Several galleries are tagging on the World Cup with sports-themed shows.
Augen, Stelo, Laura Vincent Design, Lucky Girl, and Fans Only continue. Fans Only has a closing party.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-may2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 Free
For your +2 in Northeast. You can experience Flamenco music with guitarist Brenna McDonald and guitarist/vocalist Yeshe Wingerd. A project of Espacio Flamenco, it repeats on first Thursdays. At Bar Botellón 606 NE Davis 7PM-9 Free
Mathew Picton https://matthewpicton.com brings A Deeper Picture, two and a half dimension cut paper collages. Willy Heeks has abstract paintings in show Intervals.
Https://www.elizabethleach.com/exhibitions/256-sense-of-place-group-exhibition/overview/ at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Froelick has V Maldonado with Running Lessons: Drawings from Strava, paintings inspired by the running app Strava. https://www.strava.com/maps/global-heatmap?sport=All&style=dark&terrain=false&labels=true&poi=true&cPhotos=true&3d=false&gColor=blue&gOpacity=100#8.35/45.5335/-122.6501 Rebecca Boraz has For the Taking, prints and ceramics
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Trent Davis Bailey has landscape photographs The North Fork inspired by his family history in Colorado. Jay Wolke has Big Boat, Little Pond also landscapes.
The Nine Gallery has Everything Makes Me Unconscious, paintings by Portland-based PNCA-minted Yuyang Zhang https://yuyangzhang.art.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Don Grey and Roberta Aylward have abstract paintings, In Conversation.
At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Black Matter is the eighth instance of a group show by black artists. Eddie Reed and Mae Al-Jiboori have energetic abstracts in show I Am.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Tom Fawkes has landscape paintings and Kim Osgood has Tender Tales of Remembering, nature and still life paintings.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Greg Wilbur has sculptures, Ball and guest artists Kristin Shiga, Peter Reich, & Zak Pearson.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Inheritors of Movement is an immigration-themed show.
Https://theblackgallerypdx.com/inheritors-of-movement at The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Over Land and Sea: A Global Study of Football Fandom is a show of photographs including Will Robson Scott, Stuart Roy Clarke and Zak Waters. Chess Club is doing a related pop-up.
Opening at IndustryOneGallery www.industry1.org 415 SW 10th 6PM Free
Trish Grantham has still life paintings with flowers, Flora Obscura.
At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 2PM-6 Free
Stephanie Brockway brings installation, words, and sculptures, Plight of the Pollinator. A Manageble Paradox, by Erin Robinson Grant also shows
At Imperfecta www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 6PM-9
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. One is Don’t Be Clever, Be True: Late Works by David Eckard (1964-2025) https://davideckardstudio.com/home.html continues.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
June 4 - 7 Assembly Required
Assembly is the annual event in the Portland community of the Social Practice Art program at PSU. The artists are Lou Blumberg, Simeen Anjum, Clara Harlow, Nina Vichayapai, Adela Cardona Puerta, Gwen Hoeffgen, Dom Toliver, Sarah Luu, Peery Sloan, Sarah Blesener, Haruka Ostley, Rose Lewis, Alex Deets, Midori Yamanaka, Laura Glazer, Dr. Kiara Hill, and Lisa Jarrett. You can find all the events at https://psusocialpractice.org/assemblyconference/ Free
Monday, June 01, 2026
June 1 - August 31 Get Bikey
Not art but a beautiful Portland phenomenon. Bike summer begins.
Portland bikey has many historical vectors including alleycats, continuing, but at its prime when we had physical messengers on fixies, Zoobombing, a 2 week Minibike Summer in 2003, and Minibike Winter, 2004. Minibike Winter, with travelers to Portland to engage, corresponded with the Light Bar organized by Mykle Hanson, https://msl.mykle.com/category/inventions/, social practice artist before that was invented at his home on Killingsworth in the month of February. The Light Bar led to the Winter Light Festival. Originally Minibike Summer, Pedalpaloosa expanded to the entire Summer.
It's open source. Anyone can organize a ride and seeing the website, anyone can join. Some are costumed and many have themes. The naked bike rides are part of it too.
