2025/26 Artists

Martha Daghlian

Martha Daghlian grew up in Vermont and moved to Portland in 2008. She has studied art at Bennington College and Portland State University, and received an MFA from the Stamps School of Art at the University of Michigan in 2022. At Portland State University, they taught undergraduate and graduate level art courses from 2023-2025. Martha’s art practice incorporates handmade objects and costumes along with video, performance, and web-based forms, often utilizing found materials and anachronistic technologies. Their work has been shown at a number of galleries and artist-run spaces, including Melanie Flood Projects, Lowell, Ditch Projects, and online at ORAL.pub. Since 2016, Martha has run Grapefruits, an artist-led exhibition space and project platform focused on experimental, low-tech, and radical art. Grapefruits has produced shows in a converted garage, an old warehouse, an empty wooded lot, a rare book room, and a dying mall. Through Grapefruits, Martha also published a free guide to Portland art spaces and an email newsletter highlighting contemporary art writing and events.

Ebenezer Galluzzo 

Ebenezer Galluzzo is driven by his experience as a trans man, the symbology associated with traditional westernized gender, and redefining those gender systems through his art practice. Galluzzo uses photography as a tool to reveal stories that he wants to see in counterbalance to the stories put upon bodies by mainstream culture. Elements of nature are incorporated into a variety of his images, countering the notion that certain bodies and identities are not natural. Through portraiture, Galluzzo finds new possibilities of existence where all expressions are sacred, honored, and a vital part of human ecology.  

Galluzzo’s work has been exhibited at Center for Fine Art Photography, Photo Center NW, and Cameraworks Gallery.  Galluzzo  has had solo exhibitions at Paragon Arts Gallery, Roger Hall Gallery, and BlueSky Gallery.  Galluzzo has been awarded artist residencies at Sitka for Arts and Ecology, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Pine Meadow Ranch.

Hyun Jung Jung

Hyun Jung Jung is a Korean artist based in Portland, Oregon. She mixes traditional textiles techniques with found objects and other mediums to create scenes that evoke emotions and memories. Jung explores how materials can serve as vessels for personal belongings, cultural resonance, and collective memories. By recontextualizing everyday materials, she invites the viewers to consider how objects and materials accrue meaning through use, intimacy, and care. In Jung’s recent work, the softness, familiarity, and comfort of domestic materials are expressed through cushioned canvases-suggestive of a pillow or home textiles-as a mean to explore notions of belonging, memory, and home. Jung received her BFA in Textiles from Rhod Island School of Design in 2017.

Lalo Perez

Lalo Perez is an interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon. Their practice investigates the intersections of identity and social environments, creating attention to the fragility of familiar cultural connections. Grounded in the processes of construction and deconstruction, their work engages the layered dynamics through their Mexican American and queer experiences. Through rituals, Lalo creates a dialogue between material, language, and imagery, developing a visual archive that reflects the inherited forms of resilience and faith that lead their practice.

Lalo has participated in artist residencies at Casa Lü in Mexico City, MX, Jupiterfab in Guadalajara, MX and Caldera a.i.r in Sisters, OR. They are currently pursuing a BFA in Intermedia at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Master Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr.

Master Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr. is Black, Italian, Queer, Non-Binary, Neurodivergent, and practices primarily in america. Their collaborative approach results in artwork by and for the people.

Stevenson’s practice has been dedicated to supporting young people ages 4 to 18 in developing the necessary skills to encourage advanced imaginative thinking and self-confident expression. In 2019 they developed the Afro Contemporary Art Class at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School which has had many forms since, including Afro Futurist February, and three years of Fred Hampton Summer Camp. Supporting community efforts as well, taking the shape of support for the effort to Save Dr. Martin Luther King School from being displaced by the expansion of Interstate 5 which has triggered the need to move Harriet Tubman Middle School. These and other contexts show up in their recent work Mapping the Pipeline shown at the Portland Institute for Contemporary art as part of the Policing Justice exhibition. Stevenson is currently working in the Albina community to develop a Living Archive at Jefferson High School with students, community, and the architectural design team. Stevenson also has a robust portfolio of artist projects centering food and gathering around it, projects involving sculpture, drawing, and photography, and work in collaboration with currently and formerly incarcerated folks. These include Tin Can Phone, a podcast all about life in and outside of prison, and Gallery Blue, a curation and exhibition project both of which are owned and operated by formerly incarcerated individuals. Stevenson pursues these professional and creative goals passionately because they believe that empowered and open-minded young people and communities