A Lecture), Museum of Natural & Cultural History, U of O
The Carla Rossi Experience, 2020 Reflections of Native Voices Festival, La Mama, NYC
2019
Clown Down: Failed to Mount, presented by Risk/Reward at PNCA
Requiem for Vaseline Alley, a program of the Portland2019 Biennial, Burnside Triangle
On Art, Camp, and Human Sacrifice (A Lecture), Paul Harris Theatre, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Looking for Tiger Lily, Clark County Library, Las Vegas
Looking for Tiger Lily, West Charleston Library, Las Vegas
Looking for Tiger Lily, TBA 2019, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Looking for Tiger Lily, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, BC
Girl with a Cigarette (Reprise), Portland Art Museum
Looking for Tiger Lily, Yirramboi Festival at the Meat Market, Melbourne, VIC, AU
He’s Not a Boy, Everlast at Seattle Art Museum
Looking for Tiger Lily, Talking Stick Festival, Roundhouse Community Center, Vancouver, BC
Looking for Tiger Lily, Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center, Pacific University (OR)
A to Z from Babs to Bea: a Lecture, Portland Center Stage at the Armory
2018
Tonya Harding and the Value of Art, PNCA Convocation
Girl with a Cigarette (performance and artist talk), Portland Art Museum
Looking for Tiger Lily, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College (NH)
Me, Myself & It: The Artist Talk (ca. 1970), Littman Gallery at Portland State University
2017
Carla Rossi: Postal & Coastal, Masquerade for My Sister's Place, Salishan Resort
2016
Looking for Tiger Lily, The Hollywood Theatre
Music from the Butt: A Lecture, Classical Revolution PDX Presents Music From Hell, Dante's
Looking for Tiger Lily (Chapter One), 2016 Risk/Reward Festival, Artists Repertory Theatre
2015
The Hiding Place, Oregon Jewish Museum & Center for Holocaust Education
Carla Rossi: To Indignity & Beyond, The Hollywood Theatre
2014
Carla Rossi Sings the End of the World, The Alberta Rose Theatre
The Things You Drop on Your Way Up the Ladder, PICA’s Critical Mascara at TBA
Give Me All Your Money, 1st Annual EFF Portland Artist Throwdown, DISJECTA
50 Shades of White, 2014 CAP Art Auction, Memorial Coliseum
2013
Homomentum: The Musical, CoHo Theatre
Carla Rossi: One Night Only, PNCA
I Should Be So Lucky, Heart of Desire: curated by Gabe Flores, Place Gallery
2012
Dispatch, 10th Annual Richard Foreman Mini-Festival, Performance Works NW (with The DECEPTiCONS)
Homomentum: A Musical Preview, JAW New Works Festival, Portland Center Stage
W*RQ, Dance+ Festival, Conduit Dance (with The DECEPTiCONS)
W*RQ, 2012 Risk/Reward Festival, Artists Repertory Theatre (with The DECEPTiCONS)
2011
Are We Drag Queens? 9th Annual Richard Foreman Mini-Festival, PWNW (with Kaj-anne Pepper)
SELECTED VIDEOGRAPHY
2023
When It Was Hers (Ona Beach), part of Always Here and Chachalu Museum’s 2023 Ikanum show
Martyr, or: Your Own Prairie Bonnet Jesus, part of Always Here at The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
2022
Lamp Back, permanent video installation at PNCA
2020
Freedom Runs, part of Renee’s Queer Cabaret (presented virtually by Risk/Reward)
2018
Video Editing, To Jesus, Thanks for Everything - Jinkx & Dela, US Tour
Video Editing, Jinkx Monsoon: Beach City Bimbo, Provincetown Art House
2017
Video Master, The Fifth and Final Critical Mascara, TBA:17, The Works at PICA
Video Master, Jinkx Monsoon: The Ginger Snapped, Provincetown Art House
2016
Video Master, Jinkx Monsoon: I Want You, Provincetown Art House
Video Master, RuPaul's Drag Race Battle of the Seasons World Tour
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019—2021 The In-Between, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon
