Seth Nehil curriculum vitae sethnehil.net
professional
2026 - present Assistant Professor, School of Art, Portland State University
2017 – present Founder, Paradise Meow LLC, Video Production & Sound Design
2007 – present Assistant Professor, Pacific NW College of Art
2008 – 2020 Assistant Professor, Fine Arts Dept., WSU, Vancouver
2014 – 2015 Assistant Professor, School of Theater & Film, Portland State University
education
Permaculture Design Certification, Oregon State University Continuing Education, 2023
Master of Fine Arts, Music/Sound. Bard College, NY. 2006
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting/Transmedia. University of Texas at Austin. 1998
original scores & sound design
2025 Second Look, dir. Linda Wysong, original score
2025 Painless Magic!, dir. Carl Deihl, mix and additional sound design
2025 Talisker, dir. Carolyn Corbett, sound design
2024 – ongoing Sound Pool, site-specific underground listening space, Wildskil Studios, Washougal, WA
2024 Hand2Mouth Theatre Memento Mori, sound design, CoHo Theater, Portland, OR
2024 Red Door Project Evolve Experience, video & sound design, Reser Performance Center, Beaverton, OR
2024 Unknown Atmospheres v2 with Parallel Studio, 4.1 audio & immersive 11,000-LED grid, Hopscotch Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2023 Chromasthesia, generative sound composition for 3 color-saturated rooms, Hopscotch Gallery, Portland, OR
2023 Unknown Atmospheres with Parallel Studio, 8.2 audio & immersive 7,000-LED grid, Hopscotch Gallery, Portland, OR
2022 AUXART: To The River, 16-channel installation, Zidell Shipyards, Portland, OR
2021 AUXART by Philip Krohn, 8-channel sound for installation, Building5, Portland, OR
2020 A World, A World 2020, Linda Austin Dance, Performance Works NW, Portland OR
2017 Fun House, for Bill Will, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark Clark College, Portland, OR
2017 Psychic Utopia, for Hand2Mouth Theater, Studio Two, Portland, OR
2017 A World, A World, for Linda Austin Dance, Performance Works NW, Portland, OR
2016 Time, A Fair Hustler, for Hand2Mouth Theater, Artists Rep Theater, Portland, OR
2014 Locate, for Kelly Rauer, Portland Biennial, Disjecta, Portland, OR
2013 Reach: 30, for Linda Austin, Performance Works NW, Portland, OR
2013 Weight, for Kelly Rauer, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Portland, OR
2012 A Head of Time, for Linda Austin Dance, Imago Theater, Portland, OR
2010 Nigh, for Linda Austin, PICA T:BA Festival, Portland, OR
2008 Promenade, for Linda K. Johnson Dance, Portland, OR
2008 Montauk, for Liz Gerring Dance Co., Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY
2007 Circus Me Around, for Linda Austin Dance, Portland, OR
2006 After-Hours, for Hand2Mouth Theatre, JAW Festival, Portland, OR
2005 division/dividing, for Rebecca Davis Dance, Danspace Project, NYC
2005 The Birds are Here.I Hear Them, for Rebecca Davis Dance, Chocolate Factory, NYC
2002 Jerusalem – Nat Turner’s Uprising, for Hand2Mouth Theatre, Portland, OR
2001 The Posture Queen (with Mnortham), for Hand2Mouth Theatre, Portland, OR
multimedia performance
2016 SNKR (with Kelly Rauer), sound, movement, video, Risk/Reward, Portland OR
2015 SNKR (with Kelly Rauer), sound, movement, video, Drumherum, Berlin, Germany
2015 SNKR (with Kelly Rauer), Soup & Tart Festival, Zena Zezza Gallery, Portland OR
2012 Children’s Games, video, sound & performance, 70 min., The Mouth, Portland, OR
2009 Bandage A Knife, with Linda Austin Dance, 60 min., Performance Works NW, Portland OR
2009 Flock & Tumble, presented by E.S.S., Heaven Gallery, Chicago IL
2008 Flock & Tumble, multimedia performance, 45 min., AudioCinema, Portland, OR
solo albums
2025 matrices, Postcard & download, 15 Minutes of Anonymity, USA
2024 Bioluminous, Digital Release
2023 Moon Soil, Digital Release
2022 Cyclical Traces, Digital Release
2020 m_puls, Digital Release
2019 Skew/Flume, CD + Digital, Opal Tapes, England
2014 Bounds, LP, Aufabwegen, Germany
2013 Lair, cassette, Draft Records, USA
2010 Furl CD, Sonoris, France
2009 Knives LP, Senufo Editions, Italy
2008 Flock & Tumble CD, Sonoris, France
2007 Amnemonic Site CD, Alluvial Recordings, USA
2003 Umbra CD, …edition, USA
2003 Uva 3” CD, 20City, Japan
2000 From Cloud to Seed LP, Alluvial Recordings, USA
1998 Tracing the Skins of Clouds CD, Kaon, France
collaborative albums
2024 (else)where (with Bruno Duplant, TJ Norris & Harrison Higgs) 2XCD & 10 card box set, Aufabwegen, Germany
