A Larger Reality:
Ursula K. Le Guin

October 31, 2025—February 8, 2026
Oregon Contemporary

A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin offers a biographical and poetical portrait of one of Oregon’s best known artists. The exhibition experience encompasses a rich variety of media, immersing guests in the ideas, playfulness and hope that course through Ursula K. Le Guin’s art, intermingling aspects that are information-dense and linear with aspects that are contemplative and open-ended, an approach that is one part historical society, one part contemporary art, and one part immersive experience. Moving through the exhibition in whatever order they choose, guests encounter texts, images, audio, video, interactive experiences, ephemera and archival materials, places to lean back and unwind, and places to lean in and engage.

The exhibition run for A Larger Reality will be punctuated by programming that brings in elements of Le Guin’s art that can’t be easily represented in an exhibition space: performance, activism, and community engagement. An accompanying book , edited by Conner Roberts and published by Winter Texts (Port Townsend), will offer a series of texts (some by Le Guin, some by others) in thematic categories such as love, life of mind, culture, freedom, self and other.