We are excited to unveil Oregon Contemporary’s upcoming 2024-2025 program lineup. This year, we continue our commitment to showcasing innovative contemporary art through a series of dynamic exhibitions, performances, and public events featuring both local and international artists.

Our highlights for 2024-2025 include:

Sea of Vapors, a solo exhibition by Emily Counts opens in November with a gathering of life-sized figures that form a circle of energy, along with a wizard queen and animal familiars. These ceramic and mixed media sculptures evoke surreal narratives, mysticism, and the power of feminine energy.

An exhibition by guest curator Laurel McLaughlin opens in January. New Relic-ism, probes the processes of material decomposition in the new multimedia installation, Waste Scenes, by Fred Schmidt-Arenales and Maia Chao

A solo exhibition by Ben Buswell opens in April. A large-scale installation fills the gallery and connects his studio practice to his new multi-year land based project in Southern Oregon. The installation is created as Buswell contemplates the impulse to mark one's presence without spectacle, on land to be returned to the public at the end of the project.

In summer of 2025, Oregon Contemporary will present the exhibition, A Larger Reality: The Art and Life of Ursula K. Le Guin.

In addition to these exhibitions, we will host a range of public programs—such as artist talks, workshops, and community activities—to deepen audience engagement and inspire conversations around contemporary art.

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