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MIT’s Public Art Collection reaches across the entire Institute and may be enjoyed by MIT students and visitors alike. Explore our Public Art Collection and featured examples of outstanding architecture.

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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.

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.

Alicja Kwade

Against the Run, 2019
A freestanding clock with a restrained modern design sits seamlessly into the built environment of the Kendall Open Space plaza

Olafur Eliasson

Northwest Passage, 2018
A ceiliing bound sculpture of mirror and yellow lights by Olafur Eliasson is installed.

Nick Mauss

Dispersed Events, 2018
Stairwell with hanging lights and a tin-glazed hand-painted ceramic mural on the wall behind.

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.

Ursula von Rydingsvard

SCIENTIA, 2016
Sculpture that appears to be made of wood and resembled an upside down tree trunk.

Leo Villareal

Light Matrix (MIT), 2016
View from below of a sculptural work made of stainless steel rods and LED lights suspended in a glass entryway from the ceiling.

J. Meejin Yoon

Sean Collier Memorial, 2015
Granite open air sculpture featuring a rectangular shape with ovals cut out in the middle surrounded by trees peaking through the top edge of the photo.

Antony Gormley

Chord, 2015
Sculpture made of thirty-three stainless steel polyhedrons reaching from the floor of the Simons Building to the skylight four stories above

Jaume Plensa

Alchemist, 2010
Sculpture made of tainless steel, white enamel paint featuring collages of letters, numbers, or symbols that appear to be in the process of organization.

Martin Boyce

Through Layers and Leaves, 2011
Painted steel sculpture on a wall featuring triangular shapes and lines.

Anish Kapoor

Non-Object (Plane), 2010
Monumental concave form which contrasts from the delicate structure, a thin sheet of mirror-polished stainless steel

Cai Guo-Qiang

Ring Stone, 2010
Area of grass with a stone edge featuring a group of pine trees with large granite rings linking at the base of the trees.

Richard Fleischner

Lower Courtyard, 2010
A nighttime photograph of a stone courtyard with rounded benches on both sides surrounded by grass.

Fumihiko Maki

New Media Lab, 2010
Side view of a glass building at dusk with yellow interior light shining through the windows.

Lawrence Weiner

Dead Center, 2008
View from above of three phrases, carved in granite and set into the Ashdown House walkway

William L. Rawn III

Ashdown House, 2008
Silver building with lots of windows connected to a brick section of the building situated behind a green lawn.

Sol LeWitt

Bars of Color within Squares (MIT), 2007
Sol Lewitt's colorful Terrazzo floor including red, green, orange, purple, and yellow tiles.

Sarah Sze

Blue Poles, 2004
Brick wall with bright blue poles resembling a fire escape staircase.

Mark di Suvero

Aesop's Fables, II, 2005
Red steel sculpture on a field of grass with trees and buildings in the background.

Charles Correa

Brain and Cognitive Sciences Building, 2005
Aerial view of a white building with lots of windows on the corner of two streets. In the background, there are a lot more buildings and the Charles river at the top of the frame.

Bernar Venet

Two Indeterminate Lines, 1993
Rolled steel sculpture  in which two coils of rolled steel, measuring more than seven feet high, overlap like jumbled, oversized springs

Dimitri Hadzi

Cycladic Sentinel, 2000
Bronze sculpture featuring different shapes stacked on top of one another.

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