January 31 Diasporic

Mono Space hosts listening hours with Alisa Wilbon, bringing neo-Soul, alternative, R&B and Afro-diasporic.

At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free

January 30 Initial Mundus

International travel is world changing and mind changing. Time slows down. The Jaunt https://www.thejaunt.net/ arranges artist travel fellowships, then the artists produce silk screen prints to support future travelers. They have an art archive of the project.

Stephanie Chefas Gallery guests Jaunt artists Jillian Evelyn, Georgia Hill, Elléna Lourens, and Keya Tama, in show Mundus. Some of the artists may be found in the project archive. https://www.thejaunt.net/printarchive

Mundus https://www.stephaniechefas.com/mundus-group-exhibit at Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free


Initial is a new publication for Portland art writing launching tonight.

Contributors include Jaydra Johnson, Martha Daghlian, Kaya Noteboom, Edy Guy, Ash Yang-Thompson, Alex Wilson, Stephanie Simek, and Amy Bay.

Mother Foucault Bookshop will be open for the event. If you want to buy a copy of Initial, it is $10-20 cash only. Initial at Mother Foucault's Bookshop 715 SE Grand 7PM Free

January 30 - February 1 CineVox

Portland has two [modern] dance movie festivals. Company BodyVox has collaborated often with moviemakers mixing it in to live performance. And they do this annual CineVox Dance Film Festival.

The entire schedule is https://bodyvox.org/cinevox-2026-film-guide.

The CineVox Dance Film Festival https://bodyvox.org/2025-2026-season/cinevox-film-fest is at BodyVox Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 1201 NW 17th 7:30PM $25

January 29 Mapping Vegetable Love and Bird Outsiders

Mapping Familiar Territories, Charting New Paths is a group show curated by Alexandra Terry from New Mexico. The artists are Michael Boonstra, Enrique Chagoya, Epiphany Couch, Karen Hampton, Colin Ives, Brenda Mallory, Nathalie Miebach, Tatiana Parcero, Rick Silva, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Clarissa Tossin.

At 4PM there is a conversation between the curator and 2 local artists.

The reception is 5PM-7, RSVP requested at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-reception-of-mapping-familiar-territories-charting-new-paths-tickets-1976667009235?aff=oddtdtcreator

Mapping Familiar Territories, Charting New Paths https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/jsma-at-psu/mapping-familiar-territories-charting-new-paths?authuser=0 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway 4PM-7 Free

January 27 Termites!

Society show Experiment on Yourselves has a talk by the artist Charles Stobbs III entitled Apparitions from the Termite Castle. The Society website has a Zoom.

At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM Free

January 25 Haven Rest

Helen's Costume is one of Portland's famed garage galleries. They have very nice tea and snacks in their adjacent backyard. They are getting restless and expanding to show in other Winter-warm cities and now in a Portland teashop. Rest Haven is a show by Shelley Turley, Andy heck Boyd and Noah Greene.

At Bardo Tea 2696 NE Killingsworth 6PM-9 Free

January 24 Winter Movement

Butoh dancers Joan Laage, Stevi Rose Kamphaus Helen Thorsen with Mary Cutrera, Leatha McKenzie, Suzanne Parenteau, Amy Ward, and Kaoru Okumura from Seattle and Carl Annala, Joe McLaughlin, Tess Vanderkin and Nicole Walters from Portland perform.

At the Tacoma Armory 1001 S Yakima Ave 8PM $20

January 24-25 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Portland is a printmaking town owing to the efforts of Gordon Gilkey and his network. The Portland Art Museum hosts the Print Fair where galleries in Portland, and most importantly beyond, ply their wares. There will be talks and demos. It is a good place to see a lot of art in one place and a natural segue into the upcoming Hockney show opening February 14.

https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/portland-fine-print-fair-2026/ Full details https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/portland-fine-print-fair-2026/. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 11AM-5PM Free

January 21-22 Winter Devotion

Reflections of Devotion is when vinyls will be played. It's curated by Roman Norfleet. It is a reflection on the music of Alice Coltrane with a focus on the spiritual.

Reflections of Devotion https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/reflections-of-devotion-with-roman-norfleet at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM Tickets https://www.tickettailor.com/events/monospacestratafoundation/2018637 $20-35

January 17 Another Heavy

Devine Heavy is a group show of artists Judy Cooke, Mo Costello, Caleb Jamel Brown, Caleb Jamel Brown, and the curator.

At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders Recommended 4PM-6 Free


Lynne Woods Turner brings One Thing and Another. A description of the show and artist statement is https://adamsandollman.com/Lynne-Woods-Turner-one-thing-and-another.

