¡Borikén Libre! by Evie Snax | Art, Activism, & Publishing in Sex Work Symposium as part of No Human Involved co-curated with STROLL PDX, 2019 | Photo by Sarah Marguier
Press
Welcome to PICA’s online press room, where writers and journalists may download information and images on our past and upcoming programs.
For further inquiries, to be added to our press list, or to request high-resolution images, please contact Leslie Vigeant, Director of Marketing and Communications at leslie@pica.org.
For Release on August 4, 2026 PICA announces TBA:26, the 24th edition of the Time-Based Art Festival, spanning five days from September 9–13, 2026. This year’s festival features a diverse program of performances and experiences by 52 artists and collaborators who boldly and poignantly address the pressing issues of our time through themes of desire, history, and change, while at the same time, offering expressions of hope for our collective future. |
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For release on July 22, 2026 PICA announces MORE, an exhibition by Trisha Baga opening August 20, 2026, with an opening reception on August 28. For this exhibition, Baga presents a monumental immersive installation within PICA’s 10,000-square-foot warehouse space that weaves together the rise of consumer AI and the artist’s own journey into parenthood. MORE is part of the 2026 Converge 45 Triennial, Here, To you, Now, guest curated by Lumi Tan. |
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For release on July 17, 2026 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) announces Round 15 of the Precipice Fund with $145,000 in available grants—an increase of $85,000 from previous rounds. Precipice Fund has been providing critical support to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects in and around Portland, Oregon, since 2013. |
For Release on February 24, 2026 PICA announces an imagined place (here and now), an exhibition by the Brooklyn-based artist Satpreet Kahlon. Within PICA’s 10,000-square-foot warehouse space, Kahlon stages a full-scale replica of 2025 PN7, an asteroid and “quasi moon” that has been following the Earth’s path for almost five decades but was only identified by NASA in 2025. |
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For Release on December 1, 2025 PICA announces the Round 14 awardees of the Precipice Fund, an initiative providing critical support to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects in and around Portland, Oregon, since 2013. |
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For Release on August 5, 2025 PICA announces TBA:25, the 22nd edition of the Time-Based Art Festival, taking place from September 4 – 14, 2025. Spanning ten days, the Festival will feature a diversified program of performances, exhibitions, and interdisciplinary work by 28 artists, with a strong emphasis on local and West Coast voices. |
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For Release on June 16, 2025 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) presents Who by Fire, a food-focused collaborative exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Ray Anthony Barrett. |
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For Release on February 11, 2025 PICA announces ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan (Water / Smoke / Word), a multichannel video and sound installation by the artist Patricia Vázquez Gómez and a group of Mayan youth living in Northeast Portland, Oregon. This highly collaborative presentation investigates personal struggles to learn Indigenous languages that mirror enduring societal failures that threaten their survival. |
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For Release on December 6, 2024 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) announces Round 13 recipients of the Precipice Fund, with $61,000 in direct support to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects in and around Portland, Oregon. |
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For Release on August 6, 2024 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) announces its 2024 Time-Based Art Festival (TBA:24), happening September 5 – 22, 2024, at PICA and around the city of Portland. |
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For Release on December 14, 2024 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) presents Policing Justice, an exhibition and related programming with local, national, and international artists. |
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For Release on December 21, 2023 PICA announces Round 12 recipients of the Precipice Fund, with $61,750 in direct support to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects in and around Portland, Oregon. |
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For Release on July 21, 2023 PICA announces Time-Released, a new member of the Time-Based Art Festival family, featuring four months of installations, collaborations, conversations, exhibitions, partner projects, performances, and more. Programming begins in August 2023. |
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For Release on May 4, 2023 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Announces Reuben Roqueñi as the New Executive Director. |
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For Release on January 19, 2023 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) presents Remembering to Remember: Experiments in Sound, a multifaceted program featuring an exhibition, workshops, artists in residence, and three nights of live performances by local, national, and international artists. |