2021 (eco)systems (with Bruno Duplant) CD, Stellage, Russia
2008 Ecllipses (with Matthew Marble) CD, And/Oar, USA
2007 Sillage (with Brendan Murray) CD, Sedimental, USA
2006 Gyre (with jgrzinich) CD, cut records, USA
2003 Sunder, Unite (with Olivia Block) CD, Sedimental, USA
2003 Stria (with jgrzinich) CD, erewhon records, Belgium
2003 Confluence (with jgrzinich) CD, Intransitive Recordings, USA
selected live concerts
2025 Live at Holocene, sound and video, Portland, OR
2025 Vanishing Point, Wildskil Studios, Washougal, WA
2025 Workshop Series, Performance Works NW, Portland OR
2019 Torse (S. Nehil, J. Neikrasz & Jacob Mitas), Leaven Community, Portland OR
2014 Akousma Festival, Montreal, Canada
2012 Moers Festival, Concerts in the Dark, Moers, Germany (aufwebegen)
2007 Activating the Medium Festival, San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA (23Five)
2006 Two Sound-Events (with student participants), PNCA, Portland, OR
2005 Point and Periphery (with jgrzinich & hitoshi kojo), Turku, Tampere and Helsinki, Finland
2005 Correnti Sonore Festival (with jgrzinich), Tarcento, Italy
2005 Amusia Rite, Fringes Music, Milan, Italy
2005 Sillage (with Brendan Murray), Nisus, Galería Galou, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Amusia Rite, at BPM, Galería Galou, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Amusia Rite, 3rd annual ffmup Festival, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2005 MIT C.A.V.S. (solo & with Olivia Block, Jonthan Chen, Bhob Rainey), Boston MA
2004 For 12 players w/ objects around a perimeter, Intransitive Music Festival, Boston, MA
2004 duo with Brendan Murray, Intransitive Music Festival, Boston, MA
2003 subTonic (with jgrzinich), New York, NY
2002 DeadTech (solo and with Olivia Block), Chicago, IL
1999 Beyond Music Festival, Beyond Baroque, L.A., CA
1997 Alial Straa at the Candy Factory, Austin, TX
1996 Alial Straa at Mexic-Arte Gallery, Austin, TX
1996 Alial Straa at X/XX Festival, the Electric Lounge, Austin, TX
gallery exhibition
solo shows
2012 Lair, False Front Gallery, Portland, OR
2010 Grassland Alphabet, graphite drawings, InHouse Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Knives / Swarm, sound installation, Diapason Sound Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Circus Me (A Round) (with Linda Austin), mixed media installation, Light & Sound Gallery at the Portland Art Center, Portland, OR
2002 Basket: Black Walnut Drawings, SoundVision Gallery, Portland, OR
2000 Field Studies, works on paper, Rhizomat Gallery, Hammond, LA
group shows
2016 SNKR (with Kelly Rauer), single-channel video, Omega 3, MoKS, Mooste, Estonia
2010 Density 1- 5, ink on paper, New American Art Union, Portland, OR
2010 Untitled (Nets), cut paper, Place Installation Space, Portland, OR
2009 Small Gem, ink on paper, Sq Ft, traveling exhibition curated by TJ Norris
2008 Furl, sound installation, Self Projections, curated by Gary Wiseman, Milepost 5, Portland, OR
2007 Birds Who... mixed media sculpture, Construct/Reconstruct, curated by Rhoda London,Cathedral Park Pl., St. Johns, OR
2003 Sunder, Unite (with Olivia Block), Sound of Place/Place of Sound, Sun Valley Art Center, I
2000 Sunder, Unite (with Olivia Block), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2000 Sonnamble (radio installation with jgrzinich), hEXPO Festival, Pina Gallery, Koper, Slovenia
1999 Basic Materials, works on paper, Beyond Music Festival, Beyond Baroque Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
curatorial activities
2013 – present Community Gallery at Portland Providence Medical Center, Portland, OR
2011 JAZZ, a night of performance duos, Performance Works NW, Portland OR
2011 Listen to This, a night of sound and performance, The Mouth, Portland OR
2007 Usufruct, exhibition and publication, Linfield Gallery, McMinnville OR
2007 co-curator, Light & Sound Gallery at the Portland Art Center, Portland, OR, 2007 season
2006 FO A RM Festival of Sound & Video, Portland Art Center, Portland, OR
1999 Intersect 1999 Festival, The Off-Center, Austin, TX
1997 An Orogeny of Circumstance Festival, the Off-Center, Austin, TX
publications
2010 – 11 Intransitive online music magazine, contributor
2003 – 07 FO A RM magazine, a journal of arts and research, co-editor and designer
1995 – 99 N D magazine, experimental music and performance journal, contributing editor