Photographer: Myisa Graham
Photographer: Rubin Quarcoopome
ABOUT
With the goal of creating something that starts the process of healing for herself and others, Kamari Bright (she/they) is a community-taught videopoet & multidisciplinary artist heavily inspired by human psychology and her own growth and healing journey. The award-winning artist leans into the interplay of imagery and language, fortifying one with the other to reflect the facets of communication.
Her videopoems have been internationally received at Seattle Art Museum, the International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia, the Academy Award-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, and many others avenues; while their poetry has been featured in TriQuarterly, Moss, Bellwether Arts Week, and more.
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HIGHLIGHTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Invited Group Exhibition, Out of Sight, Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, WA
2023 Selected Publication, TriQuarterly Issue 164, Summer/Fall
2023 Selected Solo Exhibition, Shunpike Storefronts Program
2022 Juried Publication, Merge Literary Magazine, Summer Issue
2022 Invited Group Exhibition, Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum
2021 Group Exhibition, Collective Power Fund Showcase, King Street Station Gallery, Seattle, WA
2021 Invited Anthology, Joy Has A Sound, The Third Thing Press
2020 Invited Anthology, Issue No. 2, COASTnoCOAST
2019 Invited Publication, Volume 4, Moss
2018 Invited Group Exhibition, Bellwether Arts Week, Bellevue, WA
2017 Juried Group Exhibition, Public Access/ Open Networks, Gallery at BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
HIGHLIGHTED FILM FESTIVALS
2023 Our Right to Gaze screenings, multi-city, USA
2023 & 2022 Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, multi-city, Mexico
2022 & 2020 International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece
2022 Minnesota International Film Festival, Duluth, MN
2022 North by North International Film Festival, Duluth, MN
2022 & 2020 Seattle Black Film Festival, Seattle, WA
2022 Toronto Black Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2022 Tricky Women/Tricky Realities International Animation Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
2021 & 2019 Festival International du Film Panafricain de Cannes, Cannes, France
2021 HollyShorts Film Festival, Sherman Oaks, CA
2021 6th Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
2020 Film & Video Poetry Symposium, South Pasadena, CA
2020 Rapport Festival, London, England
2020 International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia, Thuringia, Germany
2020 & 2018 Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Seattle, WA
2018 Airstream Poetry Festival, Seaview, WA
2016 The Monthly Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
HIGHLIGHTED HONORS
2024-2018 4Culture Public Art Advisory Committee member , Seattle, WA
2023 Bainbridge Island Museum of Art BRAVA Emerging Artist, Bainbridge Island, WA
2023 Artist Trust Arts Innovator Awards Finalist, Seattle, WA
2023 Seattle Art Museum Living Labels commission, Seattle, WA
2022 Cadence Video Poetry Festival Artist in Residence, Seattle, WA
2022 Artist Trust Fellowship for Black Artists, Seattle, WA
2022 & 2017 Office of Arts & Culture City Artists Projects Award recipient
2021 King Arthur Baking Co. Commission, USA
2020 Honorable Mention for Video by Poets, Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Seattle, WA
2020 June Dodge Writing Fellow, Mineral School, Mineral, WA
2019 Best Pacific NW Short Film, Tacoma Film Festival, Tacoma, WA
2018 Jack Straw Writer, Seattle, WA
2017 4Culture Art Projects Award recipient, Seattle, WA
2016 Artists Up Grant LAB recipient, Seattle, WA
HIGHLIGHTED PRESS
BRAVA Award Winners 2023 – Kamari Bright
STAND TOGETHER | Kamari Bright, KING 5, 2022
Filmmaker Kamari Bright on baking, community, and connection, King Arthur Baking Co, 2021
If America was #bae, how would you describe your relationship?, KUOW, 2018