PICA has bought exciting and innovative programs to Portland throughout the years. Below is a list of the most recent events.
Mon . Jan 25 . 7:30 pm
Hasan Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of surveillance, simulated time, transport systems, borders, and frontiers.
Mon . Feb 1 . 7:30 pm
George Kuchar ranks among the most outrageous and prolific independent American filmmakers working today.
Sat . Feb 6 . 4 pm
PICA will host curators Jens Hoffmann and Harrell Fletcher of the People's Biennial to discuss the TBA:10 show and solicit artist suggestions.
Mon . Feb 8 . 7:30 pm
Paul RamÃrez Jonas is a contemporary multi-disciplinary artist whose work repurposes and reinterprets found systems and texts.
Mon . Feb 15 . 7:30 pm
Barry Sanders is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and professor of liberal arts at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Mon . Feb 22 . 7:30 pm
Kristan Kennedy is an artist and curator. Kennedy is the Visual Art Program Director at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Fri . Feb 26 . 12:30 pm
Join Artistic Director Cathy Edwards and performance/video artist Dayna Hanson for a film screening of past work and a preview of TBA:10.
Tues . Mar 30 . 12:30 pm
Learn about strategies for touring your performance work from Performing Arts Program Director Erin Boberg Doughton.
Thurs . Apr 1 . 7 pm
Cool Art unveils the first six editions from its ongoing poster project, curated by Rob Halverson.
Mon . Apr 5 . 7:30 pm
Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, Southern rock music, and modernism.
Mon . Apr 12 . 7:30 pm
Stephanie Syjuco is a visual artist whose recent work uses the tactics of bootlegging, reappropriation, and fictional fabrications to address issues of cultural biography, labor, and economic globalization.
Mon . Apr 19 . 7:30 pm
Akihiko Miyoshi is a conceptual artist and former computer engineer who uses algorithmic computations to investigates contemporary digital technology.
Sat . Apr 24 . 6 pm
Dinner by Simpatica, Live Auction by Laura Michalek, Cocktails, Music & TBA:10 Preview Performance by Noelle Stiles.
Mon . Apr 26 . 7:30 pm
Sojourn Theatre creates new performance in Portland, Oregon, and around the nation that utilizes multimedia, site-specificity, and direct audience participation.
Mon . May 3 . 7:30 pm
Swoon is a Brooklyn-based street artist whose woodblock prints, scavenged sculpture, and flotilla performances agitate for progressive social change.
Mon . May 10 . 7:30 pm
Hank Willis Thomas is a contemporary visual artist and photographer focusing on race, advertising and popular culture.
Fri . May 14 . 10 pm
open is a collaborative, durational, co-writing experiment addressing the concerns, practices, and issues around socially engaged art via writing out loud.
Mon . May 17 . 7:30 pm
Open Engagement is a 3-day conference that is an initiative of the PSU Art and Social Practice concentration and co-sponsored by PNCA and PCC.
Mon . May 17 . 10 pm
Fri . July 9 . 8 pm
Party with Deelay Ceelay, Skeletron, and DJ Beyonda as PICA celebrates 15 years of contemporary art! Drinks, pinatas, and tacos.
Tues . July 13 . 12:30 pm
Advice from Artistic Director Cathy Edwards and Development Associate Scott McEachern on effective grant applications.