Media Mentions

• • January 9, 2019 | In Seattle, Creating Community by Collecting Art and Artists, The New York Times
  • August 2, 2018 | Blake Shell on The Non Profit Happy Hour
  • January 15, 2018 | Sarah Meyohas at Disjecta, The Rib
  • December 13, 2017 | 10,000 Roses Later: Sarah Meyohas’s ‘Cloud of Petals’, Oregon Arts Watch
  • December 6, 2017 | VizArts Monthly: December edition, signs and whispers, Oregon Arts Watch
  • November 16, 2017 | Top Things to Do This Weekend: Nov 16–19, Portland Monthly
  • October 26,  2017 | 6 arts picks: Wes Anderson art tribute, theater, dance, symphony, more
  • October 1,  2017 | Surprising Portland, Alaska Beyond
  • September 28, 2017 | “A Situation of Meat” Embraces Everyday Grossness, Willamette Week
  • September 7, 2017 | An Insider’s Guide to the Portland Art Scene, Departures
  • September 6, 2017 | Photographs From a Matriarchal Indian Village, an Exhibit Where You Bring the Art and 3 Other Must-See Visual Arts Events This Fall, Willamette Week
  • July 12, 2017 | Best of Portland, Willamette Week Reader Poll, Willamette Week
  • June 19, 2017 | The 30 Best Museums in Portland, airbnb
  • April 20, 2017  | Blake Shell takes the lead at Disjecta, Oregon Artswatch
  • March 29, 2017 | Disjecta Contemporary Art Center Appoints Blake Shell as Executive Director, Art Forum
  • March 22, 2017 | Disjecta reboots with Shell, Portland art net
  • March 22, 2017 | Disjecta Has a New Executive Director, the Art Gym’s Blake Shell, Portland Mercury
  • March 20, 2017 | 8 Portland spring art exhibits you’ll want to catch (spring arts guide), The Oregonian
  • January 19th, 2017 | Appropriation, Information, and Cyborgs: An Interview with Michele Fiedler, Oregon Arts Watch
  • November 16th, 2016 | Exhibit looks at information as art, more, Portland Tribune
  • October 26th, 2016 | Structures and Feelings: Inaugural Curatorial-in-Residence Show at Disjecta, Art & About
  • September 2nd, 2016 | Portland2016: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Papers
  • August 6th, 2016 | Portland2016 Biennial art survey to hold local receptions, Coast Weekend
  • July 29th, 2016 | Spectacular Geography & Studios in the Kitchen: Michelle Grabner on Curating the Portland Biennia, Hyperallergic
  • July 22nd, 2016 | 10 Picks from Portland2016, Interview Magazine
  • July 20th, 2016 | MODERN ART SHOW, Go Northeast Oregon
  • July 20th, 2016 | Engaging the State- The Portland Biennial’s Sprawling Joys, BLOUIN ARTINFO
  • July 17th, 2016 | Art show in TD celebrates Oregon, Hood River News
  • July 15th, 2016 | ArtsWatch Weekly: Big biennial, opera in Algiers, down on the farm, chamber music desires, Oregon ArtsWatch

• • July 14th, 2016 | Schneider Museum shows Oregon biennial artists, The Ashland Daily Tidings

• • July 14th, 2016 | Local art galleries participate in 2016 Portland Biennial; Contemporary artists show work in Bend and Madras, The Bend Bulletin

• • July 13th, 2016 | Portland2016 Biennial of contemporary art curated by Michelle Grabner, Art Review

• • July 13th, 2016 | Project Art- Biennial Edition – Visual Art, Portland Mercury

• • July 13th, 2016 | Media Update – July 2016, Travel Portland

• • July 12th, 2016 | Punk Rock Spirit Gives the Sprawling Portland Biennial a Much-Needed Edge, Artnet News

• • July 10th, 2016 | UPDATE- Former hardware store evolves into art gallery, The Chief News
  • July 7th, 2016 | KINDLE- Portland art show comes east, East Oregonian

• • July 7th, 2016 | Rep [Portland], Art ltd.

