Exhibitions and temporary work

On view

Current exhibitions and announced openings.

On view

Two large net canopies of blue-grey and green cast-resin pieces hang high between tall cedar trunks over a curving gravel path in a forest.

John GradeOn view

Union

John Grade’s resin-and-wood sculpture, suspended between trees, shifts as rainwater gathers.

Washington Park Arboretum

Tall green metal stems branch like flowers among firs and ferns, holding drum-like shapes in red, blue and yellow and round disc 'blossoms' with red and blue centres.

Jeff TangenOn view

Playa Flowers

Jeff Tangen’s Burning Man sculpture, relocated to Price Sculpture Forest in Coupeville.

Price Sculpture Forest

An old faded photograph of weathered wooden buildings and a hide stretched on a pole frame, with a rounded shape cut out of the image and edged with gold beadwork and dark spikes.

Catherine Blackburn, Jeneen Frei NjootliOn view

Catherine Blackburn + Jeneen Frei Njootli: Traces

Catherine Blackburn and Jeneen Frei Njootli on beadwork and the body, at the Polygon Gallery.

The Polygon Gallery

A bright white gallery with a slate floor: a dark angular metal sculpture on a low plinth, a large red glass sculpture of clustered forms, a carved Northwest Coast canoe-shaped piece, a hanging mobile and wall works.

Group exhibition from the collection, including Marie WattOn view

Forming Nature, Nature Formed

Glass, clay, metal, wood and neon works on the natural world open the Rothko Pavilion.

Portland Art Museum

Red yarn lines run from ceiling to floor and across a pale wooden floor in a white gallery, forming a series of vertical planes.

Fred SandbackOn view

Fred Sandback: Lines in Space

Fred Sandback’s black yarn redraws two SAM galleries in eight successive configurations.

Seattle Art Museum

A standing figure fully wrapped in a blue fabric printed with tropical leaves and red flower spikes, with a strip of bare skin at the waist, set against a mottled blue-and-green background

Joiri MinayaOn view

Joiri Minaya: To Hell with Hibiscus

Joiri Minaya’s floral-fabric installation on tropical imagery and colonial monuments, at the Henry.

Henry Art Gallery

Poster with the red title 'Remember You Better', 'Flora Wilds, Nov 5 – Dec 19', over pink and white shorts printed with 'Wish you were here' and 'You are here' on a concrete background

Flora WildsOn view

Flora Wilds: Remember You Better

Flora Wilds’s textiles and garments on memory and emotional value, at METHOD.

METHOD Gallery

White gallery corner with six small landscape paintings hung in a row under track lights, above a polished concrete floor

Buddy BuntingOn view

Buddy Bunting: High Desert Landscapes 2024-26

Buddy Bunting’s paintings of desert detention sites and industrial edges, in Georgetown.

Studio e

Square painting of thick, combed swirls of pink, coral and peach paint over a pale pink ground with drips at the bottom

Alaina Stocker, Esther Loopstra, Alana O. Rogers, and participating artistsOn view

SENSORIUM

Installation and live performance at Base Camp Studios 2.

Base Camp Studios 2

SeattleExhibitionInconvenience StoreLilia Deering and Mary Anne Carter with participating artists

Lilia Deering and Mary Anne Carter with participating artistsOn view

Inconvenience Store

Artists build a fictive shop inside a former downtown convenience-store site.

Parnassus

Suspended sculpture of a glossy black segmented body on long thin steel legs, hanging in front of a white wall, with small bronze insects on the wall nearby

Zoe PotterOn view

RIPE

Zoe Potter’s glass, bronze, latex and steel works on ripeness and decay.

Mini Mart City Park

Close-up of heavy black italic lowercase text, 'i contain it … side quiet deep … wake sound', printed on a streaky grey watercolour-like background

Mia MulveyOn view

I Contain My Outside

Mia Mulvey’s small sculptures play environmental recordings through paper speakers.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Digital illustration of a small child eating rice porridge from a bowl at a table while an older woman in glasses sits behind her with an arm around her

Curated by Kat Noel, Jenna Hanchard, Janell Jordan, and Eula Scott BynoeOn view

Visions of Worldbuilding

Art and social practice on mothering and care, at King Street Station.

