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Disjecta Contemporary Art Center is a not-for-profit arts organization in Portland, Oregon.
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Disjecta water installation
Background
Disjecta was founded in 2000 by Bryan Suereth. In their first location at 116 NE Russell Street, Disjecta held over 500 shows, showcasing 3,000 artists and hosting 30,000 patrons.
In 2005 Disjecta had plans to move to an expanded 20,000 sf space in North Park Blocks. The plans were launched with a high profile party.
In 2007 Disjecta was located in the old Frigidaire Building (Now labeled The RJ Templeton Building) at 230 East Burnside.
In 2008 Disjecta announced the public opening of a 12,000 sf arts building at 8371 N Interstate in the historic Kenton neighborhood. The former bowling alley and more recently abandoned hydraulic shop now houses five large, fully leased artist studios, along with 3,500 sf of visual exhibition space, a 1600 sf performance "flex" space and the newly built Clyde Park, the former 8000 sf parking lot converted to an open space that houses performances and community events. Disjecta hosts a variety of performance art events in addition to visual and installation based art shows. Visual arts programming highlights include solo exhibitions by Anna Fidler, Chris Fraser, Peter Halley, Karl Burkheimer, Mark Licari, Avantika Bawa, Jenene Nagy, and Dan Gilsdorf. In 2010, Disjecta launched the massive city-wide biennial exhibition Portland2010, curated by Cris Moss.