Faun Harjo

Faun Harjo is a transmasculine/Two-Spirit artist who was born and raised in Oklahoma. Now residing in San Francisco, he performs amongst his peers and family.


As a young queer native in rural surroundings, he found solace in video games. Years in these digital spaces allowed an opportunity to play with the concept of gender and love in a safe place. He feels it’s necessary for his narratives to address trauma, identity, and reality through the use of rural, celebrity, and video game elements.


EDUCATION

BFA in Art, Technology, & Culture, minor in Sociology

University of Oklahoma

Norman, OK · 2016 – 2019


Associates in Arts

Tulsa Community College

Tulsa, OK · 2013 – 2016


AWARDS

2019

Elmer Capshaw Outstanding Senior , Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts


Excellency in Film & Video , Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts

  • 105th Student Exhibition Fred Jones Museum Norman, OK

  • 2018
  • Doc Tate Nevaquaya Scholarship , Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts

WORK

Collection Lead

Lost Art Salon

San Francisco, CA · Feb 2021


Shipping & Handling Team Member

Lost Art Salon

San Francisco, CA · Sept 2020 – Jan 2021


Coach

TRANSFORMATIVE GRANT WRITING: SEEDING RECIPROCITY

San Francisco, CA · June 2020 – Present

Grant Writing Program


Exhibit Assistant

The Children’s Creativity Museum

San Francisco, CA · February 2020 – April 2020


Studio Assistant

Melissa Grey

Oklahoma City, OK · 2018 – 2019


Co-Organizer

Cybernetic New Media Showcase

Norman, OK · 2018 – 2018


Fieldworks Excursion

University of Oklahoma

Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah · 2017 – 2017


EXHIBITIONS

2021

Performance Primer (Group), Crowded Fire Theatre, San Francisco, CA

Performance of "red dirt"


2020

Queer Women of Color Film Festival (Group), Zoom, San Francisco, CA

All Along (Experimental Film and Performance)


Weaving Spirits: Festival of Two-Spirit Performance (Commissioned Artist), CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA

All Along (Experimental Film and Performance)


2019

Trans Film Fest Stockholm (Group), Ekskaret Klustret, Stockholm, Sweden

Self Portrait (16mm film)


24th RNCI Red Nation International Film Festival™ (RNIFF) & A (Group), Laemmle’s Music Hall 3, Beverly Hills, CA

Self Portrait (16mm film)


Tulsa American Film Festival (Group), Circle Cinema, Tulsa, OK

Self Portrait (16mm film)


The East Village Queer Film Festival (Group), The Wild Project, New York, NY

Self Portrait (16mm film)


New York Indie Doc Film Festival (Group), The Spectacle Theater, New York City, NY

Self Portrait (16mm film)


Transnational Queer Underground (Group), Whose Museum, Molmö, Sweden

Self Portrait (16mm film)2019


105th Student Exhibition (Group), The Fred Jones Museum, Norman, OK

Postcards (16mm film), Spilled Milk (film), & Intimacy (photography set)


OUT HERE NOW: The Kansas City LGBT Film Festival (Group), Unity Temple on the Plaza, Kansas City, MO

Self Portrait (16mm)


LGBTQ Shorts Film Festival (Group), The Roxy Theatre, Missoula, MT

Self Portrait (16mm film)2019


Odyssey (Group), Spotlight Gallery, Norman, OK

Mind, Body, & Soul (2019)


Bison Bison Film Festival (Group), Poncan Theatre Co, Ponca City, OK

Self Portrait (16mm film)


Momentum (Group), The Womb, Oklahoma City, OK

Self Portrait (16mm film)


TransQueer National Underground (Group), Antisexistischer Infoladen Neukölln, Berlin, Germany

Self Portrait (16mm film)


First Nations Film & Video Festival (Group), University of Illinois – Latino Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

Self Portrait (16mm film) & Postcards (16mm film)


2018

Bison Bison Film Festival (Group), Poncan Theatre Co., Ponca City, OK

on second thought (stop motion film)2018


Momentum (Group), The Gold Dome, Oklahoma City, OK

11.23.17 (film) & on second thought (stop motion film)


B&W Experimental Film Show (Group), Fine Arts Library – University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Odum (16mm film)


New Media & Art History Showcase (Group), Fine Arts Library – University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

VG&ID (Film & Performance)


2017

Weitzenhoffer Print Collection, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Jellies (Print)2017(Group), Farzaneh Hall WGS Collection, Norman, OK

Children (Print)2017


Digital Fabrication Showcase (Group), Spotlight Gallery, Norman, OK

Drum (Sculpture)2016


TCC Juried Student Art Exhibit (Group), Tulsa Community College (Metro), Tulsa, OK

A Portrait (pencil drawing) clouds (pencil drawing), flora tarot (relief sculpture). Awarded Excellency in Drawing