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PICA acknowledges that Portland is on the traditional homelands of the Multnomah, Oregon City Tumwater, Watlala, Wasco, Kathlamet, Cowlitz, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Indigenous peoples both recorded and unrecorded. People from these lands were relocated to the Grand Ronde Reservation under the Kalapuya etc., 1855 ratified treaty (also known as the Willamette Valley Treaty) and are now part of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. The Grand Ronde people maintain a connection to their ancestral homelands and continue their traditional cultural practices. Our region’s Indigenous community now includes people from over 380 Tribes both local and distant. PICA respectfully offers this acknowledgment as a small step on a path towards recognition and repair, with the understanding that acknowledgment is not a substitute for action.
To learn more about land acknowledgments visit usdac.us.
TBA:26 Is Here! Tickets & Passes On Sale Now
- Aug 7, 2026
September 9–13, 2026
PICA's celebrated Time-Based Art Festival is back for five days in September! This year's festival brings artists and audiences together for its annual celebration of creative expression that can best be experienced together, in the present moment.
Upcoming Exhibition | "MORE" by Trisha Baga
- Aug 6, 2026
Guest curated by Lumi Tan
On View: August 20–October 24, 2026
Opening Reception: August 28 from 6:00–9:00 PM
Gallery Hours:* Thursday: 2:00–8:00 PM, Friday: 12:00–6:00 PM, Saturday: 12:00–4:00 PMPICA Announces $145,000 for Precipice Fund Round 15
- Jul 20, 2026
Application Open: August 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM PDT
Application Deadline: September 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM PDTPICA is excited to announce Round 15 of the Precipice Fund, including an additional $85,000 investment from The Ford Family Foundation, bringing the Fund’s total grantmaking pool to $145,000. This new funding is dedicated to supporting exhibition projects and unincorporated artist-run spaces, strengthening critical infrastructure for independent artists and experimental visual art across the region. Since 2013, the Precipice Fund has provided critical support for artists in and around Portland, Oregon.
Precipice Fund is administered by PICA as part of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program.
PICA Picks | Juneteenth Celebrations 2026
- Jun 17, 2026
In celebration of Black freedom in the United States, there are tons of local events and initiatives happening throughout Portland this week and beyond. Although these are not PICA programs or events, we are honored to use our platform to help spread the word about these opportunities. Please note that the following language is from the sources provided.
PICA Announces a Summer Series of Programs 🌞✨
- Jun 4, 2026
PICA is excited to announce a full line-up of programs happening in the coming months. We will be presenting an artist-led workshop and a performance with a full choir; we will have an Art & Sports competitive showdown and a film screening; and, on top of all of that, PICA will be hosting artist residencies and SPACE programs sprinkled in between! We have a busy summer here at PICA and hope you can join us for all of it! Read on to learn more about our summer lineup, and make sure to follow us on Instagram to get the insider scoop.
Exhibition Opening April 4: "an imagined place (here and now)" by Satpreet Kahlon
- Apr 4, 2026
Exhibition Dates: April 4 – May 23, 2026
Gallery Hours: Thursdays 2:00 – 8:00 PM, Fridays 12:00 – 6:00 PM, Saturdays 12:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 4, 3:00 – 5:00 PM
PICA is proud to announce an imagined place (here and now), a multichannel audio and visual installation by the Brooklyn-based artist Satpreet Kahlon.A 2022 Creative Exchange Lab artist, Kahlon’s exhibition will transform PICA’s 10,000-square-foot main space into an immersive exploration of fugitivity, deep space time, geologic memory, and possibility. A newly composed soundscape, both orchestral and intimate, threads through the installation, blending otherworldly registers to collapse distance between planetary time and lived embodied experience.
PICA Awarded Grant from the Simons Foundation for Upcoming Exhibition
- Feb 19, 2026
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art is thrilled to announce its inclusion in one of five new trios of researchers, artists, and arts organizations selected for the Triangle Program, an initiative of the Simons Foundation. The awardees will develop new artworks in performance, sound, sculpture, participatory and multisensory formats, all inspired by the expansive theme of “symmetry.” This year’s program is part of the foundation’s Infinite Sums initiative, which celebrates math’s beauty and place in culture.
This award supports a forthcoming exhibition by artist and researcher Meech Boakye in collaboration with mathematician Kyle Ormsby, which will be on view at PICA in 2027.
Boakye's and Orsmby's participatory installation translates structures from topology and combinatorics into embodied experience. The exhibition centers on a monumental hanging mobile informed by the associahedron, a geometric model of associativity composed of translucent, light-responsive elements that shift with movement, performance, and changing illumination. Throughout the space, audiences engage in collaborative, stamp-based drawing systems derived from braid diagrams and meander combinatorics, assembling complex forms through repeated local actions.
A Love Letter from PICA
- Feb 14, 2026
Dear Beloved PICA Community,
On the day dedicated to love, we are feeling extra thankful for you, our community. PICA is a home for uncensored artistic vision. It is the driving force behind everything we do, and we hope this spirit of radical acceptance is felt by everyone who comes through our doors. We are a place for unconventional artists, for rigorous ideas, and for you, because without you, there is no PICA. So, thank you!
Save the Date!
- Jan 5, 2026
PICA's gala is always a wild ride, and 2026 will be no exception! Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 9, 2026, for Portland's most fabulous fundraiser of the year.
Step right up for an evening that revels in illusion, art, and shared delight. Save the date for Funhouse, PICA’s annual gala, taking place where the fun never ends: the Historic Dance Pavilion at Oaks Park. Stay tuned for tickets and more info!
To become a sponsor, host a table, or join our event committee, please reach out to PICA’s Development Director, Betsey Brock, at betsey@pica.org
Announcing the Round 14 awardees of the Precipice Fund
- Dec 1, 2025
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is proud to announce the Round 14 recipients of the Precipice Fund, an initiative providing critical support to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects in and around Portland, Oregon, since 2013. The Precipice Fund recognizes that informal, experimental, and often anti-institutional projects are integral to the vibrant art ecology of the region. In 2025, $60,000 in grants were distributed across 13 projects, supporting a total of 46 individual artists.
An independent panel selected the Round 14 grantees. As external entities from PICA, this review body consists of visual art professionals and artists who understand the essential contributions that contemporary artists make to their communities. The 2025 panelists are Amber Kay Ball, a Native multi-practice artist and community-based advocate; Emma Broderick, Executive Director of Pu’uhonua Society, Honolulu, Hawai’i; and Donnie Cervantes, Director and Curator of Aupuni Space, Honolulu, Hawai’i. On the panel experience, Broderick said:
“I was inspired by this year’s Precipice Fund awardees, as they affirmed the vital role that artists and cultural practitioners play in caring for, creating with, and working in service to something greater than self. I was humbled to learn about the city of Portland and what came before through the excellence of artistic expression that finds home there. I am changed by the process and will remain an ally across the ocean that connects us.”
Food is For the People
- Nov 26, 2025
The holidays are about generosity, gratitude, and community. Ahead of the end-of-year festivities, we are sharing some resources for those facing food insecurity in Portland, plus ways to support these efforts. We wish you a well holiday season and hope you'll pass this email along if you know someone who could use it.
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Showing Up: Ways to Support Indigenous Artists and Indigenous-Led Organizations
- Nov 20, 2025
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Exhibition and chapbook
On view November 8 – December 21
Anita Astoria (1312 Commercial St, Astoria, OR)