Events

Please join the 41st annual Rose Festival gallery Art Show and reception at OSA. The OSA Rose Festival Show is an artistic celebration of the City of Portland and its traditions surrounding its iconic flower, the rose. The official Portland Rose Festival theme is “Dream Forward” this year. OSA is honored to participate in the...

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...

Over several weeks in spring 2022, as lilacs bloomed in Portland, a mosque, a Black-owned restaurant and two synagogues were vandalized. Around that time, a family's home, which also was a Jewish organization's mailing address, was destroyed by arson in the middle of the night. The family will not be named for their protection. A...

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...

The two-person exhibition featuring new works by Melanie Flood and Matt Morris will be on view.  ILY2 works with a multi-generational group of emerging, mid-career, and underrepresented artists in a program with a feminist focus.

Immerse yourself in a vibrant rainbow of color and light at the Full Spectrum art show. Maquette Reeverts, a master of light and color, presents captivating abstract paintings from her "Surface" collection. Prepare to be mesmerized by her unique visual creations that dance with light and ignite the imagination. June Martin, a renowned mosaic jewelry artist, plays with color 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...

In conjunction with the Drink and Draw Society, the annual group show, Salut, will feature 1000+ artworks in the drink coaster format. This is a rare opportunity to affordably own original work by incredible artists. The artwork will be available to purchase In person during the opening reception at Nucleus Portland on June 2 from 3 p.m.-6...

The solo exhibition Takahiko Hayashi's "Breath of Life, Breath of Line” features new paintings on parchment and celebrates 25 years of representation at Froelick Gallery. Hayashi’s compositions are known for fluidly patterned lines drawn from the observed natural world and inspired by the perceived ethereal life. His works are often described as representing flowing water,...

Kris Hargis makes captivating self-portraits that invite the viewer into a private, internal space. His pastel and charcoal drawings walk a line between focused rendering and expressive, gestural marks and erasures, convergent in a deeply compelling whole.  Kris received his MFA from Boise State University in 2016, where he continues to teach, and his BFA...

Grey Raven Gallery is celebrating summer with a group show highlighting both gallery employees and work from all of the talented local artists. Opening reception on Friday, June 7, 5–9 p.m. 

Combining a dexterous hand with a gentle sensibility, L’Amie’s works yearn to commune with the natural world amidst the bustle of city life. The line between what is considered nature and the city can be blurry, and the works in this show exhibit the overlap between the two. Humans, animals, plants, and insects coexist in...

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...