Exhibitions on view

Impressionist painting of waterlilies with pink and blue flowers floating on water.
Exhibitions

Monet’s Floating Worlds at Giverny: Portland’s Waterlilies Resurfaces

The monumental canvas Waterlilies by Claude Monet is perhaps the most treasured painting in the Portland Art Museum’s collection. Now, after over 65 years, it will finally look much as the artist intended—without varnish.

1219 SW Park Ave

Mar 1, 2025 – Aug 10, 2025

Psychedelic poster with blue background and pink and green foreground.
Exhibitions

Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s

Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s reveals the passion and creativity of the era through the iconic rock posters of San Francisco and beyond.

1219 SW Park Ave

Oct 19, 2024 – Jun 15, 2025

A large square work composed of circuit boards in various shades of green pieced together like a quilt and connected with brass wire.
Exhibitions

Throughlines: Connections in the Collection

Throughlines embraces wonder and curiosity, bringing together artworks from across the Museum’s collections to explore the range of artistic innovation.

1219 SW Park Ave

Jun 7, 2024 – May 4, 2025

Upcoming exhibitions

  • Abstract Aboriginal painting of white lines on a black background
    Exhibitions

    The 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.

    1219 SW Park Ave

    Sep 5, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027

  • Three artwork images: one of the Mona Lisa holding a blue org; one an abstract colorful wall sculpture with striped, triangles, and concentric circles; and one of a Black woman wearing a cheetah print coast, a red shirt, and a yellow skirt against a pink background.
    Exhibitions

    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

  • A print of purple and blue tinted butterflies
    Exhibitions

    Yoshida 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.

    1219 SW Park Ave

    Sep 27, 2025 – Jan 4, 2026

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Exhibition series sponsors

Presenting

  • Mary and Tim Boyle
  • Mary and Ryan Finley
  • William G. Gilmore Foundation
  • Mary and Pete Mark Family Foundation
  • The Laura and Roger Meier Family
  • The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation
  • Oregon Community Foundation

Lead

  • Mary and Cheney Cowles
  • McGraw Family Foundation
  • Pat and Trudy Ritz
  • Anonymous

Major

  • Cooper Dubois and Sanda Stein
  • Ann Flowerree / Flowerree Foundation
  • Ford Family Foundation
  • The Smidt Foundation
  • Mr. and Mrs. William A. Whitsell
  • The Standard

Sponsor

  • Kirk and Elizabeth Day
  • Sarah Miller Meigs and Andrew Meigs
  • Phyllis A. Yes
  • Robert Trotman Interior Design
  • Dan Wieden* and Priscilla Bernard Wieden
  • Allen Trust Company
  • Northern Trust

Support for our exhibitions is also provided by the Sharon and Keith Barnes Endowment, Maribeth Collins Exhibition Endowment Fund, and the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Endowment for Exhibition.