ARTS at King Street Station

Visitors gather around a wooden table holding a ceramic crocodile and a cloth banner, under large hanging blue and silver fabric sculptures in an open gallery

Heidi Grace AcuñaOn view

Buwaya Baby

Heidi Grace Acuña’s textiles, video installations and ceramics around a protective crocodile.

ARTS at King Street Station

Walk-through cave whose walls, pillars and arches are covered in thousands of white paper-like scales, lit violet, blue and pink by floor lights

Barbara Goszczynska, Seth Nehil, Parallel Studio, Tricktronix / Patrick O’Neill, and othersOn view

Hopscotch Portland: Selected installations

Artist-designed rooms of color, light and sound, including Rainbow Cave.

Hopscotch Portland

Coming up

Long-exposure night photograph: a person stands inside concentric wavy rings of green, red, blue and orange light trails, with small LED lights scattered on the paving at their feet.

MiNHi England, John SharvinComing up

Light the Forest 2026

Light and neon installations on Pilchuck’s campus, November 14–15; general tickets are sold out.

Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood campus

Grey concrete colonnade along the front of the Frye Art Museum, with grasses and a tree in autumn colour beside the sidewalk

Teresa Baker, Raven Chacon, Sky Hopinka, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, George Longfish, Dakota Mace, Kimowan Metchewais, Caroline Monnet, George Morrison, Audie Murray, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Mary Sully (Susan Mabel Deloria), Anna Tsouhlarakis, Kay WalkingStick, Jeffrey Gibson, Jenelle PorterComing up

An Indigenous Present

Fifteen artists working in abstraction, curated by Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter.

Frye Art Museum

Cam SmithComing up

Cam Smith: Surveillance State of Mind

Cam Smith’s interactive work on AI and surveillance opens at Passable November 12, 2026, 6–9 pm.

Passable

Group exhibition · PublicDisplay.ARTComing up

Let There Be Light!

Light sculpture, projection and interactive environments in the historic Coliseum building.

Coliseum of Art

Glowing orange, shelf-fungus-like lanterns cut with concentric tree-ring patterns, mounted up a tree trunk against bare branches at dusk

Regional artistsComing up

Wintertide Light Art Experience

Temporary light installations in Webster’s Woods after dark.

Webster’s Woods / Port Angeles Fine Arts Center

Past exhibitions

Closed or not scheduled

Looking up inside the skyspace: an oval opening shows deep blue sky above a glowing pale-yellow ceiling, and a person sits on a curved cedar bench below, looking up.

James TurrellTemporarily closed

Light Reign

James Turrell’s Skyspace at the Henry, closed for restoration; scheduled to reopen November 14, 2026.

Henry Art Gallery

Inside a long greenhouse with green-tinted glazing, visitors walk beside a fallen nurse log covered in moss, ferns and seedlings.

Mark DionTemporarily closed

Neukom Vivarium

Mark Dion’s greenhouse for a decaying nurse log; the interior is closed until next season.

Olympic Sculpture Park

About a dozen tall steel lattice towers topped with vane-like fins stand on a grassy rise under dark storm clouds, with a gravel path winding toward them.

Douglas HollisClosed to the public

A Sound Garden

Douglas Hollis’s wind-sounded towers at NOAA Sand Point, closed to the public until further notice.

NOAA Western Regional Center

Forged black steel tree with curling branch tips rising from an octagonal wooden bench, with townhouses and people standing on the lawn behind

Iron Monkey Arts Collaborative / Iron MonkeysCheck before visiting

Rainier Vista Story Tree (Tree Spire)

An Iron Monkeys Burning Man tree, now a Rainier Vista story bench; check its current state.

Rainier Vista Central Park

Computer rendering of a ring-shaped steel crown of vines with glowing orange and blue gem lanterns, enclosing benches and a fire bowl on a dark desert floor, with a human figure for scale

Iron MonkeysCheck before visiting

Glimmer

The Iron Monkeys’ walk-in crown of steel, light and fire; no Seattle showing announced.

Crowd dancing in a large indoor hall under strings of neon light and white pom-pom decorations, with a lit geodesic dome frame in the foreground and spectators on a balcony above

Ignition NorthwestCheck before visiting

SeaCompression

Seattle’s Burner decompression party and art event; the next edition is unannounced.