Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Contemporary art gallery in Portland, United States.

The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is a contemporary performance and visual arts organization without a year-round gallery of its own for most of its history. Since November 2017 its offices and programming have been based in a renovated 16,000-square-foot building on the North Williams Avenue corridor in Northeast Portland, received in April 2016 as a 20-year no-rent lease from donor Allie Furlotti and the Calligram Foundation. Earlier it worked from a third-floor space on Southwest 10th Avenue and, from 2000 to 2004, ran a gallery in a corner of the Wieden+Kennedy Building in the Pearl District.

PICA was founded in 1995 by Kristy Edmunds, then director of the Portland Art Museum's "Art on the Edge" program. For its first seven years it ran annual performance seasons on an itinerant model, using vacant or rented venues across Portland, and from 1996 to 2001 held the Dada Ball costume fundraiser in empty buildings. In September 2003 it launched the ten-day Time-Based Art Festival, modelled on the Edinburgh and Adelaide festivals; in 2016 a donor gave it a 20-year rent-free lease on a 16,000 sq ft building on North Williams Avenue, where its offices moved in November 2017.

PICA supports avant-garde and emerging artists through programming that encourages experimentation across mediums including installation, dance, theater, and multimedia art, fostering dialogue around contemporary issues and artistic innovation within diverse communities.

PICA has no year-round gallery: most programming happens during the ten-day Time-Based Art Festival each September, staged in rented or donated venues around the city. Since 2017 its base has been a 16,000-square-foot building on North Williams Avenue, given on a 20-year no-rent lease, which serves as office, box office and festival venue. Check the website for where a given event is held.

The institute organizes the annual Time-Based Art Festival, a major event showcasing experimental performances, installations, and new works from national and international artists that stimulates discourse around contemporary arts practices.