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ariella tai (b. 1987 Queens, NY) is an experimental filmmaker, artist and independent programmer based in Portland, OR.

tai is one half of “the first and the last,” a fellowship, workshop and screening series supporting and celebrating the work of Black women and femmes in film, video and new media art. They have shown work at Anthology Film Archives, Portland Institute For Contemporary Art, Northwest Film Center, Onion City Film Festival, the Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival, MOCA and Smack Mellon, amongst others.

Recent exhibitions include the Portland Art Museum, Tufts University Art Galleries and Pinothek der Moderne. tai has attended residencies at Signal Culture, VTape, The Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University and the Creative Exchange Lab with the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.