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For Release on January 12, 2023 Precipice Fund announces Round 11 recipients of the Precipice Fund, with $61,100 in direct support to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects in and around Portland, Oregon. |
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For Release on October 26, 2022 Career Opportunity: PICA is searching for our next visionary Executive Director. Applications are now open with a priority deadline of December 9, 2022. |
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For Release on October 26, 2022 PICA announces the departure of Victoria Frey, our beloved Executive Director of the last 20 years. |
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For Release on September 15, 2022 PICA Announces the twentieth annual Time-Based Art Festival, happening September 8–18, 2022, in Portland, OR. |
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For Release July 27, 2022 Precipice Fund announces Round 10 recipients with $61,200 in direct support to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects in the City of Portland. |
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For Release May 12, 2022 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) proudly presents ENCHIRIDION: aisle, spline, resort, sidony o’neal’s first major solo exhibition in North America. |
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For Release February 25, 2022 Precipice Fund announces Round 10 with $60,000 in direct support to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects in the City of Portland. |
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For Release November 2, 2021 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to present Come On In by Faye Driscoll, November 19—January 15, 2021. |
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For Release August 23, 2021 PICA ANNOUNCES THE 2021 TIME-BASED ART FESTIVAL |
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For Release June 10, 2021 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is pleased to present A Letter from Souls of The Dead, by Aki Onda. Opening July 10, 2021, and closing September 4, 2021. |
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For Release March 26, 2021 PICA announces 2021 spring Creative Exchange Lab artists Javaad Alipoor (Manchester, UK), Reese Bowes (Portland, OR), Fernanda D’Agostino (Portland, OR), Sorour Darabi (Iran / France), devynn emory (New York, NY), Elisa Harkins (Muscogee (Creek) Reservation [Tulsa, OK]), shawné michaelain holloway (Chicago, IL), Raja Feather Kelly (New York, NY), Mohammed Murshed (Beaverton, OR), Marcela Torres (Salt Lake City, UT / Chicago, IL), and Sarah Turner (Portland, OR). Join us for a virtual Meet the Artists event on Saturday, April 24th at 12:00 pm PDT. |
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For Release January 28, 2021 PICA Announces We Didn’t Arrive Here Alone, a virtual, live-streamed program of readings and discussion among renowned US-based undocumented writers and poets on the topic of mental health. |
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For Release January 13, 2021 PICA Announces 2020/2021 Golden Spot Residency recipients sidony o’neal, Tabitha Nikolai, and garima thakur. |
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For Release October 14, 2020 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is pleased to present We Got Each Other’s Back by Carlos Motta with Julio Salgado, Heldáy de la Cruz, and Edna Vázquez. Opening November 7, 2020, and closing February 14, 2021. |
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For Release September 2, 2020 PICA ANNOUNCES THE 2020 TIME-BASED ART FESTIVAL |
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For Release February 20, 2020 SPACE PROGRAM: THE IKIGAI MACHINE EXPERIENCE; AN INSTALLATION BY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE MYLES DE BASTION |
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For Release February 14, 2020 SPACE PROGRAM: A BLACK ART ECOLOGY OF PORTLAND (BAEP) PRESENTS BAEP TAKES PLACE ON MARCH 7, 2020, AT PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART |
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For Release January 15, 2020 PICA TO RECEIVE A $40,000 GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS |
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For Release December 4, 2019 THE PRECIPICE FUND ANNOUNCES THE RECIPIENTS OF $60,000 IN DIRECT SUPPORT TO LOCAL ARTISTS’ PROJECTS AND SPACES AT AN AWARDS CEREMONY AND WINTER SOCIAL CELEBRATING A YEAR OF PICA’S ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING |
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For Release October 11, 2019 PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART AND STROLL PDX ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE NO HUMAN INVOLVED: THE 5TH ANNUAL SEX WORKERS’ ART SHOW. OPENING NOVEMBER 8, 2019, AND CLOSING DECEMBER 14, 2019. |
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For Release July 24, 2019 PICA ANNOUNCES THE 2019 TIME-BASED ART FESTIVAL |
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For Release May 14, 2019 THE PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (PICA) IS PLEASED TO PRESENT THROUGH AND THROUGH AND THROUGH, A MAJOR SOLO EXHIBITION OF NEW SCULPTURES BY GORDON HALL. OPENING JUNE 8, 2019 AND CLOSING AUGUST 10, 2019. |
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