Exhibits & Installations
Current Exhibits
The Human Adventure
CARGO, Portland, OR
Wild Classified
Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, Beaverton OR
Wild Classified is a window-based exhibition by North Pole Studio in partnership with The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, celebrating neurodivergent creativity and widening the window for more voices, stories, and ways of seeing.
tell ___ ‘hi’ from me
Lakewood Center for the Arts, Lake Oswego OR
The work of self-taught, neurodivergent artists who live and create in Oregon. This diverse collection of contemporary 2D and 3D works reflects honest creative expression and raw innovation. It honors the vitality of lifelong creative practice and reimagines conventions in artmaking. The exhibit will travel across the region throughout 2025 and 2026, amplifying the voices of artists whose perspectives have long been marginalized. It invites the viewer to deepen their understanding of the Progressive Art Studio movement and artists working within it, both regionally and nationally. tell ___ ‘hi’ from me offers a warm greeting and a long overdue introduction. It speaks to presence, persistence, and belonging: ‘we’ve always been here, won’t you get to know us?’ … ‘it’s time you get to know us’.
Trucks, Buses, and Blooms
Never Coffee on Belmont
Trucks, Buses and Blossoms brings together the sensibilities of Tyla Parsons and John Mosser. United through vivid color and delicate yet kinetic linework, John's fascination with the sweeping power and elegance of transportation complements Tyla's bold use of hue to evoke the fleeting grace of blossoms drifting across a meadow. Through this shared visual language, Parsons and Mosser transform contrast into cohesion.
Buckle up for The Human Adventure, a whimsical collection of everyday moments, stitched together with curiosity, wonder, and a tender eye for detail. This exhibition of drawings traces the beautifully ordinary ways we spend our fleeting days.
Immersive Worlds: Cities, Castles and Countrysides
Alberta Street Gallery,
Portland, OR
Immersive Worlds: Cities, Castles and Countrysides explores the many worlds we inhabit: real and fantastical. Curated by North Pole Artist Max LaZebnik, the exhibition draws deeply from the studio’s archive to present a compelling selection of works that examine the spaces, landscapes, and communities that shape our sense of belonging. Moving between urban centers, fantastical structures, and rural environments, the featured works invite viewers to consider how meaning is constructed through place.
We Are All Brothers
Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, Beaverton, OR 97005
Bringing together North Pole Studio artists, Mark Bishop and Nathan Ueno, We Are All Brothers explores the enduring power of figuration as a language of allegory, memory, and collective imagination. At the center of the exhibition is the idea of community: not as a fixed structure, but as an evolving network of relationships shaped by struggle and care. The work invites viewers to consider how images of the body can carry histories across generations and how figurative art can become a site of connection between individual experience and communal life.
Archived Exhibits
2026
Tell____Hi From Me. Traveling Exhibition
Wild Classified. The Reser Center for Art, Beaverton
"The Price of the Ticket". (James Enos) Oregon Contemporary, Portland OR
The Hawk and The Naked Guy. (Charlie Kralian) Cauduro Gallery, Portland OR
Wondrous Anatomy. Cauduro Gallery, Portland OR
If My Love is a Clock. (Dan Tran) Bruno, Ridgewood Queens NYC
Bear Hug! Sage Studios, Austin TX
The Kid Stuff Universe. (James Enos) Passages Bookshop, Portland OR
Black Matter Salon. (Mark Bishop) Studio 516, Portland OR
2025
The Architecture of Experience. Unitus, Multnomah Village
Future Mythologies. Mullowney Printing, Portland OR
Calendars. (Dan Tran) after/time collective, Portland OR
Joni Smith, Markmaker. Paragon Gallery, Portland OR
Look Everywhere. (Austin Brague) Atelier Gallery
The Owls Are Not What They Seem. SAGE Studio
Outside Forces. Art Enables, Washington DC
Mercury. (Iris Tervo) 7 C's Gallery
The Art of Mark Bishop. Alberta Street Gallery
Carnival of Animals. (Davis Wohlford) Cargo
Paper Quilts & Flying Dogs. Lowell
Crescendo. Elbow Room
[amorpha]. (Joni Smith) Imperfecta Gallery, Oregon City, OR
Unconventional Wisdom. Waterstone Gallery
NYC Outsider Art Fair
2024
Landscapes of Portland, (Max LeZebnik) Portland, OR
Everyday People, (Adolph Bastendorff)
The Misfit Toy Show, (Davis Wohlford) Elbow Room
NYC Outsider Art Fair