SOLO EXHIBITIONS + PROJECTS
2020- Willamette Line, Permanent Video Installation, 5MLK Building, Portland, OR
2018- Dead Media Hour: The Riddle of Thurmond Towns, Boathouse Microcinema, Portland, OR
2015- Our Peace, The White Box, University of Oregon, Portland, OR
2015- 8, iOS app, iTunes + American Medium, NYC
2014- People I Used to Know, social media exhibition, Instagram tag #piutk
2013- Spellbound, The Coop, Nashville, TN
2012- I Rock, I Ran, Terminal Physical Space, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
2009- Shelter In Place, New American Art Union, Portland, OR
2007- Character, Tilt Gallery and Project Space, Portland, OR
2007- Increasing In Significance, Artist’s Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2006- Chain Reaction, Tilt Gallery and Project Space, Portland, OR
SELECTED SCREENINGS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017- Karachi Biennale (KB17), Karachi, Pakistan, curated by Amin Gulgee
2017- Revisiting Documerica, Newspace Center for Photography, curated by Yaelle Amir
2017- Melody Owen and Stephen Slappe, Boathouse Microcinema, Portland, OR, curated by Matt McCormick and Chris Freeman
2016- Spacebodies II, Transart Trienalle, Berlin, curated by Andrea Spaziani
2016- Currents: Santa Fe International New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM
2015- Pure Surface, 3-person show with Linda K. Johnson and John Beer, curated by Stacey Tran and Danielle Ross, Valentine’s, Portland, OR
2014- I’m Against It, Surplus Space, curated by Tabitha Nikolai
2014- Free, Twee, Mean, & Evergreen, LA Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Hannah Piper Burns
2014- Fuori Festival, Pesaro, Italy, curated by Tommaso Pedone
2014- Videofag: Everyone’s A Little Queer, Toronto, Canada, curated by Ben Popp
2014- The Third Ring, Disjecta, Portland, OR, curated by Hannah Piper Burns
2014- PDX→ Chicago, The Nightingale, Chicago, IL, curated by Julie Perini and Emily Eddy
2014- Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia, curated by Fernanda D’Agostino
2013- Subduction Zone, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2013- Remembering Is Everything, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA, curated by Bean Gilsdorf and A. Will Brown
2012- Keep Portland Weird, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, curated by Vanessa Renwick
2012- Is This Real?, Gaite Lyrique/Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, co-curated by Kristan Kennedy
2012- Experimental Movie Night, Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR, curated by Matt McCormick
2011- Out of the Great Northwest, The Horse Hospital, London, UK
2011- The World Is Not Ending, Your World Is Ending, Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR, curated by Sean Joseph Patrick Carney
2010- From Portland With Love, Live Work, San Francisco, CA, three-person exhibition curated by Modou Dieng
2010- The Internet Is A Terrible Place to Live, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jesse Malmed
2010- Portland2010: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Cris Moss
2010- Vantage, Archer Gallery at Clark College, Vancouver, WA, curated by Blake Shell
2009- No Such Place, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA:09, curated by Kristan Kennedy
2009- SRO Video: Guys Doing Guy Things, four-person exhibition, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, curated by Terri Hopkins
2008- Volume, Worksound Gallery, Portland, OR, curated by Jeff Jahn
2008- Synthetic Zero, Synthetic Zero Art Space, Bronx, NY, curated by Mitsu Hadeishi
2008- Journal of Short Film: Portland Edition, Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR, curated by Karl Lind
2008- Out Of The Window II, Artist’s Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2007- Unusual Animals, presented by the Journal of Short Film, Portland, OR
2007- OUT/EX, Salt Lake City, UT
2007- Downy Bird Art Kingdom, Onsix Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006- Sisyphean desires, systems and devices, Sarai Media Lab, New Delhi, India, also Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006- FO A RM Festival of Sound & Video, Portland Art Center, Portland, OR
2006- Visual Tremens, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2006- Rhythm from Wreckage, Artist’s Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2004- Id/Ego/Video, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
http://sfaq.us/2015/12/eitheror-8-and-other-oblique-strategies/
