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The PAIN Exhibit is an educational, visual arts exhibit from artists with chronic pain with their art expressing some facet of the pain experience. The mission of the PAIN Exhibit is to educate health care providers and the public about chronic pain through art, and to give a voice to those who have chronic pain.

The undertreatment of chronic pain is a public health issue with an estimated 75 million Americans suffering from chronic nonmalignant pain.

The PAIN Exhibit was started in 2001 by Mark Collen, and the PainExhibit.com website was created by James Gregory. The site was launched March 8, 2004 and is available in both English and Spanish languages. PainExhibit.com currently contains 92 art images which are divided amongst nine themes.

Since its inception in 2001, Mark Collen has worked to further the mission of the PAIN Exhibit by writing articles for pain publications,   as well as producing the patient brochure, “So You’ve Got Chronic Pain…What’s Next?” which was edited by Steven Feinberg, MD.

Educators
PainExhibit.com art images are used internationally by health educators - including art therapists, pharmacologists, and physicians - to educate others about chronic pain. Below is a partial list of these educators.

International
Auckland City Hospital; Auckland, New Zealand

Cardiff University; Cardiff, United Kingdom

Centre Hospitaliere De L'Universaté De Montréal; Montréal, Canada

Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, England, United Kingdom

Hawkesbury-Hills Division of General Practice; Sydney, Australia

Javeriana University School of Medicine; Bogota, Colombia

Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute; Liverpool, United Kingdom

Panthera Film & TV for Swedish Public Television; Gotenberg, Sweden

Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust; Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

The Robert Gordon University; Scotland, United Kingdom

Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona; Barcelona, Spain

University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

University of Bologna; Bologna, Italy

University of Coimbra; Setubal, Portugal

United States
Advanced Pain Specialists, Inc.; Des Peres, Missouri

American Academy of Pain Management; Sonora, California

American Educational Research Association; Washington, DC

American Pain Foundation; Baltimore, Maryland

American Pain Society; Glenview, Illinois

Bend VA Clinic; Bend, Oregon

Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York

Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School; Boston, Massachusetts

Centers for Pain Solutions / Pain Solutions; Nashua, New Hampshire

College of St. Catherine; St. Paul, Minnesota

Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, Colorado

Drake University, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; Des Moines, Iowa

Florida State University; Tallahassee, Florida

For Those In Pain, Inc.; Mountain View, California

Genesis Medical Center; Davenport, Iowa

George Mason University; Fairfax, Virginia

Greenwich Hospital; Greenwich, Connecticut

Haworth Press, Inc.; Binghamton, New York

Hospice & Palliative Care Center of Alamance-Caswell; Burlington, North Carolina

Independence Back Institute; Wilmington, North Carolina

Integrative Treatment Centers; Westminster, Colorado

International Association for the Study of Pain; Seattle, Washington

James A. Haley VA Hospital; Tampa, Florida

Kent State University, College of Nursing; Kent, Ohio

Mayo Clinic; Jacksonville, Florida

Oklahoma Association for Healthcare Ethics; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

PAIN Foundation of Western Pennsylvania; Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Pain Management Center of Long Island; Rockville Centre, New York

Pain Therapy Associates; Schaumburg, Illinois

Palo Alto VA Healthcare System; Palo Alto, California

PharmaCom Group; Stamford, Connecticut

Psychological Consultants, PLLC; Clinton Township, Michigan

Stanford University Medical School; Palo Alto, California

Technical College of the Lowcountry; Yemassee, South Carolina

Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Medical College; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Translational Pain Research Consortium, University of Texas Medical Branch; Galveston, Texas

Tripler Army Medical Center; Honolulu, Hawaii

University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine; La Jolla, California

University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing; San Francisco, California

University of California, San Francisco, SF General Hospital - Family Health Center; San Francisco, California

University of Virginia, Health Sciences Department; Charlottesville, Virginia

University of Washington; Seattle, Washington

University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics; Madison, Wisconsin

VA Medical Center, Spokane, Washington

Valley Center for Pain and Stress Management; McAllen, Texas

Wishard Hospital; Indianapolis, Indiana

Press
Since 2003, the PAIN Exhibit has been included in over two dozen publications, including the Sacramento News and Review, the Sacramento Bee, the Buenos Aires Herald, and the New York Times. PAIN Exhibit art images have donned 19 covers on pain journals. It has been featured on the cover of The Pain Practitioner, Arts and Learning Research Journal, and PAIN. PAIN Exhibit art also appeared regularly on the cover of the Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy between 2005 and 2008.

Other articles covering the PAIN Exhibit include the Brazilian publication IstoE’ and an Italian publication Panorama.