MIT List Visual Arts Center

Tuesday: 12–6 pm
Wednesday: 12–7 pm
Thursday: 12–7 pm
Friday: 12–6 pm
Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday: 12–6 pm

ON VIEW

Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere

October 21, 2022 - February 26, 2023

Dark gallery with a water processing system suspended from the ceiling with eleven chambers connected through various tubes and wires. At the center, a glass sphere contains livings plants, small fish, and processed wastewater.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

List Projects 26: Alison Nguyen

February 23 - June 26, 2023

Aanimated video still of 3D rendered objects including a white limousine, desk chairs, and TVs, that appear to float in a virtual junkspace with a bright orange and red background.

Sung Tieu: Civic Floor

April 4 - July 16, 2023

Black and white digital drawing with a graphite texture. The image is of a three dimensional structure resembling a building support system with dark shading in between each column. There is some white space in the upper right corner.

Upcoming Events

Graduate Student Talk: Elena Sobrino

February 8, 2023, 5:30 - 6PM

: In a dark room, a large hanging sculpture made of glass, algae, and water hung from above that resembles a spider, across from a table lit to display scientific documents. Adjacent is a two-channel video.

Closing Curator Tour: Symbionts

February 16, 2023, 5:30 - 6:30PM

Exhibition Tour

Black text on white title wall reads “SYMBIONTS: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS AND THE BIOSPHERE” with show introduction. Work by Lin, Sutela, and Mobarak is in the background, reflected on the shiny concrete floor.

Public Art Collection

Agnieszka Kurant

The End of Signature, 2021 and 2022

Two modern building on the left each with an overhang that has LED sculptures of a signature hanging from the buildings.

Alexander Calder

La Grande Voile [The Big Sail], 1965

Large steel sculpture in a courtyard with trees and buildings in the background

Matt Johnson

Untitled (Swan), 2016

Matt Johnson's Untitled(Swan) sculpture of a warped bent metal train track is pictued in front of MIT campus buildings.

Jeffrey Gibson

I DON'T WANT TO SEE MYSELF WITHOUT YOU, 2020

Colorful acrylic on canvas featuring glass beads with abstract text in the center that read reads I don't want to see myself without you.

Olafur Eliasson

Northwest Passage, 2018

A ceiliing bound sculpture of mirror and yellow lights by Olafur Eliasson is installed.

Frank Gehry

Ray and Maria Stata Center, 2004

Frank Gehry's Ray and Maria Stata Center is situated on MIT Campus.

Mark di Suvero

Aesop's Fables, II, 2005

Red steel sculpture on a field of grass with trees and buildings in the background.

Recent Videos

Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere

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Graduate Student Talk: Wakanene (Sebastian) Kamau

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Graduate Student Talk: Irene Zhang

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Graduate Student Talk: Taylor Michael Bailey

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Syn /\ Sym: Biology in Art & Design

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CSAIL Lecture: AI Informing Art

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Artist Lecture: Agnieszka Kurant

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List Projects 25: Azza El Siddique

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Graduate Student Talk: Timothy Loh

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For the MIT Community

The List Visual Arts Center is more than a contemporary art museum: it’s an active gathering place, education center, and workspace for college students right on MIT’s campus.

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