Reagan Pufall

OEAA 2019 Best New Media Artist

OEAA 2018 Best Group Show - Museum of Alternative History, Kaneko Omaha Nebraska
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Reagan Davis Pufall was shaped by his childhood growing up in North Dakota. Its long cold winters coupled with short and stormy summers instilled in him a permanent sense of restlessness and the drama of nature. Winter days trapped indoors by bitter cold led him to adopt a lifelong habit of reading. He reads broadly, and in his youth particularly enjoyed exploring the worlds presented in classic fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and the ancient mythology of many cultures. Once winter lifted the warming spring weather would lead him outdoors to explore the open countryside around him; away from the worlds contained in books and into the wide open world of the northern plains. Later, his family moved south to Nebraska, which has a more moderate four seasons climate. Ironically, this shift inverted his calendar; now it was the bright and bracing – but not bitterly cold – days of winter that lured him out into the natural world of the prairies.

In high school he was introduced to photography by a teacher who encouraged both his still life and landscape work. At first his work focused primarily on landscapes, and...

BFA 2011 Regis University, Denver CO
MFA 2014 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA

OEAA Visual Arts Showcase, Roberta and Bob Rogers Gallery, Omaha NE, February 2020


Artificial Landscapes, solo show at Fred Simon Gallery, 
October 11-December 6 2019


Bemis Charity Auction, Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha NE, October 2019


Our Voices, group show at Spit Gallery, September 20-21st 2019


Introductions, solo show at Lauritzen Gardens, June-July 2019 


Nebraska Biennial, group show at Gallery 1516, May-July 2019


TEDxLincoln, Lincoln NE, June 2019



Omaha Bug Symposium, OutrSpace, Omaha NE, November 2018


Bemis Charity Auction, Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha NE, October 2018


Split Gallery Grand Opening, Split Gallery, Omaha NE, October 2018


Lost In Introduction, solo exhibition, Trap Gallery, Kansas City MO, September 2018


Old Dog Young Pups, group exhibition, Hotshops Gallery, Omaha NE, August 2018


Science is Future, group exhibition, Nasty Artist Collective, Omaha NE, August 2018


Museum of Alternative History, group exhibition, Kaneko, Omaha NE Summer 2018


Floating Artist Project, Hotshops Gallery, Omaha NE, June 2018


Bug Symposium Exhibition, Petshop Gallery, Omaha NE, April 2018


OEAA Visual Arts Showcase, Petshop Gallery, Omaha NE, January 2018


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