crimson consuela ravarra was born in Kelowna, BC Canada, and raised in Portland, Oregon. They describe their work as sensorial curiosities that center translations of grief, care, and memory. By reflecting on daily movements, they confront an emotional range of hopeful recounting to limbo in which longing is contended with. crimson uses performance and site specific installation as a way to share understanding through the bodily experience. In 2021 they co-founded local student run, pop-up gallery Playground Gallery, producing reprintings of early photographic works In Response and Momma & I. During that time they performed Bells with Aki Onda and Marcus Fischer. In 2022 they interned at PICA making props for artists Anthony Hudson and Adrienne Truscott, and studied abroad for a term at the University for the Creative Arts Farnham. crimson is an Intermedia graduate from the Pacific Northwest College of Art.


















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Exhibition Record
2024   Solo Exhibition, shoulder perching, 157 Gallery at 511 NW Broadway,  Portland OR

2023   Group Exhibition, Mind and Hand: PNCA Community Showcase, Royal Nebeker Art Gallery, Astoria OR
four thousand nine hundred and eight miles

2022   Group Exhibition, UCA Fine Arts Department Exhibition, Farnham, Surrey UK
Identifying a Movement in Limbo

2022   Collaborative Project, PNCA Projection Sound and Space Final Exhibition, Portland
OR
Untitled (Room II) with Oscar Dierker

2021   Group Exhibition, Here and Now, Playground Gallery at 106 NW 4th, Portland OR
Momma & I

2021   Group Exhibition, Future Ephemera, PNCA Intermedia Student Exhibition, 511
Gallery, Portland OR
mom, this is a letter

2021   Group Exhibition, Fragile, Playground Gallery at Inspire Wellness, Portland OR
In Response

Performance
2024    Risk/Reward Festival, PICA, Portland OR
Brujas de Basura with Megita Denton and Mychelle Moritz

2024   shoulder perching, 157 Gallery at 511 NW Broadway,  Portland OR

2023   shoji reality, 157 Gallery at 511 NW Broadway, Portland OR
looking up at the line with PCP
 
2023   Workshop with Heidi Duckler, Lee Kelly’s Memory 99 at North Park Blocks, Portland OR
Memory

2021   Future Ephemera, PNCA Intermedia Student Exhibition, Shipley-Collins Mediatheque, Portland OR
puull

2021   Future Ephemera, PNCA Intermedia Student Exhibition, B12 Gallery, Portland OR
TOP TURNER by Lenny Beach, with Drew Davis

2021   A Letter from Souls of The Dead, PICA, Portland OR
Bells by Aki Onda and Marcus Fischer, with Paul Dickow, Alissa Derubeis, and Noah
Beckham 

Artist Talks
2021   In Response for Fragile, Playground Gallery at Inspire Wellness, Portland OR

Awards/Grants/Fellowships
2024   Thesis Oral Defense Writing Award, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland OR
shoulder perching 

Education
2024   BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland OR