Anna Martine Whitehead, Creative Exchange Lab Fall 2019 | Photo by Sarah Cabbell
Creative Exchange Lab
PICA’s Creative Exchange Lab has been designed to promote artistic exchange, instigate peer to peer dialogue, and foster the development of new works with a focus on serving artists working at the intersection of different forms.
Creative Exchange Lab (CXL) artists are collaboratively selected by PICA’s curatorial team and are asked to participate by invitation. PICA seeks to invite a diverse intergenerational cohort of artists, emerging and established, from a spectrum of disciplines and cultural perspectives.
Reflecting a field-wide need for in-depth cross-disciplinary research opportunities for artists, the labs offer essential generative time for research and experimentation, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and self-directed interaction between the participating local, national, and international artists.
The Creative Exchange Lab has been established with lead support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and received pilot support in 2015 through Oregon Community Foundation’s Creative Heights initiative.
CXL ARTISTS:
FALL 2026 LAB
Sahar al-Sawaf (Portland, OR)
Melanie Flood (Portland, OR)
Kole Galbraith (Seattle, WA)
Lalo Perez (Portland, OR)
Jess Perlitz (Portland, OR)
Isabella Saavedra (Portland, OR)
FALL 2025 LAB
Olivia Camfield (Portland, OR)
Marcus Fischer (Portland, OR)
Woodrow Hunt (Portland, OR)
Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta)
Angelo Scott (Portland, OR)
SPRING 2024 LAB
Patricia Vázquez Gómez (Portland, OR and Mexico City, Mexico)
Timothy Yanick Hunter (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Lisa Jarrett (Portland, OR)
Chisato Minamimura (London, England)
Vo Vo (Portland OR, Chinook and Cowlitz lands)
SPRING 2023 LAB
Jenn Freeman/Po’ Chop (Chicago, IL)
Allie Hankins (Multnomah, Cowlitz, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Clackamas, and many other tribes, also known as Portland, Oregon)
Anthony Hudson/Carla Rossi (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Siletz / Portland, OR)
Anchi Lin [Ciwas Tahos] (Taipei, Taiwan)
Malik Nashad Sharpe (London, England)
FALL 2022 LAB
Princess Bouton (Portland, OR)
Emily Jones (Portland, OR)
Satpreet Kahlon (Seattle, WA)
Hannah Krafcik (Portland, OR)
Harun Morrison (River Lea and Regent’s Canal, UK)
Pallavi Sen (Berkshires, MA)
SPRING 2022 LAB
Leon Finley (Seattle, WA, the traditional land of the Coast Salish including the Duwamish People past and present)
bart fitzgerald (Portland, OR)
Moonyeka (Seattle, WA)
Adee Roberson (Los Angeles, CA)
Anh Vo (Brooklyn, NY / Hanoi, Vietnam)
Fox Whitney (traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People)
FALL 2021 LAB
Crystal Cortez (Portland, OR)
mario lemafa (Seattle, WA)
Sara Siestreem (Portland, OR)
Maya Vivas (Portland, OR)
Timothy White Eagle (Seattle, WA)
SPRING 2021 LAB
Javaad Alipoor (Manchester, UK)
Reese Bowes (Portland, OR)
Fernanda D’Agostino (Portland, OR)
Sorour Darabi (Iran / France)
devynn emory (New York, NY)
Elisa Harkins (Muscogee (Creek) Reservation [Tulsa, OK])
shawné michaelain holloway (Chicago, IL)
Raja Feather Kelly (New York, NY)
Mohammed Murshed (Beaverton, OR)
Marcela Torres (Salt Lake City, UT / Chicago, IL)
Sarah Turner (Portland, OR)
FALL 2019 LAB
Anna Martine Whitehead (Chicago, IL)
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (Detroit/Philadelphia/NYC/LA)
Phoebe Davies (London)
Ilana Harris-Babou (New York, NY)
Ralph Pugay (Portland, OR)
S.J Norman (Melbourne, Australia)
DB Amorin (Honolulu, Hawai’i)
SPRING 2019 LAB
Linda Austin (Portland, OR)
Michelle Boulé (New York City)
Eugene Macki (London)
Roza Moshtaghi (Tehran)
Tabitha Nikolai (Portland, OR)
Ahamefule J. Oluo (Seattle, WA)
FALL 2018 LAB
Gordon Hall (New York, NY)
Victoria Hunt (Australia)
C. Davida Ingram (Seattle, WA)
Tiona Nekkia McClodden (Philadelphia, PA)
Roza Moshtaghi (Iran)
Pepper Pepper (Portland, OR)
ariella tai (Portland, OR)
SPRING 2018 LAB
Autumn Knight (Houston, TX)
Hector Remedios (Cuba)
Tim Smith-Stewart (Seattle, WA)
Garima Thakur (Portland, OR)
Mariana Valencia (New York, NY)
Roland Dahwen Wu (Portland, OR)
Ji Yang (Chicago, IL)
SPRING 2017 LAB
Kaneza Schaal (New York, NY)
Will Rawls (New York, NY)
Jennie Liu (Los Angeles, CA)
Andrew Gilbert (Los Angeles, CA)
Manuel Solano (Mexico City, Mexico)
Sarah AbuAbdallah (Saudi Arabia)
Demian DinéYazhi’ (Portland, OR)
Amenta Abioto (Portland, OR)
FALL 2016 LAB
Holland Andrews (Portland, OR)
Boyzie Cekwana (Durban, South Africa)
Math Bass (Los Angeles, CA)
Lauren Davis Fisher (Los Angeles, CA)
keyon gaskin (Portland, OR)
Brennan Gerard (New York, NY)
Ryan Kelly (New York, NY)
Moya Michael (Brussels, Belgium)
Dorothée Munyaneza (Marseille, France)
Kameelah Janan Rasheed (East Palo Alto, CA)
SPRING 2016 LAB
Marco Kane Braunschweiler (Los Angeles, CA)
Ali Chahrour (Beirut, Lebanon)
Shannon Funchess (Portland, OR)
Mark Mitchell (Seattle, WA)
sidony o’neal (Portland, OR)
Junaid Sarieddeen (Beirut, Lebanon)
Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis, MN)
FALL 2015 LAB
Chase Biado (Portland, OR)
Gabel Eiben (Brussels, Belgium)
Dylan Mira (Los Angeles, CA)
Samita Sinha (New York, NY)
Keijaun Thomas (New York, NY/Chicago, IL)
Tetsuya Umeda (Osaka, Japan)
Jacob Wren (Montreal, Canada)
Takahiro Yamamoto (Portland, OR)
SPRING 2015 LAB
Wally Cardona (New York, NY)
Myint Mo (Myanmar)
Jibade-Khalil Huffman (Los Angeles, CA)
Dawn Kasper (New York, NY)
Holcombe Waller (Portland, OR)
Lucy Lee Yim (Portland, OR)