Past Events

PICA has bought exciting and innovative programs to Portland throughout the years. Below is a list of the most recent events.

Hasan Elahi

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

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.

George Kuchar

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Mon . Feb 1 . 7:30 pm

George Kuchar ranks among the most outrageous and prolific independent American filmmakers working today.

People's Biennial

Curator's Chat

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.

Paul Ramirez Jonas

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Mon . Feb 8 . 7:30 pm

Paul Ramírez Jonas is a contemporary multi-disciplinary artist whose work repurposes and reinterprets found systems and texts.

Barry Sanders

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

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.

Kristan Kennedy

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

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.

TBA INSIGHT

Dayna Hanson Performance Preview

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.

PICA Artist Round Table

On the Road

Tues . Mar 30 . 12:30 pm

Learn about strategies for touring your performance work from Performing Arts Program Director Erin Boberg Doughton.

COOL ART

Thurs . Apr 1 . 7 pm

Cool Art unveils the first six editions from its ongoing poster project, curated by Rob Halverson.

Sam Durant

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

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.

Stephanie Syjuco

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

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.

Akihiko Miyoshi

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

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.

TADA!

PICA's Annual Gala

Sat . Apr 24 . 6 pm

Dinner by Simpatica, Live Auction by Laura Michalek, Cocktails, Music & TBA:10 Preview Performance by Noelle Stiles.

Michael Rohd and Shannon Scrofano of Sojourn Theatre

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

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.

Swoon

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

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.

Hank Willis Thomas

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Mon . May 10 . 7:30 pm

Hank Willis Thomas is a contemporary visual artist and photographer focusing on race, advertising and popular culture.

open

a public conversation, paper-in-progress, writing out loud

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.

Open Engagement Panel

Featuring Mark Dion, Amy Franceschini, and Nils Norman

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.

open

a public conversation, paper-in-progress, writing out loud

Mon . May 17 . 10 pm

open is a collaborative, durational, co-writing experiment addressing the concerns, practices, and issues around socially engaged art via writing out loud.

15

PICA B-DAY BASH

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.

Artist Round Table #2

Seeking Funding

Tues . July 13 . 12:30 pm

Advice from Artistic Director Cathy Edwards and Development Associate Scott McEachern on effective grant applications.

Art Spark

Thurs . Aug 19 . 5 pm

Mix and mingle with PICA for a TBA:10 preview at this happy hour favorite.

Pints for PICA

Mon . Aug 30 . 5 pm

Get a jump on TBA at the Low Brow Lounge and drink in support of PICA.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Thurs . Sept 23 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Fri . Sept 24 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Sat . Sept 25 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Sun . Sept 26 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Thurs . Sept 30 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Fri . Oct 1 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Sat . Oct 2 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Sun . Oct 3 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

Tina Olsen

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Mon . Oct 4 . 7:30 pm

The Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum discusses building community and context for the arts.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Thurs . Oct 7 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Fri . Oct 8 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Sat . Oct 9 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Sun . Oct 10 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

Mel Chin

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Mon . Oct 11 . 7:30 pm

Chin's multi-disciplinary practice insinuates art into unlikely places explores how art can provoke social awareness and responsibility.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Thurs . Oct 14 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Fri . Oct 15 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Sat . Oct 16 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

TBA ON SIGHT

Human Being

Sun . Oct 17 . 12 pm

A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.

Last Chance Walk Through

TBA ON SIGHT Salon

Sun . Oct 17 . 3 pm

Walk the halls of WHS with Kristan Kennedy and say goodbye to the TBA:10 ON SIGHT installations.

Clare E. Rojas

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Mon . Oct 18 . 7 pm

Rojas' folk-inspired installations address social concerns and the representations of women in our culture.

Destricted

Sat . Oct 23 . 7 pm

A previously banned screening of short films straddling the line and blurring the boundaries of art, sexuality, and pornography.

Natalie Jeremijenko

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Mon . Oct 25 . 7:30 pm

Jeremijenko, Director of xDesign, is an engineer and artist who explores the overlaps of society, culture, and the environment.

Chris Johanson

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Mon . Nov 1 . 7:30 pm

Johanson is a painter, muralist, installation artist, and illustrator who lives and works in Portland and Los Angeles.

Tom Marioni

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Mon . Nov 8 . 7:30 pm

With a focus on the act of mark-making and the dynamics of social situations, Marioni was one of the pioneers of Conceptual Art.

Artist Round Table #3

Jet Lag Brown Bag

Wed . Nov 10 . 12:30 pm

Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy gives an off-the-cuff report on her recent curatorial trip to France.

Ryan Pierce/Signal Fire

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Mon . Nov 15 . 7:30 pm

Ryan Pierce, co-founder of Signal Fire, talks about the program's artist residencies in Oregon's wild spaces.

UNWRAPPED

Fri . Dec 3 . 7:30 pm

Get festive with PICA at our annual holiday party and silent auction.

Prints for PICA

Eighth-Annual Monoprint Marathon Sale

Sat . Dec 11 . 6 pm

A bustling, all-day printmaking workshop, with one-of-a-kind artist prints sold fresh off the presses.

Art and Censorship

Portland Responds to Wojnarowicz Controversy

Fri . Dec 17 . 6:15 pm

A panel discussion between local institutions about the Smithsonian's censorship of a work by the late David Wojnarowicz.

TBA:10

Eighth Annual Time-Based Art Festival

Thurs . Sept 9 . - Sun . Sept 19 .

Join us September 9-19, 2010 in Portland, Oregon for a ten-day happening of contemporary performance, dance, music, and new media, with an additional month of visual arts installations.

Prints for PICA Pop-Up Shop

Thurs . Dec 16 . - Sun . Dec 19 .

Visit your friendly contemporary art corner store for original, affordable prints from Portland artists.