Exhibition Description

Stelo Arts

July 1st - August 8th | 12PM - 5PM, Wednesday - Saturday

With a site-specific, vinyl floor installation, Quevedo will transform Stelo’s space into a notional playing field drawn. The artist draws gestures from familiar, contemporary sports like basketball as well as references to other places and times, such as the Mesoamerican ballgame. Accompanied by additional works on paper, the exhibition explores the rules and play of sport as a metaphor for migration, where movement, memory, and adaptation reshape identity and cultural expression across communities.

Public Programs:

First Thursday, July 2nd | 5PM - 8PM

The NMWA Oregon Chapter, in partnership with the Portland Cultural Corridor committee, is organizing a July 2026 Arts + Sports Activation, a month-long celebration with a weekend symposium and creative engagements across Portland (July 8th - 12th). The activation will run alongside the launch of Portland’s new WNBA team, the Portland Fire, as well as Sneaker Week programming at the Portland Art Museum, creating a rare and exciting cultural alignment in the city.

About Ronny Quevedo

Ronny Quevedo was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador and lives and works in New York, NY. Quevedo’s practice spans installation, drawings, and prints, incorporating and subverting aspects of abstraction, painting, collage, cartography, and sports imagery. Deeply engaged with notions of identity, Quevedo reenvisions pre- and post-colonial iconographies. The recuperation of Indigenous languages of abstraction, revalorization of their associated labor, and centering of a living connection between contemporary and centuries-old cultural markers are foundational to Quevedo’s ongoing practice.