2025 Annual Report

A beige lattice-like sculpture on a low white pedestal centers the gallery. A cluster of prints, a glowing green artwork, two small spherical sculptures, and a waxy window installation are in the background.

Exhibition view: Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, 2022. Photo: Dario Lasagni

Given that the List Center typically works with artists at the beginning of their careers, the List is committed to tracking their progress as they continue to exhibit work around the world.

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  • Farah Al Qasimi, Azza El Siddique, and Katarina Burin—past exhibiting artists—were named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows by The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, celebrating the foundation’s 100th class of fellows.
  • Pioneering video and performing artist Joan Jonas received the prestigious 2024 Nam June Paik Prize from the Nam June Paik Art Center.
  • Sung Tieu, who had a solo exhibition at the List Center in 2023, was selected to represent Germany at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026.
  • Hana Miletić, who had a solo exhibition at the List Center in 2024, presented her first New York solo exhibition at Magenta Plains Gallery.
  • Alison Nguyen, who exhibited a List Project in 2023, unveiled her first major live-action project, history as hypnosis V03, at murmurs, an art space in Los Angeles.

  • Nguyen also created an immersive environment featuring LED lights, multichannel videos, dirt, gaming monitors, and cinder blocks at Art Basel Hong Kong.

  • Azza El Siddique, who exhibited a List Project in 2022, received the 2025 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.
  • Kiyan Williams, who participated in the 2022 group exhibition Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere, was named a 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow for Interdisciplinary Work.
  • Williams also exhibited Ruins of Empire or The Earth Swallows the Master’s House at the 2024 Whitney Biennial.
  • Candice Lin, who participated in Symbionts, exhibited work at the Manetti Shrem Museum at UC Davis in summer of 2024.
  • Jenna Sutela, also part of Symbionts, was nominated for the 2024 Pauli Prize. Sutela was also selected to exhibit in the Pavilion of Finland at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026.
  • Anicka Yi exhibited at the Leeum Museum of Art during Frieze Seoul 2024.
  • Alan Michelson unveiled The Knowledge Keepers at the Huntington Avenue Entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
  • Nour Mobarak, another Symbionts participant, will present Nour Mobarak: Dafne Phono at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  • Crystal Z Campbell had an exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum in fall 2024.
  • Lex Brown, who had a solo exhibition at the List Center in 2023, presented Tati, a 20-minute chamber opera, at the Kaufman Music Center in New York as part of the Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative.
  • Pamela Rosenkranz, who participated in the 2012 group exhibition In the Holocene, received the 2025 Swiss Grand Award for Art/Prix Meret Oppenheim.
  • Elif Saydam, who exhibited a List Project in 2025, showed work in the Statements sector at Art Basel.
  • Rosa Barba, who had a solo exhibition at the List Center in 2015, presented a major installation, The Ocean of One’s Pause, at MoMA in New York.
  • Nairy Baghramian, who presented Fluffing the Pillows in 2013 at the List Center, had a major solo exhibition at South London Gallery.
  • Christine Sun Kim exhibited All Day All Night at the Whitney Museum and was featured on the cover of Artforum.
  • Carl Cheng, who was an Artist-in-Residence at the List Center in 1988, has a retrospective, Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses, organized by The Contemporary Austin, Texas, in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Bonnefanten, Maastricht; Museum Tinguely, Basel; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, that continues to tour.
  • Kapwani Kiwanga, who had a solo exhibition at the List Center in 2019, received the 2025 Joan Miró Prize.
  • Johan Grimonprez, who presented a solo exhibition at the List Center in 2001, was nominated for an Oscar for Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat.
  • Isaac Julien’s first U.S. survey included Vagabondia, The Long Road to Mazatlán, which was presented at List Center in 2001.
  • Kite’s awíčhuŋpȟepi (we invite them) (2025) was acquired by Williams College Museum at Arrival Art Fair in June 2025.
  • Gordon Hall, who exhibited a List Project in 2018, presented Hands and Knees at The Kitchen in New York in May 2025.
  • Jes Fan, a Symbionts participant, exhibited Sites of Wounding: Interchapter at Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York.
  • Claire Pentecost presented Our Bodies, Our Soil in the group exhibition Sustenance & Land at Elmhurst Art Museum 2025.

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