Epiphany Couch, Touch Water, 2025, Hand-pieced fine-art paper photo quilt, cotton, driftwood, 12 x 12 x 1 in

Epiphany Couch (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work explores generational knowledge, storytelling, and our relationships with the natural and spiritual worlds. Working across photography, beadwork, weaving, and collage, she reinterprets traditional forms to create images, installations, and sculptural works that engage ancestral knowledge and invite new ways of understanding. Her practice is rooted in unconventional collaboration-across time, between generations, and with the natural world-recognizing these relationships as vital to sustaining memory, culture, and identity. Couch's work transforms personal and collective histories into heirloom-like objects that hold space for reflection, care, and healing. Drawing from family stories, archival research, her own dreams, and her childhood in caləłali (Tacoma, Washington), she creates work that is both intimate and expansive, blurring the line between artifact and art. As a spuyaləpabš (Puyallup), Yakama, and Scandinavian/mixed European artist, Couch centers cultural knowledge and community connection in both her process and presentation. In 2024, she was a commissioned artist for Oregon's Percent for Art in Public Places, a featured artist in the Oregon Contemporary Artists' Biennial, and a Ford Family Foundation's Oregon Visual Artist Studios at MASS MoCA resident. In 2025, she was selected as the Indigenous Visiting Teaching Artist for the Residency at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, a GLEAN Program Artist-in-Residence, and the recipient of an Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant and a Precipice Fund Grant. Her work has been acquired for public and private collections and exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs across the United States. Her first museum solo show is forthcoming in May 2026 at the Tacoma Art Museum. Couch lives and works in Portland, Oregon.