Education

Laguna Blanca High School, Santa Barbara, Ca:  graduated 1995

University of Oregon, Eugene, Or: 2005 Bachelor of Science in art

Exhibitions

• Juried show, Lane Community College, 1st place, Oil Painting, Eugene, Or. 1999

• Group show, Elevator Exhibition, Oil Paintings, Eugene, Or. 2000 

• Solo exhibit, Puppets and shadow boxes, Sotheby's Montclair Gallery, Oakland, Ca. 2016

• Solo exhibit, Puppets and shadow boxes, Crimson, horticultural rarity boutique and gallery, Oakland, Ca. 2017

• Solo exhibit Puppets and shadow boxes, Field Day boutique and gallery, Oakland Ca. 2017 

Pareidolia Puppet Theater Productions

2000  Morpheus Dance

Solo suitcase marionette puppet show with a scrolling backdrop and a live fiddle soundtrack, part of “Circus Discordia”a carnival variety show, Sam Bonds Garage, Eugene, Or

2001  Little Red Ridding Hood

The Grimms’ fairy tale Performed at “April Fools or You” Vaudeville variety show, Sam Bonds Garage, Eugene, Or

2002  The Golden Key

shadow puppets staged in old antique vanity, Golden Duck, Eugene, Or

2003  Quincettes Quest

The epic adventures of Quincette, a young woman with a hook for a hand and a taste for adventure, Autonomous Mutant Festival VII, Shasta National Forest, Ca

2006  Thee Captains Adventure

A marionette sea adventure staged inside of a sea trunk, Experimental electronic music soundtrack by Michael Buchanan (Katabatik), European tour, Reykjavík, Berlin, Prague, Varna with a final performance in Oakland Ca,  

2007  Hansel and Gretel

Marionette puppet show, puppet stage dress, “Emerging Illusions Fashion show” DNA lounge, San Francisco, Ca 

2010  The Bluebirds song

Experimental Shadow Marionettes, performed at Katabatik Ghost Ranch, Autonomous Mutant Festival, Lassen National Park, Ca

2014  Dreamwolves

 Dark gothic romantic tale of werewolves and haunted castles told with marionettes, Summer Solstice Katabatik Camp-out, Stanislaus National Park, Ca

2016  Illuminations

Music, dance and video collaboration with Jonathan Bernbaum (videographer/ projectionist), Katabatik camp-out, Stanislaus National Park, Ca

2018‍ ‍Noctambulist

An interdisciplinary marionette play for a electronic pagan folk Yuletide festival performed near Olympia Wa. With a projected experimental video and avant-garde soundtrack

2019 The Cave

A dark original allegorical tale told with a life size marionette using projected experimental video and original accompanying soundtrack performed at the White Horse, Berkeley Ca

Mothmouth/Zygopetalum

A solo Ambient Music Project

performances

• Hypnagogia -Alva

  Red Hawk Avalon Wa.. August 3rd 2018

• Masquerade Fairy Rave -Alva

  Oakland Ca. October 20th 2018

Fabric Of Little Wings

-Live experimental video performances

Live video for Endzeit Events

• Endzeit SOMA secret location San Francisco, Ca. April 4, 2026

• Endzeit The Loom, Oakland, Ca. Feb.13, 2026

• Endzeit San Francisco Art Week, San Francisco, Ca. Jan. 24, 2026

• Endzeit Public Works, San Francisco, Ca. Dec. 27, 2025

Live video for Alva

• Devotions -Alva

  Olympia Wa. The Mortuary, Aug. 26, 2023

• Mutant Luv -Alva

  Olympia Wa. The Mortuary, Feb. 2024

• Winter Fairy Ice Rave -Alva

  Olympia, Wa. The Mortuary Dec. 6, 2024

• Flower Beltane Rave -Alva Olympia, Wa. The Mantis House May 1, 2026

Live Video for Katabatik Records Events

• Katabatik Konclave Red hawk Avalon, Wa. August 20, 2024

• Katabatik at Spire Church, Oakland, Ca. Jan. 5, 2025

• Katabatik Konclave Red Hawk Avalon, Wa. August 2025

• Recombinant Network Editions Grey Area, San Francisco Ca. Dec. 6, 2025

  Live video projection for Semi Permanent Autonomous Zone

(S.P.A.Z.) sound system 

• NYE basement of The Redstone Building, San Francisco, Ca. Dec. 31, 2023/24

• Mindmeld secret forest location, Oakland Ca.  June 21, 2024

• NYE Toxic Playground in an abandoned steel foundry Berkeley, Ca. Dec. 31, 2024/25

• Mindmeld warehouse in Fruitvale, Oakland Ca. May 31, 2025

• Bass Mausoleum S.p.a.z. Halloween party underground basement location San Francisco, Ca. Oct 31, 2025

• Subb-Terranean a S.p.a.z. monthly in a underground basement location in downtown San Francisco, Ca. March 14, 2026

• Etherium Birthday event basement of Frontier Towers San Francisco, Ca.

Live video at Autonomous Mutant Festival

• 26th Autonomous Mutant Festival

  S.p.a.z. sound system, Shasta National Forest Ca. June 2023

• 27th Autonomous Mutant Festival

  Alva sound system / S.p.a.z. sound system, Gifford Pinchot National Forest Ca. July 2024

• 28th Autonomous Mutant Festival

  S.p.a.z. sound system /Solarium, Shasta National Forest Ca. June 2025

Live video installations for BrainRinse

a floor core audio/visual 4 point speaker ambient sound bath event

• BrainRinse#3- Spire Church, Oakland Ca. Oct. 7, 2023

• BrainRinse#4- Spire Church, Oakland Ca. Dec. 16, 2023

• BrainRinse#5- Spire Church, Oakland Ca. March 23, 2024

• BrainRinse#6 - Spire Church, Oakland Ca. Sept. 27, 2024

• BrainRinse#7 - Spire Church, Oakland Ca. Nov. 11, 2025

• BrainRinse#8 - Spire Church, Oakland Ca. march 15, 2025

Various events

• Insect Dance, Storefront Oakland, Ca. Feb. 24, 2023

• 5lowershop sound system Free Party, renegade at a secret location Oakland Ca. July 14, 2023

• Alchemy Labor unit, Spire Church, Oakland. Ca. March 8, 2024

• A Courtney Doorhinge production, Storefront Oakland, Ca. June 14, 2024

• Ilios, R. Jenks, Michael Gendreau at Center For New Music San Francisco, Ca. Sept 26, 2024

• Conduit of Eyes, multi media artist installation, Storefront Oakland, Ca. Dec. 14, 2025

East Bay Computing Media Arts Lab

An East-Bay A/V meetup organized with myself and Andrew Butcher and sometimes combined with DarkMode A/V meetup at Omni Commons, Sudo Room

• Storefront Gallery Oakland Ca. Feb. 20, 2024

• Storefront Gallery Oakland Ca. March 30, 2024

• Sudo Room Omni Commons Oakland Ca. Sept. 28, 2024

• Storefront Gallery Oakland Ca. Feb. 28, 2025

• Chelsea Friedman is an avant-garde multi-media artist focusing in puppetry and experimental video.