Join us for a Visiting Artist talk with Garrick Imatani as a part of the Summer 2026 Visiting Artist Lecture Series in collaboration with the ICA at MECA&D.
Garrick Imatani is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, performance, and print. His work seeks relief, seduction, and resistance from imposed identities and systems of value rooted in lack, loss, and extraction. Imatani has exhibited or performed nationally and internationally, including at Blaffer Art Museum (Houston), Triumph Gallery (Moscow), Art in General (NYC), Portland Museum of Art (ME), ADA Museum at UC Santa Barbara; and regionally at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Chachalu Tribal Museum, Oregon Contemporary, Ditch Projects, Stelo, and Portland Art Museum. He is the recipient of fellowships from MASS MoCA, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Ucross Foundation, Djerassi, Ragdale, and the Center for Artistic Research at the University of Oregon, among others. His work has also been supported by grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Ford Family Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, Maine Arts Commission, and Oregon Percent for Art. Interviews and research on his work have been published in journals spanning the fields of art and archival studies, and featured on OPB’s Think Out Loud and State of Wonder. As an educator, Imatani held teaching positions at Columbia University (NY) and Maine College of Art and Design, led the Foundation programs at Lewis & Clark College (OR) and PNCA, and chaired the Sculpture departments at Ursinus College (PA) and Southern Oregon University. He currently lives in Portland, OR, where he is an Associate Professor and Co-Chair of the MFA in Visual Studies program at Pacific Northwest College of Art.