Past Exhibitions
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A Brutal Affair by Avantika Bawa
511 Gallery March 2 - April 6, 2024
The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA is thrilled to announce A Brutal Affair, a solo exhibition by Portland-based artist Avantika Bawa on view from March 2 - April 6, 2024.
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Ed Cauduro and Dane Nelson Collection Studies Lab + Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio Nov 02 - Dec 9, 2023
The Solastalgic Archive is an ongoing project by Nina Elder, 2023 CCAC Artist-in-Residence and includes an evolving group of contributors and institutional partners. The Archive holds ephemera of memory, creation, forgetting, destruction, preciousness and transience.
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511 Gallery Nov 02 - Dec 9, 2023
Hold the Void is a solo exhibition by Nina Elder, 2023 CCAC Artist-in-Residence. Displaying recent and new works from her Uplift and Black Hole series, three bodies of work explore different aspect of existing and creating during a time of rampant loss, ecological devastation and social unrest.
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ASSEMBLY | Converge 45 Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship
Ed Cauduro and Dane Nelson Collection Studies Lab + Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio 08/24/2023 - 10/07/2023
Converge 45, the Portland-based, non-profit arts organization, in partnership with the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), the Parallax Art Center and Stelo Arts, is proud to present Assembly, a curated fourteen–artist exhibition across Portland’s renowned Pearl Arts District, from August 24 to October 7, 2023.
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Rodrigo Valenzuela: Garabatos | Converge 45 Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship
511 Gallery August 24 - October 7, 2023
Converge 45, the Portland-based, non-profit arts organization, in partnership with the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), is proud to present Garabatos, a brand new photographic installation by Santiago, Chile-born, Los Angeles-based artist Rodrigo Valenzuela at PNCA’s 511 Gallery, from August 24 until October 7, 2023.
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How We Free Us: A Transformative Justice Initiative Exhibition
Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio + Ed Cauduro and Dane Nelson Collection Studies Lab June 23 - July 29, 2023
The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA is pleased to announce How We Free Us: A Transformative Justice Initiative Exhibition, curated by Sterling Cunio, exhibiting works by Cunio, Kirk Charlton, and Jerome Sloan. On view from June 23 - July 28, 2023.
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Syllabus for Black Love/ the hold by jaamil olawale kosoko
CCAC Sep 6 - Oct 14, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA is pleased to announce the hold, an installation by jaamil olawale kosoko exhibited in partnership with the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) as part of their twentieth annual Time-Based Art Festival, happening September 8–18, 2022.
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THIS TIME... A WaterShed Graphic Novel Series Exhibition by Melanie Stevens
Ed Cauduro and Dane Nelson Collection Studies Lab Sept 01 - Oct 17, 2022
The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA is pleased to announce THIS TIME...A WaterShed Graphic Novel Series Exhibition by Melanie Stevens, featuring WaterShed Vol.I: PostModern, and WaterShed Vol. II: In the Black, the 1st two volumes in a ten volume series. Stevens’ prophetic voice eerily foretells of moments that reverberate through realities in a gripping time traveling thriller.
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Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements
511 Building Nov 07 – Dec 17 // 2019
An Exhibition and Event Series About The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements
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Oct 16 - Dec 16 // 2020
Networks of (Be)longing explores relational traces embedded within and structuring artistic networks. The installations, publications, and videos of Canaries collective, Rami George, Tabitha Nikolai, and Mengda Zhang disclose structures of care, communality, labor-relations, and familial ties bound by tensions and desires. Curated by Laurel V. McLaughlin. Co-presented with Converge 45.
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511 Building Nov 7, 2019 - Jan 8, 2020
no. NOT EVER. is organized by If You Don’t They Will is a Seattle-based collaboration that provides concrete and creative strategies to counter white nationalism through a cultural lens. On view in the PNCA Albert Solheim Library.
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511 Gallery Mar 7 - Apr 20 // 2019
The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is thrilled to present an exhibition of work by celebrated artist Joe Feddersen. The exhibition, Echo, will debut a new series of prints Feddersen produced during his time as artist-in-residence with PNCA’s Watershed Center for Fine Art Publishing and Research.
