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Carla Bengtson 
Visiting Artist Residency:
May 1 – 30, 2019

Carla Bengtson, Sceloporus, 2018. 20” x 6” x 8”. Hand blown glass bottle containing a perfume based on fence lizard scent pheromones. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, Sceloporus, 2018. 20” x 6” x 8”. Hand blown glass bottle containing a perfume based on fence lizard scent pheromones. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, Lizard Language, 2018. 21.5” x 21.5”. Hand silk-screened hikers bandana with Sceloporus lizard headbob decoder. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, Lizard Language, 2018. 21.5” x 21.5”. Hand silk-screened hikers bandana with Sceloporus lizard headbob decoder. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, Every Word was Once an Animal, ongoing. Tools for interspecies communication with lizards: fingers, handblown mirrored glass rocks, video projections of humans performing lizard push-up displays. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, Every Word was Once an Animal, ongoing. Tools for interspecies communication with lizards: fingers, handblown mirrored glass rocks, video projections of humans performing lizard push-up displays. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, ttttttttttttttttttttttttt, 2016. Amplifying horns and copper gutters: aluminum, nickel, brass, paint, speaker, contact mic, arduino, wiring, audio sample. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, ttttttttttttttttttttttttt, 2016. Amplifying horns and copper gutters: aluminum, nickel, brass, paint, speaker, contact mic, arduino, wiring, audio sample. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, Euglossa, 2016. Hand blown bottle containing a reproduction of the perfume male orchid bees use to attract a mate, glass, metal, cloth, natural scent compounds. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, Euglossa, 2016. Hand blown bottle containing a reproduction of the perfume male orchid bees use to attract a mate, glass, metal, cloth, natural scent compounds. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, Mimetic Excess, 2016. 1:38 minutes on loop. Video. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, Mimetic Excess, 2016. 1:38 minutes on loop. Video. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, Species Calling Out Liars and Deniers (S.C.O.L.D.), 2016. Video, site intervention. Superfund site, northern Portland. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, Species Calling Out Liars and Deniers (S.C.O.L.D.), 2016. Video, site intervention. Superfund site, northern Portland. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, Species Calling Out Liars and Deniers Scold (S.C.O.L.D.), cut and fold mask, 2016. 27.5” x 39”. Archival digital print. Courtesy of the artist.
Carla Bengtson, Species Calling Out Liars and Deniers Scold (S.C.O.L.D.), cut and fold mask, 2016. 27.5” x 39”. Archival digital print. Courtesy of the artist.

Carla Bengtson is an artist whose speculative projects between art and science ask what might be seen and what might be said between species. Recent projects include attempting to teach monkeys to point at snakes – the precursor to human language, learning the embodied language of fence lizards, and partnering with crows to give nonhuman animals a voice in climate change politics.

Bengtson is an internationally exhibiting artist and a faculty member in the Art Department and in Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. She has received numerous awards, including residencies at MassMoCA, Massachusetts; Ucross, Wyoming; Djerassi, California; Signal Fire, Oregon; and Tiputini, Ecuador; as well as awards from the Ford Family Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission, and an NEA Individual Grant to Artists. Exhibitions include the Portland2016 Biennial, Oregon; Gridspace Gallery, New York;  POP, Queensland, Australia; Art Fair Miami, Florida; RKL Gallery, New York; Holter Art Museum, Montana; and the Portland Museum of Art, Oregon. She holds a BFA from Tyler School of Art, an MFA from Yale School of Art, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program.

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Beyond Human Scents website

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