Oregon Contemporary is pleased to announce Jackie Im and Anuradha Vikram as the curators for the Biennial to be presented in spring of 2024. The Biennial is a survey of works by visual and performing artists who are defining and advancing Oregon’s contemporary art landscape. This will be the seventh Biennial in Oregon Contemporary’s series of biennials that began in 2010. The 2024 Biennial will be focused on curatorial themes of networks, community, care, and support. Rather than a hierarchical approach to artists' works, the goal is to present work that is timely and relevant to the communities of Oregon. In conjunction with the biennial exhibition, Oregon Contemporary will host ?a series of programs and performances over the spring.

“I am excited for the opportunity to curate the Biennial and for the chance to work with artists in the region. While I have gotten to know the region and the art community as a visitor, I am excited to approach this process with an openness to learn about the many artists that live and work here and to dig deeper to get to know artists who make work outside of gallery and institutional visibility, and individuals and organizations who help create the unique aesthetic and social ecosystem of Portland. I’m excited to approach curating the Biennial as a listener, as a learner: what artists and other cultural producers are important to the overall flavor of the scene that have eluded institutional attention, that matter locally but might not have been given the kind of platform and visibility the Biennial can bring.” – Jackie Im

“I am delighted to be working with Oregon Contemporary on the 2024 Biennial. I’ve long been interested in Oregon as a creative community which both parallels and sharply differs from my California-based experience of the west coast. I look forward to meeting artists and makers of all kinds from throughout the state and working with them to create something totally new for Portland.” – Anuradha Vikram

Jackie Im is a curator, writer, and editor based in Oakland, CA. She currently serves at the Associate Curator of the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries. She is also the co-founder and Director of Et al. and Et al., etc. in San Francisco. Im has organized exhibitions at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (SF), Queens Nails (SF), The Lab (SF), Important Projects (Oakland), Holiday Forever (Jackson Hole, WY), and SFAC Galleries. Her writing has appeared in Fillip Magazine, Art Practical, Curiously Direct, and various exhibition catalogues. She holds a BA in Art History from Mills College and an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts.

Anuradha Vikram is a Los Angeles-based writer, educator, and curator of the upcoming Getty Pacific Standard Time Art and Science exhibition Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption (September 2024-March 2025) at UCLA. They recently curated the mid-career survey exhibition Jaishri Abichandani: Flower-Headed Children at Craft Contemporary (January 30–May 8, 2022) and the series Illuminate LA for the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture (September 2022-January 2023). Their book Decolonizing Culture is a collection of seventeen essays that address questions of race and gender parity in contemporary art spaces (Art Practical/Sming Sming Books, 2017).