Bike summer https://www.shift2bikes.org/bike-summer-calendar/ Free
Portland bikey has many historical vectors including alleycats, continuing, but at its prime when we had physical messengers on fixies, Zoobombing, a 2 week Minibike Summer in 2003, and Minibike Winter, 2004. Minibike Winter, with travelers to Portland to engage, corresponded with the Light Bar organized by Mykle Hanson, https://msl.mykle.com/category/inventions/, social practice artist before that was invented at his home on Killingsworth in the month of February. The Light Bar led to the Winter Light Festival. Originally Minibike Summer, Pedalpaloosa expanded to the entire Summer.
It's open source. Anyone can organize a ride and seeing the website, anyone can join. Some are costumed and many have themes. The naked bike rides are part of it too.
Bike summer https://www.shift2bikes.org/bike-summer-calendar/ Free
Friday, May 29, 2026
May 30 Still Life Inferno Film Perceptions
Still, Life is a group show of still life images, the sale of which benefits the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition.
Artists are Allie Yacina, Amy Bay, Amy Rowan, Bobby Adams, Chandler Subra, Chris Lael Larson, Cole Lyons, Dan Tran, Delia Perez, Gillian Mullane, Jade Novarino, Jason Reicher, Jason Sturgill, Jess Ackerman, Joni Young, Mariah Barnaby-Norris, Naomi Likayi, Nia Musuba, Nicole Stafford, Nishat Akhtar, Shannon Steed and Zab Shavrick.
At A Sometimes Gallery https://asometimesgallery.com/ 3601 SE Division 4PM-8 Free
Boards of Canada has dropped Inferno. You can hear that and a survey of historic work by selector Brandon Herrell of Earth\Studies.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/boards-of-canada-gallery-hours-takeover at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Supporting the current show, Late Night Legal Formalities, shorts from first films by Chantal Akerman, David Cronenberg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Joanna Hogg, Todd Solondz, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Lars von Trier will show. Instant film school. Detail at https://freight.cargo.site/m/K2958386077595594404964794807684/2026-juvenalia-announcement.pdf
You can join at the venue, or connect in on your own. Email the gallery for the Zoom.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
MOSMA https://www.mosmapdx.org/ is Portland's Museum of Stop Motion Animation. They show stop action movies, are a community for animators, and they bring new animators into the art. They do showings in their small HQ, at the Hollywood Theater, and today, at ADX. Today they show shorts and behind the production material from United Kingdom, Germany and Canada by Renee Zhan, Evan DeRushie, Veronica Solomon, Sam Gainsborough, and Christopher Kezelos, with discussion by Brian Capati, MOSMA, Alexei Ku, curator, and Suzanne Twining, animator.
At ADX - Art Design Xchange adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map Tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/mosma-independent-screening 4PM $10
A Page of Madness is a silent Japanese horror film set in a mental asylum made in 1929. The plot is sad and intense. You can look it up.
It was created by avant-garde artist filmmakers of the time, Shinkankakuha - School of New Perceptions.
It will be scored live tonight by Rachel Blumberg as Soft Rumble, the first half. Quasi will score the second.
At Dekum Street Theater https://www.dekumstreettheater.com 814 NE Dekum 7PM-10 $28
Artists are Allie Yacina, Amy Bay, Amy Rowan, Bobby Adams, Chandler Subra, Chris Lael Larson, Cole Lyons, Dan Tran, Delia Perez, Gillian Mullane, Jade Novarino, Jason Reicher, Jason Sturgill, Jess Ackerman, Joni Young, Mariah Barnaby-Norris, Naomi Likayi, Nia Musuba, Nicole Stafford, Nishat Akhtar, Shannon Steed and Zab Shavrick.
At A Sometimes Gallery https://asometimesgallery.com/ 3601 SE Division 4PM-8 Free
Boards of Canada has dropped Inferno. You can hear that and a survey of historic work by selector Brandon Herrell of Earth\Studies.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/boards-of-canada-gallery-hours-takeover at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Supporting the current show, Late Night Legal Formalities, shorts from first films by Chantal Akerman, David Cronenberg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Joanna Hogg, Todd Solondz, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Lars von Trier will show. Instant film school. Detail at https://freight.cargo.site/m/K2958386077595594404964794807684/2026-juvenalia-announcement.pdf
You can join at the venue, or connect in on your own. Email the gallery for the Zoom.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
MOSMA https://www.mosmapdx.org/ is Portland's Museum of Stop Motion Animation. They show stop action movies, are a community for animators, and they bring new animators into the art. They do showings in their small HQ, at the Hollywood Theater, and today, at ADX. Today they show shorts and behind the production material from United Kingdom, Germany and Canada by Renee Zhan, Evan DeRushie, Veronica Solomon, Sam Gainsborough, and Christopher Kezelos, with discussion by Brian Capati, MOSMA, Alexei Ku, curator, and Suzanne Twining, animator.
