Eugene Parnell is a Seattle-based artist currently exploring the relationships between animal imagery and early childhood experience. He creates installations and interactive works that navigate the mental geographies of childhood and the politics of Natural History displays. Much of his work deals with natural and cultural history, anthropology, cryptozoology, and the notion of the Exotic, and his practice is fueled by his extensive travels throughout the Pacific, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He holds an MFA from the University of Hawaii. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, Bellevue Art Museum, Soil Gallery in Seattle, Punch Gallery in Seattle, the University of Wisconsin, and in Denver, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Johannesburg, and elsewhere.