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

NYC Outsider Art Fair.

"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