At ADX - Art Design Xchange adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map Tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/mosma-independent-screening 4PM $10
A Page of Madness is a silent Japanese horror film set in a mental asylum made in 1929. The plot is sad and intense. You can look it up.
It was created by avant-garde artist filmmakers of the time, Shinkankakuha - School of New Perceptions.
It will be scored live tonight by Rachel Blumberg as Soft Rumble, the first half. Quasi will score the second.
At Dekum Street Theater https://www.dekumstreettheater.com 814 NE Dekum 7PM-10 $28
Thursday, May 28, 2026
May 30 - 31 Works
The Unkles family is one of Portland unsung art patrons. They rent space for artist studios. They parlayed the family business into buying warehouses. In the 1990s warehouses were plentiful and inexpensive. But city regulation, and the lust by tech for warehouse offices, ended that. The Unkles family maintains the tradition, only raising the rent when the studio changes artist.
Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios, the Boathouse, and Carton Services deemed not suited for large events by the City. They have also invited artists and crafters from outside the Unkles family studios.
The big list of some of the participating artists, food, drink, and music is https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/summer26.
Don't miss Dale's choose your own adventure, it is not often open in the Winter studios. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. There is more parking in the Powells parking lot to the North on 29th and the studios are on the 15 TriMet.
Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 11AM-5PM Free
Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios, the Boathouse, and Carton Services deemed not suited for large events by the City. They have also invited artists and crafters from outside the Unkles family studios.
The big list of some of the participating artists, food, drink, and music is https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/summer26.
Don't miss Dale's choose your own adventure, it is not often open in the Winter studios. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. There is more parking in the Powells parking lot to the North on 29th and the studios are on the 15 TriMet.
Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 11AM-5PM Free
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
May 28 Forest is Alive, Magic is Afoot
Field Studies (Symbiosis) by Fernanda D’Agostino, Lisa DeGrace, and Laura Kathrein opens today. Field Studies is an immersive multiscreen installation interpreting research on plant consciousness in forests through art.
From D’Agostino: "For the last year composer Lisa DeGrace, choreographer Laura Kathrein and I have engaged in a series of 'Field Studies' focused on the Boreal Forest and the emerging science of plant consciousness and communication. Along the way we’ve had retreats in the forests of Vermont, collaborated with microscopists and ecologists, and explored embodiment with the brilliant performance artists Lisa Kusanagi and Jaleesa Johnston who, along with Laura, submerged their human ways of knowing temporarily to imagine other ways of sensing the world. Like my last project 'Mar, Mar, e Mar,' this work is deeply rooted in the notion of symbiosis, which scientists now recognize as an essential foundation of life on Earth. Our year of research has resulted in the synthesis of our three practices into a performance/installation 'Field Studies;Symbiosis.'
I’ll be traveling to Venice, Italy where single channel versions of Field Studies will be shown at four exhibitions organized by United Media Artists in parallel with the Venice Biennale . If you are in Venice for the opening of the Biennale, come through! I’ll be there May 4-11."
At at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free
From D’Agostino: "For the last year composer Lisa DeGrace, choreographer Laura Kathrein and I have engaged in a series of 'Field Studies' focused on the Boreal Forest and the emerging science of plant consciousness and communication. Along the way we’ve had retreats in the forests of Vermont, collaborated with microscopists and ecologists, and explored embodiment with the brilliant performance artists Lisa Kusanagi and Jaleesa Johnston who, along with Laura, submerged their human ways of knowing temporarily to imagine other ways of sensing the world. Like my last project 'Mar, Mar, e Mar,' this work is deeply rooted in the notion of symbiosis, which scientists now recognize as an essential foundation of life on Earth. Our year of research has resulted in the synthesis of our three practices into a performance/installation 'Field Studies;Symbiosis.'