• • July 7th, 2016 | DISJECTA BIENNIAL FORGES REGIONAL IDENTITY, Portland Tribune

• • July 6th, 2016 | Corvallisites Exhibit at Portland 2016, The Corvallis Advocate

• • July 6th, 2016 | Yes, Portland Has a Biennial – Visual Art – Portland Mercury

• • July 6th, 2016 | This-Month-in-Portland-July-2016, Visual Art Source

• • July 4th, 2016 | Portland2016 Biennial offers broadest survey yet of contemporary art in Oregon, OregonLive.com

• • July 3rd, 2016 | Oregon’s Largest Statewide Art Event, Travel Oregon

• • June 30th, 2016 | Q&A with Michelle Grabner, Artist and Curator of the Portland2016 Biennial, BLOUIN ARTINFO

• • June 13th, 2016 | This Exhibit Will Tell You Everything You Need to Know about Oregon Art Right Now

• • April 20th, 2016 |Looking Ahead to the Portland2016 Biennial, BLOUIN ARTINFO Blogs

• • April 13th, 2016 | Take Some Blues, Gospel, and Electronic Music on a Walk through Kenton, Portland Monthly

• • April 8th, 2016 | Disjecta Connects to Kenton With Music as the Medium, Oregon ArtsWatch

• • March 9th, 2016 | Writer Jon Raymond’s 20-Year Portrait of the Portland Art Scene, Willamette Week

• • March 8th, 2016 | 8 must-see shows coming soon: Fine Arts Best Bets March 11-17, The Oregonian

• • February 3rd, 2016 | Disjecta Announces Artists For 2016 Biennial, Oregon Public Broadcasting

• • February 3rd, 2016 | Artist List Announced for Portland2016 Biennial, Artforum

• • January 1st, 2016 | 2015 Top Tens, Art Ltd.

• • November 30th, 2015 | Michelle Grabner at PNCA, Temporary Art Review

• • November 10th, 2015 | Editorial: ‘The Book of Scores’, Visual Art Source

• • October 27th, 2015 | The Book of Scores Reviewed, Willamette Week

• • October 20th, 2015 | Book of Scores at Disjecta, Daily Serving

• • October 16th, 2015 | On View: ‘Book Of Scores’ At Disjecta, Oregon Public Broadcasting

• • June 15th, 2015 | Michelle Grabner Named Curator of Portland’s Contemporary Art Biennial, Artforum

• • June 15th, 2015 | Michelle Grabner Announced as Portland2016 Biennial Curator, Artnews

• • June 15th, 2015 | Disjecta Recruits a Distinctive National Curator for its Biennial, Oregon Artswatch

• • June 15th, 2015 | Disjecta Announces Big Deal Curator for Portland2016 Biennial, Portland Mercury

• • June 15th, 2015 | Disjecta Introduces New Curator: Chiara Giovando, Noise & Color PDX

• • May 19th, 2015 | Disjecta gains curator with sound experience – Hollywood Star

• • April 25th, 2015 | ANDY COOLQUITT AT DISJECTA: Contemporary Art Daily

• • April 23rd, 2015 | ANDY COOLQUITT AT DISJECTA: Noise&Color

• • April 8th, 2015 | There’s a New Curator in Town: Disjecta’s Chiara Giovando, Portland Mercury

• • March 17th, 2015 | Coolquitt Showers, Willamette Week

• • March 16th, 2015 | Texas Artist responds to Portland, Oregonian

• • March 1st, 2015 | “Constructs”, ArtLtd.

• • February 18th, 2015 | HyperAllergeic Constructs Review

• • January 28th, 2015 | Oregonian – Constructs a Must See

• • January 19th, 2015 | Willamette Week Review of Constructs

• • January 16th, 2015 | Pablo and Rachel on OPB’s Think Out Loud

• • June, July, August 2014 |Portland2014 | Various Venues, Frieze no. 164

• • December 31st, 2014 | So Money, Portland Mercury

• • December 31st, 2014 | Winter Visual Arts Preview – Oregonian

• • December 23rd, 2014 | Portland2014, Best of 2014 by the Oregonian

• • December 15th, 2014 | CRITIC’S PICKS: Portland, ArtLtd.

• • December 1st, 2014 | MUST SEE, Gray Magazine

• • October 13th, 2014 | Opposites attract in Disjecta’s Intimate Horizons, Oregonian

• • October 13th, 2014 | Intimate Horizons, Visual Art Source

• • July 13th, 2014 | Portland2014, Frieze 164

• • May 28th, 2014 | Getting to Know You, Rachel Adams, Portland Mercury

• • April 22nd, 2014 | How to have a body: Five things I learned from Kelly Rauer’s ‘Locate’, Oregon ArtsWatch

• • March 25th, 2014 | PDX Road Trip: New Work from Ellen Lesperance, Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Wes Mills, New American Paintings

• • March 24th, 2014 | Disjecta’s Third Go At A Biennial, Portland2014, Oregon ArtsWatch

• • March 19th, 2014 | For its third biennial, Disjecta found an outside eye in LAXART curator Amanda Hunt, ArtLtd

