Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
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| Established | 1995 |
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| Location | 415 SW 10th Ave., Suite 300, Portland, Oregon, USA |
| Coordinates | 45°31′18″N 122°40′53″W / 45.52179°N 122.68152°W |
| Director | Victoria Frey (Executive Director); Angela Mattox (Artistic Director) |
| Website | http://pica.org |
The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is a contemporary performance and visual arts organization in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. PICA was founded in 1995 by Kristy Edmunds. Since 2003, it has presented the annual Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) every September in Portland, featuring contemporary and experimental visual art, dance, theatre, film/video, music, and educational and public programs from local, national, and international artists.
PICA was founded in 1995 by Kristy Edmunds, at the time the Director of the Portland Art Museum's "Art on the Edge" program. The organization's exhibition and performance program was built largely around an itinerant model, utilizing vacant space or rented venues throughout the city of Portland rather than programming a single gallery or theatre year-round.
PICA's offices were housed at Boora Architects from its founding until about 2001, and then moved to the headquarters of Wieden+Kennedy in Northwest Portland. PICA housed its offices within those of Wieden & Kennedy until 2012, and operated an additional 2,200 square feet (200 m2) exhibition space in the building until 2004. In 2012, PICA moved to a renovated third floor space on Southwest 10th Avenue, allowing the organization's offices and resource library to become a gallery and performance space when programs required it.
In September 2003, PICA began presenting its annual Time-Based Art Festival, a ten-day international festival of contemporary performance and visual art modeled after those in Edinburgh and Adelaide. The TBA Festival built upon PICA's itinerant model of utilizing multiple venues around the city, including sites such as the former Washington High School building in Southeast Portland, which would later became Revolution Hall.
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