Cameron Granger, SLAY THE GOBLIN!!! Exhibition

Cameron Granger, SLAY THE GOBLIN!!!
November 6 - December 20, 2025

LOCATION:
PNCA - 511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97209 

511 Gallery and Ed Cauduro & Dane Nelson Collections Studies Lab, Room 137

PUBLIC RECEPTION: Thursday, November 6th, 5 - 8pm

GALLERY HOURS: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 4pm

The Center for Contemporary Art and Culture at the Pacific Northwest College of Art is proud to present SLAY THE GOBLIN!!!, a solo exhibition by Queens, NY - based artist Cameron Granger. Using the framework of fictional roleplaying games as a tool to analyze contemporary culture, SLAY THE GOBLIN!!! features works ranging in media, including video, serigraphs, installation, and a community gaming room.

Drawing parallels between the humanlike goblin archetype present in many fantasy roleplaying video games and messaging from news sources, popular media, and government agencies at home and abroad, Granger cuts to the quick of the insidious presence of othering in our increasingly militarized cultural environment. From the viewpoint of a newly appointed Kingsguard in an imagined unnamed kingdom, visitors to the exhibition experience colonization through the eyes of the soldier. 

Transcending genres and subcultures, Cameron Granger’s SLAY THE GOBLIN!!! combines gaming culture and social critique in a paradoxical and timely presentation that helps us better understand prevailing narratives of American racial injustice, xenophobia, and genocide. 

We invite the public to join us for the opening reception on Thursday, November 6th from 5 - 8pm in conjunction with the Pear District’s First Thursday festivities.

SLAY THE GOBLIN!!! Programming

Please join us for the following event program associated with this exhibition:

Wednesday, 11/5, 12-1pm. Dorothy Lemelson Lecture: Cameron Granger 

Thursday, 11/6, 5-8pm Opening Reception at First Thursday

Thursday, 12/4, 5-8pm. Exhibition on view at First Thursday

RISE! O GREAT WARRIORS! THE FATE OF YOUR PEOPLE- NAY CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT, LIES WITH YOU! SLAY THE WRETCHED GOBLINS AND RESTORE HOPE TO OUR KINGDOM! JOIN THE KINGSGUARD, AND CARVE THINE NAME UPON THE BEDROCK OF HISTORY! GIVETH THINE BLOOD, AND WE GIVETH THEE POWER! 

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About Cameron Granger

Cameron A. Granger is Sandra’s son & came up in Euclid, Ohio. He likes pigeons, video games, & memes. Lately he's been thinking about how myth making and narrative have been used as a means to police the imagination, and making movies with his friends.  He’s a lifetime member of Columbus, Ohio's MINT Collective, long may it live, and an alumni of Euclid Public Schools.

Granger was recently an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2021-2022), Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in (2017), and ACRE (2016). In 2023 Cameron's film "Before I Let Go", was awarded Best Experimental Film and the Audience Choice Award at BlackStar Film Festival. His most recent solo exhibitions 9999 and DOOM & GLOOM!! were at the Queens Museum (Queens, NY) and Kate Werble Gallery (NY, NY) in 2024 and 2025 respectively.

About CCAC and PNCAThe Center for Contemporary Art & Culture is a platform for cultural production including exhibition, lecture, performance, and publication. Housed within Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), the Center throws open its doors to the greater public to foster conversation and community.

Pacific Northwest College of Art is the leading professional arts and design school in the Northwest; we are the heartbeat of learning and experimentation in Portland’s vibrant cultural ecosystem.  We spark curiosity and sharpen skills so students can build creative careers anchored in innovation, justice and civic imagination.

Photos courtesy of Cameron Granger
SLAY THE GOBLIN!! (still), digital video, 2025

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