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An unknown cataclysm has caused all manner of surplus data and unassigned variables to leak into The Alembic Hotel. Explore the dilapidated brutalist monolith and meet the denizens as they gather packets, create cults, and invent a language to talk to God.
Learn moreA downloadable day-by-day schedule for TBA:26.
Learn moreThe Walks is an app with a collection of audio walks by Rimini Protokoll. Each walk is a short audio experience that covers specific locations in your city and invites you to rediscover and interact with your environment.
Learn moreFEAR - the joint album from Jared Mattson of The Mattson 2 and Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra - was recorded in June of 2024. All recording and mixing took place in Palm Springs. Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios in London.
Learn moreJoin us at PICA, AKA Portland Institute for Contemporary Athletics, for an evening of competitive art created by an all-star mashup of artists and athletes, scored by a panel of acclaimed art and sports professionals! Join PICA and cheer on your favorite teams, experience the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
Learn moreAllie Hankins’ By My Own Hand is a 5-Part series of performances that began in 2022, culminating with Part 5, which will be presented during PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival in September 2026. PICA will be hosting a series of free screenings of Parts 2–3 leading up to the live premiere.
Learn moreJoin us on Thursday, June 18 at 7 PM for the Oregon Premiere of Gasp!, a theatrical performance by Colin Self about queer ancestry, spiritual guidance, and the spirit of play.
Learn moreOn Wednesday, June 10 from 6:00–8:00 PM, join artist Meech Boakye and mathematician Kyle Ormsby for a collaborative workshop exploring playful forms of drawing through meander combinatorics.
Learn moreQueer performance artist Jibz Cameron, best known for her multimedia alter ego Dynasty Handbag invites you to an evening of performance, film, and readings celebrating the debut of her memoir. Entitled Hell in a Handbag.
Learn moreYou are cordially invited to Funhouse, PICA’s 2026 annual gala, taking place where the fun never ends: the Historic Dance Pavilion at Oaks Park. Come curious.
Learn morePICA presents "an imagined place (here and now)," a multichannel audio and visual installation by the Brooklyn-based artist Satpreet Kahlon. A 2022 Creative Exchange Lab artist, Kahlon’s exhibition will transform PICA’s 10,000-square-foot main space into an immersive exploration of fugitivity, deep space time, geologic memory, and possibility.
Learn moreAllie Hankins’ By My Own Hand is a 5-Part series of performances that began in 2022, culminating with Part 5, which will be presented during PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival in September 2026. PICA will be hosting a series of free screenings of Parts 1–4 leading up to the live premiere. Please join us for the first screening on Monday, March 2, 2026, at 7:30 PM in PICA’s Annex. Allie Hankins and her collaborators will be in attendance.
Learn morePlease join PICA’s 2025 Creative Exchange Lab artists, Olivia Camfield, Marcus Fischer, Woodrow Hunt, Kite, and Angelo Scott, for an informal presentation of their work and research.
Learn moreJoin PICA and the Hollywood Theatre for a screening of "Monk in Pieces," a new documentary about the boundary-breaking artist Meredith Monk.
Learn moreThis event features contributors to EARTH TO YOU: a compilation of guitar players responding to a short story about a guitar player by Sara Jaffe, as well as a reading by Sara and possible special guests.
Learn moreJoin us for the 2025 Precipice Fund Award Ceremony and celebration—the warmest and coziest night of the year! This annual gathering is PICA’s way of ending the year on a note of generosity.
Learn morePortland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is thrilled to announce Body on Me, a group exhibition by Cameron Clayborn, .Compost Cooperative (Tabitha Nikolai, Myra Lilith Day, garima thakur, Zanna Kerrigan, and Carly Barton), and Vishal Jugdeo, curated by Kristan Kennedy, PICA Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art. Taking the human body and its many negotiations as its conceptual starting point, the presentation features media-based works that cross photography, installation, video, and video game technology and design. Throughout the exhibition, artists investigate digitally-mediated imagery of the natural world and human form in conversation with technological interventions. Body on Me will open with a performance by Clayborn on October 18, and will remain on view through December 20, 2025.
Learn moreGood Dang Weekend 2 is a bingo fundraiser and dance party to benefit Elbow Room, a nonprofit community art studio and gallery space focused on providing artistic mentorship, material support, and meaningful exhibition opportunities to artists with intellectual developmental disabilities in Portland.
Learn moreGet ready to get down at the TBA:25 closing party, Dirty Thirty. This high-energy blowout marks the last official night of the Festival, bringing together artists, audiences, and the entire TBA community for one unforgettable throwdown.
Learn moreOver the last several decades, textile artist Freddie Robins has earned a reputation as a radical conceptualist whose hand- and machine- made tapestries, sculptures, and chimerical assemblages are as playfully cheeky as they are political. In Apotropaic, many of Robins’ recent assemblages are composed of the soft and, at times, unwieldy remains of other projects, coupled with found stones and other natural objects, as well as treasures from her vast collection of things past.
Learn moreA narrator searches for the shape of the universe amidst the ruins of 1980s material culture—bikini babes, Saturday morning cartoons, and the erotic overlap in between. Commercial detritus and degraded three-dimensional scans invoke feelings of memory and decay, while psychedelic mycelial rainbows provide hope and humor.
Learn moreTender Revolutions/Yellow Songs is a hybrid project comprised of writings, music, and visual ephemera that tend to “yellow subjectivities” and enact small spaces of connectivity across boundaries of diaspora and identity. The work features poetry and music by Dao Strom, with She Who Has No Master(s) and Fear No Music.
Learn moreCinema Project presents selections from Madison Brookshire's Number Series, 16mm dual-projector works of shifting colors. Double projection creates an uncanny experience of color as both presence and absence.
Learn moreAn evolving, experimental Black movement and sound sensorial experience crafted with local artists.
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