Global Icons, Local Spotlight: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer
Global Icons, Local Spotlight: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer is an exhibition that shares works by some of today’s leading artists with local Portland audiences.
1219 SW Park Ave
Sep 6, 2025 – Jan 11, 2026
Upcoming exhibitions
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Exhibitions Screenings & experiencesThe Office of Collecting and Design Mobile Museum
The Office of Collecting & Design is a traveling museum—part wonderland, part library, and part nostalgia machine, devoted to the diminutive, the misplaced, the unusual, and the forgotten. The space is […]
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ExhibitionsYoshida Chizuko
The first major retrospective to focus on the groundbreaking 20th-century painter and printmaker Yoshida Chizuko (1924–2017), a pioneering woman modernist in Japan.
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ExhibitionsThe Art of Mark Rothko
This exhibition features a concise, chronological display of works by the renowned American artist Mark Rothko. The Museum’s new entrance pavilion is named in honor of the artist.
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ExhibitionsInkling Studio: Community and Printmaking in Portland, 1981–2009
For more than twenty-five years, Inkling Studio, a cooperative printmaking workshop, operated out of a storefront on SW Corbett Avenue. Liza Jones was the organizing force and spirit of the […]
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ExhibitionsLisa Jarrett: Tenderhead
Lisa Jarrett weaves together her interest in migration and tracing lost familial histories to Beauty Supply stores and salons—critical intersections of Black life.
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ExhibitionsMary Henry: A Long Unbroken Line
Mary Henry (American, 1913–2009) embraced geometry as relational to the structures and environments around us. Despite critical recognition of her work and a steady presence in exhibitions that began in […]
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ExhibitionsPaul Harris: Shut-In Suite, 1969–1970
Shown for the first time at the Portland Art Museum, Shut-In Suite by Paul Harris takes the viewer on a voyage through the artist’s physical and imaginative surroundings. In 1969, […]
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ExhibitionsPipilotti Rist: 4th Floor to Mildness
Pipilotti Rist dissolves exhibition spaces through luminous color, moving imagery, and melodic sound. 4th Floor to Mildness immerses us in a soft, aquatically inspired environment, where a film shot underwater plays across two biomorphic-shaped screens hanging from the ceiling.
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ExhibitionsRick Bartow: Storyteller
Rick Bartow (1946–2016) was an artist of deep complexity, and his work reflects a complicated, passionate person who still found space for lightness and humor. Bartow’s gift as a visual […]
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ExhibitionsTogether
To celebrate the reopening of the Portland Art Museum and a return to community gatherings within its many spaces, Together features photographs of people in community with one another. Drawn […]
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ExhibitionsDavid Hockney: Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Spanning six decades of creativity, this expansive showcase invites visitors into Hockney’s colorful, topsy-turvy world through an array of prints, photographs, and digital drawings and paintings.
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ExhibitionsThe Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art
This eye-opening exhibition introduces North American audiences to the diverse and distinct visual iconographies of Indigenous Australia, which is made up of more than 250 distinct Indigenous nations.
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Exhibition series sponsors
Presenting
- Mary and Tim Boyle
- William G. Gilmore Foundation
- Mary and Pete Mark Family Foundation
- The Laura and Roger Meier Family
- Anonymous
- The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation
- Oregon Community Foundation
Lead
- Mary and Cheney Cowles
- McGraw Family Foundation
- Pat and Trudy Ritz
Major
- Cooper Dubois and Sanda Stein
- Ann Flowerree / Flowerree Foundation
- The Smidt Foundation
- Mr. and Mrs. William A. Whitsell
- Janet Macomber Williamson
- The Standard
Sponsor
- Kirk and Elizabeth Day
- Sarah Miller Meigs and Andrew Meigs
- Robert Trotman Interior Design
- Dan Wieden* and Priscilla Bernard Wieden
- The Wyss Foundation
- Phyllis A. Yes
- Allen Trust Company
- NetX
- Northern Trust
Support for our exhibitions is also provided by the Sharon and Keith Barnes Endowment, Maribeth Collins Exhibition Endowment, Ritz Family Exhibition Endowment, and the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Endowment for Exhibition.