Scott Taddei is a Portland-based visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice weaves beadwork, fiber, graphite, mixed media, and found materials into visual inquiries of identity, belonging, and representation. A U.S. Navy veteran, Taddei brings to this work an ongoing attention to how identity is shaped, tested, and carried across different structures and systems.

Taddei works with care and intentionality across cultural lines. Their family history includes Abenaki and Québécois ties that they are still learning about and reconnecting with. They are not an enrolled tribal member. Born in Massachusetts and now based in Portland, Oregon, they work in the distance between where their family came from and where they stand, asking what it means to carry lineage across land you weren't born to. Their practice also meditates on queerness and non-binary embodiment, living in the friction between heritage and hybridity, memory and material. The work carries that complexity forward, undiluted, into whatever form it takes next.

Taddei received a BFA in Art Practice from Portland State University in 2024, and was nominated for the International Sculpture Center's 2024 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. In 2026, they were a member of the February cohort of the Caldera Artist in Residence program in Sisters, Oregon.