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511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design Nov 1 11:00 AM // 2018 - Jan 12 4:00 PM // 2019
The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is thrilled to present an exhibition of work by celebrated artist Joe Feddersen. The exhibition, Echo, will debut a new series of prints Feddersen produced during his time as artist-in-residence with PNCA’s Watershed Center for Fine Art Publishing and Research.
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511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design Sep 06 - Oct 20 // 2018
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Jenny Holzer, Use What is Dominant in a Culture to Change it Quickly
511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design Jul 19, 2018 - Aug 22, 2018
Use What is Dominant in a Culture to Change it Quickly: Jenny Holzer’s Sentences and Sentiments from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
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511 Gallery June 23, 2018 - July 13, 2018
The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies program and the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA present Apparitions, an exhibition of new work by Milwaukee-based artist John Riepenhoff
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Bespoke Bodies: The Design & Craft of Prosthetics
511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design Feb 15, 2018 - May 9, 2018
CCA&C at PNCA in partnership with the Design Museum Portland
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Feb 1 - Apr 15 // 2018
Transformative Play and Discourse on Photography from a Diasporic Perspective. Curated by Modou Dieng
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Nov 2, 2017 11:00 AM – Jan 6, 2018 6:00 PM
Installation, prints, and paintings by Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips.
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Nov 2, 2017 – Jan 12, 2018
Projects for the Page is an exhibition of publications made by artists that considers the subversive potential of the publication as an alternative exhibition space.
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Sep 7, 2017 – Oct 14, 2017
PNCA is proud to present works by Alison Saar. This exhibition is part of the Jordan D. Schnitzer Exhibition and Visiting Artist Series.
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Aug 10, 2017 – Oct 14, 2017
Converge 45 presents its second year of programming under the direction of Inaugural Guest Artistic Director Kristy Edmunds, Executive and Artistic Director at the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA.
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Connective Conversations with Claire Tancons
511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design Jul 11, 2017 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Claire Tancons, Curator & Art Historian
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2017 Hallie Ford Fellows Exhibition
511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design Jun 22, 2017 – Jul 1, 2017
The Hallie Ford Fellowships in the Visual Arts recognize Oregon visual artists for demonstrated excellence of their work and potential for significant advancement in their practices of art.
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511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design May 11, 2017 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative.
The New Yorker
"One of the nuttiest and most brilliant artists working today"
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ARTICULATION: a series of events, performances, and other provocations
May 10, 2017 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM 511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design
In conjunction with Physical Education Artist in Residency with the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, organized by Cat Ross
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Method Accumulation: Studies in Materiality and Existence
511 Gallery Mar 22 – Mar 25 // 2017
NCECA’s 51st Annual Conference : Future Flux
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Vox Populi Collective Screening: Part of OCGOPF
North Park Blocks Apr 19, 2017 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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a P.E. workshop w/ keyon gaskin
511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design Apr 19, 2017 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Part of the The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture Artist in Residence program with Physical Education.
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Costumes, Reverence, & Forms: A Portland/Philadelphia Mixer
511 Gallery Apr 6 – Jun 3 // 2017
Opening reception April 6th, 6:00 - 8:30pm
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Open Call Guerilla Outdoor Performance Festival
North Park Blocks Apr 17, 2017 7:00 AM – Apr 19, 2017 8:00 PM
Part of NCECA’s 51st Annual Conference : Future Flu
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Reconstructing Craft: Feminism and Contemporary Ceramics
Commons Mar 22 – Mar 25 // 2017
NCECA’s 51st Annual Conference : Future Flux
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511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design Mar 22 – Apr 14 // 2017
Part of NCECA’s 51st Annual Conference : Future Flux.