2018 Me, Myself & It, Littman Gallery, Portland State University
2014 ARTPOOP, Place Gallery
2013 Queering Portlandia, Portland Building Installation Space
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Out of Sight, Bumbershoot, Seattle Center
2023 Around Oregon Biennial, The Arts Center
2023 Field Guide, Ucross Gallery, Ucross, WY
2023 Ikanum, Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center, Grand Ronde, OR
2022 Always Here (UR NDN Friends), The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
2019 Portland2019 Biennial, DISJECTA
2019 PRIDE, Multnomah Arts Center
2018 Total Shirt Show, Weiden + Kennedy
2013 Just Art: Queer & Transgender Artists of Color on Racial Justice (hosted by Basic Rights Oregon), Black Cat Café
2013 Queer & Allied Artists Spring Showcase, Aaron Hall Gallery, Q Center
2012 24 Karat Pretense, STORE Gallery
2011 Enter Medium, Higgins Gallery, PNCA
2010 Future Was Here, Screaming Sky Gallery
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
2024 de Groot Foundation Courage to Write Grantee
2024 Tin House Summer Residency
2023 Oregon Community Foundation / Oregon Humanities Fields Fellowship Finalist
2023 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation SHIFT Award (with Felix Furby for The Shimkhin Project)
2023 FSG Writer’s Fellowship Finalist
2023 Oregon Community Foundation Creative Heights Award (with Felix Furby for The Shimkhin Project)
2023 PICA Creative Exchange Lab Residency
2022 RACC Arts3C Grant (for Portland Drag Theatre Workshop)
2022 The Arts List: 25 People Shaping the Arts in Portland, Willamette Week
2022 Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Indigenous Place Keeping Artist Fellowship
2022 PCC Carolyn Moore House Writing Residency
2021 Nia Tero Pacific Northwest Art Fellowship
2021 NPN 2021 Documentation & Storytelling Fund (for Tales from Queer Horror)
2021 Caldera Community Residency
2021 NPN Spring 2021 Development Fund (for Clown Down 2: Clown Out of Water)
2021 Laura Russo Luminary Award (PNCA)
2021 First Peoples Fund Artist in Business Leadership Fellowship
2020 NPN Fall 2020 Creation Fund (for Indigenous Residency Series with Arias Hoyle and Steven Paul Judd)
2020 Portland Art Museum & NW Film Center Re:Imagine Fund Artist
2020 Ucross Foundation Native American Visual Artist Fellowship
2020 National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works Theatre Grant for Looking for Tiger Lily at Artists Repertory Theatre
2019 Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest Queer Hero
2019 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship
2019 Creative Capital Finalist (On Our Radar)
2019 Caldera Arts Center Artist in Residence
2019 APAP Artist Institute Artist (cohort resuming at APAP 2020)
2018 USArtists International Travel Grant (for Looking for Tiger Lily, Solo)
2018 Oregon Community Foundation Creative Heights Award (for Looking for Tiger Lily)
2018 Western Arts Alliance Native Launchpad Artist
2018 RACC Artist Focus Project Grant (for Clown Down: Failed to Mount)
2018 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellowship
2017 Willamette Week's Best of Portland - Third Best Local Celebrity
2016 RACC Artist Focus Project Grant (for Looking for Tiger Lily, Solo)
2015 PNCA+Hollywood Theatre Media Resident
2015 Premiere PDX Excellence in Artistry Award
2014 RACC Artist Focus Project Grant (for Carla Rossi Sings the End of the World)
2013 PNCA Intermedia Department Award and Liberal Arts Department Award
2011“Most Monstrous Drag,” The Stumped Awards
2010 Grand Prize Winner, Northwest Health Foundation's PSA Contest (for Oregon Public Health & Zombies)