Seeing Things

The Best Shows and Events in Portland This Week, April 2026

Patrick Radden Keefe at the Schnitz, and other things to do in town.

04/23/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

Art News

Portland Arts Week Isn’t Playing Around

The new citywide festival launches this July with a sports theme, rallying on the Fire’s comeback and World Cup excitement.

04/21/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

At the Gallery

Umico Niwa Is Mother

At Portland gallery ILY2, the artist’s diaristic installation offers a transgender perspective on the riddle of artistic creation versus procreation.

04/20/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

seeing things

Fat Ham, a Queer Black Take on Hamlet

Also: a Pickles documentary, and shows in Portland this week.

04/16/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

seeing things

Laura Burke’s Surrealist Flowers and Oil-Painted Gemstones

Also: Maya Hawke, Pauly Shore, and other shows in town this week.

04/09/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

seeing things

How to Be an Antiracist Author Ibram X. Kendi Is in Town

Also: Jacqueline Novak, and other Portland shows and events this week.

03/19/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

seeing things

The Best Shows and Events in Portland This Week, February 2026

A word from Sister Corita Kent, a Spanish-language play, and a breakdancing benefit.

02/26/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

from the archive

Making a Scene

Gallery gal Elizabeth Leach has spent 25 years getting Portland’s art crowd up to speed.

02/13/2026 By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore

seeing things

An Exhibition Rehumanizing Portland’s Unhoused Population

Dance company Urban Bush Women, and other events in town.

02/05/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

seeing things

Things to Do in Portland This Week, January 2026

Author Sara Jaffe chases guitar noise at PICA, and other events in town.

01/29/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

At the Gallery

Christmas Special: The Gay Folk Art of Jeffry Mitchell

With a Tannenbaum and fireplace, the Portland artist leverages folk art’s autobiographical traces to celebrate queer home life.

12/11/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

Profile

Ralph Pugay Is Troubling Paradise

The Portland artist’s collages capture the fractured beauty of his own queer, immigrant experience.

11/13/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

Seeing Things

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Worlds at Oregon Contemporary

A biographical exhibition curated by the author’s son, and other events this week.

10/30/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

Arts Preview

Art Gallery and Museum Shows to See in Portland This Fall

An Ursula K. Le Guin exhibition, TBA, hagfish slime sculptures, and several very punk-rock women of hybrid identity.

08/06/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

I♥NY

What Portland’s First New York Art Gallery Means for the City

Is ILY2’s Manhattan outpost a local pipeline to the international art world?

08/01/2025 By Justin Duyao

Arts Preview

6 Art Gallery and Museum Shows to See in Portland This Summer

An archival feminist exhibit, Eugene’s “lesbian mecca,” 50 years of trans photography, and more.

05/13/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

the art world

Jess Ackerman: Between Making Art and ‘Making It’

Despite their ecstatically bright still lifes, the Portland painter is happiest lurking in the shadows.

04/28/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

talking trash

Artist-in-Residence, at the Dump

In the annual Glean program, artists rehash the city’s refuse. “Maybe this trash isn’t trash,” says the program manager.

04/16/2025 By Jaydra Johnson

at the gallery

Dinh Q. Lê’s Art Captured the Experience of Assimilation

At Elizabeth Leach Gallery, three decades of the internationally renowned Vietnamese American artist’s work juxtapose propaganda and documentary.

03/13/2025 By Jason N. Le

arts preview

5 Art Gallery and Museum Shows to See in Portland This Spring

More Monet at PAM, Dinh Q. Lê’s anti-propaganda, and the Holocaust’s long shadow.

02/11/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

Portland Monthly

Galleries

The Best Shows and Events in Portland This Week, April 2026

Portland Arts Week Isn’t Playing Around

Umico Niwa Is Mother

Fat Ham, a Queer Black Take on Hamlet

Laura Burke’s Surrealist Flowers and Oil-Painted Gemstones

How to Be an Antiracist Author Ibram X. Kendi Is in Town

The Best Shows and Events in Portland This Week, February 2026

Making a Scene

An Exhibition Rehumanizing Portland’s Unhoused Population

Things to Do in Portland This Week, January 2026

Christmas Special: The Gay Folk Art of Jeffry Mitchell

Ralph Pugay Is Troubling Paradise

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Worlds at Oregon Contemporary

Art Gallery and Museum Shows to See in Portland This Fall

What Portland’s First New York Art Gallery Means for the City

6 Art Gallery and Museum Shows to See in Portland This Summer

Jess Ackerman: Between Making Art and ‘Making It’

Artist-in-Residence, at the Dump

Dinh Q. Lê’s Art Captured the Experience of Assimilation

5 Art Gallery and Museum Shows to See in Portland This Spring