At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 3PM-5 Free

January 16 Pictures of You

Ryan Bubnis has a group show Pictures of You with artists Jeremy Okai Davis, Ty Ennis, Dan Gluibizzi, Emily Kepulis, Colete, Nicole Williford, Emily Wise, and the curator. The space hews to outsider but not lowbrow.

At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9

January 15 First Light

Sculpted Light by Dan Flavin, Peter Gronquist, Fabiola Menchelli, Gregg Renfrow, and Hap Tivey is up regular hours beginning today. The reception is First Thursday February 5.

At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 10:30PM-5:30 Free

January 13 Copy Inexact

All the way from Riverside Sarah Grace Faulk visits to speak. Her thesis topic was artist Elaine Frances Sturtevant, 1924-2014 https://whitney.org/artists/10205. Tonight she gives a rundown in person on Sturtevant in the context of recent shows.

At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 5PM-7 Free

January 10 Northside Art Openings +

Oregon Contemporary and Franklin Foto continue.


Rep Maxine Dexter has a town hall at the East Portland Community Center at 1.


The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily portraits, local, national, and international.

At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free


Portland painter Charlie Salas-Humara brings Billboards.

At Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-4 Free


Stello continues its residency readouts. Photographer and movement performer Hanna Krafcik https://www.hannahkrafcik.com/ performs in her installation Between Frames.

Https://www.steloarts.org/stelo-events/betweenframes at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 3PM-5 Free


Matt Schu from Portland has illustrations.

Https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/schu2026 at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free


Colin Kippen has Domestic Topologies sampled from everyday objects and embelished with paint.

At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map  5PM-8 Free


Pamela Hadley has Holding Me, video works and an imersive video projection installation. Follow-on events are January 24 and January 25.

At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free

January 9 Hieronymous Folklore Errata

Stevie Shao from Seattle has colorful illustrations inspired by Chinese folklore.

See the dragons https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/shao2026 at Nucleus House Gallery https://www.nucleusportland.com/ 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free


Raul J Mendez brings paintings, Common Distortion Fields and Everyday Summonings. At 7 there will be a film, Endnotes & Errata, with a live score from Hieronymous Ross and a discussion by the artist. It is a small space.

At PPSTMM 323 NE Wygant #203. 6PM-8 Free

January 8 Westside Art Openings+

We enter a year in which I hope art can fill the void and energize us to do the right thing.


Leach, the Black Gallery, PDX Contemporary, Waterstone, and Froelick continue. Some of the other galleries are on break or resetting, including PNCA/Willamette.


For your +1 the Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-7PM.


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


Blue Sky has Constance Jaeggi https://constancejaeggi.com, photographer with Escaramuza Charra, the Poetics of Home, in collaboration with poets Angelina Sáenz and Ire’ne Lara Silva. More on the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L64cX1381dY.

Along with Lauren Grabelle https://www.laurengrabelle.com/index Deer Diary, wildlife from trail cameras in Montana

Yoonhee Choi https://www.ychoiart.com/, off her residency at KSMOCA is in the Nine Gallery with felted paper wall patterns from that series.

At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free


Blackfish has a show Layered Perceptions from Jed Blinkly, David Brandt, Lisa Brinkman, Rose Covert, Johnathan Dukehardt, Tia Factor, Hsin-Yi Huang, Anna Kaufman, Heidi Keith, Nancy Larson, Marie Lo, Trifon Markov, Elena Markova, Carlos Molina, Mona Monroe, Rory ONeal, Miguel Rodriquez , Elaine Schimek, Susan Schenck ,Mary Scriven, Egor Shokoladov, Rosa Silver, Jerry Svoboda, The Reprintery (Charlotte Flory & Michelle Freedman), Beth Wilson, and KL Wollons.

They bring on a new narrative artist, Paula Bullwinke, a new photographer and letterpress artist, Libby Wadsworth, and have a show of abstracts by Carol Benson.

All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free



Fans Only shows its residents. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free


Russo-Lee Gallery has a retrospective of Michele Russo, 1909-2004.

At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free

January 3 Drift Dog

Drift Fence are paintings by Wes Mills and Give a Girl a Dog are mixed media by Elizabeth Knight.

At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com

January 1 A pen must move for the ink to flow

Not our usual but unusual. Stelo offers a viewing and journaling workshop with admission for New Year's Day. It is an opportunity to write and think about video diary making.

Films by Vivienne Dick, Holly Fisher, Isa Hesse-Rabinovich, and Edward Owens will show on film. In the interstices, write on the film or whatever you like. It is all explained in the link.

Diaries, Notes, Sketches: A Film Screening & Journaling Event for the New Year https://www.steloarts.org/stelo-events/diaries-notes-sketches at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 6PM-9 $10-25