Paradise: a group Exhibition
curated by Graham Feyl & Jenn Sova

About the exhibition: Paradise asks: What is survival in a world with ever-ending apocalypses such as war, climate devastation, the stripping of human rights, and rampant capitalism? In the midst of these, how do those both historically and currently pushed to the margins build their own sense of paradise and create their own worlds in order to survive, connect, and seek pleasure? 

This exhibition presents paradise not as a distant place, or set in a far-off future, but one that is unbounded temporally, and has been built and rebuilt endlessly by those who have found themselves outside of normativity. We offer a queer* reading of paradise that is wrapped in endless possibility. 

*we use queer here not only regarding personal or sexual identity, but as a political framework

About the curators -

Graham Feyl (he/him) is an art historian, writer, educator, and curator. His scholarship privileges histories of queer and transgender artistic production, design, and material cultures, with an interest in how these intersect with the formation of popular and sexual cultures. He has curated a number of exhibitions - in Chicago, Santa Barbara and Portland - that center around similar ideas. Currently, Graham is a PhD student in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art History, Theory and Criticism, and his B.A summa cum laude in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago. www.grahamfeyl.com

Jenn Sova (they/she) is an artist, organizer, and curator currently based in Portland, Oregon. Their current work and research explore gendered violence, the politics of being a body, and somatics through their queer feminist lens. Before relocating to the Pacific Northwest in 2020, Sova spent a decade in Chicago. There she received a BA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and founded The Overlook, a nomadic arts project to support BIPOC, Femme, and Queer makers and thinkers through residencies, exhibitions, and public programming. Sova has exhibited and screened works nationally and internationally. In 2025 she launched Body of Work: Artist + Embodiment Coaching, to support artists and creatives to build deeper and sustainable connections to their bodies, art, and practices. www.sova.works