Upfor Gallery operated from 2013 to 2021 in Portland, Oregon and through art fairs and an online program.
Represented artists included: Morehshin Allahyari, April Bey, Ben Buswell, Srijon Chowdhury, Jack Featherly, Julie Green, Iyvone Khoo, Brenda Mallory, MSHR (Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper), Ralph Pugay, Jordan Rathus, Jeremy Rotsztain, Heidi Schwegler, and Rodrigo Valenzuela.
Guest artists included: Heather Lee Birdsong, Mia Farrington, Michelle Grabner, Claudia Hart, Maria Lux, Aki Miyoshi, Julie Perini, Richard Stuart Perkins, Rebecca Reeve, Danielle Roney, Francis Start, Amy Stephens, Shohei Takasaki, and Ryan Trecartin.
Learn more about the gallery history and program here. A chronology of exhibitions follows.
2021
Brenda Mallory and Lehuauakea: ᎩᎦᎨ X PŌ
Mia Farrington: Adaptations
Partial Permutation (curated by M Prull)
Heather Lee Birdsong: Stories From the Stone House
2020
Julie Green: Fashion Plate
Ralph Pugay: Hang In There
April Bey: Welcome to Atlantica
Richard Stuart Perkins: If Ancestors Anchor
Danielle Roney: Frequencies of Opacity
The Armory Show, New York
Iyvone Khoo, Pinar Yoldas: Absence of Myth
UNTITLED San Francisco
2019
UNTITLED Miami Beach
Brenda Mallory: Gather Back
Anthony Roberto: Object/Model, Figure/Form [Back Room]
Rodrigo Valenzuela: Past | Present
Julie Green: Traumas [Back Room]
Dear Lucy
Heidi Schwegler, Quayola: Plane of Scattered Pasts
Morgan Buck: Goggles Glazed Over [Back Room]
Ronny Quevedo: Every Measure of Zero
The Armory Show, New York
Material Art Fair, Mexico City
Rebecca Reeve: Sun Breathing
2016
UNTITLED Miami Beach
Claudia Hart: Beneath the Veil
Jack Featherly: Hank Bierbaum Fantasizes*
‘ Rose
The Soul of Black Art: A Collector's View
Seattle Art Fair
Maria Lux: Eat, Drink and Be Merry
SUBDUCTION
Srijon Chowdhury: Memory Theater
Variable States: Prints Now
Pain Tero Flight
Josh Michaels: 24 Hour Empire
2013
Ben Buswell: We Live Only Through Ourselves
MSHR: Liquid Hand
Brenna Murphy: Lattice~Face Parameter Chant
Frances Stark: My Best Thing
2018
UNTITLED Miami Beach
Ralph Pugay: A Spiritual Guide to Brute Force
Amy Stephens: Land | Reland [Portland]
Now We Are Five
Julie Green: Food, Fashion and Capital Punishment
The Feeling Good Handbook
Srijon Chowdhury: The Coldest Night
The Armory Show
Photofairs San Francisco
Material Art Fair
Alix Pearlstein: Harem ROOM-1 and Two Women
Sandrine Deumier and Johannes Hélden
2015
UNTITLED Miami Beach
Julie Green: My New Blue Friends
Texas Contemporary
Eyebeam in Objects
The Great Debate About Art
Seattle Art Fair
Urban Growth Boundary
Ryan Whittier Hale: Two Videos, Two Days
Paris Photo LA
With/And: OCAC MFA in Craft Thesis
ART15 London
Ben Buswell: No One Above or Below
VOLTA New York
Rodrigo Valenzuela: Hedonic Reversal
Jeremy Rotsztain: Electric Fields
Julia Stoops: 46 Views
2017
Gingham | Ensō
Ben Buswell: The Story is Not the Story
Rodrigo Valenzuela: General Song
Seattle Art Fair
KSMoCA International Art Fair
Katie Torn: Low Tide
Brenna Murphy: Axis Spread
Morehshin Allahyari: She Who Sees the Unknown
Mark Amerika: GRAMMATRON: remix
Shohei Takasaki: Framed Stories
Christopher Russell: Escape from LA
UPFOR @ TRANSFER
Birch Cooper: Convolution Weave Structures
Heidi Schwegler: Extinction Anxiety
AIPAD New York
Jordan Rathus: That's Why I'm Here
Moving Image New York
Julie Perini: They have a name for girls like me
Photofairs San Francisco
2014
UNTITLED Miami Beach
MSHR: Resonant Entity Modulator
Brenna Murphy: Central~Lattice Tool Array
Akihiko Miyoshi: Pigment Migrations & Suspended Refractions
Ralph Pugay: Critter
Texas Contemporary
Ryan Trecartin: Anniversary Screening
Jack Featherly: Unpattern
Katie Torn: The End of Flutter Valley
Alex Rose: Another Furrow in the Forehead
Jordan Rathus: Fernweh
TILT Export: Fanatic
Portland2014 Biennial: Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
Self(ie) Portraits