Prior to joining PICA, Angela Mattox was the Performing Arts Curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco's leading multidisciplinary contemporary art center. She came on to the YBCA curatorial team in 2003 and was instrumental in revitalizing the performing arts presenting program. Her global curatorial approach focused on experimental practice, cross cultural exchange, and interdisciplinary work. In her eight years at YBCA, she supported such visionary artists as Ralph Lemon, Meg Stuart, Nick Cave, Jerome Bel, Lemi Ponifasio, Reggie Wilson, and Cynthia Hopkins, and she commissioned new work by local artists in the Bay Area such as Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Keith Hennessy, Sarah Shelton Mann, and Jess Curtis.

Before her tenure at YBCA, from 1999-2003, she served as Program Coordinator at Arts International, a New York based organization dedicated to the development and support of global cultural exchange in the arts. In this capacity, she coordinated national grant programs including the Artists Exploration Fund, the California Presenters Initiative, and The Fund for US Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions. Mattox has been an advocate for contemporary artists and cross cultural exchange, and serves as a Hub Site for the National Dance Project for a four year appointment as well as the Japan Foundation's Performing Arts Japan committee. She is a member of several networks, including the Contemporary Arts Centers network, and Headlands Center for the Arts Program Advisory Council and has served on panels for Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Multi-Arts Production Fund, Mid- Atlantic Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Western Arts Alliance. She received her BA degree through the World Arts and Cultures program of UCLA.

PICA's Executive Director Victoria Frey manages PICA's vision and direction and is responsible for all aspects of the organization's operations and fiscal management. Prior to her tenure at PICA, Frey was the owner and director of Quartersaw Gallery. As one of the first galleries in Portland's Pearl District and among the most influential galleries in the Pacific Northwest, Quartersaw was responsible for launching and furthering the careers of many Northwest artists. A pioneer on the Portland arts scene, Frey has been a long-standing arts advocate in our community. Frey has served numerous boards and commissions that focus on the arts landscape locally, regionally, and nationally. She currently sits on the board for Travel Portland, is Vice Chair for the Creative Advocacy Network and serves on the Advisory Boards for Caldera and the White Box at the University of Oregon in Portland.

Previous board and advisory posts include the NW Business Committee for Culture and the Arts (Board of Directors), the Oregon Arts Commission (Commissioner), The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Advisory Panel) and the MayorÕs Creative Capacity Initiative. Frey was the founding secretary/treasurer of PICA's Board of Trustees, served on the Executive Committee, and Co-Chaired the Campaign for PICA as the Development Chair. In addition, she has been involved in strategic planning and fiscal oversight of the organization from the time of PICA's inception.

Kristan Kennedy is an artist and curator who is currently the Visual Art Curator for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Kennedy's curatorial initiatives focus on the creation of new work by working with emerging artists on large scale installations and helping foster their projects from concept to completion. Kennedy curates video, installation, music and new media projects presented at PICA's annual Time-Based Art Festival. She has organized exhibitions and commissioned projects by Matthew Day Jackson, Sara Greenberger-Rafferty, RED 76, Charles Atlas, Ruby Sky Stiler, Storm Tharp. Fawn Krieger, Kalup Linzy, Arnold Kemp, Peter Kreider, Guido van der Werve, Lizzie Fitch, Jacob Hartman and Brad Adkins among others. In addition she has presented the work of Marina Abramovic, Hans Weigand, Harrell Fletcher, Beth Campbell, Johanna Billing, Brody Condon, Antoine Catala, Carter, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Ryan Trecartin and Mike Kelley.

In 2007 Kennedy was asked to develop a collection initiative for the CW Network. She selected curators from several regions to identify emerging artists from burgeoning cities across the United States. The resulting show High Five: Emerging Art in America was presented at the CW Network and resulted in the company purchasing pieces from each region. Kennedy has collaborated with Stephanie Snyder of Reed College on a publication documenting PICA's commission of Peter Kreider's work which was released in the fall of 2009, she is currently working on a series of publications documenting PICA's commissioning and residency program from 2005-2010. She has acted as a juror and curator for several West Coast institutions, including Un/Common at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Exit at the Portland State Universty, Soft at Tilt Gallery and Grounded? at Southern Exposure and Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco.

Erin Boberg has worked alongside Executive/Artistic Director Kristy Edmunds on PICA's Performance and Residency Programs since it’s inception in 1995. In 1999 she was invited to participate in the National Association of Artist’s Organizations Co-Generate program, which identifies and fosters new leaders in the arts. She is one of 6 U.S. delegates to the International Leadership Development Forum, a multi-national platform for professional and artistic exchange in dance. Boberg has also served on several artist selection panels and awards juries for the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Creative Capital, and other local, regional and national organizations in the performing and visual arts.

Prior to joining PICA, Boberg was an intern for Kristy Edmunds at the Art on the Edge program and served as the Education Outreach Coordinator for the Northwest Film Center’s Video/Filmmaker-in-Schools program, where she directed the Young People’s Film and Video Festival. Boberg is an independent performance artist and has studied dance, music and theatre at Lewis and Clark College in Portland Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honors in Theatre from Lewis & Clark College in 1994.