Events

Día de Muertos: A Celebration of Life is a compilation of artistic installations and art exhibits across the State of Oregon, based on the community tradition of Day of the Dead. Day of the Dead has grown in popularity worldwide. In the United States, it is known as an entertaining Mexican party. While it is...

Throughlines embraces wonder and curiosity, bringing together artworks from across the Museum’s collections to explore the range of artistic innovation. From diverse geographies, cultures, and time periods, artists have consistently created images, objects, and experiences that ask us to consider ourselves and the world from different perspectives. Visitors will encounter playful groupings that reveal how artists...

The Portland Chinatown Museum presents BONG WAI CHEN: Reframing Tradition, a retrospective on the art and life of Portland Chinatown artist Bong Wai Chen (1911-1968), who influenced generations of Oregon artists and the practice of calligraphy in the U.S. This exhibition is the third of a series of retrospectives organized by Portland Chinatown Museum and...

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU is pleased to present Color Outside the Lines from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, featuring the work of 18 contemporary artists who have used color to question institutions, beliefs, and expectations. All events are free to the public. A debate in art...

Curated in collaboration with historian Peter Boag, the Washington State Historical Society’s original exhibition Crossing Boundaries shares seldom-spotlighted historical narratives of transgender people in the West. The exhibition spans from 1860 to 1940 and highlights the lives of specific individuals who did not conform to gender norms, connecting those histories to contemporary aspects of today’s...

The Ikoi no Kai community lunch program has come to embody the concept of keirō 敬老, or respect for elders, to local Japanese Americans. For 45 years, the Portland program has supported seniors and their loved ones with meals and activities that honor their cultural heritage. This exhibition centers on the many voices that have...

Inspired by the poem “If I Must Die” by the Palestinian academic and writer Refaat Alareer, Targeted: 100+ Kites commemorates the journalists who have been killed or gone missing in Gaza since the war began. The installation includes more than 100 handmade kites and original projections and sounds created by a team of Portland artists led by Huneidi.  ...

Monsters and Myths: Dare to step into a world where shadows dance, and myths come to life. Curated by Julia Alora, this group show, where artists explore the dark side of imagination, is bound to leave a lasting impression. After all, it is easy to appreciate beautiful things, but creatures that go bump in the...

In New York’s legendary East Village neighborhood, Dakota Transit was Andrea Aranow’s statement on what high fashion ought to be: fun, expressive, and bold. The store opened at the peak of the “Youthquake” of the 1960s, a significant movement in fashion history, and fused elements of psychedelia and funk with a burgeoning proto-punk sensibility. Aranow...

Hyphae converges nine artists whose work evokes an ecological mysticism. Working in two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and time-based media, these artists take inspiration from ancestral ways of relating to the world and the futuristic possibilities of speculative fiction. In some cases, they draw on geometry and symbols from sacred art traditions or abstracted renderings of cosmic and...

This posthumous video installation compiles over 250 still and moving images of a singular view along the Willamette River that John T. Montague shot by iPhone during his regular walks from 2017 through 2023. Montague’s close framing at the river’s edge centers the remains of a man-made structure within the water’s shimmering reflection of the sky. Changing...

Bygones Been Gone Brett Stenson is an illustrator, designer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Portland. Working with the design studio Young Jerks, Brett’s creative process is heavily influenced by forgotten ephemera from bygone eras, reinterpreted with a modern minimalist approach. His artistic practice extends beyond digital design, incorporating woodworking and painting that explore the delicate balance between...

Discover Exquisite Creatures Revealed, a new and expanded showcase of work from artist and naturalist Christopher Marley. His intricate artworks feature rare organisms from around the world — including a 10-foot Japanese Spider Crab, a striking Amazonian stingray, and a never-before-preserved leafy seadragon from Australia — in stunning displays like you’ve never seen before. Oregon-based...

In her travels through Peru, fashion designer and textile collector Andrea Aranow was captivated by the stunning beauty of the landscape, the rich culture, and the continued use of handwoven clothing around her. After six months of serving as the regional textile researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Aranow felt called to do original...

Curated by Sima Familant, Breathing. Room opens October 18 and showcases renowned artist Ranjani Shettar’s first exhibition in Portland. Her monumental installation Morning Song — crafted from lacquered wood by Indian artisans — explores the balance between industrialization and nature. The exhibit invites viewers to pause and reflect on space and stillness. It also features works by Jeff Elrod, Naotaka Hiro,...

Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s reveals the passion and creativity of the era through the iconic rock posters of San Francisco and beyond. The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco was an incubator for ideas, expression, social thought, and, above all, music. Young people from across the nation gathered there to explore alternative ways...

Froelick Gallery is pleased to present Laurie Danial's latest body of work, Before My Very Eyes featuring new paintings and small, framed works on paper. Laurie Danial is known for her loose, gestural, abstract paintings and experimental practice. Starting new work comes naturally for Laurie, it's the process, the "wrangling" that defines the work. As...