Events

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...

Tyrannosaurs – Meet the Family brings the latest tyrannosaur discoveries to life, overturning preconceptions about these ferocious predators. The exhibition explores the most feared and revered of all dinosaurs in new and different ways.   The exhibition’s real and replica specimens are spectacular in scale and form and reveal some of the most significant discoveries...

Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks is a groundbreaking new exhibition that features nearly 60 futuristic footwear designs pushing the boundaries of what art can be. Featuring an incredible mix of fashion, design, gaming, new media, architecture, and material arts as well as sustainable and collaborative practices, the exhibition features work by designers as diverse...

The Artists’ Biennial is a survey of works by visual and performing artists who are defining and advancing Oregon’s contemporary art landscape. Jackie Im and Anuradha Vikram are the curators of the 2024 Biennial, which is focused on themes of networks, community, care, and support. Rather than a hierarchical approach to artists' works, the curators' goal is to...

Because of Bill: William Sumio Naito’s Legacy in Portland at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon offers visitors an in-depth look at all that Bill Naito built in Portland and the personal motivations that drove his success. Bill Naito was a force of nature whose infinite imagination, unbridled determination and limitless persistence transformed Portland during...

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...

From the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European art collection, French Moderns: Monet to Matisse showcases approximately 60 works of art considered to be modernist masterpieces. Focusing on France as the artistic center of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the paintings, drawings, and sculptures on display range widely in scale, subject matter, and style. Impressionism, symbolism, fauvism,...

World Forestry Center presents Tree People, an exhibition by Finnish photographers Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo. This exhibition braids forest mythology with an almost forgotten treasure trove of customs and beliefs, portraying the sacred connection between people and trees in Finnish folk culture. A journey through time and place, Tree People is underpinned by forest-based myths and lore...

Thanks to the generosity of the Kirkland family of Los Angeles, visitors to the Portland Art Museum will be able to enjoy fourteen art treasures from the collection of the Kirkland family, many of which have not been publicly displayed for decades. The works span nearly a century, from the monumental 1887 canvas of Jamaica...

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to present Summer Ritual, a group exhibition bringing together work by both PDX-represented and invited artists focusing on the idea of rituals. 

An award-winning artist known for her colorful and whimsical portraits of animals, Gina Matarazzo aims to show the viewer a magical way of looking at ordinary things. Through their point of view, she tries to reveal truths on how to be more genuine like animals are and be in tune with the things that matter...

Vanessa Gillings is a children’s author and illustrator inspired by nature, fairytales, and quiet, everyday scenes. Her illustrations have been featured in coloring apps, children’s clothing companies, and galleries nationwide. She currently lives in Washington, DC. Opening Reception: July 6 / 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Portland's Froelick Gallery is thrilled to present two outstanding solo exhibitions of contemporary artists Andrew Alba and Emma Gerigscott. Both shows include new large paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. ANDREW ALBA — Older Than This Froelick Gallery is proud to welcome back prolific, self-taught artist Andrew Alba with his new exhibition of large oil paintings,...

Resplendent Crescendo: Join ASG's feature for Veronica Arquilevich's and Gabe Wolfe's exquisite work in the window display. Enjoy brilliantly hued paintings and ceramic works that resonate with the abundant, colorful cacophony of a mid-summer in full bloom.  All Together Now: The 30 artist members of Alberta Street Gallery create special work in this rare group...

Join Lan Su for an unforgettable evening of celebration and re-imagination of Hanfu, traditional Chinese clothing. Experience a mesmerizing Hanfu fashion show showcasing original designs by Chinese and Chinese American designers of Oceana Blue. The fashion show will also feature live music by Taiwanese American folk musician and America's Got Talent Season 19 sensation Nini....