In the new film Time Washes Over Us, Portland-based Joshua Reiman considers mortality through marine life and poetic and observational storytelling.
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Using the ephemeral, yet tactile, qualities of sound to architectural interventions, the works by Finnish artist Hans Rosenström are carefully produced in relation to the sites in which they are experienced.
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Sámi artist, activist, and writer Máret Ánne Sara artwork is a protest and symbol of the Norwegian government’s forced slaughter of reindeer belonging to Indigenous Sámi herders in Finnmark County.
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Icelandic artist Magnús Sigurðarson’s sculptures read as tongue-in-cheek memorials to the cod fish, a species that is closely connected to the history and living inhabitants all around the North Atlantic.
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Examination of Swedish colonization, the government-sanctioned assaults and a history of denial have been a central aspect of artist Katarina Pirak Sikku’s work.
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Norwegian artist Andreas Siqueland’s paintings are primarily landscapes in oil, ink and watercolor on board, paper and canvas. His works play on the active relationship between the conditions in which a painting is made and the ‘what’ it depicts.
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The artist collective Snæbjörnsdóttir / Wilson investigates the complications of human and nonhuman relations through the study of polar bear arrivals in Iceland.
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Maine-and-New York based artist Peter Soriano began his career making resin sculptures before shifting to large-scale, site-specific wall drawings made of acrylic and spray paint.
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Anders Sunna is a Northern Sámi artist from a reindeer-herding family in Kieksiäisvaara, in the Swedish part of Sápmi. Sunna’s politically charged artworks narrate the history of the violence and oppression against the Sámi people, specifically addressing his family’s five-decade-long struggle for their right and acknowledgement to be forest reindeer herders.
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The Danish artist collective SUPERFLEX reimagines our environments and embraces the future of vertical fish migration by designing new structures.
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Atlantic Canadian artist D’Arcy Wilson’s work laments past and ongoing colonial interaction with the natural world from her perspective as a descendent of European settlers in Atlantic Canada.
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In her paintings, Arngunnur Ýr interprets Icelandic landscape from a unique perspective of a nature guide.
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Skitpeq (“on the surface of water”) by Wolastoqew visual artist, Emma Hassencahl-Perley) is a love letter to the water, salmon, people, and all living things sustained by the Wolastoq and Tobique rivers that surround Hassencahl-Perley’s homeland.
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Bryan’s beauty of spirit, depth of empathy, and belief in community cannot be overstated. As news spread of Bryan’s passing, the tributes and stories universally celebrated these qualities, how they resonated so deeply within him, and how they reverberated out into the lives and communities he touched.
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The Portland Museum of Art is proud to announce the hire of Ramey Mize as the museum’s Assistant Curator of American Art. Mize will begin her role at the PMA in March, and immediately support the museum’s Art for All mission to provide a strong artistic vision that drives conversation, creativity, cultural vitality, and economic impact.
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Curator Jaime DeSimone shares her favorite North Atlantic books, television shows, and podcasts that bring her across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Discover more about our recent acquisition to the PMA collection, "Are You Happy" by Eleanor Kipping.
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To help introduce you to Triennial curator Anders Jansson at Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden, we asked about his interests and insights on the upcoming exhibition.
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Featuring both emerging and more established artists living today, the exhibition presents 21st-century art from an unprecedented cross-section of artists living in Maine, the Canadian Maritimes, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark as well as Indigenous Nations throughout the region.
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“For me, this [photography] collection is all about humanity. It’s that full spectrum of the human experience . . . and to me that has always been the beauty of this medium.” –Judy Glickman Lauder
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