Opportunities to show your work
Throughout the main campus building and beyond, PNCA has many galleries and project spaces for student exhibitions.
Student-run galleries and project spaces
Many of our galleries are run by a student coordinator who reviews proposals for exhibitions and schedules those exhibitions throughout the year. Galleries also host award and scholarship exhibitions by undergraduate programs and thesis exhibitions for both graduate and undergraduate students. In addition, during First Thursday, students are invited to install their work throughout the public areas of the building and sell their work through Pop-up Shops.

on-campus

157 Gallery
First floor
PNCA's main student gallery is on the first floor across from the central gathering space of the Atrium. Students can apply to produce exhibitions in this space throughout the year. The space also includes a side gallery that can be blacked out for projections.

Commons and Corner Gallery 1 and Corner Gallery 2
Second floor
PNCA’s central New Commons is the site of PNCA’s annual thesis exhibitions and the First Thursday Pop-Up student exhibitions of student-installed undergraduate works. It has also been the site of the regional Scholastic Student art exhibitions featuring works by exceptional high school students. The New Commons also features two student galleries for undergraduate students’ works.

Atrium
First floor
The central Atrium is an expansive daylit space surrounded by balconies that regularly is installed with student work.

Shipley Collins Mediatheque
First floor
This 170-seat theater, with its flexible seating and capacity for high-end lighting, sound, and technology, is perfect for performance, projection, installation works, and screenings. The space includes a green room and sound booth.

Mezzanine East
This space hosts departmental exhibitions of exceptional student works.

M31
Mezzanine
This small, contained project space is for student solo exhibitions.

Holt Gallery
Room 207 off the Commons
Situated off the Commons the Dave Holt Project Space hosts exhibitions by undergraduate and graduate students.

Design Corridor
Second floor, West
This skylit gallery hosts exhibitions and events for the MFA in Collaborative Design program, the MFA in Print Media, and the Communication Design and Illustration undergraduate programs.

B10
Room B10, Basement, East
B10 hosts student-curated exhibitions of works by undergraduate students as well as thesis exhibitions.

Elevator Galleries 1 & 2
Students have transformed the historic elevators of PNCA’s Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design into moving galleries for student work.

Tiny Thumb
Library, First floor
A student-initiated project, now curated by Library Staff, the Tiny Thumb Student Gallery presents exhibitions of work by current students and rotates monthly. Tiny Thumb is located just inside the front doors of PNCA's Albert Solheim Library.
Focus Week
During Focus Week our students install their thesis works throughout the campus, including the galleries of PNCA's Center for Contemporary Art & Culture.
511 Gallery PNCA's main gallery, the 511 Gallery has featured exhibitions by Cauleen Smith, Wangechi Mutu, David Horvitz, and James Rosenquist, as well as the group exhibition Alien She.
Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Lab This expansive space has hosted exhibitions of work by Bruce Nauman, faculty emeritus Christy Wyckoff, student thesis exhibitions, the Faculty/Alumni Exhibition, an exhibition of works by residents of PNCA’s Leland Iron Works Residency, and the Annual Student Holiday Art Sale.
off-campus
Affiliated and Offsite Galleries
ArtHouse
33 NW Park Avenue
The lobby of PNCA’s student housing facility, ArtHouse, features regular exhibitions of works by members of the PNCA Community.
The Bison Building
421 NE 10th Avenue
The Bison building hosts exhibitions of work by the MFA in Applied Craft and Design program.
The Lodge Gallery at Allied Works
1532 SW Morrison Street
PNCA @ ZGFÂ
1223 Southwest Washington Street #200
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