Azsa West - Where The Buffalo Roam
Azsa West
Director
Azsa West is a director, artist and award winning creative currently based in Portland, Oregon. Azsa studied photography and illustration at California College of the Arts, the internet at Hyper Island, was inducted into W+K 12- a cult disguised as an experiment- with an emphasis on film, ideation, art direction and writing.
Azsa has exhibited works at the Pompidou in Paris, Art & Science gallery in Tokyo, Los Angeles, Portland, New York, Brazil as well as a neighborhood gay bar in Sydney. A book of their drawings, “Nature Study on Lonesome Island," was published in 2011.
Over the course of a decade, Azsa’s experience as an artist and filmmaker has taken them around the world. Some have described Azsa's work as “spellbinding, insanity inducing, mind-blowing, and gooey.”
As a creative, Azsa's had the unfortunate honor of having their handwriting made into an internationally renowned font as well as the unique experience of having worked in four W+K offices globally. Azsa currently holds the position of Chief Creative officer at Wieden+Kennedy Portland.
As a queer identified person of color, Azsa strives to create films in the spirit of authenticity and experimentation.
