Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is hosting their twentieth annual Time-Based Art Festival, happening September 8–18, 2022.
TBA:22 illuminates what is new and extraordinary. It wrestles with the unanswered and unanswerable. It pushes against this edge of what it means to make—and who can participate in—contemporary art. In addition to performances, exhibitions, dance parties, our new NIGHT SCHOOL program, and our Fall 2022 Creative Exchange Lab, we invite you to come hang out, sip, ponder, and reconnect between and after programs at our on-site Festival bar. TBA:22 will feature international, national, and regional artists, World and West Coast Premieres, local partners, and accessible sites and spaces across the city. This September, we invite you to come together—in the twenty-year spirit of TBA—to experience a festival like no other.
Celebrate the start of TBA:22 at the Opening Night with a headlining performance by renowned Los Angeles-based musician San Cha.
For a deeper dive into each program, please visit pica.org/tba.
Artists represented in the festival
Adrienne Truscott
Anthony Hudson/Carla Rossi
Arab.AMP (Sir Richard Bishop, Lime Rickey International, and Descending Pharaohs)
Black Feast (*Akela Jaffi, *Intisar Abioto, and *Salimatu Amabebe)
*Alexandra Thompson & DB Amorin
First Nations Performing Arts (Dakota Camacho, Kunu Bearchum, Allison Akootchook Warden, Autumn Chacon and Jess Abeita, Kevin Holden, morher feat. Chloe Alexandra Thompson, and Ed Bourgeois)
garima thakur
jaamil olawale kosoko
Joseph Keckler with guest artist Holland Andrews
Lapaushi
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ / Elisa Harkins, Zoë Poluch, and Hanako Hoshimi-Caines
San Cha
*Sasha Wortzel
Shannon Funchess/LIGHT ASYLUM
Sylvan Oswald
Takahiro Yamamoto
UwU & Friends (Ryan Bunao, Bianca AE Mack, Haevyn, Cay Horiuchi, Adam Lucero, Jack Malstrom, Jen Tam, and Samantha Pollock)
*These artists are presented with our partners Black Feast; Cooley Gallery, Reed College; and Hollywood Theatre.