Reese Bowes
Designer & Technologist
I've spent 17+ years working at the intersection of design and engineering — building products, teams, and technical strategy for startups, Fortune 500 companies, and federal agencies. I'm a designer who codes and an engineer who designs.
My career started at Intel, where I moved from processor validation (CI/CD pipelines, Intel Software Quality Award) through Intel Labs R&D — adaptive interfaces, robotics, VR, industrial design, 11 US Patents — to leading UX for Intel's IoT/Edge AI DevCloud platform. From there: UX strategy and frontend at Instrument for YouTube, Samsung, Salesforce, Dropbox, and Michelin; founding UX architect at NXT Humans; and most recently CTO at LiFT Learning
My creative practice spans electronic music, interactive installation, and sound sculpture — work that examines how designed interfaces reshape human connection. I've performed and exhibited at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland Art Museum, Oregon Contemporary, and Bumbershoot.
I've taught at PNCA's Make+Think+Code Lab and Portland State University, and mentor emerging designers through PNCA and AIGA.
MFA, Applied Craft & Design — PNCA / OCAC.
Graduate studies in AI and NLP at OHSU.
Exhibitions & Performances
- 2025"Monet's Floating Worlds" — PAM CUT, Tomorrow Theater. Portland, OR
- 2024"Sonic Visuals" — Portland Art Museum CUT, Tomorrow Theater. Portland, OR
- 2024"Neuron Collapse" — Thirsty City, The Goodfoot. Portland, OR
- 2023"Erased" — Imperfecta Gallery. Oregon City, OR
- 2023Reliqs — Thirsty City, The Goodfoot. Portland, OR
- 2023Out of Sight / Bumbershoot 50th Anniversary. Seattle, WA
- 2023Wayward Music Series: Noel Brass Jr. + Intervales (w/Reese Bowes), Nonsequitur. Seattle, WA
- 2023Remembering to Remember: Experiments in Sound, PICA. Portland, OR
- 2022Holocene's 19th Anniversary. Portland, OR
- 2022Rewire Festival — PSU, Portland, OR
- 2021"Lessons of Decay", with Jesse Kees and Ashot Danyielyan — PICA/The Bodecker Foundation. Portland, OR
- 2021Rewire Festival (PSU S.A.M.P) — Holocene, with Jesse Kees. Portland, OR
- 2020The Old Moody Roadshow, Zidell Yards. Portland, OR
- 2020Holocene: Virtual Live Music. Portland, OR
- 2018Superpositions, Disjecta Contemporary. Portland, OR
- 2018Consilience, Disjecta Contemporary. Portland, OR
- 2018The Sunrise Plague [Reliqs] — S1 Anniversary. Portland, OR
- 2018Heather Perkins | Reliqs | Wallfacer, Ace Hotel. Portland, OR
- 2018HYPERCAPITAL | Reliqs | Wallfacer | Disxiple 113, Holocene. Portland, OR
- 2018SUBHARMONIC: A Sonic Arts Festival, PICA. Portland, OR
- 2018Worn Dividends [Reliqs] — Jack London Revue: A Sonic Arts Festival, PICA. Portland, OR
- 2018Be Calm Prometheus [Reliqs], Leaven Community. Portland, OR
- 2016WNDFRM | PATRICIA et CAMERON | DISXIPLE 113 | RELIQS, PNCA Mediateque. Portland, OR
- 2016Furthermore, Pacific Northwest College of Art – AC+D Gallery. Portland, OR
- 2016Reliqs | Optic Echo — SIX PDX, Pacific Northwest College of Art. Portland, OR
- 2016Oregon Ballet Theatre Annual Gala, Left Bank Annex. Portland, OR
- 2016Oregon Symphony Annual Gala, Portland Art Museum. Portland, OR
- 2015The Fourth Wall, Pacific Northwest College of Art – AC+D Gallery. Portland, OR
- 2015Oregon Symphony Annual Gala, Portland Art Museum. Portland, OR
- 2015Reliqs — SIX PDX, Pacific Northwest College of Art. Portland, OR
- 2014Oregon Symphony Annual Gala, Portland Art Museum. Portland, OR