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511 Gallery Mar 22 – Mar 25 // 2017
NCECA’s 51st Annual Conference : Future Flux
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Works from the Museum of Contemporary Craft Permanent Collection
511 Gallery Mar 22– Mar 25 // 2017
Works from the Museum of Contemporary Craft Permanent Collection
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511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design Mar 2 – Mar 25 // 2017
An exhibition of work by Laura Heit
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Exchange Exhibition with Vox Populi (Philadelphia)
511 Gallery March - May // 2017
An exchange exhibition with Vox Populi (Philadelphia) in which three to five Philadelphia-based artists will be curated into a group exhibition at the Center and three to five Portland artists will be curated into an exhibition at Vox Populi.
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Letha Wilson: Shadows and Sunlight
511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design Jan 17 – Mar 11 // 2017
We are pleased to present Letha Wilson in her first West Coast solo exhibition featuring a brand new body of work. This exhibition will be the result of a collaboration with c3:initiative, Sou’Wester, and the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA.
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511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design January - March // 2017
We are pleased to present Letha Wilson in her first West Coast solo exhibition featuring a brand new body of work. This exhibition will be the result of a collaboration with c3:initiative, Sou’Wester, and the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA.
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511 Gallery Nov 3 - Jan 6 // 2017
A research-based installation that will draw upon the seemingly disparate topics of the spiritual awakening of jazz great Alice B. Coltrane, also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda, the Shaker phenomenon of religious trance painting known as Gift Drawings, and the mysterious life and work of Simon Rodia, notably the Watts Towers.
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HIDDEN ASSEMBLY: Labor Through the Lens of Contemporary Art
511 Building - Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design Nov 3, 2016 – Jan 7, 2017
Hidden Assembly, curated by Yaelle Amir, foregrounds work and workers in an era of hidden labor, when the labor that people perform is eliminated or rendered invisible under capitalism–an effect heightened by the expanded tech field, global outsourcing, and the rise of precarious work.
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Roy Tomlinson: ReMap // Gallery Talk and Discussion
Commons Sep 19 // 2016 // 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Roy Tomlinson will discuss his exhibition ReMap.
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Bison Building / MFA AC+D Studios Sep 7 // 2016 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
THING THING is a manufacturing studio practicing in Detroit. Established in 2012, Thing Thing designs processes to work intuitively with materials and methods usually reserved for industrial production.
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Commons Sep 1 – Sep 23 // 2016
Roy Tomlinson’s interactive sensorial chamber temporarily disrupts the usual pathways of conditioned visual interpretation. Visitors have the opportunity to explore a constructed environment and create a unique perceptual experience.
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511 Gallery Sep 1 – Oct 15 // 2016
Part of PICA TBA:16’s Makeup on Empty Space, curated by Kristan Kennedy, Visual Art Curator, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Co-presented with the Center for Contemporary Art and Culture director Mack McFarland.
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Potency of Process: Moving Through Breast Cancer Martha Banyas and Deborah Horrell
Sep 1 – Oct 22 // 2016
This exhibition brings together the practices of two Pacific Northwest artists who have independently developed a body of work to address the issue of the human body in trauma.
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Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio Jul 18 - Aug 06 // 2016
Bruce Nauman: Language Body // Part of The Jordan D. Schnitzer Exhibition and Visiting Artist Lecture Series and co-presented with Converge 45 and the PNCA Print Media Department.
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David Horvitz: Studio Rent Editions
511 Gallery Jun 25 - Aug 15 // 2016
David Horvitz has been creating Studio Rent Editions since 2010. Once a month he produces an edition of 10 of something - a watercolor, photograph, text, ephemera, or mail art. Horvitz stamps, dates, numbers, and signs each edition, and then sells them for 1/10th of his studio rent.
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511 Gallery Mar 30 - June 4 // 2016
Part of the 2016 SGC International Printmaking Conference, the exhibition will feature 30 James Rosenquist prints from several collections with the majority coming from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation Collection. Giving an overview of Rosenquist’s works in print, the prints in the exhibition are drawn from the years 1964 through 2011 and include selections from each decade.
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Wangechi Mutu: The Hybrid Human
511 Gallery Jan 19 - Mar 12 // 2016
Wangechi Mutu: The Hybrid Human is an exhibition of prints and sculpture including complete sets of two series of prints: Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors from 2006, and The Original Nine Daughters from 2012.