Installation view of Yoshida Chizuko

Step out of the cold and into the Portland Art Museum this holiday season to explore their vibrant exhibitions. Following the debut of its beautifully renovated 100,000-square-foot campus last month, the museum presents a compelling selection of newly opened displays—including Word in Flower: Arts of Buddhism and Heaven and Earth: Chinese Art from the Collections—offering fresh perspectives and richly engaging encounters.

Also be sure to catch the first major museum retrospective devoted to the groundbreaking 20th-century painter and printmaker Yoshida Chizuko (1924–2017), before it closes on January 4.

These highlights are just a few of the exhibitions now on view, learn more below and discover something new this season!

Yoshida Chizuko
Closing Sunday, January 4, 2026

Yoshida Chizuko brings together more than 100 works, many shown publicly for the first time, spanning oil paintings, prints, mixed-media works, and archival material. Tracing her full career, the exhibition follows Chizuko’s evolution from postwar abstraction to op art and later nature-inspired works, situating her within international modernism and 20th-century Japanese printmaking while examining her experience as a pioneering woman artist in mid-century Japan.

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Jang Jin-ik (Korean, born 1973), Fulfillment of Emptiness II, 2016, hanji (Korean paper) on copper frame, 65 1/2 in x 43 1/4 in, Gift of Yeon Deung Hoe (Lotus Lantern Festival) Preservation Committee, © Jang Jin-ik, 2017.87.1

Word in Flower: Arts of Buddhism
November 20, 2025 – November 20, 2026

This exhibition highlights the Museum’s small collection of Buddhist art, most of which originates from East Asia, spanning the 6th to 21st centuries. Featuring sculpture, painting, calligraphy, photography, and more, it includes rare sacred works alongside secular pieces and contemporary creations exploring Buddhist themes.

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Heaven and Earth: Chinese Art from the Collections
November 20, 2025 – November 20, 2026

Heaven and Earth spotlights powerful works of art in the Museum’s collections, spanning creative practices in China across several millennia. Historic objects and more recent works are brought into conversation, offering different perspectives on how we make meaning of the world and the diversity and creativity of Chinese artists and makers.

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