About the artist

Vida Behar is a Seattle-based emerging artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work deals themes of horror, queerness, and futurism. Her artwork is influenced by vintage comics, film noir, and fetish magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s. She primarily works in India ink, as well as using gouache, oil, Super8, and acrylic paint.

Education

Wesleyan University, Middletown CT

2017-2021 B.F.A. in Studio Art, B.A. in Political Philosophy

Exhibitions

2024 Group show, Sunbleached, The Fishbowl Gallery, Seattle, WA

2024 Group show, Erotic Art, Blue Cone Studios, Seattle, WA

2023 Juried group exhibition curated and judged by the Tom of Finland Foundation, LA Leather Getaway Kinky Art Show, Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, CA

2023 Group show, Sex and Psychedelics Magazine Launch Party, The Arbor, San Francisco CA

2022 Wesleyan University Thesis Exhibition, Second Skin, Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT

Publications

2023 Sex and Psychedelics Magazine, Issue 1

2024 Opal Age Tribune, Issue 13 - Performance

Film Screenings

2024 Georgetown Super8 Film Festival, “GIVE ME THE MONEY,” The Georgetown Steamplant, Seattle, WA

2023 Local Sightings Film Festival, Echo Park Film Center workshop film in “Accept the Mystery: Experimental Shorts Program,” The Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA