PICA 2025 Impact Report

Impact Report 2025

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

Letter from the Executive Director

For 30 years, PICA has drawn the world’s most daring artists to Portland, provided them with an exceptionally supportive culture, and delivered their work to audiences hungry for new artistic vision.

The 2025 Impact Report highlights the work PICA does with artists and within the creative community while standing as a testament to the dedication of our talented staff, Board of Directors, volunteers, and community partners who make it all possible. We cannot do this work without them, without the support from our funders and donors, or without you, our passionate audiences and stakeholders. Our gratitude is deep. This report also describes PICA’s many accomplishments this year, including supporting: 143 artists, 70 performances and exhibitions, 23 grants awarded directly to artists—and not to mention our work behind the scenes. From partnerships to the community use of our space, from artist residencies to fiscal sponsorships, we’ve had a busy 30th year.

In a time when artistic expression is being censored, softened, and sanitized, we double down on the radical act of making and presenting art that is conscious of our collective dream for positive change. PICA remains a sanctuary for artists who push against erasure, against amnesia, against silence. Our commitment to free expression isn’t rhetorical—it is material and actionable.

As you’ll see in this report, the 2025 Time-Based Art Festival burned bright with that urgency. For 10 days in September, the city became a live wire with performances, exhibitions, music, and movement that sparked conversations that could only happen here. We gathered, debated, danced, and questioned. Artists redefined what art can be and what community can do.

In the summer, Ray Anthony Barrett’s Who by Fire grounded that spirit in elemental truth. Through fire, food, and fieldwork, Barrett dissected America’s estrangement from the land—an estrangement built on colonization, slavery, and the erasure of Indigenous and Black relationships to place. The exhibition’s communal hearth invited people to eat, listen, and unlearn. In reclaiming the fire, Barrett rekindled a conversation about sustainability, survival, and what it means to truly live in relation to the Earth and one another.

In the spring, Rakesh Sukesh’s because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it) lifted the body-as-battleground. A dancer turned into a viral symbol of fear and racism, reclaiming his narrative through motion. The performance was raw, electric, and political; a reminder that every act of visibility is also an act of resistance. Through humor, vulnerability, and sweat, Sukesh shattered the binary between victim and visionary, between spectacle and story.

And in ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan (Water / Smoke / Word), artist Patricia Vázquez Gómez and Mayan youth from Northeast Portland wove language, sound, and image into a radical reclamation of identity. Their collaborative installation, steeped in maayat’aan—the Yucatec Mayan language—made space for voices often erased by borders and assimilation. It was a call to remember, to resist, to speak in the mother tongue even when the world forgets to listen.

For three decades, PICA has stayed true to the artists in whom we believe, the artistic process we revere, and the audiences who support game-changing work. We’ve built a home for free expression—the beating heart of democracy—and a refuge for those who use imagination as their tool of liberation.

As we mark 30 years, we don’t look back with nostalgia. We look forward with fire. The future belongs to the bold—to those who dare to make, to question, to change.

In solidarity and hope,

Reuben Roqueñi Executive Director, PICA

Artists & Collaborators

10 SPACE Program Partners

70 Public Programs

23 Artists in Residence

6 Fiscal Sponsorships

$146,000 Artist Grants Awarded

107 Artists

23 Projects

5,345

Audience Members 1,012 Ticket Bank Tickets*

* PICA’s Ticket Bank is a fund that offers deeply discounted or free tickets to make contemporary art more accessible to wider audiences.

30,000+

Social Media Followers Instagram Facebook 27,575+ Mailing List 110+

18k 12k

TBA:25 Audience by the Numbers

Ethnicity

● 3.68% African American or Black

● 3.4% Asian

● 2.27% Latinx/a/o

● 2.5% American Indian/Alaska Native

● .28% Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander

● 74% White/Caucasian/European

● 2.55% Multiracial (combined)

● 10.47% Other

● .85% No answer

Audience

Location

● 79.61% PDX area

● 1.42% Elsewhere in Oregon

● 11.04% Out of state

● 1.7% Out of the country

● 6.23% No answer

Audiences that self-identify as LGBTQIA2S+

Audiences that self-identify as refugee/immigrant 50.14% 13.8% 5.07%

Audiences that self-identify as having or living with a disability

Programs & Grantmaking Breakdown

We are proud that the vast majority of PICA funds go directly to artists, arts workers, and the creative economy of Portland and beyond. From commissions and grantmaking to our staff and contractors, our resources go to the people who produce, present, and advance outstanding contemporary art. $830,943

You Make

The importance and significance of your donation to PICA cannot be overstated. You—our audience, our donors, our believers—are truly who makes PICA possible. We say that not to make you feel good, but because it is true.

As you read this report, know that the influence PICA has on the arts, on the lives of artists and arts workers, and on our community is real. When we say PICA cares for artists, we mean it. When we say that we give away our space for community—for free or deeply discounted—we mean it. When we say that no one will be turned away at the door for a lack of funds, we mean it.

PICA is the heart of contemporary art in this city. PICA believes in freedom of expression. We believe in new ideas, challenging the norm, and pushing boundaries to help make the world a better place. Is that lofty? Sure. Is that also true? Absolutely.

If you believe in art, in PICA, in artists: donate now. Your donation, at any amount, matters. So stretch, give again, give a little bit more than before. It’s our 30th anniversary, and we are prepared to carry these values forward for the next 30 years too.

Scan the QR code to donate, or please contact Samantha Ollstein, PICA Development Manager, at sam@pica.org.

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Timeline of the Year

January

• SPACE: Roger Beebe: Films for One to Eight Projectors, presented by Cinema Project

• SPACE: Elbow Room

• Artist in Residence: Tahni Holt

• Artist in Residence: Olivia Camfield and Woodrow Hunt

February

• SPACE: In Preparation for Disappearances to Come by Linda Austin Dance

• Artist in Residence: Cameron Clayborn

March

• Exhibition: ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan (Water / Smoke / Word) by Patricia Vázquez Gómez and collaborators

• SPACE: SWANA Local Artist Showcase, presented by Boom Arts

April

• Performance: because i love the diversity (this microattitude, we all have it) by Rakesh Sukesh, co-presented with Boom Arts

• SPACE: Another Dialogue by Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE)

• Artist in Residence: Noelle Stiles

May

• Public Program: Screening of short films by Yucatec Mayan filmmakers, presented in conjunction with Patricia Vázquez Gómez’s ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan (Water / Smoke / Word)

• Private Event: Patricia Vázquez Gómez in conversation with Yazmín Novelo and a group of Yucatec Mayan mothers

• Artist in Residence: Sam Hamilton

• Artist in Residence: Risk/Reward

• SPACE: “Touch Glass” workshop with Kate Newby

• SPACE: Grit & Grain, an exhibition organized by nůn studios

• SPACE: “Young Archivists and the Living Archive” workshop with Master Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr.

• SPACE: Institute for Contemporary Performance (ICP)

June

• PICA’s Boat Gala: Obsidian

• Artist in Residence: Allie Hankins

• Artist in Residence: keyon gaskin

• SPACE: Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance

• Exhibition: Who by Fire by Ray Anthony Barrett

• Private Events: Meals with Ray Anthony Barrett and collaborators

• Artist in Residence: Takahiro Yamamoto

• Artist in Residence: Dao Strom

• Artist in Residence: Erika M. Anderson (EMA) and Tabitha Nikolai

July August

• Public Program: Community potluck hosted in conjunction with Ray Anthony Barrett’s Who by Fire

• Precipice Fund: Round 14 Launch

• Artist in Residence: Tahni Holt

September

• Time-Based Art Festival

• 10 days/nights of programs

• 106 artists, collectives, and creative collaborators

• Creative Exchange Lab (CXL): Olivia Camfield, Marcus Fischer, Woodrow Hunt, Kite, and Angelo Scott

• Artist in Residence: Olivia Camfield

• Installation: Tender Revolutions/ Yellow Songs by Dao Strom

• Exhibition: Body on Me featuring Cameron Clayborn, .Compost Cooperative (Tabitha Nikolai, Myra Lilith Day, garima thakur, Zan Kerrigan, and Carly Barton), and Vishal Jugdeo

• Partner Program: An Evening with JJJJJerome Ellis: Vesper Sparrow, co-presented with The Old Church

• SPACE: The Ford Family Foundation Convening

• SPACE: Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE)

• SPACE: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program West Coast and Pacific Gathering

• Precipice Fund: Round 14 review panel

• SPACE: Feasting on Words reading event

• Member Event: Curatorial walkthrough of Body on Me

• Precipice Fund: Grantee Award Ceremony

• Artist in Residence: Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon October November December

2025 Program Highlights

Patricia Vázquez Gómez, ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan (Water / Smoke / Word), installation view | Photo: Mario Gallucci

ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan

(Water / Smoke

Patricia Vázquez Gómez and collaborators March 13 – May 31, 2025

ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan (Water / Smoke / Word) is a multichannel video and sound installation emerging from a multidisciplinary and iterative project that encompasses public engagement, print, and media works. The presentation, made in collaboration by Patricia Vázquez Gómez and a group of Mayan youth living in Northeast Portland, Oregon, explores the relationship between these young people with their mother tongue: maayat’aan (Maya Peninsular/Yucatec Mayan), an Indigenous language of present-day Yucatán, Mexico.

Mostly shot in the Yucatán municipalities of Maní and Dzan with audio recorded in Portland, ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan investigates personal struggles to learn and preserve Indigenous languages that mirror enduring societal failures to support their survival. Water, smoke, and language act as framing devices to highlight historical and contemporary Indigeneity among the Mayan diaspora in the US.

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Ray Anthony Barrett

July 12 – August 9, 2025

Rooted in dovetailing practices of artmaking and gastronomy, Ray Anthony Barrett’s work often explores themes that emerge through field studies in the landscapes of the American West. For the last five years, his practice has centered critical inquiries into sustainability and future means of existence in a late capitalist society.

Through a decolonial lens, Who by Fire returns to fire as one of the most fundamental elements for human survival. The exhibition focuses on the near total estrangement between people and fire in the 21st century—itself an enduring effect of colonialism and white supremacy in the United States, as Black and Indigenous peoples’ connections to the land have been systematically erased for generations. Using only the most basic tools, Barrett goes deep into the American landscape to engage with fire in a decolonial project of making and maintaining, thinking ahead and looking back for ancestral guidance.

Who by Fire

TBA:25

Time-Based Art Festival

September 4 – 14, 2025

The Time-Based Art Festival is a seasonal movement, a collective passage from summer to fall. TBA:25 marks a special milestone—PICA’s 30th year—and gives us an opportunity to look back at where we came from while leaning towards the future.

For ten days in September, we come together to witness contemporary art in action: performances, exhibitions, music, and movement. We run into old friends and form new connections. Across the 2025 program, artists defy expectations, stretching our understanding of art and its place in the world we inhabit. From experimental operas to performancelectures, multimodal poetry to droning soundscapes, TBA:25 truly has something for everyone.

TBA is treasured because it is temporary. It is a time dedicated to being here and now—time that is rarer and rarer these days. A time when everyone belongs, when you belong.

Life happens when you show up. TBA happens only once a year. Keep a lookout online for more information on upcoming programs.

TBA:25 Artists

• Madison Brookshire*

• Olivia Camfield, Marcus Fischer, Woodrow Hunt, Kite, and Angelo Scott

• San Cha*

• Justine A. Chambers

• Elbow Room

• keyon gaskin with Amenta Abioto, Isaiah Spriggs, Jacque Hammond, Jared Dancler, and Syon

• Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins

• Erika M. Anderson (EMA) and Tabitha Nikolai

• Asher Hartman and Jasmine Orpilla*

• The Untitled Native Project — Live at PICA with Brutis Baez, Amber Kay Ball, Trevino Brings Plenty, Leland Butler, Olivia Camfield, Robert Franklin, David Harrelson, Anthony Hudson, Woodrow Hunt, LaRonn Katchia, Steph Littlebird, and Kanani Miyamoto

• Freddie Robins*

• Angelo Scott

• Dao Strom

• Drama Tops*

*Presented with our partners: Boom Arts, Cinema Project, Performance Art Museum, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College, and Performance Works NorthWest

Tender Revolutions/ Yellow Songs

Dao Strom September 12 – October 4, 2025

Dao Strom’s Tender Revolutions/Yellow Songs is a hybrid project comprised of writings, music, and visual ephemera that tend to “yellow subjectivities” and enact small spaces of connectivity across boundaries of diaspora and identity.

Following performances at TBA:25, Strom’s installation in the PICA Annex unites multimodal poetry, music, and video, made in collaboration with She Who Has No Master(s), a collective of Vietnamese women writers and artists, and a special set of “diaspora songs” with accompaniment by Fear No Music.

Body on Me

Cameron Clayborn, .Compost Cooperative (Tabitha Nikolai, Myra Lilith Day, garima thakur, Zan Kerrigan, and Carly Barton), and Vishal Jugdeo

Curated by Kristan Kennedy, PICA Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art

October 18 – December 20, 2025

Taking the human body and its many negotiations as its conceptual starting point, Body on Me features media-based works that cross photography, installation, video, and video game technology and design. Throughout the exhibition, artists investigate digitally-mediated imagery of the natural world and human form in conversation with technological interventions.

To live inside a body is to enter into paradox. The body is a shell and a soul, an archive and an accident. It is where we encounter the world and where the world marks us. At times it is obedient, carrying us without question; at other times it turns, betrays, collapses.

Body on Me gathers these tensions—the intimacy and estrangement of embodiment, the grief of what the body can no longer hold, the wonder of what it still makes possible. The works within move between the cellular and the cosmic, the personal and the systemic, asking what it means to inhabit a body that is fragile, inventive, and unending.

To live inside a body is to dwell inside mystery—an inheritance, a burden, a gift, a question. A dream of being otherwise.

Partner

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Rakesh Sukesh, because i love the diversity (this microattitude, we all have it) |

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because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it) by Rakesh Sukesh Co-presented with Boom Arts April 12 – 19, 2025

because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it) is a powerful, personal dance theater work that explores the dancer’s experience as an immigrant in Europe.

What happens to the dancer’s body when it is rendered into a viral, racist symbol? How does it affect him and his relationship to the mostly white, deeply loving artists and students he works with?

At turns hilarious and thought-provoking, this energetic performance considers immigration, art, and the everydayness of racial bias through dynamic movement and vibrant storytelling.

Asher Hartman and Jasmine Orpilla, Blessed with Switch, TBA:25 | Photo: Ali Gradischer

Blessed with Switch by Asher Hartman and Jasmine Orpilla

Co-presented with Performance Art Museum September 5, 2025

Jasmine Orpilla (performer and composer) and Asher Hartman (writer and director) make Blessed with Switch, a dark, unnerving hacking and synching of languages that mar, distort, and disturb the feminine unconscious in order to free a glorious new Leviathan within.

Inebria me by San Cha

Co-presented with Boom Arts

Co-commissioned by PICA, Performance Space New York, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino American, and National Performance Network

September 5 & 6, 2025

A new, experimental opera by acclaimed LA-based musician and performance artist San Cha, Inebria me queers the cisgender and heteronormative archetypes of telenovelas with fiercely original composition, libretto, and nonlinear narrative to celebrate the liberating power of ascendant relationships.

DADS by Drama Tops

Co-presented with Performance Works NorthWest September 5 – 7, 2025

In DADS, Elby Brosch and Shane Donohue are confronted with the largest demon they have yet to face: their purpose. This deeply existential and heartfelt dance odyssey between two platonic lovers interrogates queer culture and Elby and Shane’s relationships to their fathers, all while trying to figure out their role in making the world a better place.

Number Series by Madison Brookshire Co-presented with Cinema Project September 11, 2025

Exploring perception through subtle changes of light and color over time, Madison Brookshire’s Number Series presents expanded works of softedged rectangles-on-rectangles, created through the mechanics of film projection itself. Each film requires two 16mm projectors, with each projecting a reel of gradually shifting color that overlaps on a single screen.

Apotropaic by Freddie Robins

Presented by Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College

Curated by Stephanie Snyder, Cooley Director

Organized by Kris Cohen, Jane Neuberger Goodsell

Professor of Art History and Humanities

September 13 – December 18, 2025

Over the last several decades, textile artist Freddie Robins has earned a reputation as a radical conceptualist whose hand- and machine-made tapestries, sculptures, and chimerical assemblages are as playfully cheeky as they are political. In Apotropaic, many of Robins’ recent assemblages are composed of the soft and, at times, unwieldy remains of other projects, coupled with found stones and other natural objects, as well as treasures from her vast collection of things past.

An Evening with JJJJJerome Ellis: Vesper Sparrow Co-presented with The Old Church October 19, 2025

JJJJJerome Ellis is a disabled Grenadian-JamaicanAmerican artist, surfer, and person who stutters, working across music, performance, writing, video, and photography.

Ellis researches relationships among Blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. Their varied body of work includes contemplative, multi-instrumental soundscapes; scores for plays and podcasts; albums combining spoken word with ambient and jazz textures; theatrical explorations involving live music and storytelling; and music-video-poems that seek to transfigure archival documents.

Creative Exchange Lab

Creative Exchange Lab (CXL) is a residency that unites artists working at the intersection of forms, fostering dialogue, experimentation, and the development of new work.

In September, we welcomed Olivia Camfield, Marcus Fischer, Woodrow Hunt, Kite, and Angelo Scott as CXL residents for the 2025 fall season. The cohort spent the first ten days of their residency immersed in TBA programming. They then headed to Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington for five days, and visited the home and studio of former CXL resident artist Ahamefule J. Oluo and curator and former PICA Artistic Director Roya Amirsoleymani. As its title suggests, Creative Exchange Lab is designed to be reciprocal, cultivating relationships, new works, and ideas.

In its tenth year, CXL is a foundational example of PICA’s holistic approach to artist support. Year after year, we have seen the benefits of this beloved residency and its emphasis on meeting artists’ needs outside their professional performance or creative output. If you are interested in supporting Creative Exchange Lab through a major gift, please contact Samantha Ollstein, PICA Development Manager, at sam@pica.org.

SPACE

Supporting Partners, Artists, and Community Events

SPACE offers PICA’s varied resources—including staff, equipment, and physical space—to local artists and community organizations at very low or no cost. Throughout the year, SPACE partners activate our warehouse with a diverse range of activities, such as weekly art workshops, screenings, and all-ages music festivals, encouraging experimental processes and rooted in a spirit of collectivity.

2025 SPACE Partners

• A Black Art Ecology of Portland (BAEP) is a multifaceted, multidiscipline, multi-sited initiative that brings together community organizations in coalition to devote resources to creating, reclaiming, and redefining spaces with and for Black artists, prioritizing residents who have experienced, or are at risk of, forced displacement from places that have long been hubs of local Black life. An established SPACE partner, BAEP has used PICA facilities for a mural project, public programming, and convenings of Black artists and culture bearers of Portland.

• Cinema Project is a collectively- and volunteer-run nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon, that has worked to promote public awareness of avant-garde cinema from the past and present since 2004. In 2025, Cinema Project presented a screening of works by Roger Beebe, as well as Madison Brookshire’s Number Series at TBA:25.

• Elbow Room is a community-based group serving Portland artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities through hands-on creative workshops at partner spaces, venues, and organizations throughout the city. Once a week, Elbow Room meets at PICA for workshops in the Resource Room. During TBA:25, PICA hosted the bingo game fundraiser Good Dang Weekend 2 to benefit Elbow Room programming and operations.

• Friends of Noise supports creative youth in Portland through all-ages concerts, workshops, and experience navigating the music scene. As a longtime SPACE partner, Friends of Noise uses PICA’s facilities for rehearsals and performances.

• Grit & Grain was a group exhibition celebrating five years of print work made at nůn studios since its founding in early 2020.

• Kate Newby’s “Touch Glass” was a community workshop that invited participants to help create a large-scale, permanent 2D public artwork for the Portland International Airport (PDX).

• Linda Austin Dance premiered In Preparation for Disappearances to Come, featuring choreography and performance by Linda Austin with dancers Allie Hankins and Danielle Ross. The performance was accompanied by an artist talk and a free workshop called “When I Die: A Will-Writing Workshop.”

• Master Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr.’s “Young Archivists and the Living Archive” addressed the need to directly support native Albina residents by engaging students to make contributions through digital archiving. PICA hosted the workshop as part of the 10th annual Vanport Mosaic Festival.

• Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE) is an itinerant collective of artists working together to bring contemporary theater performances to the public in spaces across Portland. At PICA, PETE presented Weather Room, an ongoing series of experimental theater performances.

• Risk/Reward supports boundary-pushing artists and audiences in the performing arts. In June, PICA hosted Risk/Reward’s 2025 Festival of New Performance.

• SWANA Local Artist Showcase, presented by Boom Arts, was an evening of short performances (dance, poetry, music, and performance art) from local Southwest Asian and North African artists, followed by a reception.

To learn more about SPACE or inquire about a building rental, please contact Samantha Ollstein, PICA Development Manager, at sam@pica.org.

PICA’s Annual Fundraiser

Obsidian

June 7, 2025

On June 7, we took to the twilit waters of the Willamette River for Obsidian, the 2025 edition of our annual fundraising gala, for a one-of-a-kind dinner cruise aboard the Portland Spirit. As the 2025 gala theme and name, Obsidian was an invitation to sink into the depths of imagination and possibility. Guests dressed to the nines, embracing nocturnal bioluminescence, fashion alchemy, and deep-sea futurism.

Contributions from the 2025 gala are essential to the artistic landscape ahead. To sponsor, donate, or get involved in our next fundraising event, please contact Samantha Ollstein, PICA Development Manager, at sam@pica.org.

P.S. Scan the QR code below to see the event photos!

The Precipice Fund is a regranting program through which PICA provides direct monetary support for Portland area artists. Since 2013, the Precipice Fund has provided critical support to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects. Operating outside traditional forms of support, funded projects seek to promote dialogue, cultivate communities, and encourage generative and expansive artistic process while driving culture forward locally and nationally.

In August 2025, applications for the 14th round of the Precipice Fund opened with a specific focus on grants for visual art projects, offering a total of $60,000 in funding.

Fund

We are continually inspired by our grantees’ enduring commitments to community building and activism, selfdetermining the definitions of creative expression and making, and expanding our understanding of the world through diverse media.

The Precipice Fund is administered with lead support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Past funders have included the Calligram Foundation/Allie Furlotti and the Oregon Community Foundation.

Keep a lookout online for more information on the Round 14 Award Ceremony, a year-end celebration coming up in early December 2025.

The Ford Family Foundation

PICA continues to work in partnership with The Ford Family Foundation as a regranter in their Exhibition + Documentation program, providing artists with adaptive and responsive resources to make their work. In the spring of 2025, we awarded $85,000 in grants to Oregon visual artists and art spaces. These distributed funds supported 10 projects and over 70 artists to produce a host of publications, exhibitions, and public programs.

Through this partnership, we also regranted $39,250 to Hallie Ford Fellows to support five Oregon-based artists who pursued out-of-state presenting opportunities. This special granting program celebrates Oregon artists at the national level, and advances PICA’s commitment to using our organizational resources to uplift the careers of artists beyond their work at PICA.

Regranting Program

Artist Residencies

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keyon gaskin and collaborators, tbd: to be diasporic un determined , TBA:25

Care drives everything we do. This care often manifests as a sense of curiosity as we continuously ask artists what they need as people, not only creators. Residencies bring artists into our building and into our culture of care: on any given day, they may come into the PICA kitchen to find a communal meal, the room alive with conversation. Ranging in timeframe, residencies are a chance to develop new work and forge relationships with a creative community that extends in many directions, and intersects at PICA.

2025 Artists in Residence

• Erica M. Anderson (EMA) and Tabitha Nikolai

• Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon

• Olivia Camfield and Woodrow Hunt

• keyon gaskin

• Allie Hankins

• Tahni Holt

• Noelle Stiles

• Dao Strom

• Takahiro Yamamoto

Fiscal

Fiscal sponsorship is an important way that we serve artists and activists in their work. As the fiscal sponsor, PICA serves as an essential bridge between funding entities and the projects we sponsor. It is a way for us to use our organizational infrastructure and nonprofit status to help unincorporated projects doing incredible work in our community. We devote time, staff capacity, and resources to help our partners navigate grant applications and secure vital monetary support to advance their practices and community initiatives.

Active Partnerships:

• A Black Art Ecology of Portland (BAEP)

• San Cha

• Patricia Vázquez Gómez

• Allie Hankins

• Will Rawls

• Takahiro Yamamoto

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Malia Jensen

• Linda K. Johnson & Stephen Hayes

• Brian & Erin O’Reilly

• Dennis Johnson & Steven Smith

• Wendy Jovan

• Liam Kaas-Lentz

• Stephanie Kelly

David Kenney

Killian Pacific

Martie Kilmer

Meghan Kleinheinz

Peter Koehler, Jr. & Noel Hanlon

Leah Nobilette & Shawn Kolitch

• Lev Anderson & Grace Kook-Anderson

• Jim & Deborah Pugh

• Hannah Krafcik

• Sara Krajewski & Jeff Fisher

• Jessica Kroeze

Kroger

Kristin Calhoun

Elizabeth Leach

Sarah Levy

Rio Leyva

• Rebecca Lingafelter

• Shawna Lipton & Anthony Rhodes

• Lex Loeb

• Maggie Long

• Joyce Lozito

• Jeffrey Luce

• Jarred & Mary Lundstrom

Emma Lutz-Higgins

Amirra Malak

Brenda Mallory & Bruce Barrow

Susannah Mars

Gabrielle Martin

Monica Martines Gallagher

• Christy & Michael Mason

• Kelli May

• Diane McCartney

• Mack McFarland

• Harold McNaron

• Mona McNeil

• Daniel & Kelly Meyer

Murray Meyer & Laurel Ollstein

Noah & Sarah Meyer

André Middleton & Amy Botula

Cristi Miles

Max Miller

• Sarah Miller Meigs & Andrew Meigs

• Jeffrey Mills

• Casey Mills & Carmen Calzacorta

• Jeffry Mitchell

• De’mel Mojica

• Nicolette Montana

Jeffrey Morgan

Laura Moulton

Wesley Mueller

Martin Muller

K Murney

Emily Nemesi

Xi Jie Ng

• Yoli Ngandali

• Nike

• Alex Novie

• NW Natural

• sidony o’neal

• Hanif O’Neil

• Sarah Odenkirk

Justin Oswald

Mark Palman

The Parsons Art Foundation

Daniel Peabody

Barry Pelzner & Deborah Pollack

• Amanda Peters

• PNCA

• Bud Prenevost

• Ralph Pugay

• David Ramirez

• Wayne Ransier & Sharon Tomaselli

Mary Rechner

Taylor Reed

Michael & Jennifer Reinsch

Evan Reynolds

Linda Plackett & Ryan Reiss

Anthony Rhodes

Morgan Ritter

• John Robinson

• David B. Rosen & Christopher Rocca

• Rick Rogers

• Reuben Roqueñi & Marlana Donehoo

• Carol Rose

Adam Roth & Stephanie Kjar

Sarah Rushford

Jane Schiffhauer

Brian Seidman

Susan Seubert

Leif Shackelford

• Sarah Shaoul

• Gregory Siff

• April Slabosheski

• Michi Slick

• Sharon Smith

• Jack Snell-Ryan

• Sharon Urry & Scott Soutter

Bianca Sparta

Helen Spencer-Wallace

Elizabeth Spreen

Emily Squires & Jess Perlitz

Steelab

Sanda Stein

Michael & Nancy Stevenson

• Noelle Stiles

• ILVS STRAUSS

• Jeffrey Stuhr & Peter Kallen

• Hunter Sunrise

• Hope Svenson

• Swigert Warren Foundation

Deniz Tasdemir-Conger & Austin Conger

Greg & Cathy Tibbles

Larry & Dorie Vollum

Nell Warren & Greg Misarti

• Kevin Washington

• Heather Watkins

• Marie Watt

• Steven Wax

• Arielle Weedman

• Lisa Wells

• Elias Wheeler

• Amber Whitehall

Lori Wiechec

Priscilla Bernard Wieden

Kelli Wilbert

Dustin Williams

Kate Williams

Connie Wohn

Sarah Wolf-Newlands & Donald Newlands

• Beth Wooten

• Christy Wyckoff

• Luke Wyland

• Nico Yazz

• Lu Yim

• L.B. Yockey Jones

In-Kind Donations

Nina Amstutz

Brew Dr. Kombucha

Documart

Farmhouse Kitchen

Float On

• Fulamingo

• Allie Furlotti

• MK Guth & Greg Landry

• ILY2

• Jeanine Jablonski

• Jackson Family WInes

• Mendivia Wines

• New Deal Distillery

Nike

Oddball Tattoo

Parallel Wines

PDX Pipeline

PDX Wines

pFriem Family Brewers

Pizza Kat

• Portland Mercury

• Stoller Wine Group

• Suntory Global Spirits

• Tito’s Handmade Vodka

• Variable West

• Willamette Week

Staff and Board

PICA Year-Round Staff

Jakob Dawahare

Erin Boberg

Doughton

Arminda Gandara

Molly Gardner

Kristan Kennedy

Milo Mattern

Samantha Ollstein

Van Pham

Jayne Pugh

Elio Quezada

Reuben Roqueñi

Leslie Vigeant

Project-Based Staff

Brit Abuya

Ian Anderson-Priddy

Simeen Anjum

Zachariah Barbour

Lenny Beach

Noah Beckham

Morgan Bell

Dan Bouthot

Rory Breshears

Betsey Brock

John Cartwright

Grant Christnacht

Alan Cline

Erté deGarces

Emily Ediger

Vanessa Elsner

Carlin Faucett

Ren Genova

Ali Gradischer

Amelia Grissom

Jeffrey Hu

Brian Keith

Kayla Kelly

Saibi Khalsa

Al Knight-Blaine

Urks Kurth

Mat Larimer

Jason N. Le

Gabi Ledesma

James Mapes

Adrian McBride

Finn Meader

Jason Mitchell

Dylan Nebeker

Nathan Norris

Jake Powell

Jenessa Raabe

Crimson Ravarra

Topher Sinkinson

Teddy Stjarne

Mami Takahashi

Sam Varley

Hannon Welch

Maxwell Wickstrom

Cullen Wright

Freddi Wyss

Joshua Yoon

Megan Rinker

Topher Sinkinson

Teddy Stjarne

Mami Takahashi

Hannon Welch

Maxwell Wickstrom

Cullen Wright

Freddi Wyss

Joshua Yoon

PICA Board

Nishat Akhtar

Pamela Baker-Miller

Master Artist

Michael Bernard

Stevenson Jr.

Andrew Dickson

Phoebe Ebright

bart fitzgerald

Allie Furlotti

Emily Fusaro

Peter Gronquist

Shelly Kapoor

Stephanie Kelly

Shawna Lipton

André Middleton

Cristi Miles

sidony o’neal

Kevin Washington

Special thanks to PICA’s dedicated board members

Courtney Dailey and Lynn Bredfeldt Haider, who concluded their board service during the last year.

Mission Statement

About Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) acknowledges and advances new developments in contemporary art, fostering the explorations of artists and audiences. Since 1995, PICA has championed the practice of contemporary artists from around the world, driving vital conversations about the art and issues of today. PICA presents artists from visual and performance backgrounds and embraces those individuals who exist at the borders of genres and ideas. Through performances, exhibitions, community and public programs, artist residencies, lectures, workshops, and the Time-Based Art Festival, our programs catalyze conversations about contemporary culture. More information can be found at pica.org.

Land

PICA acknowledges the Native nations across the Americas upon whose land we live. We recognize their sovereignty and denounce broken treaties. We acknowledge the robust, federally recognized tribes of this area, and the Indigenous lifeways that were and continue to be centered around the lands and rivers of the region.

At PICA, we are committed to supporting Indigenous communities through our programming and collaborations with Indigenous artists, both locally and globally. All told: seek truth in education and be guided by Native wisdom. Contribute to Native causes, political efforts, and organizations as much as possible. Please consider the ways in which you can elevate the voices of Native artists wherever you call home. In Portland, you can contribute to Indigenous-focused organizations such as the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) and the Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA).

Acknowledgment

Portland, OR 97212

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