CLYDE PETERSEN
EDUCATION
2001 B.A in Film & Music Production, Western Washington University. Bellingham, Washington.
EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
2024 Naïve Melody, J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle, WA
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 Even Hell Has Its Heroes, J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle WA
2019 Road Dogz: Kimya Dawson and Clyde Petersen, Party Hat, Seattle, WA
Look How Far We've Come: A Queer Art Show 902 Feet in the Air, Columbia Center, Seattle, WA
Queer, Cloud Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 Merch and Destroy, Bellevue Art Museum Solo Exhibition, Bellevue, WA
Exhale: Clyde Petersen & Ellen Forney, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA
Shredders, Cold Cube Press Solo Exhibition, Seattle, WA
2017
Clyde-O-Scope, Evergreen College Solo Exhibition, Olympia, WA
Glory Holes, Circle Jerks and Happy Endings, The Factory Solo Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Out Of Sight, Seattle WA
Seattle Art Fair – Guest Speaker, Seattle, WA
Out of Sauce, Martyr Sauce, Seattle, WA
2016 The Neddy at Cornish, Pivot Gallery, Seattle, WA
Animation Disaster, Bumbershoot Visual Arts Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Invitational, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
Essential Skimming, CAM, Seattle, WA
2015 Sequestered Together: The Dangerous and Lonely World of Animation, Clark College Archer Gallery, Vancouver, WA
Balls Deep: My Year in Florida, Martyr Sauce Solo Exhibition, Seattle, WA
2014 The Neddy at Cornish, Cornish College, Seattle, WA
Boating with Clyde, Henry Art Gallery: Summer Field Studies & Test Site
Boating with Clyde, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
To Be Alone Together, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
Portals, Seattle, WA
Seattle Experimental Animation Team, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2013 Boating with Clyde: Solo Exhibition, 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
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 PREMIERS & SCREENINGS
Screenings Highlights include Ottawa Int. Animation Festival, SIFF, SXSW, Georama: Tokyo Animation Film Festival, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Walker Art Gallery, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Art Gallery, PuSh: Vancouver, Bumbershoot, TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival, University British Columbia and the IFC Film Channel.
2018 Torrey Pines with a live score select screenings:
Georama Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Emerson College, Boston, MA
Connecticut College, New London, CT
PuSh Festival, Vancouver, B.C.
2017 Torrey Pines with a live score select screenings:
Flare Film Festival Centerpiece Film, British Film Institute, London, UK
Irish Film Institute, Dublin, IE
Roze Filmdagen: Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Holland Animation Film Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Frameline Film Festival, San Fransisco, CA
Rio Gender & Sexuality Film Festival, Rio De
2016 Twist: Seattle Queer Film Festival at the Egyptian – Torrey Pines Premiere with live orchestra and live foley (Opening Night Gala Film), Seattle, WA
2015 Translations Film Festival, Seattle, WA - ManDate: Oral History
2014 Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, WA - 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, Seattle, WA - Boating with Clyde
Local Sightings, Seattle, WA - Make Good Choices, Harsh Tokes and Bong Jokes
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London, UK - Gender Failure
Translations Film Festival, Seattle, WA - Gender Failure
Chan Centre at UBC, Vancouver, BC - Gender Failure
Dixon Place, New York, NY - 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
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
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
2009 Cannes in the Van – 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
2006 SXSW Music Video selection: Secret Someone’s
2004 Plan-It-X Fest Video selection. Bloomington, Indiana
Projections Film Festival Music Video selection. Whatcom County, Washington
2000 Projections Film Festival Super-8 selection. Whatcom County, Washington
FEATURE FILMS Torrey Pines
Even Hell has its Heroes (In-Progress)
Our Forbidden Country (In-Progress)
SHORT FILMS Little Potato Animated Segments for Wes Hurley
We’ve Been Around Film Series with Rhys Ernst
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
Fanning the Flames Animated Short Film Series
Boating with Clyde Television series
PRESS
2018 “The agony and the ecstasy of the tour van — cast in cardboard” Crosscut, Brangien Davis. October 201
"I Have a Long Childhood History with Box Forts" The Stranger, Jasmyne Keimig. November 2018
2016 “Animated Transgender Odyssey “Torrey Pines” Is The Year’s Best Film!” Huffington Post, Wes Hurley October 2016
“Courage in Motion” City Arts, Sarah Galvin October 2016
“Torrey Pines Is a Handmade Film That Will Make You Feel Wholeheartedly Awesome” The Stranger, Jen Graves October 2016
“Clyde Petersen’s ‘Torrey Pines’ Is a Fascinating Work of Ambient Animation” Seattle Weekly, Kelton Sears August 2016
2015 “Clyde Petersen, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Film” The Stranger, Sean Nelson June 2015
2014 “Innovation is Perverted” The Stranger, Jen Graves December 2014
2013 “Clyde Petersen and his Camera” The Stranger, David Schmader December 2013
“Clyde Petersen on 'Torrey Pines,' Star Trek, and Shouting at Richard Simmons” Seattle Weekly, Kelton Sears December 2013
“Clyde Petersen's Boating with Clyde at the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival” The Stranger, David Schmader October, 2013
“It gets wetter in Boating with Clyde” The Stranger, Jen Graves September 2013
“Let’s go Boating with Clyde” 3 Dollar Bill Cinema September 2013
2011 “Seattle’s Indie Animator Clyde Petersen” Seattle Magazine March 2011
2008 “Clyde Petersen Animation” Two if by Sea October, 2008
PUBLICATIONS
2000–2005 Music & Travel-based Zine. In Your Room. Issues 1-11.