• • March 14th, 2014 | Dayton artist selected for billboard, Yamhill Valley News Register

• • March 14th, 2014 | Portland2014 Through LA Curator’s Eyes, Oregon Public Broadcasting, State of Wonder

• • March 11th, 2014 | Portland2014…captures the breadth and quality of area’s art scene: review, Oregonian

• • March 5th, 2014 | Portland2014 | Oregon only, please., Willamette Week

• • March 3rd, 2014 | Joseph Gallivan interviews the producers of Portland2014 Amanda Hunt and Bryan Suereth, KBOO Community Radio

• • March 1st, 2014 | Fresh Eyes: Portland’s homegrown biennial makes a national play, Portland Monthly

• • February 28th, 2014 | Portland goes contemporary with ‘Portland2014: A Biennial of Contemporary Art’, Oregonian

• • February 28th, 2014 | Richard Thompson: Portland 2014 Biennial, About Face Magazine

• • February 19th, 2014 | Art Briefs, PQ Monthly

• • February 12th, 2014 | Deville Cohen, “Zero”, Willamette Week

• • February 11th, 2014 | Deville Cohen’s ‘Zero’ at Disjecta plays with time, space and expectations: review, Oregonian

• • January 2nd, 2014 | 2014 Portland arts preview: Drama, dance, music and more, OregonLive

• • December 30th, 2013 | 6 must-see Portland visual art shows in 2014: Portland2014, Oregonian

• • December 17th, 2013 | Vlatka Horvat at Disjecta, Willamette Week

• • December 16th, 2013 | Vlatka Horvat explores the boundaries between negative and positive space: Review, Oregonian

• • December 12th, 2013 |  3 Questions with Amanda Hunt, PNCA: Untitled Magazine

• • November 1st, 2013 | Amanda Hunt…with a trio of new, buzzed-about initiatives, L.A. Confidential

• • October 30, 2013 | Disjecta Announces 2014 Biennial Artists, Portland Monthly

• • October 23rd, 2013 | Summer Guthery focuses on emerging artists & community outreach, Oregonian

• • September 23rd, 2013 | Ieva Miseviciute at the Works, Portland Monthly

• • September 20th, 2013 | Incident Energy news and press coverage @ http://incidentenergyproject.com/

• • May 24th, 2013 | Top 10 cultural hotspots in Portland, Oregon, The Guardian UK

• • April 4th, 2013 | Breaking News: Meet Disjecta’s New Curator-In-Residence, Portland Monthly

• • April 4th, 2013 | Summer Guthery named Curator-in-Residence at Disjecta in Portland, GalleristNY

• • March 29th, 2013 | Gallery Preview: Space is the Place at Disjecta, Oregon Public Broadcasting (text & video link)

• • March 6th, 2013 | Review: Chris Fraser’s “In Passing” at Disjecta, Portland Monthly

• • February 15th, 2013 | ‘In Passing’ at Disjecta Lets Visitors Explore Light, Space & Shape, Oregon Public Broadcasting

• • February 8th, 2013 | Chris Fraser at Disjecta, Oregonian

• • February 3rd, 2013 | Chris Fraser: In Passing, Willamette Week

• • January 19th, 2013 | Chris Fraser at Disjecta, Visual Art Source

• • December 26th, 2012 | Best Show of 2012: “Prison”, Willamette Week

• • December 7th, 2012 | “Lathe” exhibition lacks cutting edge, Oregonian

• • October 19th, 2012 | Artist Poling reaches back, looks to digital frontier, Oregonian

• • September 28th, 2012 | ‘Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art’, Medford Mail Tribune (‘selections’)

• • September 20th, 2012 | A Geek’s Curator: Josephine Zarkovich Likes Sci-Fi, Portland Mercury

• • May 18th 2013 | Tonight: Meet Disjecta’s Newest Curators, Portland Mercury

• • May 7th 2013 | Disjecta Announces the Portland2014 Biennial Curator, Portland Monthly

• • April 1st, 2012 | Peter Halley at Disjecta, ArtNews

• • February 8th, 2012 | Peter Halley’s Neon Installation Will Tickle Your Brain, Portland Monthly

• • February 2nd, 2012 | Interview: Peter Halley at Disjecta, Portland, ARTWRIT

• • February 1st, 2012 | Peter Halley at Disjecta, Visual Art Source

• • January 20th, 2012 | Peter Halley: “Prison”, Willamette Week

• • January 20th, 2012 | Green light: Peter Halley in Portland, TwoCoatsofPaint

• September 9th, 2011 | Disjecta presents Johnston Foster’s “Monolith Drift”, Oregonian