I’ll be traveling to Venice, Italy where single channel versions of Field Studies will be shown at four exhibitions organized by United Media Artists in parallel with the Venice Biennale . If you are in Venice for the opening of the Biennale, come through! I’ll be there May 4-11."
At at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, May 23, 2026
May 24 Outer Minimal
Terry Riley was born in 1935. He is famous for In C, 1964, a landmark in minimalism. I had that in vinyl when I had vinyl. Continuing his musical evolution, he studied classical Indian music with Pandit Pran Nath, 1918-1996. In Portland, Michael Sterling, Lewis & Clark instructor, studied with Terry Riley and guested performances and workshops by Riley here. That included at the humble Portland Parks and Rec Community Music Center in SE Portland in 2003. https://arthurmag.com/2021/10/16/their-masters-voice-the-impact-of-pandit-pran-nath-on-western-minimalists-by-peter-lavezzoli-arthur-2006/#more-20434
Hear https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/deep-dive-on-the-music-of-terry-riley-with-scott-frank at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 1PM $36.50
Outer Voice is a time-based art cohort. The cohort works together at least weekly for 9 months developing their invividual work.
This is the final readout by group 3. They present their work live, as movies, and as sound recordings.
Group 3 artists are Martha Daghlian, Adia Gibbs, Anne Greenwood, Emma Lutz-Higgins, Carolyn Supinka, and Ariella Tai, with co-directors Roland Dahwen, Sarah Rushford, and Ash Stone. Guests include Hannah Krafcik, Emily Jones, Todd Umhoefer, Tom Manzanarez, and Melinda Kowalska.
Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/events/outer-voice-real-time at Dekum Street Theater https://www.dekumstreettheater.com 814 NE Dekum 5PM Free
Hear https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/deep-dive-on-the-music-of-terry-riley-with-scott-frank at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 1PM $36.50
Outer Voice is a time-based art cohort. The cohort works together at least weekly for 9 months developing their invividual work.
This is the final readout by group 3. They present their work live, as movies, and as sound recordings.
Group 3 artists are Martha Daghlian, Adia Gibbs, Anne Greenwood, Emma Lutz-Higgins, Carolyn Supinka, and Ariella Tai, with co-directors Roland Dahwen, Sarah Rushford, and Ash Stone. Guests include Hannah Krafcik, Emily Jones, Todd Umhoefer, Tom Manzanarez, and Melinda Kowalska.
Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/events/outer-voice-real-time at Dekum Street Theater https://www.dekumstreettheater.com 814 NE Dekum 5PM Free
May 23 Ambient Nature
Mono Space has its free, come and go listening session. This afternoon Batom brings world ambient.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-batom at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Public Nature is an improv collaboration between a mover, a writer, and a sound artist, curated by Daniele Ross. Today is Sophia Ahmad, performance, Thick In The Throat Honey, text, and Warm Canopy, sound.
It is at a private residence you can join by looking up Public Nature and messaging them for an invitation, then RSVP to participate.
At Public Nature 7PM $5-15, all to the artists.
There is an artist talk at Leach. 11AM Free
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-batom at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Public Nature is an improv collaboration between a mover, a writer, and a sound artist, curated by Daniele Ross. Today is Sophia Ahmad, performance, Thick In The Throat Honey, text, and Warm Canopy, sound.
It is at a private residence you can join by looking up Public Nature and messaging them for an invitation, then RSVP to participate.
At Public Nature 7PM $5-15, all to the artists.
There is an artist talk at Leach. 11AM Free
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
May 20 Glean
In Portland, the Oregon Metro is responsible for solid waste. And here, as in many other cities, artists mine the waste stream to make art.
This year's GLEAN artists are Martha Daghlian, Hyun Jung Jung, Ebenezer Galluzzo, Lalo Perez, and Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr. Their show of the result opens this evening.
GLEAN artists www.gleanportland.com at 1325 SE 10th 5PM-8 Free
This year's GLEAN artists are Martha Daghlian, Hyun Jung Jung, Ebenezer Galluzzo, Lalo Perez, and Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr. Their show of the result opens this evening.
GLEAN artists www.gleanportland.com at 1325 SE 10th 5PM-8 Free
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