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Please consider Oregon Contemporary in your end-of-year giving. Your support helps us bring the community together to experience transformative art from varied boundary-expanding perspectives on the world. You can read our full growth plan, watch a video and learn more about our goals here.

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Here's a look back at 2022. We couldn’t have done it without your support!

We brought our community together. We remained free to the public for exhibitions. Our First Saturday open house events came back stronger than ever this year, becoming a monthly gathering place for Kenton with multiple exhibitions and performances happening simultaneously throughout the building. We partnered with our friends at Third Angle New Music, Friends of Noise and Waterfront Blues Festival to host free community concerts and music events. We launched new annual fundraising events with artist partners, like Alison Heryer’s Picnic and Carla Rossi’s Hell House Halloween. With Shop Ox, we provided a forum for local artists to sell their works, and we hosted private events like weddings and fundraisers in our space.

Gallery hours

Free and open to the public
Fri / Sat / Sun
Noon—5pm
Or by appointment
Closed December 25, 31 and Jan 1

For more information, email [email protected] or visit our website.

On view

home school: i gently place my brain in cold rice
Through 8 Jan 2023

Upcoming

Jan 7, 5-8pm: First Saturday Open House and closing reception for home school's i gently place my brain in cold rice. Performance lecture by Intisar Abioto at 6pm.

Fernanda D’Agostino: Chrysalis (Generativity)
27 Jan – 5  Mar 2023 in Gallery 2

home school: The shape of memory
27 Jan – 19 Mar 2023 in Gallery 1

We elevated and amplified diverse, varied, boundary-busting artistic perspectives. All of our programming featured 50%+ BIPOC representation. We hosted shows that represented the full spectrum of human experience, including collaborative partner exhibitions with Elbow Room, North Pole Studio and a group of Black mothers. With our Platform program, we provided low-to-no-cost rentals, equipment and staffing support for events and exhibitions supporting the communities of BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities. We began our eleventh season of our Curator in Residence program with curatorial duo home school presenting new voices and perspectives.

We sparked transformative and connecting experiences through contemporary art. We exhibited world-class works from internationally renowned artists like Frank Bowling, Cecily Brown and Robert Longo through our Special on Loan program. We captured our exhibitions on video to extend the exhibition experience worldwide to those not able to visit in person. We’re in our 6th year of W.A.G.E. certification, demonstrating our commitment to pay fair wages and production costs for exhibiting artists. And we established our Site program, originally a replacement series of exhibitions for the biennial during the pandemic, as our third core ongoing program due to the success of exhibitions by Natalie Ball (in collaboration with Annelia Hillman pue?leek?la’), Rick Silva and Willie Little.

We have been growing as an organization – providing more space, funding, support and time to work for artists and our community at a time when it is most needed in Portland. We hope you support us so we can continue to impact our community in the years to come.

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