http://untitled.pnca.edu/articles/show/7125
http://futureofstorytelling.org/8-the-app/
https://www.sjpc.work/either-or
http://artforum.com/picks/id=24694&view=print
http://www.artpractical.com/review/from_portland_with_love/
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/stephen-slappe-we-are-legion/Event?oid=1751364
http://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2010/4/21/slappe-portland2010c
http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2009/05/chemicals_and_romance_mix_in_v.html
https://kboo.fm/content/digitalartpanelwithstephenslappekrystalsouthandtheod
SELECTED LECTURES, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, AND WRITING
2020- Visiting Artist, Oregon State University Cascades Campus, Bend, OR
2018- Lecturer, Dead Media Hour, Boathouse Microcinema, Portland, OR
2015- Visiting Artist, Center for Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2015- Visiting Artist, Digital Media, Otis College of Art & Design
2015- Visiting Artist, Arts Week, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
2014- Radio Panelist, Digital Art, with Theo Downes-Le Guin and Krystal South, Art Focus on KBOO, Portland, OR
2014- Visiting Artist, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
2013- Panelist, Joan Mitchell Center Artists, moderated by Miranda Lash, with Rashaad Newsome, Samantha Wall, John Powers, Kaili Chun, and Raymond Saa, New Orleans, LA
2013- Visiting Artist, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
2013- Lecturer, VHS tape trading culture was the proto-Youtube, Getting to Know Youtube, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR2013- Visiting Artist, Portland Community College’s Art Beat
2013- Visiting Artist, Digital Arts Seminar, University of Oregon
2012- Radio Panelist, State of the Arts in Portland, with Jane Kate Wood and Jeff Jahn, Art Focus on KBOO, Portland, OR
2011- 2014- Contributor, The Moving Index: a snapshot of time-based art & film around the world (artoffice.org)
2011- Discussant, Moving Image Art and Global Media Spectacle, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK, with Catherine Elwes, Sean Cubitt, AL Rees, Julian Stallabras, Mark Lewis, Thomas Elsaesser, Eu Jin Chua, Kate Pelling, Sutapa Biswas, TJ Demos, Amrit Gangar, Chris Darke, and Lucy Reynolds
2010- Visiting Artist, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
2010- Lecturer, Peel Slowly and See, Grand Detour, Portland, OR
2010- Visiting Artist, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2010- Panelist, SRO Video, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR, with Dan Gilsdorf, Mack McFarland, and Mike Bray
2009- Panelist, Tune In: Media Saturation and Manipulation, with Antoine Catala and Gregory Green, PICA's TBA Festival, Portland, OR
2007- Panelist, New Media and Performance, PICA's TBA Festival, Portland, OR
FILM & VIDEO PROGRAMMING AND CURATORIAL WORK
2015- Programmer, Marginal Exposures: The Social Life of the Film, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR, with Brian Mumford and Dan Gilsdorf
2013- Programmer, Dial D for Design, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR
2013- Programmer, Subduction Zone: 15 Videos from Portland, The Front and The Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
2012- Programmer, Rolling Deep: 16mm Skateboarding Films from 1965-1980, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR and Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
2011- Programmer, Out of the Great Northwest: Contemporary Moving Image Work from Portland, Oregon, The Horse Hospital, London, UK
2011- Curator, New Mutants, Worksound Gallery, Portland, OR
2011- Curator, Fallout, sound and performance event, Worksound Gallery, Portland, OR
2008- Curator, Surreal Systems, PDX Film Fest, Video Installation Exhibition
2008- Programmer, Static Age: The Early Years of Television Culture, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
2007- Curator, Retinal Reverb, PDX Film Fest, Video Installation Exhibition
2006- Curator, Out of Sync, PDX Film Fest, Video Installation Exhibition
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2005- 2020- Associate Professor in Video & Sound and MFA in Visual Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Courses Taught- Projection, Sound, & Space, Theory & Practice: Image, Text, Media, Time Arts, MFA Critique Seminar
EDUCATION
2001- MFA in Studio Art, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
1997- BFA in Studio Art, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL