Service/Symbiosis

A SOIL and Actualize Group Exhibition
Artists | Alissa Dymally Williams, Amanda Ringstad, Baso Fibonacci + Ellen Ziegler, Ben  Hirschkoff + Shannon Hobbs, Bridget O’Brien  Smith + Lacey Swain, Cameron Day O’Connell,   Colleen RJC Bratton + Tania Colette B.,   Genevieve Tremblay + Jose de la Parra, Iole   Alessandrini, Jia Jia + Kate Bailey, Julia Monté,   Lee Davignon + Sofya Belinskaya, Margie   Livingston + Sanoe Stevenson-Egeland, Nadia  Ahmed + Parisa Ghaderi, Quinton Merada,  Tara Tamaribuchi, Warren Pope, Zack   Kunisawa-Conklin

March 5 – April 18, 2026
Opening Reception March 5, 2026
from 5pm - 8pm

SOIL Artist-Run Gallery and Actualize AiR present Service/Symbiosis, a  group exhibition of member artists and residents respectively of their  collaborative artworks and singular expressions. This shared exhibition takes  place across these two locations in Pioneer Square. The production of artworks  and culminating exhibition is a practice in creative placekeeping, to get to know  new neighbors and build community.Actualize AiR, a residency for 28 artists,  began in 2023 at the downtown Coliseum Building, but moved to a vacant office  building on Prefontaine Place in Fall 2025. Now with a gallery and more studios, 

Actualize is fostering and accelerating the careers of annual cohorts of emerging  artists with work space, opportunities and community. 

For 31 years, SOIL artists have operated this nonprofit gallery for guest and  member artists to exhibit, develop, and advance challenging work. SOIL is  committed to exhibiting and celebrating art of diverse backgrounds, media and  content. It has called the Tashiko Kaplan building in Pioneer Square home since  2003.  

Service/Symbiosis is the generative result of collaborations, discourse, and  shared energies. Bringing together a broad spectrum of material, practice,  meaning, and expressions, the 27 artists in this exhibition are accomplices in  experimentation and interpretation. Whether working in service of, or in  symbiosis with, each other and their work, the fruits of creative partnership and  art space community building are on full display